New technology seminar
A seminar on the social effects of new technology will be held at the University of Canterbury on October 13. >. Three experts from Hawaii and a senior telecommunications specialist in the New Zealand Post Office will form a panel which will answer questions from the public at the forum. xThe Americans are Professor N. Abramson, who has chairs of electrical engineering and information and computer sciences at the University of Hawaii; Dr C. Vollan, assistant director for education at the Communications Institute of the East-West Centre in Hawaii; and Professor D. Wedemeyer, who has a
chair in communications at the University of Hawaii. The three will also take part in a number of seminars at other New Zealand universities. The Post Office expert is Mr L. Zwimpfer, a senior engineer. The seminar will focus on information technology, defined as the result of z- combining developments in the fields of computing and telecommunications. The seminar has been organised by the department of extension studies at the University of Canterbury, on behalf of Christchurch Polytechnic, the university, and the Canterbury branch of the Computer Society.
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Press, 27 September 1983, Page 18
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