In this paper we report on a transdisciplinary university course designed to bring together fine art/visual communication design and computer science students for the creation and implementation of collaborative visual/audio projects that draw upon the specialized knowledge of both these disciplines. While an overview of the syllabus and the teaching methodologies is undertaken in the introduct...

In this paper we report on a transdisciplinary university course designed to bring together fine art/visual communication design and computer science students for the creation and implementation of collaborative visual/audio projects that draw upon the specialized knowledge of both these disciplines. While an overview of the syllabus and the teaching methodologies is undertaken in the introduct...

In the winter, 2004 issue of AI magazine, we reported Vulcan Inc.’s first step toward creating a questionanswering system called “Digital Aristotle.” The goal of that first step was to assess the state of the art in applied knowledge representation and reasoning (KR&R) by asking AI experts to represent 70 pages from the advanced placement (AP) chemistry syllabus and to deliver knowledge-based s...

Course Objectives Knowledge and Understanding Upon successful completion for the course, students will be able to Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: 1 Concurrency and interference among threads 2 Client Server models 3 Distributed Objects 4 Message Oriented Middleware 5 Distributed Databases and Transactions 6 Conceptual Models of Distributed Systems using State Machines 7 Verification...

The need for managing the conceptual representation of European law led to the development of the Legal Taxonomy Syllabus (LTS) and the related methodology. In this paper we consider further legal issues that emerged during the test and use phases, and outline the new features that we added to the new version, the LTS 2.0.