Designing materials with tailored structural or functional properties is a fundamental goal of science and engineering. A vast research activity currently devoted to achieving metamaterials superior optimized functionalities by carefully fine tuning both the microstructure geometry material. Here, we discuss impact digital technologies in this field providing fast cost effective tools explore l...

Using Web technologies as a platform has become a common approach for many IT scenarios. In this position paper, we describe how a structured analysis of current common eBook readers, and the capabilities of the evolving HTML5 platform, can help to identify areas where there are gaps between what a ”Web as a Platform (WaaP)” eBook reader requires, and what HTML5 and its implementation in modern...

In this paper we explore the use of structured synchronous collaboration in e-Learning. Although there is much interest recently on integrating collaboration tools in e-Learning environments, not much has been mentioned about the effects of structured versus unstructured collaboration. Here, through a simple prototype, we find that potential users of e-Learning platforms really liked the integr...