Advanced Technologies

This is a list of some of my favorite sites, as well as sites discovered by my graduate students at the University of South Dakota while taking TTD 883. Thanks to Marcella Wells, Wendy Stubbs, "Jacky" Fei Yang, and Brad Berens for helping me to compile this list.

Please also check out our list of:

K-12 & Lifelong Learning

The Digital Divide

Last updated July 18, 2003.

Emerging Technologies - General

Center for Advanced Research in Technology for Education (CARTE)  
http://www.isi.edu/isd/carte/home-body.htm

Encyclopedia of Educational Technology  
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Admin/Intro.htm 

Internet 2
http://www.internet2.edu

New Computer Sound Maps Will Help Blind
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~djacobso/haptic/press/pressucsb.html

Touch Sense Mouse (sense of touch is finally available online)
https://www.ifeelpixel.com/download/

Firefly (software simulation creation tool)
http://www.kimpact.com
Click on "Firefly"

MIT's Technology Review Emerging Technologies
Free Newsletter (delivered MWF)
http://www.technologyreview.com/newsletter/newsletter.asp

Techno-News Blog 
http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/blogger.html 

Access Grid & Grid Computing

Access Grid

The main site for this Internet 2 videoconferencing application.

http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid/

What is the Access Grid?

http://scv.bu.edu/accessgrid/what-is.html

NDSU Access Grid

Find out what North Dakota is doing

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/accessgrid/

Access Grid Documentation Project

http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/

Argonne Futures Laboratory (where it all started)

http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/

Grid Computing Info Centre
http://www.gridcomputing.com/

Global Grid Forum: Grid News
http://www.gridforum.org/default.htm

Internet Society: What is Grid Computing?
http://www.isoc.org/briefings/011/l

EnterTheGrid: The world's largest directory on Grid computing
http://www.enterthegrid.com/

Grid Today: Larry Smarr on the Shape of the Grid in 2003
http://www.gridtoday.com/02/1216/100902.html

Grid Computing   By M. Mitchell Waldrop
Hook enough computers together and what do you get? A new kind of utility that offers supercomputer processing on tap.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/waldrop0502.asp

World's Fastest Network Launched to Connect TeraGrid Sites  
http://www.teragrid.org/news/030403.html

Artificial Intelligence & Robots

Ramona
Download the software to interact with Ramona. Invented by Ray Kurzweil.

http://www.kurzweilai.net

Educators Review Software: RoboDemo
http://ww.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech167.shtml

Eliza

Computer therapist; an early example of a chatterbot
http://www.manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3

Internet Society for Artificial Life
http://www.alife.org

Past is the future for Hollywood's robots
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2001/artificial_intelligence/1530702.stm

Philosophy of Mind, Artificial Intelligence, & Cognitive Science
http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/mind.htm

Predicting AI's future  (with webcast of Ray Kurzweil,
MIT's Rodney Brooks, iRobot's Colin Angle)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2001/artificial_intelligence/1555742.stm

Scientists invent electronic DJ
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1658983.stm

Timeline: Real robots
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2001/artificial_intelligence/1531432.stm

The Turing Test
http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~asaygin/tt/ttest.html#intro

Virtual Reality - General

Keeping It Real
Virtual reality is still more virtual than real, but new technologies may soon change that.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_cameron050802.asp

Presence-Research.org
Presence is the subjective experience of being there in virtual reality. This site provides recent news, online papers, and information on enabling technologies.
http://www.presence-research.org/

Pulse
Personalized email messages with interactive audio and virtual humans.
http://www.pulse3d.com/

Quick Time VR Immersive Imaging
http://www.mastery.com.au/qtvr/

QuickTime Virtual Reality for Educators and Just Plain Folks
http://www.edb.utexas.edu:16080/teachnet/QTVR/

Sunrise

This company is working with schools to incorporate virtual reality into learning experiences.

http://www.sunrisevr.com/education.htm

VREAL: Virtual Reality Education For Assisted Learning
http://vreal.orlando.veridian.com/

Virtual Reality - Avatar Worlds

Avatars: Applications of Virtual Worlds

http://www.digitalspace.com/avatars/book/fullbook/chus/chus1.htm

Active Worlds

Three-dimensional virtual worlds (non-educational version). You must first download and install special software.

ActiveWorlds Educational Universe

Download educational worlds from http://activeworlds.com/edu/awedu_download.asp

More information at:

http://activeworlds.com/edu/index.asp
http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/resources.asp

AW University
Classes offered by Active Worlds, e.g., how to build objects.

Avatars! Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet
This tutorial offers an overview of the virtual worlds medium.

Contact Consortium
Headquarters for many virtual worlds.

Cyberspace as Dream World

This is a very cool book on the psychology of cyber space which you can download for free!  Definitely worth checking out. 
http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/psycyber.html

Inhabited Virtual Worlds in Cyberspace
 

On the Net: Resources in Virtual Reality
Click on Avatars for a list of references.

