Forming, storming, norming and performing [1] – a well-known phase-modulation model of team building is probably reliable to describe the changeful relationship of Berlin Cultural and Berlin Digital in the Melting Pot of the metropolis. The pretty, shy bride awkwardly meets a nerdy, hyperactive groom when after the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989, the wedding looms on the horizon:...

The science of lichenology, or the study of lichens, has lagged behind other branches of botany, and many aspects of lichen biology are still shrouded with mystery. In fact, the most mysterious aspect of these plants, and the one basic to understanding them, was not known until the relatively late date of 1867: that although outwardly lichens appear to be discrete organisms, they are in fact ma...

The challenge of multimedia processing is to provide services that seamlessly integrate text, sound, image, and video information and to do it in a way that preserves the ease of use and interactivity of conventional plain old telephone service (POTS) telephony, irrelevant of the bandwidth or means of access of the connection to the service. To achieve this goal, there are a number of technolog...