Normalization of relations to third normal form is often a difficult concept for students to grasp and working through examples helps. This tool is a simple tutorial implemented in JavaScript which takes the student through the multi-step process of ...

With the widespread deployment of broadband connections worldwide, software development and maintenance are increasingly being performed by multiple engineers, often working around-the-clock to maximize code churn rates. To ensure rapid quality assurance ...

Mail channels allow an electronic mail (e-mail) user to have multiple points of contact, each with a potentially different policy. For example, a user may have two channels, one for personal use and one for business use. The former channel's policy may ...

A new articulatory synthesizer (SAPWindows), with a modular and flexible design, is described. A comprehensive acoustic model and a new interactive glottal source were implemented. Perceptual tests and simulations made possible by the synthesizer contributed ...

Although many tele-medicine experiments have been conducted, the project reported here takes different approach. Equipment specifically developed for medical use has often been introduced in previous tele-medicine projects. This project aims to evaluate ...

With available data rates for mobile devices constantly increasing, services such as video broadcast and multicast are becoming feasible. A new standard called Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) is being developed by 3GPP to enable new class ...

Immersive virtual environment technology (IVET) allows developers to create simulated environments that can engage users in context relevant behaviors and that can produce relatively intense user experiences for purposes such as entertainment (e.g., ...

Reader awareness of article corrections can be of critical importance in the physical and biomedical sciences. Comparison of errata and corrigenda in online versions of high-impact physical sciences journals across titles and publishers yielded surprising ...

Electronic mail technology has been presented as a robust tool that be used by managers to communicate effectively within virtual organizations. The present study was designed to examine whether managers' media choices in one large virtual organization ...

A story of creation in the digital world that the director hopes will lead the audience to rethink the cycle of creation and destruction of life.

We present a general framework for cross-media annotation that can be used to support the many different forms and uses of annotation. Specifically, we discuss the need for digital annotation of printed materials and describe how various technologies ...

This paper presents a method for animating and rendering an interactive natural scenery in real-time. It improvesthe prairie model of [11] by enabling the on-the-fly generation of blades of grass, at three different levels of detail,from user-specified ...

In video-on-demand (VOD) systems, as the size of the buffer allocated to user requests increases, initial latency and memory requirements increase. Hence, the buffer size must be minimized. The existing static buffer allocation scheme, however, determines ...

We have developed a visual syntax for representing concepts that are contingent on temporal properties (time-dependent semantics). A within-group (N=24) experiment was conducted to identify the representations that conveyed best a given semantic. We ...