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Ebooks (and more par­tic­u­larly e-journals) seem to need plenty of dif­fer­ent afford­ances to be really use­ful as replace­ments for print versions.

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The inter­net is just a mir­ror, and an amplifier

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Sub­mis­sions are now open for the BCS Dis­tin­guished Dis­ser­ta­tions com­pet­i­tion for recently-submitted PhDs in the UK.
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Where has the “middle” of mid­dle­ware gone?

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I will be giv­ing my inaug­ural lec­ture on the topic of “The com­puter is the new microscope.”

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We are look­ing for world-class stu­dents to come and work with us. This is open to indi­vidu­als of any nation­al­ity, not just UK or EU cit­izens. I’m espe­cially inter­ested in people want­ing to work on pro­gram­ming lan­guages, but I’d wel­come inquir­ies in any research areas that align with mine.

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A num­ber of PHD pos­i­tions are avail­able with Danny Hughes in the Netherlands.

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I’m def­in­itely a con­vert to tab­let computing.

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