Author: SRI International
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Globe Year 3 Evaluation: Implementation And Progress
Year three evaluation of the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program; an international environmental science research and education program.
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Melding Authentic Science, Technology, And Inquiry-Based Teaching: Experiences Of The Globe Program
Initial findings from the evaluation of the GLOBE Program are used to shed light on three issues concerning student-scientist partnerships.
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Scalable Integration Of Educational Software: Exploring The Promise Of Component Architectures
We describe an exploratory effort in which four research groups produced software components for the mathematics of motion.
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MVIEWS: Multimodal Tools for the Video Analyst
SRI has developed MVIEWS, a system for annotating, indexing, extracting, and disseminating information from video streams for surveillance and intelligence applications. MVIEWS is implemented within the Open Agent Architecture, a distributed multiagent framework that enables rapid integration of component technologies.
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Toward An Integration Of The Social And The Scientific; Observing, Modeling, And Promoting The Explanatory Coherence Of Reasoning
Is scientific reasoning more likely to employ formal tools and/or more likely to involve the vigilant search for disconfirmation—something that just plain folk do, but less frequently?
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Counselor Simulation Guide, Levels 1-3
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Discriminative Training of Minimum Cost Speaker Verification Systems
This paper presents a new training procedure for speaker verification systems. Results are presented from the 1997 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation corpus indicating that the VCF performance can be improved with this procedure.
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Connecting With The Twenty-First Century: Technology In Support Of Educational Reform
We present an alternative image of what schools might be like and a set of interlocking social, pedagogical and technological changes that could transform the educational enterprise.
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Hybrid Planning: An Approach to Integrating Generative and Case-Based Planning
This paper describes ongoing research on the development of a hybrid planning system that integrates case-based reasoning (CBR) methods into SIPE-2, a generative planning system.
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The Mathematics Of Change And Variation From A Millennial Perspective: New Content, New Context
We shall examine large-scale trends in content changes and in context changes for learning and using mathematics. From this set of factors, we raise three questions.
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Can Prosody Aid the Automatic Classification of Dialog Acts in Conversational Speech?
This study asks whether current approaches, which use mainly word information, could be improved by adding prosodic information. The study is based on more than 1000 conversations from the Switchboard corpus.
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Coordinating Planning Activity and Information Flow in a Distributed Planning System
Distributed SIPE (DSIPE) is a distributed planning system that provides decision support to human planners in a collaborative planning environment.