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Virtual Celluoid, Switch Staffs Sep 1995

Virtual Celluoid, Switch Staffs

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The article is an analysis of the author’s research pertaining to films relating to or containing the concept of virtual reality. The author lists several films such as Johnny Mnemnonic, Virtuosity, The Net, and Disclosure and provides a brief synopsis and review of each movie. Each film explains the concept of virtual reality through differing plots and methods such as cyberspace, progressive software, and artificial intelligence. The author also gives their own insight into and ratings of the films, explaining what they think is the most relatable in terms of overall storyline as well as how realisticly the movie portrays …


Interview: Brenda Laurel, Jason Challas Jul 1995

Interview: Brenda Laurel, Jason Challas

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This interview with Brenda Laurel, Virtual Reality (VR) author and thinker, discusses the applications and challenges of VR. Creating an emphatic experience using VR technology is possible, but the challenge lies in designing an environment that models the senses to stimulate emotions. VR enables experiences of different genders, but physiological differences between the sexes exist and are important to understand. However, technology used to create the environment and simulation of physical objects in VR is only in the developmental stage. Laurel believes in the importance of keeping the mind grounded in the physical body, in order to strengthen the appreciation …


The Effect Of Domain Knowledge On Elementary School Children's Search Behavior On An Information Retrieval System: The Science Library Catalog, Sandra Hirsh May 1995

The Effect Of Domain Knowledge On Elementary School Children's Search Behavior On An Information Retrieval System: The Science Library Catalog, Sandra Hirsh

Faculty Publications

Few information retrieval systems are designed with children’s special needs and capabilities in mind. We need to learn more about children’s information-seeking behavior in order to provide them with information-based tools which support exploratory learning. This dissertation examines children’s search behavior on a hypertext-based automated library catalog designed for elementary school children. The focus of this research is on the effect of domain knowledge on children’s search performance, search behavior, and learning as they look for science books on this system. Reseaxch has shown that level of domain knowledge in~luences the way people search for information. Data was collected through …


Spartan Daily, April 27, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Apr 1995

Spartan Daily, April 27, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 104, Issue 57


Spartan Daily, March 22, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Mar 1995

Spartan Daily, March 22, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 104, Issue 39


"Be Not Afraid", Juana Acrivos Mar 1995

"Be Not Afraid", Juana Acrivos

Faculty Publications, Chemistry

If l asked what am I doing here? the answer should be that I am here to recount the experience of a condensed matter scientist teaching frontier chemical physics at a so called "Undergraduate Institution with ≈47% Minorities" But should one distinguish undergraduate from graduate ability, minority from non-minority ability to do frontier science that shall benefit everyone? I hope to convince you the answer is no; the title of my address was borrowed from Pope John Paul's recent best seller in order to have the courage to do the job. This attitude is probably no different from anyone else …


Spartan Daily, March 16, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Mar 1995

Spartan Daily, March 16, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 104, Issue 35


Spartan Daily, March 2, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Mar 1995

Spartan Daily, March 2, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 104, Issue 25


Interview: Joel Slayton, Christine Laffer Feb 1995

Interview: Joel Slayton, Christine Laffer

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Interview with Joel Slayton, Professor of Computers in Fine Art at San José State University, and Director of the CADRE Institute. Slayton discusses the history of the Cadre Institute and details his views on the relationship between art and new technology. Slayton describes the role of artists in exploring the possibilities and ethical implications of emerging technologies such as genetic engineering, nano-techology, robotics, and artificial life. He describes installations and in-progress work focused on ubiquitous video surveillance. The interview concludes with a discussion of Slayton’s use of the DoWhatDo model for artistic collaboration and of his piece "Conduits," presented in …


Spartan Daily, February 6, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Feb 1995

Spartan Daily, February 6, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 104, Issue 7


Spartan Daily, January 31, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Jan 1995

Spartan Daily, January 31, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 104, Issue 3


Spartan Daily, January 25, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Jan 1995

Spartan Daily, January 25, 1995, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 104, Issue 1


Linearly-Constrained Entropy Maximization Problem With Quadratic Costs And Its Applications To Transportation Planning Problems, Shu-Cherng Fang, Jacob Tsao Jan 1995

Linearly-Constrained Entropy Maximization Problem With Quadratic Costs And Its Applications To Transportation Planning Problems, Shu-Cherng Fang, Jacob Tsao

Faculty Publications

Many transportation problems can be formulated as a linearly-constrained convex programming problem whose objective function consists of entropy functions and other cost-related terms. In this paper, we propose an unconstrained convex programming dual approach to solving these problems. In particular, we focus on a class of linearly-constrained entropy maximization problem with quadratic cost, study its Lagrangian dual, and provide a globally convergent algorithm with a quadratic rate of convergence. The theory and algorithm can be readily applied to the trip distribution problem with quadratic cost and many other entropy-based formulations, including the conventional trip distribution problem with linear cost, the …


A Small Modified Hammerhead Ribozyme And Its Conformational Characteristics Determined By Mutagenesis And Lattice Calculation, Brooke Lustig, N H. Lin, S M. Smith, R L. Jernigan, K.-T Jeang Jan 1995

A Small Modified Hammerhead Ribozyme And Its Conformational Characteristics Determined By Mutagenesis And Lattice Calculation, Brooke Lustig, N H. Lin, S M. Smith, R L. Jernigan, K.-T Jeang

Faculty Publications, Chemistry

A prototypic hammerhead ribozyme has three helices that surround an asymmetrical central core loop. We have mutagenized a hammerhead type ribozyme. In agreement with previous studies, progressive removal of stem-loop II from a three stemmed ribozyme showed that this region is not absolutely critical for catalysis. However, complete elimination of stem II and its loop did reduce, but did not eliminate, function. In a stem-loop II-deleted ribozyme, activity was best preserved when a purine, preferably a G, was present at position 10.1. This G contributed to catalysis irregardless of its role as either one part of a canonical pair with …


