Once acquainted with the modern information and communication tools made available with the advent of the Internet, five Brazilian rural communities participating in a pilot proje...
Marco A. Figueiredo, Paola Prado, Mauro A. Câ...
Trinetra aims for cost-effective, assistive technologies to provide blind people with a greater degree of independence in their daily activities. The overall objective is to impro...
Patrick E. Lanigan, Aaron M. Paulos, Andrew W. Wil...
This paper examines the current advantages and limitations of the developing Global Information Infrastructure (GII) for commerce from the point of view of today’s players. It i...
Abstract. There are many potential users and uses for grid computing. However, the concept of sharing computing resources excites security concerns and, whilst being powerful and f...
Current networked information systems on the Internet, whilst extremely successful, run into problems of fragmentation, consistency, scalability, and loss of orientation. The deve...