Essays by Jeffrey O. Shallit
This page contains links to essays I have written on various
topics.
I grant readers of this page the right to print one copy of
each of these essays for the purposes of research and self-study.
- Pseudoscience for Amateurs
- Censorship: The Library, The Internet, and
the University (from University of Waterloo Faculty Association
Newsletter, the Forum )
- Talk given at session on public networks
and censorship, Ontario Library Association, January 15, 1995.
- Proposal for Allocation of Electronic
Intellectual Resources, March 25, 1995.
- "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Net?", talk
for the Computer Science Club, University of Waterloo, October 26,
1995.
-
Media help to whip up anti-Internet hysteria, Kitchener-Waterloo Record,
December 4 1995, page A6.
- Topless meeting reduces issue to God versus
devil, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, June 20 1997, p. A22.
- A modest proposal: improving the
University of Waterloo, UW Gazette, December 3 1997, p. 4.
- `Censorship U' gets another rebuke,
SAFS Newsletter, April 1998, p. 4, 6.
- David Orchard's dangerous game,
Kitchener-Waterloo Record, October 13, 1999, p. A14. Note: this piece
ran (in slightly abbreviated form) under a different and inaccurate
title chosen by the Record. They printed a clarification on October
20, 1999, p. A10.