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Richard N . Taylor Web - Based De Complex Inform

Want to launch a virtual enterprise using the Web as your technology infrastructure? First learn what's missing from today's Web architecture and which extensions are needed for large-scale collaboration. T he WorldWide Web connects islands of information, along with the people seeking that information, from within corporate intranets and across the global Internet, easily and effectively. Shar...

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Interview: Creative Director Richard Taylor of Weta, ‘Lord of the Rings’

Richard Taylor: That cuts to the heart of the approach for something like this. You have to set ground rules otherwise the world starts to break and loses its plausibility. Specifically, Peter wanted what I call ‘the chessboard of Middle Earth’ to have a complete believability on a flora and fauna level, so that the audience would be more accepting of the fantasy elements that are going to be s...

Meet The Burtons 1 - The Celebrity Legacy of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role which Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton played in initiating the nature of contemporary celebrity culture. Using the couple’s scandalous affair which took place during the filming of Cleopatra (1963) as a case study, the paper will explore how the collapse of the studio system, combined with the rise of the paparazzi and the development of the ...

Piergiuseppe Morone and Richard Taylor: Small World Dynamics and The Process of Knowledge Diffusion

This paper aims to understand some of the mechanisms which dominate the phenomenon of knowledge diffusion in the process that is called 'interactive learning'. We examine how knowledge spreads in a network in which agents have 'face-toface' learning interactions. We define a social network structured as a graph consisting of agents (vertices) and connections (edges) and situated on a grid which...