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Drexel University
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trademark of Drexel University Drexel University is an institution of higher learning located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a noted financier and philanthropist. The current president is Constantine Papadakis. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Drexel's Colleges and Schools 1.1 Colleges 1.2 Schools 2 Majors Offered 2.3 Most Popular Majors 3 Sports 4 Misc. 5 External Links Drexel's Colleges and Schools The university has thirteen colleges and schools: Colleges Arts and Sciences Bennett S. LeBow College of Business Engineering Medicine Nursing and Health Professions Information Science and Technology Media Arts & Design Richard C. Goodwin College of Evening and Professional Studies Schools Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems Education Hospitality Management Public Health Majors Offered Humanities and Social Sciences Communication English General Humanities and
Dynabook
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GUI as early as 1972. The Dynabook concept described what is now known as a laptop computer or, (in some of its other iterations) a tablet PC or slate computer with nearly eternal battery life and software aimed mostly at giving children unlimited expression opportunities with all digital media imaginable. Adults could also use a Dynabook from the start, but the target audience would be children, and the software would grow up with them. Alan Kay was the main proponent of the Dynabook concept. When Microsoft came up with its tablet PC he was quoted as saying "Microsoft's Tablet PC, the first Dynabook-like computer good enough to criticize." Kay wanted the Dynabook concept to embody the learning theories of Jean Piaget and some of what Seymour Papert was proposing in order
Extreme Programming
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Extreme Programming (XP) is a method in or approach to software engineering, formulated by Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, and Ron Jeffries. Kent Beck wrote the first book on the topic, "Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change" (ISBN 0201616416). It is the most popular of several agile processes. Fundamental characteristics of the method are: Incremental and iterative developments - small improvements after small ones continuous, often repeated automated unit test, regression testing. See JUnit. pair programming user interaction in the programming team (Onsite Customer) refactoring shared code ownership simplicity feedback These characteristics are only derivatives of principles that are known to be good, and are taken into extreme: Interaction between developers and customers is good. Therefore, an XP team is supposed to have a customer on site, who specifies and prioritises work for
Evolutionary linguistics
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by CSL/Paris, headed by prof. Luc Steels in collaboration with the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and their description of their approach is the following: "Research in evolutionary linguistics: A good way to test a model of a particular phenomenon is to build simulations or artificial systems that exhibit the same or similar phenomena. We are applying this approach to the problem of the origins of language and meaning by developing simulations, both in software and (in collaboration with the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) physically grounded on robotic agents. These simulations are based on the notion of language games - interactions in which speakers and hearers use language to identify or talk about features and events in the real or simulated world that they
English orthography
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in alphabetic scripts, and contains inconsistencies that necessitate rote learning of the pronunciations of many words. There are two major reasons for this. The first is that the admirably consistent orthography of Old English was swept away by the Norman Conquest, and English itself was eclipsed by French for three centuries, eventually emerging with its spelling much influenced by French. English had also borrowed large numbers of words from French, which for reasons of prestige and familiarity kept their French spellings. Like most other languages with alphabetic scripts, English continues to preserve foreign spellings for loanwords, even when they employ completely exotic conventions, like the 'cz' in 'Czech'. The second major reason is the group of linguistic changes during the period after the Conquest, including the Great Vowel Shift. For example,
Fuzzy control system
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or other inputs, such as switches, thumbwheels, and so on, to the appropriate membership functions and truth values. The processing stage invokes each appropriate rule and generates a result for each, then combines the results of the rules. Finally, the output stage converts the combined result back into a specific control output value. The most common shape of membership functions is triangular, although trapezoidal and bell curves are also used, but the shape is generally less important than the number of curves and their placement. From three to seven curves are generally appropriate to cover the required range of an input value, or the "universe of discourse" in fuzzy jargon. As discussed earlier, the processing stage is based on a collection of logic rules in the form of IF-THEN statements, where
