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Computer Education at Japan's Universities
by Steven Myers
The family of Internet providers in Japan has grown since our survey
in October. This update on the state of Internet services in Japan lists
service providers, with comparisons of fees and the specific range of
services offered by each.
by Forest
Linton
While the recent industry focus has been on downsizing and networks of
PCs, Japan's "Big Three" makers have been resolutely designing
a new generation of parallel-based mainframes using CMOS technology.
by Simon Mansfield
Shigeru Miyagawa is Professor of Linguistics and Language at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In keeping with this issue's
combined Education/Internet themes, Computing Japan took
advantage of Professor Miyagawa's visit to Japan in late March to talk
with him about the role of multimedia and the Internet in Japanese
language learning.
by Wm. Auckerman
Looking for information about Japan, or Japanese shareware programs?
Here are six good places to start your search.
by Steven Myers
Most Japanese high schools still teach students to program in BASIC,
and only one in three teachers knows how to use a computer. Yet the face
of computing in Japanese classrooms looks set to change by the end of the
decade, due in large part to a new g overnment awareness of the value of
computers as educational tools.
by Virginia Kouyoumdjian
If you find your work time increasingly taken up in helping your less
computer-literate colleagues, perhaps you should consider teaching a
class. While it means more work in the short-term, the result can save you
many hours over the long term.
by John Tyler
The dictionary defines a systems analyst as "a researcher who
studies an activity by mathematical means to determine its desired end
and the most efficient means of achieving it." But this definition
leaves out a lot, as LINC Computer systems analyst Biju Paul explains.
by Biju Paul
TWICS has long been a leader in bringing philosophic and social
changes
to the networking community of Japan. Although TWICS has gone through
changes in both management and leadership over the past decade, that
leadership has always had one thing in common ó they have been
visionaries in the localized global event of computer-mediated
communications and pioneers in establishing " virtual" (online)
communities.
interviewed by John Savageau
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