Comment On 'Simulation Of A Two-Dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard System Using The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method, Alejandro Garcia, F. Baras, M. Malek Mansour Jan 1995

Comment On 'Simulation Of A Two-Dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard System Using The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method, Alejandro Garcia, F. Baras, M. Malek Mansour

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Qpsk Block-Modulation Codes For Unequal Error Protection, Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza, Shu Lin Jan 1995

Qpsk Block-Modulation Codes For Unequal Error Protection, Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza, Shu Lin

Faculty Publications

Unequal error protection (UEP) codes find applications in broadcast channels, as well as in other digital communication systems, where messages have different degrees of importance. Binary linear UEP (LUEP) codes combined with a Gray mapped QPSK signal set are used to obtain new efficient QPSK block-modulation codes for unequal error protection. Several examples of QPSK modulation codes that have the same minimum squared Euclidean distance as the best QPSK modulation codes, of the same rate and length, are given. In the new constructions of QPSK block-modulation codes, even-length binary LUEP codes are used. Good even-length binary LUEP codes are obtained …


A Consistent Boltzmann Algorithm, Alejandro Garcia, F. Alexander, B. Alder Jan 1995

A Consistent Boltzmann Algorithm, Alejandro Garcia, F. Alexander, B. Alder

Faculty Publications

The direct simulation Monte Carlo method for the Boltzmann equation is modified by an additional displacement in the advection process and an enhanced collision rate in order to obtain the exact hard sphere equation of state at all densities. This leads to consistent thermodynamic and transport properties in the low density (Boltzmann) regime. At higher densities transport properties are comparable to the predictions of the Enskog model. The algorithm is faster than molecular dynamics at low and moderate densities and readily run on a parallel architecture


Consistencies Of Individual Dna Base-Amino Acid Interactions In Structures And Sequences, Brooke Lustig, R L. Jernigan Jan 1995

Consistencies Of Individual Dna Base-Amino Acid Interactions In Structures And Sequences, Brooke Lustig, R L. Jernigan

Faculty Publications, Chemistry

Amino acid-amino acid interaction energies have been derived from crystal structure data for a number of years. Here is reported the first derivation of normalized relative interaction from binding data for each of the four bases interacting with a specific amino acid, utilizing data from combinatorial multiplex ONA binding of zinc finger domains [Desjarlais, J. R. and Berg, J. M. (1994) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 91, 11099–11103]. The five strongest Interactions are observed for lysine-guanine, lysine-thymine, arginine- guanine, aspartic acid-cytosine and asparagineadenine. These rankings for interactions with the four bases appear to be related to base-amino acid partial charges. …


Dynamic Phenomena In Layer Superconducting Cuprate And Organic Metals, Juana Acrivos, Lei Chen, C. Burch Jan 1995

Dynamic Phenomena In Layer Superconducting Cuprate And Organic Metals, Juana Acrivos, Lei Chen, C. Burch

Faculty Publications, Chemistry

Dynamic electron spin resonance (ESR) and extended x-ray absorption edge fine structure (XAFS) measurements suggest that layered organic metals and cuprate superconductors behave similarly. The response to microwave radiation in a modulated external magnetic field indicates that: (i) triplet state, T * ESR is observed below Tc for both; (ii) the condensation of free spin doublet D to T* occurs above the transition temperature to superconductivity Tc (10 ± 1 K for the organic metal (BEDT-TTF)3Ta2F11 and 92 to 12 K for YBa2Cu3O7-δ and its rare earth derivatives); (iii) antiferomagnetic (AF) resonance is detected above Tc for the organic metal. …


A Graphical Robotic Simulation, Adam James Bell Jan 1995

A Graphical Robotic Simulation, Adam James Bell

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


A Comparison Of The Effectiveness Of The Harvard Calculus Series With The Traditionally Taught Calculus Series, Gregory H. Allen Jan 1995

A Comparison Of The Effectiveness Of The Harvard Calculus Series With The Traditionally Taught Calculus Series, Gregory H. Allen

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Multidimensional Wavelets And Their Applications, Eugene Garry Ionel Jan 1995

Multidimensional Wavelets And Their Applications, Eugene Garry Ionel

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Braids And The Braid Groups, Jeffrey P. O'Connell Jan 1995

Braids And The Braid Groups, Jeffrey P. O'Connell

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


On An Orthonormal Basis For Tetrahedra Invariant Under S₃, Gary Man-Kwong Hui Jan 1995

On An Orthonormal Basis For Tetrahedra Invariant Under S₃, Gary Man-Kwong Hui

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Actuarial Cost Methods In Pension Funding, Irene Wai-Ling Chen Jan 1995

Actuarial Cost Methods In Pension Funding, Irene Wai-Ling Chen

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Variations Of The Ovation Model, Edric S. Gocka Jan 1995

Variations Of The Ovation Model, Edric S. Gocka

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Parallel Graph Algorithms, Kyongsoo Jung Jan 1995

Parallel Graph Algorithms, Kyongsoo Jung

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Cayley Graphs As Models For Parallel Processing Supercomputer Architectures, Karl Yorston Jan 1995

Cayley Graphs As Models For Parallel Processing Supercomputer Architectures, Karl Yorston

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Numerical Solutions To The Non-Linear Euler Equations, Elizabeth S. Milanovich Jan 1995

Numerical Solutions To The Non-Linear Euler Equations, Elizabeth S. Milanovich

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Parallel Algorithms And Permutation, Lap K. Mui Jan 1995

Parallel Algorithms And Permutation, Lap K. Mui

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.