The MOOS and Avatars Page
Vvirtual worlds, both text-based and graphical.
http://www.usd.edu/~ssanto/MOO.html 
 

The Palace Visual Chat Home Page
Two-dimensional virtual worlds, some of which do not require downloading special software.

There.com
A new virtual world with a beta site here to try free - requires an advanced hardware setup.
http://www.there.com  

TheU - Virtual University
Project of Concord Consortium.
 

The U Virtual University: Steps toward Learning in Virtual World Cyberspace
 

Worlds Inc. (3D chat with animation; choose from 100 different avatars)

Virtual Reality - CAVEs

Two articles on CAVES (immersive virtual reality chambers):

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_cameron050802.asp

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_basu090501.asp

CAVE developed by Electronic Visualization Lab

http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/CAVE/ 

CAVE developed by the University of Illinois

http://www.cerca.umontreal.ca/vu/eng/ 

Iowa State University CAVE

http://www.iastate.edu/IaStater/1996/sept/virtual.html

Virtual Reality Applications Center 

http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/   

CAVERNUS (Cavern Users Society)
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/cavernus/

NAVE: Non-expensive Automatic Virtual Environment (Digital Worlds Institute)
http://www.digitalworlds.ufl.edu/research/nave/

Virtual Reality - MOOs (Multiuser Object-Oriented)

College Town (workshops & research groups for all ages)
 

Diversity University Main Campus MOO
Educational uses of text-based virtual reality.

http://moo.du.org:8000/

http://www.du.org/

For MOO Help, see http://www.du.org/dumoo/moohelps.htm

Educational VR (MUD)
About educational MUDs.
 

Establishing an Online Virtual World for Education

Diversity University's detailed suggestions for how to effectively set up and use a MOO in the classroom.

High Wired Encore: Educational MOO Core Database

A "constructivist virtual reality environment" designed for educational use; you will need to download the software, which includes support for sound, video, graphics, and animation.

Instructional Use of MOOs

From the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia.
 

Lingua MOO

For writers, composition teachers, and their students; run by the University of Texas at Dallas.

MOO Connections

http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~tari/connections/

The MOOS and Avatars Page
Virtual worlds, both text-based and graphical.
http://www.usd.edu/~ssanto/MOO.html

Multi-User Science Education Network (MuseNet) (run by the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, this MUSE is based on the constructivist model of learning; it received an award for pioneering innovation in children's education via the Internet)
 

MUDs in Education: New Environments, New Pedagogies (article on using a MUD to teach first-year English Composition students)
 

Virtual Reality - Health & Mental Health

"Virtually Healed" on TV  

http://science.discovery.com/schedule/episode.jsp?episode=0&cpi=81351&gid=9281

Virtual Reality and its Use in Mental Health

http://www.psychnet-uk.com/virtual_reality/virtual_reality.htm

Virtual Reality Medical Center 

http://www.vrphobia.com/

Cyber Therapy 2003 Conference 

http://www.vrphobia.com/imi/conference2003/downloads/CyberTherapy_Program_4_Dec_2002.pdf

http://www.vrphobia.com/imi/newconference/links.html

Virtual Reality Self-Help Center 

http://www.vrselfhelp.com/

Virtual Libraries 

Online Library Wants It All, Every Book      
Abstract of NY Times article of 3/1/03 on the new Alexandria, Egypt library 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/arts/01ALEX.html 

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Website: the new Alexandria Library.  
The $200 million project inaugurated in Oct. 2002 to reflect the spirit of the ancient Alexandria library founded ca. 295BC by Ptolemy I Soter.
http://www.bibalex.gov.eg/ 							

Any Text. Anytime. Anywhere. (Any Volunteers?)
The mechanics of a universal library are simple. The tricky part: harnessing the free labor.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/view.html?pg=5

The WWW Virtual Library
http://vlib.org/

The Online Books Page 
Celebrating 10 years listing free books on the Web with 19,000+  listings
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books

Project Gutenberg 
The Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). Over 6200 full texts online (out of copyright, published pre-1923)
http://gutenberg.net/

ClassicReader.com  
You can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others. The collection currently contains 771 books and 1041 short stories by
211 authors. New works are added to the collection on a regular basis.
http://www.classicreader.com/

Books on Demand
New electronic distribution techniques are revolutionizing the publishing industry. 
http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/print/0,23102,3356398,00.html

Borders to Print Books On Demand  
Borders will use print-on-demand technology to compete with inventory-sensitive Internet sellers. 
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,19971,00.html

NetLink E-Publishing and POD  (Print On Demand) 
List of links to online free collections, ebooks for purchase, and e-publishing resources
http://www.writecontent.com/Publishing_Tools/Publishing_Links/E-Publishing_Links/e-publishing_links.html

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