Fax: messages from a near future

Wildcards – Signals from a Future Near You

Nestled snugly into the high backed leather chair, you are only marginally aware of the thousands of people around you, their faces oddly lit by the light shining from the screen. The sounds echoing from the Dolby THX surround sound system only helps to draw you deeper, ever deeper into the flickering images playing out before your eyes. You are aware of your own heartbeat increasing its tempo,...

Internet FAX

Intelligent Fax Management System

Fax machines have become a ubiquitous equipment in today’s office environment due to its ability to send information around with speed and convenience. Increasingly many personal computers nowadays are able to play the role of a fax machine by adding in a fax card and the relevant software. This paper proposes a Fax Management System employing character recognition technique to enhance the basi...

Multimedia Fax-MIME Interworking

In this paper we present the architecture of an application level fax-Internet gateway, and show how such a gateway could be utilised to facilitate multimedia messaging and to extend Internet services to the home or office. We propose the application of the latest developments in the facsimile and Internet worlds, notably MIME and BFT support for G3 protocols, for the exchange of multimedia mes...

JOTS v38n1 - Voices from the Past: Messages for a STEM Future

The current emphasis in K-12 education on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) (Douglas, Iversen, & Kalyandurg, 2004; Sanders, 2009) creates many ways to partner engineering education with these fields. Therefore, it is appropriate to examine the commonalities these fields have with engineering education. Though much of the science education and mathematics education history...