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Communications for the 21st Century
12th December 1996
Cambridge University Engineering Department
Trumpington Street, Cambridge
The Cambridge Seminar was organised by the Cambridge Area Committee of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Approximately 50 registrants participated in this meeting. Regrettably, Mr Steve Collins of Barclays Group was unable through illness to deliver his talk on Security and Financial Transactions. His place was taken at short notice by Mr B C Breton, who spoke about Remote Control via the Internet.
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are provided here (where available).Amateur or professional, individual or company, lone operator or multi-national
Come and listen, participate in a hands-on session, travel the Information Superhighway.
08.30 Registration and Coffee
09.15 Welcome and Introduction
David Owen, Chairman, IEE Cambridge Area Committee
09.20 The Internet and Web for Beginners
Dr Alan Mills, Venus Internet
10.15 Sharing Information over the Internet
Ian Hosking, Logica
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Selling my Company over the Internet
Vicki Squires, The Virtual Art School
12.00 Introduction to the Hands-On Session
David Holburn, Cambridge University Engineering Department
12.15 Buffet Lunch and Hands-on
Internet participation session
Two hands-on sessions will be organised at 12.35 and 13.15, allowing participants to
explore for themselves the potential of the WWW. Up to 50 individual terminals available.
Registrants will receive a badge allocating them to one of the two sessions. Experienced
demonstrators will be on hand to give assistance. Click here for a synopsis of the
material.
14.15 Internet or Intranet
Paul Bellchambers, SunSoft
15.00 Security and Financial Transactions
Steve Collins, Emerging Markets Unit, Barclays Group
15.45 Tea
16.15 The Future: Information Highway or B-Road to Hell?
Bill Thompson, The Guardian
17.00 Discussion
17.15 Chairman's Summary
17.25 Close of Seminar
For further information, please write to:
Dr J. Porter
2, Glebe Road
CAMBRIDGE
Cambs CB1 1SZ
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The Internet and Web for Beginners
This talk is intended to provide an introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web, and will
Dr Alan Mills is a director and founder of Venus Internet Ltd. He has considerable experience in Internet technology and applications.
His background includes involvement in the development and running of a ground-breaking Internet distance learning course in the field of molecular biology, the first global multimedia distance education course delivered entirely electronically, whilst he was Webmaster at Birkbeck College's Department of Crystallography. Initially a physicist, then a successful microcomputer entrepreneur, he has also been active in scientific reasearch and lecturing in bioinformatics at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Sharing Information over the Internet
The effective sharing of information over internets and intranets is being driven by
developments and trends in communications, user interface design, databases, search
engines, power sources, development platforms, new processors, memory, multimedia,
deregulation, transactions, security, new business models and content providers. We will
look at issues relating to the Terminal, Infrastructure and Information Design. In the
course of this lecture we will focus on the opportunities that mobile computing and mobile
internet offer in terms of the near, medium and long term developments of how users can
share information over the internet/intranets. We shall also demonstrate some practical
applications, which are available today, and are in turn pointers to the future for the
development of information appliances which satisfy both horizontal and vertical markets.
Ian Hosking is a Senior Consultant at Logica UK Ltd.
Selling my Company on the Internet
A page on the World Wide Web is the beginning of an advertising campaign, not the end.
There are a number of steps that have to be taken to ensure that you get 'hits', and some
rigorous maintenance work to ensure that those hits are sustained, including:
Vicki Squires has worked as a freelance graphic designer for 20 years, using the computer as a design tool since 1989. She has produced the illustrations for HMSO's 'Driving Skills' series, including the recent best-seller 'Complete Theory Test for Cars and Motorcycles'. She is author of 'Illustration in the Computer Age' (BT Batsford) and 'Essential Design' for the National Extension College, the latter being the text for a correspondence course for which she is a tutor. A recent venture is the launch of the Virtual Art School on the Internet, which supplies tutor-supported on-line art and design courses.
THE VIRTUAL ART SCHOOL - online design courses
Introduction to the Hands-On Session
David Holburn is a
lecturer in the University Engineering Department, Cambridge. His teaching activities lie
in the area of microelectronics and integrated circuit design, and his research interests
include digital image processing, electron microscopy, and development of techniques for
embedding computer technology in a wide range of instruments and other products.
Internet or Intranet
The Internet and Intranet have become the most rapidly growing and significant area of
computer technology. How can this technology be used to its full advantage?
Paul Bellchambers is a product marketing manager at Sunsoft, High Wycombe.
Security and Financial Transactions
This lecture will explore the issues and considerations relating to financial
transactions over the Internet and discuss whether the Internet is evolutionary or
revolutionary from a financial services perspective.
Steve Collins is Head of Technology Development in Barclays' Emerging Markets Unit. His responsibilities include smart card development and infrastructure development for the new electronic marketplace.
The Future: Information Highway or B-Road to Hell?
If, as William Gibson wrote, "the future is already with us - just unevenly
distributed", then it should be possible to discern the shape of tomorrow's Internet.
Bill Thompson is responsible for the new media strategy of Guardian Newspapers, and he will share his views on the likely developments in this vital and exciting area.
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