Graphics program
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program A graphics program is a piece of computer software that enables a user to modify or view graphics files. Computer graphics can be classified into two distinct categories: raster graphics and vector graphics. Before learning about computer software that manipulates or displays these graphics types, you should be familiar with both. Many graphics programs focus exclusively on either vector or raster graphics, but there are a few that combine them in interesting and sometimes unexpected ways. Most graphics programs have the ability to import and export one or more graphics file formats. Several graphics programs support animation, or digital video. Vector graphics animation can be described as a series of mathematical transformations that are applied in sequence to one or more shapes in a scene. Raster graphics animation works in
Greg Egan
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mathematical and metaphysical themes, including the nature of consciousness. Other themes include genetics, simulated reality, mind transfer and sentient software. Some of his earlier short stories feature strong elements of supernatural horror. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Works 1.1 Novels 1.2 Collections 1.3 Stories 2 Awards 3 External resources Works Novels Schild's Ladder (2002) Teranesia (1999) Diaspora (1997) Distress (1995) Permutation City (1994) Quarantine (1992) An Unusual Angle (1983) Collections Oceanic and Other Stories Luminous (1998) Our Lady of Chernobyl Axiomatic (1995) Stories 'Singleton' 'Oracle' 'Only Connect' 'Border Guards' 'Oceanic' 'The Planck Dive' 'Yeyuka' 'Reasons to Be Cheerful' 'Silver Fire' 'TAP' 'Mister Volition' 'Luminous' 'Wang's Carpets' 'A Kidnapping' 'Seeing' 'Mitochondrial Eve' 'Cocoon' 'Our Lady of Chernobyl' 'Chaff' 'Transition Dreams' 'The Walk' 'Reification Highway' 'Closer' 'Worthless' 'Unstable Orbits in the Space of
Glossary of medical terms related to communications disorders
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used primarily by people who are deaf. Anosmia - absence of the sense of smell. Aphasia - total or partial loss of the ability to use or understand language; usually caused by stroke, brain disease, or injury. Aphonia - complete loss of voice. Apraxia - inability to execute a voluntary movement despite being able to demonstrate normal muscle function. Articulation disorder - inability to correctly produce speech sounds (phonemes) because of imprecise placement, timing, pressure, speed, or flow of movement of the lips, tongue, or throat. Assistive devices - technical tools and devices such as alphabet boards, text telephones, or text-to-speech conversion software used to aid individuals who have communication disorders perform actions, tasks, and activities. Audiologist - health care professional who is trained to evaluate hearing loss and related disorders,
Genetic algorithm
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work in genetic algorithms, which has moved on from a purely theoretical subject (though based on computer modelling), to provide methods which can be used to solve some difficult problems today. Problems which appear to be particularly appropriate for solution by genetic algorithms include timetabling and scheduling problems, and many scheduling software packages are based on GAs. The problem to be solved is represented by a list of parameters which can be used to drive an evaluation procedure. Possible solutions to the problem (referred to as chromosomes or genomes) are also represented in this parameter list form. These chromosomes are evaluated, and a value of goodness or fitness is returned. Initially several such parameter lists or chromosomes are generated randomly, to form an initial pool of possible solutions. This is called
Hyderabad, India
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history and an architectural individuality of their own, which makes Hyderabad a city of enchantment. Hyderabad was founded on the River Musi five miles east of Golconda, in 1591-92 by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah. In the 16th century the city grew spontaneously to accommodate the surplus population of Golconda, which was the capital of the Qutb Shahi rulers. The Qutb Shahi dynasty founded the Kingdom of Golconda, one of the five kingdoms that emerged after the break up of the Bahamani Kingdom. All the seven rulers were patrons of learning and were great builders. They contributed to the growth and development of Indo-Persian and Indo-Islamic literature and culture in Hyderabad. During the Qutb Shahi reign Golconda became one of the leading markets in the world for diamonds, pearls, [[steel],] arms, and
U.S. presidential election, 2000
