Columbia has built a huge, on-line clearinghouse of papers on international relations, and the association is putting papers from its annual meeting on the Web. Wednesday announced a new version of its massive full-text data base designed for colleges and universities. The new service will, for a fee, give students, faculty members, and administrators at participating colleges almost unlimited access to the millions of documents offered by the company.
Researchers look for the best metaphor to describe the Internet.
A federal judge ruled Monday that revised government rules restricting the export of encryption software violate the First Amendment's right to free speech. The judge's ruling represented a victory for Daniel Bernstein, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who studies the mathematics behind such software. Two veteran list moderators have created a Web site to make the job easier. So D. Diane Davis, an avid MOO user and a professor of rhetoric at the University of Iowa, has created a Web site devoted to teaching in MOOs. After their daughter was murdered in her college dormitory room, Howard and Connie Clery founded a non-profit organization to heighten awareness of campus crime.