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Tung, Yu-Wen
University of Southern California
Marina del Rey, California
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The CORBA reference guide
Pope A., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1998. Type: Book (9780201633863)
The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) can be roughly described as object-oriented middleware that allows users to deal with distributed objects without worrying about the underlying operating system and networking. The ...
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Aug 1 1999 |
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Education, outreach, and training
Finley A., Redelfs A., Moses G. Communications of the ACM 41(11): 74-75, 1998. Type: Article
The main message of this short paper is that effective education using technology must consist of more than the equipment--we need an effective pedagogy, among other things. The authors introduce the National Science Foundatio...
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Feb 1 1999 |
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Using technology to address old problems in new ways
Soloway E., Norris C. Communications of the ACM 41(9): 11-18, 1998. Type: Article
Unlike many technical papers in the Communications of the ACM, this column tries to convey an important message without going into any depth on computing theory. The main question the authors discuss is whether computing technol...
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Oct 1 1998 |
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Educating with the Internet
Skomars N., Charles River Media, Inc., Rockland, MA, 1998. Type: Book (9781886801707)
Skomars gives schoolteachers and parents the basic skills and ideas they will need in order to prepare lessons using the Internet. The book is organized into 15 chapters. The first 4 cover the basic terminology and the browsing and sea...
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Feb 1 1998 |
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Cognition and distance learning
Linn M. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47(11): 826-842, 1996. Type: Article
Linn begins by arguing that “autonomous” learning is the most effective learning stance (better than passive and active learning), and that “scaffolded knowledge integration” is the most effectiv...
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Sep 1 1997 |
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Relationships between fun and the computer business
Bushnell N. Communications of the ACM 39(9): 31-37, 1996. Type: Article
Bushnell describes his view of the future of the computing business as driven by the development of computer games. His basic view is that computer games, though started just for fun, are likely to affect the future usefulness of the c...
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Apr 1 1997 |
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Mastering CorelDRAW 6 (2nd ed.)
Altman R., SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA, 1996. Type: Book (9780782118025)
This book is intended mainly as a user’s guide to CorelDRAW version 6, the Windows 95 version of Corel’s graphics package. It goes beyond the limits of a normal user’s guide and adds much in the way of aut...
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Dec 1 1996 |
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Microsoft RPC programming guide
Shirley J., Rosenberry W., O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1995. Type: Book (9781565920705)
Both the Microsoft remote procedure call (RPC) and this book were developed by the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) project. This book is based on the Guide to writing DCE applications [1], though with a different set of ...
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Sep 1 1996 |
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Scenario educational software
Keegan M., Educational Technology Publications, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1995. Type: Book (9780877782827)
Keegan first describes the importance and effectiveness of the discovery method of learning. Scenario educational software is computer-assisted instruction (CAI) software that uses the discovery method. Using research results in the fi...
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May 1 1996 |
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Guide to writing DCE applications (2nd ed.)
Shirley J., Hu W., Magid D., O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1994. Type: Book (9781565920453)
The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) was put together by the Open Software Foundation. Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a component of the DCE--perhaps the most important one from the DCE user’s point of view. T...
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