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declare the recount procedure in process unconstitutional because it was not being carried out statewide and 5-4 to ban further recounts using other procedures. Gore strongly disagreed with the court's decision, but decided that "for the sake of our unity of the people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession." He had previously made a concession phone call to Bush the night of the election, but quickly retracted it after learning just how close the election was. Following the election, a subsequent recount conducted by various US news media organization indicated that Bush would still have won the popular vote in Florida had the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the recounts to proceed using the process requested by Gore, though some different methods of counting votes would have resulted
Hackers (short stories)
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contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 "Burning Chrome" 2 "Spirit of the Night" 3 "Blood Sisters" 4 "Rock On" 5 "The Pardoner's Tale" 6 "Living Will" 7 "Dogfight" 8 "Our Neural Chernobyl" 9 "(Learning About) Machine Sex" 10 "Conversations with Michael" 11 "Gene Wars" 12 "Spew" 13 "Tangents" "Burning Chrome" This story was written by William Gibson and was first published in Omni in 1982. It tells the story of two hackers who hack systems for profit. The two main characters are Bobby Quine who specializes in software and Automatic Jack who is more into hardware. Automatic Jack comes across a piece of Russian hacking software that is very sophisticated and hard to trace. A third character in the story is Rikki, a girl who Bobby becomes infatuated with and wants to hit it
Handwriting recognition
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typically include: a pen or stylus for the user to write with. a touch sensitive surface, which may be integrated with, or adjacent to, an output display. a software application which interprets the movements of the stylus across the writing surface, translating the resulting curves into digital text. Handwriting recognition is commonly used as an input method for PDAss. The first PDA to provide written input was the Apple Newton, which exposed the public to the advantage of a streamlined user interface. However, the device was not a commercial success, owing to the unreliability of the software, which tried to learn a user's writing patterns. Palm later launched a successful series of PDAss based on the Graffiti® recognition system. Graffiti improved usability by defining a set of pen strokes for each
Half-Life (computer game)
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computer game developed by Valve Software and published by Sierra On-Line in 1998, based on a heavily-modified core Quake I game engine. It was first published for PCss running Microsoft Windows, and was later ported to Sony's Playstation 2 video game console (a version for Sega's Dreamcast was completed, but never released commercially). Half-Life was heralded by computer game critics for its gripping storyline, which would influence the development of other first-person shooters in the years to come. In the game, you play a scientist named Gordon Freeman who is a survivor of an experiment gone horribly wrong, allowing aliens from another planet to invade Earth. As you try to escape the destroyed facility you soon discover that you are caught between two sides: the aliens, and the forces of the
Hacker
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used in that way at MIT, without necessarily referring to computers. When MIT students surreptiously put a police car atop the dome on MIT's Building 10, that was a hack, and the students involved were therefore hackers. Computer culture at MIT developed when members of the Tech Model Railroad Club started working with a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1 computer and applied local model railroad slang to computers. In modern computer culture, the label "hacker" is a compliment, indicating a skilled and clever programmer. In the media, however, it has negative connotations and has become synonymous with "software cracker". The term hacker has five meanings that are in common usage: Someone who knows a (sometimes specified) set of programming interfaces well enough to write novel and useful software without conscious thought on
Ivan Illich
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Society ISBN 0060803818 (1971), a critical discourse on education as practised in 'modern' economies. Full of detail on then current programmes and concerns, the book can seem dated, but its core assertions and propositions remain as radical today as they were at the time. Giving real world examples of the inneffectual nature of institutionalised education, Illich posited self directed education, supported by intentional social relations, in fluid, informal arrangements: ?Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand the pedagogue's responsibility until it engulfs his
Iterative and Incremental development
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is a one of Extreme programming practices. The basic idea behind iterative enhancement is to develop a software system incrementally, allowing the developer to take advantage of what was being learned during the development of earlier, incremental, deliverable versions of the system. Learning comes from both the development and use of the system, where possible. Key steps in the process were to start with a simple implementation of a subset of the software requirements and iteratively enhance the evolving sequence of versions until the full system is implemented. At each iteration, design modifications are made along with addition new functional capabilities. The Procedure itself consists of the Initialization step, the Iteration step, and the Project Control List. The initialization step creates a base version of the system. The goal for this
