Statistical reference datasets from the National Institute of Standards and Technology were used to evaluate the accuracy and precision of two web-based statistical packages, WebStat (found at http://www.stat.sc.edu/webstat/) and Statlets (found at http://www.statlets.com/statletsindex.htm). This evaluation revealed that both packages performed reasonably well in the analysis of lower difficult...

Advances in IC and FPGA speeds, pin counts and densities are on a collision course with an electronics company's need to design products in shorter times with optimal performance. Mr. Potts will discuss new methodologies and design technology that spans from IC to package to PCB systems and enables concurrent design collaboration among the multiple design disciplines and organizations. He will ...

Teaching Mathematics to intermediate school boys is a challenging process which can greatly benefit from software technology and web-based learning. In this research we study the difficulties and opportunities of using this technology in teaching Mathematics to 13 year old boys studying Mathematics at school. For students' we identify the basic requirements at home, e.g., Mathematics computer s...

lectronic systems with the increased functionality and speed required in today’s advanced applications are placing a performance burden on the interconnection and packaging technologies that standard electrical “wiring” approaches simply cannot support. Engineering staff at APL recognized this trend several years ago, and in a collaborative effort with The Johns Hopkins University Department of...

For more than ten years, there have been regular predictions of radical changes in the design of mathematical software. Conventional programming languages in general and Fortran in particular were dead, and interactive packages would only survive if they adopted open protocols and became more component-based. These predictions have so far failed to come true and the market for libraries such as...

This article describes the first CHIL evaluation campaign in which 12 technologies were evaluated. The major outcomes of the first evaluation campaign are the so-called Evaluation Packages. An evaluation package is the full documentation (definition and description of the evaluation methodologies, protocols and metrics) alongside the data sets and software scoring tools, which an organisation n...

This work presents the development of technology-assisted problem solving (TAPS) packages at University Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN). This project is the further work of the development of interactive multimedia based packages targeted for students having problems in understanding and visualizing the Engineering Mechanics Dynamics problems. One facet of the project is the development of Engineering...