A new trend in online education involves students acting through animated characters called “avatars” mingling in simulated school settings and even rocketing off, via the Internet, on quests for knowledge says this article.
The San Jose State University for instance, has built a campus at Second Life, which spans 16 digital acres dotted with school buildings […]
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WiMax, generally considered to be Wi-Fi on steroids since it can provide broadband wireless access (BWA) up to 30 miles (50 km) for fixed stations, and 3-10 miles (5-15 km) for mobile stations, compared to the 100-300 feet for Wi-fi/802.11, is making its presence felt in India, albeit with a whimper as this article states.
Major […]
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Authors are invited to submit their papers on interactive media/artworks to the Session “Interactive Design Systems” of the CCCT08 International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies.
All the accepted papers will be published into the Conference Proceedings
The selection of the best papers will take part of a special issue of the JSCI Scientific journal (Journal […]
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