Information warfare
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expands and concentrates data storage, and accelerates instruction processing. An Information Function is any activity involving the acquisition, transmission, storage, or transformation of information. For example, the system that tells a machine to stamp eighty hubcaps is performing an information function. The sheet metal press stamping those hubcaps is not. What are some military information functions ? Quality information is the counter to the fog of war. As mentioned earlier, the commander with better information holds a powerful advantage over his adversary. Military operations make special demands on information functions in seeking to give the commander an information advantage. Surveillance and reconnaissance are our powers of observation. Intelligence and weather analysis are the bases for orienting observations. Some militaries use those bases to form an Air Tasking Order, which command and
Instructional capital
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encoded symbolic know-how that persons, communities, organizations and software exploit to predict, or avoid future events they deem not desirable, or create those they desire. It is inherently shared, predictable, and empirical. Many people or machines can read it, test it, use it, and in many cases, they can change or challenge it. Patent or non-fiction copyright laws provide a means of protection for such shared instructions when compiled and registered according to the instructions of the law itself. Law may itself be the best example of instructional capital. As a capital asset, the Wikipedia article database itself is most reasonably considered a piece of instructional capital. When separated from the individual and social context of its users and contributors, e.g. as visible in the meta and other name-spaces, and with
Jumpstart
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Jumpstart The Jumpstart series is a series of education software made by Knowledge Adventure. Jumpstart products typically feature a printable progress report. The game usually provides motivation, thus there are typically more activities in the products for younger children and fewer for older children. Doria Biddle seems to be a popular writer for Jumpstart products. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Jumpstart Characters 2 Full Grade Products 2.1 Jumpstart Baby 2.1.1 Subjects 2.2 Jumpstart Toddlers 2.2.2 Subjects 2.3 Jumpstart Preschool 2.3.3 Subjects 2.4 Jumpstart Kindergarten 2.4.4 Subjects 2.5 Jumpstart 1st Grade 2.5.5 Subjects 2.6 Jumpstart 2nd Grade 2.6.6 Subjects 2.7 Jumpstart 3rd Grade 2.8 Jumpstart 4th Grade 2.8.7 Subjects 2.8.8 Games 2.9 Jumpstart 5th Grade 2.9.9 Subjects 2.9.10 Cource of a Mission 2.9.10.1 The Hooverville Museum of Art and Geography 2.9.10.2 Fist
Johnston-Ruyer Back Therapy
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retrain us in these better habits - not to keep us wholly inactive while we slowly starve. (Remember, you've already consulted a physician and can reasonably assume that your back pain is the usual kind, not caused by an unusual injury or disease.) Using the legs more, and the back muscles less is central to most approaches to back pain. Johnston-Ruyer holds that overuse of the back muscles occurs when we lose track of where our center of gravity is; or more particularly, *where the centers of gravity of each of our three main body segments are with relation to each other.* It holds that back muscles are usually strained or overused when they are attempting to balance us and keep us upright while the centers of gravity of these main
List of open-source software packages
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List of open-source software packages This is a list of open-source software packages: Computer software licensed under an open source license. Software that fits the Free software definition are more appropriately called free software. For more information about the philosophical background for open source software, see open source movement and free software movement. See also: freeware, shareware, public domain, proprietary software, Freshmeat, SourceForge Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Operating systems 2 Desktop environments 3 Office software suites 4 Groupware 5 Web browsers 6 Databases 7 Games 8 Text editors 9 Content management systems 10 Learning Support 11 Programming language support 12 Graphics 13 Maths 14 Internet 15 Other Operating systems FreeBSD Linux NetBSD OpenBSD FreeDOS Desktop environments KDE GNOME Office software suites OpenOffice.org (similar functionality to Microsoft Office, including
Learning Support Systems
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Learning Support Systems = Open Source Learning Support Systems = Whiteboard http://whiteboard.sourceforge.net/ ILAIS http://www.ilias.uni-koeln.de/ios/index-e.html Moodle http://moodle.org/ See Also Content Management Framework List of open-source software packages E-learning
