Outside of the oil industry, it mainly occupied the attention of academic financial economists until the early 1990s when Paul Henderson of Boston University first discerned it could be applied to IT capital investments.
Cerf, one of the founders of the internet and chairman of Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), said last year's launch of new domain names was "essentially an experiment" and that it was essential to move slowly to see...
In fact, spammers may have chosen the academic addresses specifically because many Hotmail account holders are students, and spam from ac.uk domains may be more difficult to detect. "We are very ticked off," said a spokesman for Warwick University.
As with current domains, such as dot-edu and dot-ac.uk, which are restricted to US and UK academic institutions respectively, Icann has said the new domains will be on offer only to organisations which qualify as being relevant to the domain suffix.
In addition to the academic side of the degree course, CS students at York have the option to do a year's industry placement - around a third of current undergrads are doing this, according to Pears. And he describes the subject as "very clearly an...
Available on the company's CodePlex collaborative open source website, the operating system is available for free to the academic and research communities in the hope that they will use it to develop new kinds of computer architecture.