This paper introduces a suite of Window Managers purposed for the technologically enhanced classroom. The overall objective is to instantiate a common look and feel across various classroom artifacts, thus providing a unified working environment for the students and teachers. To achieve optimal interaction and application display, the workspaces for each artifact are designed keeping in mind bo...

I present a general overview of the results discussed during the Cracow 1997 workshop on “Relativistic Jets in AGNs”. My emphasis will be on showing the significant progress made in several areas over the last few years, pointing out what I feel are some of the more important issues still facing us today, and suggesting where progress is likely to be made in the near future.

This paper describes a mobile context-aware ‘intelligent affective guide with attitude’ that guides visitors touring an outdoor attraction. Its behavior is regulated by a biologically inspired architecture of emotion, allowing it to adapt to the user’s needs and feelings. In addition to giving an illusion of life, the guide emulates a real guide’s behavior by presenting stories based on the use...

We present an architecture for electronic catalogs, called Smart Catalogs and Virtual Catalogs. Smart catalogs are searchable, annotated combinations of machine-readable (i.e., minimally processable) and machine-sensible (i.e., actually understood by the computer) product data. Virtual catalogs dynamically retrieve information from multiple smart catalogs and present this product data in a unif...

Companies that develop different variants of essentially the same product resort to software platform development in order to reduce the amount of redundant work, through reuse. Software platform or product line development enables companies to reduce the time-to-market without too much additional cost, while making their products more robust and give them a common look & feel. The problem is h...

This paper is an exploration of the role of intuition in physics. The ways in which intuition is appealed to in physics are not well understood. To the best of my knowledge, there is no analysis of the different contexts in which we might appeal to intuition in physics, nor is there any analysis of the different potential uses to which intuition might be put. In this paper I look to provide dat...