Maya (software)
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Maya (software) Maya is a high-end 3D computer graphics software package used in the film and TV industry, as well as for computer and video games. Maya comes in two main versions, Maya Complete (confusingly, this is a cut-down version) and Maya Unlimited. Maya Unlimited used to be considered too expensive for home users but is now priced similar to other 3D programs. There is also Maya Personal Learning Edition (PLE) for non-commercial use, which is completely free, but each rendered picture or frame contains a large notice saying that it cannot be used for commercial things. Maya is written by Alias wavefront, and is released for the Microsoft Windows, Linux, IRIX and Mac_OS_X operating systems. The latest version of Maya, version 5.0, was released in early
National Centre for Software Technology
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National Centre for Software Technology National Centre for Software Technology (NCST), now known as the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), is a Research and Development organization under the Department of Information Technology (formerly Department of Electronics), Government of India. NCST was established in the year 1985 as the National Laboratory for Research & Development in Software Technology. NCST was one of the eight nodes of the Education and Research Network (ERNET) project aimed at creating expertise R&D and education in the area of networking and Internet in India. NCST has its offices at Mumbai (Juhu, Nariman Point, and Kharghar) and Bangalore (Electronics City and Visvesvaraya Centre). Research areas at NCST include Cryptography, Database Design and Performance, 3D Graphics, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Online Learning related
Software documentation
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Software documentation Software Documentation is written text that accompanies computer software. It either explains how it operates or how to use it. In fact, the term software documentation means different things to different people. This article describes the term as used by the largest groups of users. Code Documentation This is what most programmers mean when using the term software documentation. When creating software, code alone is insufficient. There must be some text along with it to describe various aspects of its intended operation. This documentation is usually embedded within the source code itself so it is readily accessible to anyone who may be traversing it. This writing can be highly technical and is mainly used to define and explain the API's, data structures and algorithms.
Software engineering
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Software engineering zh-cn:软件工程 Software engineering is the technologies and practices used to create and maintain computer software, while emphasizing productivity and quality. In the year 2000, these technologies and practices encompass languages, databases, tools, platformss, libraries, standards, patterns, and processes. Software engineering applications include email, embedded software, graphical user interfaces, office suites, operating systems, optimizing compilers, relational databases, robotics controllers, video games, and the world wide web. Other important applications include accounting, airline reservations, avionics, banking, and telephony. These applications embody social and economic value, in that they make people more productive, improve their quality of life, and enable them to do things that would otherwise be impossible. Software engineers are the community of practitioners who create programss. In the year 2000, there were about 640,000
The Learning Company
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The Learning Company The Learning Company is an educational software company, founded in 1980. They invented a grade-based system similar to Knowledge Adventure's Jumpstart series. The products for preschoolers through second graders feature Reader Rabbit, and software for more advanced students features the ClueFinders. Software The ClueFinders The ClueFinders 3rd Grade Adventures The ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures The ClueFinders 6th Grade Adventures The ClueFinders Math Adventures The ClueFinders Reading Adventures The ClueFinders Search and Solve Adventures Reader Rabbit Reader Rabbit Baby Reader Rabbit Toddler Reader Rabbit Preschool Reader Rabbit Kindergarten Reader Rabbit 1st Grade Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Zoombinis Zoombinis: Logical Journey Zoombinis: Mountain Rescue Zoombinis: Island Odyssey
Computer-assisted language learning
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Computer-assisted language learning Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is a method of teaching and learning languages by means of computer software specially designed to be used in the classroom. CALL came up in the 1980s in the wake of the computer revolution, which eventually also led to the availability of PCss in schools. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Methodological considerations 3 The current situation 4 Further reading 5
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