The design studio is a medium of intense learning in architectural education. A learning experiment that engages in critical practice, seeking to present values instead of mere techniques, promoting investigative work rather than trying to bring exact definitions to what must be, is typical of architectural studio education. The choice of a theme around which to structure studio work is signifi...

This paper discusses the use of a computer tool designed to aid an architecture studio by: 1) supporting input by distant critics; 2) providing access to online cases and reference materials; 3) encouraging students to be clear and articulate about their projects; 4) supporting collaboration among students. The project, called CoOL Studio, employed a CoWeb, which allowed easy creation and modif...

ince its adoption in 1997, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has proved very popular with software engineers and has become the de facto standard as a visual modeling language for software engineers. However, this software focus of UML has discouraged many systems engineers from adopting it in earnest. Those who did adopt UML developed strategies to cope with its shortcomings. A common approa...

Robert Levenson: You attended the University of Chicago as a 15-year-old, jumping directly from 10th grade in South Orange, New Jersey, to one of the top colleges in the country. What was that experience like for you, and how much influence did the Chicago years have on the kind of scholar, scientist, and person you became? Paul Ekman: In many ways, it ruined me for academia, because I have nev...

MOTIVATION Abstract shape analysis, first proposed in 2004, allows one to extract several relevant structures from the folding space of an RNA sequence, preferable to focusing in a single structure of minimal free energy. We report recent extensions to this approach. RESULTS We have rebuilt the original RNAshapes as a repository of components that allows us to integrate several established to...

The LIEM (Computer and Electronic Music Laboratory) is part of CDMC (Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Music INAEM Ministry of Culture Spain). It is a public service used every year by around 30 composers from Spain and abroad to finish their works. Other activities include software development as required by composition projects, presentation of workshops, seminars and demos, production...

Along with the emergence of a new generation of multimedia applications has come a need to facilitate real-virtual teleconferences and automatic generation of contents. In this direction Java Multimedia Studio, a tool completely java-based allowing to edit, record and playback multimedia sessions over the Internet MBone, has been developed. Java Multimedia Studio is founded on a QoS centered Ja...

In this paper we provide an overview of IBM WebSphere Studio, a family of tools for developing distributed applications for J2EETM servers for state-of-the-art information technology systems. In today’s business environment such systems are complex, comprise multiple platforms, and make use of a wide range of technologies and standards. Through a representative development scenario we illustrat...