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Swigger, Kathleen
University of North Texas
Denton, Texas
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  Artificial intelligence and connectionism
Havel I.  Advanced topics in artificial intelligence (, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jul 6-17, 1992) 411992.  Type: Proceedings

Havel describes various aspects of artificial intelligence and connectionism and shows how both contribute to our general understanding of the mind. The paper first describes three approaches to the study of the mind: asking people to ...

May 1 1994  
  ACM SIGCHI curricula for human-computer interaction
Hewett T., 1992.  Type: Book

As computer science has developed, human-computer interaction (HCI) has gradually become part of the curriculum. Members of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) gathered in August, 1988 to discuss and f...

Jul 1 1993  
  Perspectives on multimedia systems in education
Reisman S., Carr W. IBM Systems Journal 30(3): 280-295, 1991.  Type: Article

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to provide a brief history of computers in education, and to discuss the success of an effort by IBM and California State University at Fullerton to integrate multimedia courses into a university c...

Jan 1 1993  
  Cyberspace
Benedikt M. (ed), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991.  Type: Book (9780262023276)

In these essays, various researchers in computer science, architecture, the visual arts, philosophy, and anthropology describe their personal views of the present and future directions of computer systems that produce “artifi...

Dec 1 1992  
  UIMS: promises, failures and trends
Coutaz J.  People and computers V (, Univ. of Nottingham, Sep 5-8, 1989) 841989.  Type: Proceedings

According to the author, a user interface management system (UIMS) has traditionally consisted of a dialogue manager, application skeletons, and user interface generators that allow programmers to produce interfaces from high-level sp...

Nov 1 1992  
  Computer systems that learn
Weiss S., Kulikowski C., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1991.  Type: Book (9781558600652)

The authors’ purpose was to “produce a practical guide to the application of classification learning systems.” More specifically, the authors try to develop a technique for evaluating and comparing machine...

Nov 1 1991  
  Computer Science at the CNRS and in French Universities: A Gradual Institutional Recognition
Baron G., Mounier-Kuhn P. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 12(2): 79-87, 1990.  Type: Article

The authors give an institutional account of the development of computer science within the French scientific community. More specifically, they describe how computer science became a recognized department within the French National Ce...

Feb 1 1991  
  The art of navigating through hypertext
Nielsen J. (ed) Communications of the ACM 33(3): 296-310, 1990.  Type: Article

Several ad hoc studies performed while testing the usability of a hypertext interface were concerned primarily with the issue of navigation through a hypertext application. One of the major problems with hypertext systems is that users...

Oct 1 1990  
  Life before the chips: simulating digital video interactive technology
Dixon D. Communications of the ACM 32(7): 824-831, 1989.  Type: Article

This is an interesting paper that recounts the historical and technical events that led to the announcement of Digital Video Interactive (DVI) technology in 1987. The major theme of this paper is that it is necessary to create a lot of...

Mar 1 1990  
  The next generation of interactive technologies
Frenkel K. Communications of the ACM 32(7): 872-881, 1989.  Type: Article

This paper is an interesting introduction to an exciting special section about the power and potential of the new interactive technologies. The author gives a competent overview of the current, commercially available systems. She revie...

Jan 1 1990  
 
 
 
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