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Annual Report 2020-2021, Depaul University College Of Computing And Digital Media
Annual Report 2020-2021, Depaul University College Of Computing And Digital Media
CDM Annual Reports
LETTER FROM THE DEAN
As I write this letter during the beginning of the 2021–22 academic year, we have started to welcome the majority of our students to campus— many for the very first time, and some for the first time in a year and a half. It has been wonderful to be together, in-person, again. Four quarters of learning and working remotely was challenging, to be sure, but I have been consistently amazed by the resilience, innovation, and hard work of our students, faculty, and staff, even in the most difficult of circumstances. This annual report, covering the 2020–21 …
Annual Report 2019-2020, Depaul University College Of Computing And Digital Media
Annual Report 2019-2020, Depaul University College Of Computing And Digital Media
CDM Annual Reports
LETTER FROM THE DEAN
As I write this letter wrapping up the 2019-20 academic year, we remain in a global pandemic that has profoundly altered our lives. While many things have changed, some stayed the same: our CDM community worked hard, showed up for one another, and continued to advance their respective fields. A year that began like many others changed swiftly on March 11th when the University announced that spring classes would run remotely. By March 28th, the first day of spring quarter, we had moved 500 CDM courses online thanks to the diligent work of our faculty, staff, …
Preserving The Quality Of Architectural Tactics In Source Code, Mehdi Mirakhorli
Preserving The Quality Of Architectural Tactics In Source Code, Mehdi Mirakhorli
College of Computing and Digital Media Dissertations
In any complex software system, strong interdependencies exist between requirements and software architecture. Requirements drive architectural choices while also being constrained by the existing architecture and by what is economically feasible. This makes it advisable to concurrently specify the requirements, to devise and compare alternative architectural design solutions, and ultimately to make a series of design decisions in order to satisfy each of the quality concerns.
Unfortunately, anecdotal evidence has shown that architectural knowledge tends to be tacit in nature, stored in the heads of people, and lost over time. Therefore, developers often lack comprehensive knowledge of underlying architectural design …
Improving Deaf Accessibility To Web-Based Multimedia, Brent N. Shiver
Improving Deaf Accessibility To Web-Based Multimedia, Brent N. Shiver
College of Computing and Digital Media Dissertations
Internet technologies have expanded rapidly over the past two decades, making information of all sorts more readily available. Not only are they more cost-effective than traditional media, these new media have contributed to quality and convenience. However, proliferation of video and audio media on the internet creates an inadvertent disadvantage for deaf Internet users. Despite technological and legislative milestones in recent decades in making television and movies more accessible, there has been little progress with online access. A major obstacle to providing captions for internet media is the high cost of captioning and transcribing services.
To respond to this problem, …