This paper presents preliminary results from a study of how the Internet and the Web might reconfigure access to scientific information. The study combines qualitative and quantitative methods ? in-depth interviews and webmetric analysis ? to explore how the Internet and Web are reinforcing the role of existing sources of information, or tending to either...

'The Future of Computing: A Vision' was a senior women's forum, organised by The e-Horizons Institute (University of Oxford) and Women@CL. It ran for two days in late March 2007 and brought together senior women in computer science and related disciplines to consider their vision of the future of computing and what these visions could...

The problems of identity and personal-information management over the Internet remain unsolved, despite much debate and a number of competing initiatives. Could an identity infrastructure become a shared service for use across sectors, operating in a simple and secure manner and protecting the privacy of personal information? The OII, with the support of the Joint...

?The Future of Computing: A Vision? was a senior women?s forum, organised by The e-Horizons Institute (University of Oxford) and Women@CL. This document is a digest of the themes related to future computing research that emerged from these two days of discussions, beginning with a brief summary of the three talks given as part of...

This research report seeks to connect the future of the Internet to a new, even though relatively developed, technology; that of computer speech and language and its embodiment in a concept the author calls an Artificial Companion. He argues here that such entities are coming into being and that they will change fairly rapidly from...