BBC Computer Literacy Project

Lesley Judd introduces a selection of computer graphics ranging from simple home users to million dollar animations.

Is your home micro used only for games? Or is it just gathering dust? Fred Harris suggests some ideas for putting it to good use.

The history of computing is short, eventful and exhilarating or threatening. Lesley Judd introduces a selection of items from Micro Live which looks at advances in hardware and some of the public reactions.

Fred Harris introduces a selection of arcade and adventure games, including Air Traffic Control, Phantom Pilots and Game Killer.

How powerful is the average home computer? What does power mean anyway, is it the hardware or the software? Lesley Judd investigates.

Fred Harris looks at the latest ways of communicating with a computer.

The team look at technologies of the future, including flat screens, molecular memories, and parallel processing.

Few rock and pop records are made today without the help of sophisticated computer-based synthesisers. They can produce the sound of any instrument and replay strings of notes more accurately than session musicians. Micro Live traces the development of such synthesisers, from the 19th-century Telharmonium, to the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument.

Lesley Judd and Fred Harris look at the various advances that are happening in Artificial Intelligence.

The latest in Electronic Publishing with Lesley Judd and Fred Harris.