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Study Of Electronic Cash: Its Impact On The Economy And Society, And Its Future, Sanjana Prasad
Study Of Electronic Cash: Its Impact On The Economy And Society, And Its Future, Sanjana Prasad
LLM Theses and Essays
Technological advancement has introduced an electronic method for the payment for goods and services. With these advancements and the growth of the internet, the market-place of the world has become one universe without borders. This paper examines the various methods of electronic payment for goods and services and the domestic and international laws that govern their operations. The paper explores concerns about money laundering, counterfeiting, internet security, cyber scams in electronic cash as well as proffered security solutions to these problems. The paper concludes with the proposition that electronic cash in the form of cards (ATM) are more accessible to …
Student Database Access From The Web, Prashanthi Sundaram
Student Database Access From The Web, Prashanthi Sundaram
Theses Digitization Project
This project, Database Access through the Web (DAW), implements a database to store academic and general information of graduate students in the Department of Computer Science, CSUSB and provides access to the database from the web. The motivation of the project comes from needs of the Graduate Coordinator, professors and department staff to access through the Internet student information concurrently.
Personal Assistants, Michael N. Huhns, Munindar P. Singh
Personal Assistants, Michael N. Huhns, Munindar P. Singh
Faculty Publications
Already there are simple personal agents to help with some of our shopping. There are agents to track stocks in our portfolios, advise us on how to use particular software products, and arrange meetings within corporate workgroups. However, none of these agents takes more than one aspect of our activities into account, nor do they adapt easily to our preferences. Personal assistants, on the other hand, are agents that can represent individuals on the Web. They help users in their day-to-day activities, especially those involving information retrieval, negotiation, or coordination. A personal assistant might schedule a meeting and then, based …
Anthropoid Agents, Michael N. Huhns, Munindar P. Singh
Anthropoid Agents, Michael N. Huhns, Munindar P. Singh
Faculty Publications
In the study of agents on the Internet, we often ascribe to them human qualities, such as beliefs and intentions. These qualities are best understood as metaphors that give developers a way to talk about and design the capabilities and applications of agents. Despite all the progress in computing, users have been slow to accept the technology. They have often accepted what was thrown at them, but only under economic duress. Bringing the technology closer to their emotional needs might ease this resistance. So how can we put a human face on computing? Maybe by putting an animated face on …