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Virtual Communities Virtual Community Metaphor
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Person To Person Virtual Communities
802 wordsIn William Mitchells essay, he makes the distinction between virtual communities and site-specific communities. He describes what these cities are about and how they will benefit people. To me what makes these communities different is, virtual communities are communities in the web in which people that dont share the same interests can come together and talk. As of Site-specific communities, these are also communities in which people that share the same interests but more towards a members only ...
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A New Mobile Robot Navigation Algorithm
1,655 wordsA New Mobile Robot Navigation Algorithm By using Fuzzy Logic Control and Virtual Target Technique Dr. Omid Reza Esmaeili Motlagh Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISRL) Lab Institute of Advanced Technology, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia Abstract A new fuzzy logic control system is developed for reactive navigation of a behavior-based mobile robot. The robot perceives its environment through an array of eight sonar sensors and self positioning-localization sensors. While the fuzzy log...
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Distributed Project Management A Proposal For Change
1,437 words... roject team. The two approaches they put forward are an attempt to avoid breakdowns due to language use and unfamiliar style of carrying out conversations. The first approach is to give the benefit of the doubt. That is, the members of the team must understand that other team members do come from other cultural backgrounds and may have unique or different methods of communicating. The second approach is to avoid using language / expressions that remote [team] members [are] not familiar with,...
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Products And Services Ays
1,807 wordsTABLE OF CONTENTS 01. 0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 02. 0 TRENDS IN RETAIL BANKING 03. 0 ABOUT THE INTERNET 04. 0 VIRTUAL BANKING AND APPLICATIONS 04. 0 SMART CARDS 05. 0 EXAMPLES 06. 0 SECURITY ON THE INTERNET 06. 0 CRYPTOGRAPHY 06. 0 FIREWALLS 06. 0 TRUSTED OPERATING SYSTEMS 07. 0 REGULATIONS AND PROBLEMS 08. 0 CONCLUSION. 09. 0 REFERENCES 01. 00 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Internet is emerging as an efficient delivery channel for financial services. With Internet banking, customers do not need to have specia...
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Virtual Reality Learning Environments
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21 St Century Walt Disney
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Ford Motor Company University Of Illinois
1,509 words... and the Internet is not yet capable of delivering such an experience. Fords new slogan Customer Job One emphasizes a fundamental shift from an automobile manufacturer to a more holistic company. Fords management has organized the company to become responsive to its customers and place them first, utilizing a management approach that extends throughout the corporate culture. They have embraced and utilized the internet and information technology to learn more about their customers, to retail ...
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Face To Face Social Context
1,027 wordsRecreating self in the anonymous meeting space of the Internet Self-recreating in the anonymous meeting space became an undeniable part of social life. Why? The reason is that from time to time life presents us very unpleasant surprises. Some people cope with such presents by themselves but some of them need help. Whether or not person goes to self-recreating in the anonymous meeting space is extremely individual and depends on many factors. The thing is that human is a gregarious creature and h...
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Things About Online Virtual Classroom People
704 wordsOnline Education The trends of global economic development with its outsourcing and sophisticated cost optimization could not leave unattended virtually any part of our living. All of us are constantly moving towards virtual existence. The growing number of people who work and sometimes even live online has caused such phenomena as online or distant education to appear. One of the first things of which I thought about is: how will now educational institutions control the learning process? How do...
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Artificial Intelligence Deep Blue
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1,267 wordsThesis: Changing Corporate Culture Outline Thesis: The idea of a virtual office is becoming a reality and is changing the traditional corporate culture forever. I. Comment on traditional work A. Companies visions for future II. Visions for future becoming reality. A. Telecommuting. B. Prospects for year 2000. C. Statistics: Office of technology, Department of transportation. III. New ways companies will hire employees. A. Example: New York Life. B. Hiring on the Internet. IV. Telecommuting works...
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Thousands Of People Technological Advance
1,764 wordsComputer communication, itCybrology CYBROLOGY Computer communication, it s a virtual world, in which messages and information streak across the continent or around the world at the speed of light. It s a place where you can find a fact or find a job, play a game, publish a poem, meet a friend, pay your bills or do thousands of other things without ever leaving your home or your office. One of the features of computer communication, which provides us with all the above features, is Internet. Thro...
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Virtual Worlds Todays Society
777 wordsIn todays society we look at ourselves in different contexts and we see different people occupying the same body. What Im trying to say is that we change our personalities and attitudes in order to fit what we feel is appropriate for the situation. In Sherry Turkle's Identity in the Age of the Internet, she takes the viewpoint that the internet has created a setting in which people become de centered and start to exist in many worlds and play many roles at the same time. (Holeton 9) I dont belie...
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Fiber Optic Cable Coaxial Cable
1,765 wordsFrame Relay and Leased Lines July 9, 1999 In networking there are many options in having data transferred from one location to another. Two of which include frame relay and leased lines. Frame relay is a communication method that transfers data by dividing information into packets and sending them over a virtual network. Frame relay is a difficult process to understand and to accomplish. Leased lines, however, is the permanent connection between two stations. Leased lines are simpler to understa...
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Male Or Female True Identity
1,411 wordsHiding behind a Computer Are computers and the Internet redefining human identity as people explore the boundaries of their personalities, adopt multiple selves, and form online relationships that can be more intense than real ones? Is the World Wide Web redefining our sense of community and where we find our peers? The answer is simple. An individual should not use a false identity to produce a life on the Internet. They should also avoid using an online life to influence their identity in real...
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Christ Jesus Christ
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3,434 wordsHow to Go From Class-Room to Web-Room as Painlessly as Possible 1. 0 ABSTRACT Getting your course onto the World Wide Web (WWW) is best done using a systematic approach. There are a number of steps that need to be taken prior to starting any of the actual web work. Meetings should be held with various groups within your institution. Once the actual coursework is begun, there are some essential components and some optional components. There are specific skills and talents that you either need to ...
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Wells Fargo Smart Cards
1,807 wordsTABLE OF CONTENT 01. 00 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 02. 00 TRENDS IN RETAIL BANKING 03. 00 ABOUT THE INTERNET 04. 00 VIRTUAL BANKING AND APPLICATIONS 04. 01 SMART CARDS 05. 00 EXAMPLES 06. 00 SECURITY ON THE INTERNET 06. 01 CRYPTOGRAPHY 06. 02 FIREWALLS 06. 03 TRUSTED OPERATING SYSTEMS 07. 00. REGULATIONS AND PROBLEMS 08. 00 CONCLUSION. 09. 00? ? ? . REFERENCE 01. 00 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Internet is emerging as an efficient delivery channel for financial services. With Internet banking, customers do not ...
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