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The idea of a virtual university as an institution that used computers and telecommunications instead of buildings and transport to bring students and teachers together for university courses was first published in works like " De-Schooling Society " by Ivan Illich that introduced the concept of the use of computer networks as switchboards for learning, in 1970.
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* The idea of " the matrix " in the film The Matrix resembles a complex form of cyberspace where people are " jacked in " from birth and do not know that the reality they experience is virtual.
A recent study that used virtual reality technology to study reported deja vu experiences supported this idea.
Other science fiction books have promoted the idea of virtual reality as a partial, but not total, substitution for the misery of reality, or have touted it as a method for creating breathtaking virtual worlds in which one may escape from Earth.
This novel toys with the idea of both the potential positive therapeutic uses, such as allowing the paralyzed to experience the illusion of movement while stimulating unused muscles, as well as virtual realities ' dangers.
* Steven Lisberger's 1982 film Tron explored the idea of virtual reality ; transporting real-life characters into an alternate, computer-generated world.
The show is most noted for its use of blue screen chroma key ( an idea borrowed by Tim Child from weather forecasts, where it had just started to be used ) and use of ' virtual reality ' interactive gameplay on television.
According to another theory, the name is a corruption of two words which mean the Friars ’ Hill ; those who favour this idea allege that St. Ninian, by planting a religious house near the head of what is now the Friars ’ Vennel, at the close of the fourth century, became the virtual founder of the Burgh ; however Ninian, so far as is known, did not originate any monastic establishments anywhere and was simply a missionary.
The idea of the power trio became so pervasive during the late 1960s that it became a virtual rite of passage for young musicians.
" He rejected the notion of virtual representation, as " the most contemptible idea that ever entered into the head of man.
Richard Bartle argued that this aspect negates the whole idea of ownership in virtual worlds, and thus in the absence of real ownership no real trade may occur.
The concept of virtual particles is closely related to the idea of quantum fluctuations.
The need for the normal ordering of particle fields in the vacuum can be interpreted by the idea that a pair of virtual particles may briefly " pop into existence ", and then annihilate each other a short while later.
In Owen's Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton the idea was not only revived but worked out for the first time inductively, and the theory rightly stated, as follows: " The head is not a virtual equivalent of the trunk, but is only a portion, i. e. certain modified segments, of the whole body.
LETAC would like to train police officers by putting them in full-sensory simulation VR with SID, the idea being that if the cops in the virtual reality simulator can catch him, they can catch anyone.
The idea of an animal companion composed of technology rather than flesh has also inspired several works of fiction, such as the anime based loosely on the " Digimon " virtual pets ( itself a contraction of " Digital Monster ").
Prediction markets ( also known as predictive markets, information markets, decision markets, idea futures, event derivatives, or virtual markets ) are speculative markets created for the purpose of making predictions.
He also mentions the idea of virtual reality in the first and most Earth-like alien world visited, in the form of an apparatus that directly affects sense centers in the brain.
* Lagrange publishes on the libration of the Moon, and an explanation as to why the same face is always turned to the Earth, a problem which he treats with the aid of virtual work, containing the germ of his idea of generalized equations of motion.
This idea of a " burnt-out existence " is carried over to Steiner in the party episode where the sounds of nature are not to be experienced first-hand by himself and his guests but in the virtual world of tape recordings.
He also proposed the use of virtual set technology ; although he knew little about it at the time and the technology used was just starting development, Disney and ABC liked the idea.
So when we refer to something as “ virtual ”, it may be more helpful to think of the idea in terms of tangibility: we conceptualize that which we cannot physically alter or experience ( without, in this case, electronic mediation ) as “ virtual ”.
One idea suggested by Charles Stross, in his novel Accelerando, would be to use it to run perfect simulations or uploads of human minds into virtual reality spaces supported by the Matrioshka brain.
The idea of a virtual representation of America in this House is the most contemptible that ever entered into the head of a man.
idea and university
In the university milieu of scholarship and research, of social diversity, of new ideas and varied and wide-ranging interests, `` socialization '' into a campus culture apparently means heightened appreciation of the idea of a liberal education in the arts and sciences.
Bob Jones III has argued that the university is not so much anti-Catholic or anti-Mormon as it is opposed to the idea that all men, regardless of religious beliefs, will eventually get to heaven: " Our shame would be in telling people a lie, and thereby letting them go to hell without Christ because we loved their goodwill more than we loved them and their souls ….
The first Congolese university graduate was only in 1956, and virtually no one in the new nation had any idea of how to manage a country of such size.
In the United States William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago developed the concept of extended education, whereby the research university had satellite colleges of education in the wider community, and in 1892 he also encouraged the concept of correspondence school courses to further promote education, an idea that was put into practice by Columbia University.
In 1519, despite the opposition of the theological faculty of the university, he originated the Disputation of Leipzig, with the idea of helping forward the cause of truth, and was present at all the discussions.
Flynn's most recent book The Torchlight List proposes the controversial idea that a person can learn more from reading great works of literature than they can from going to university.
First Students at Macquarie UniversityThe idea of founding a third university in Sydney was flagged in the early 1960s when the New South Wales Government formed a committee of enquiry into higher education to deal with a perceived emergency in university enrollments in New South Wales.
NMU is the first public university in Michigan — but one of many nationwide — to pursue the idea of a " laptop " campus.
The idea was revived in the 1950s and, in June 1958, the government approved the corporation's scheme for a university at Brighton, the first of a new generation of what came to be known as plate glass universities.
Bakhtin's basic observations were of " speech genres " ( the idea of heteroglossia ), modes of speaking or writing that people learn to mimic, weave together, and manipulate ( such as " formal letter " and " grocery list ", or " university lecture " and " personal anecdote ").
The idea was based on a study done by an American university professor, which measured the sizes of the subjects ' pupils as they walked through the aisles of grocery stores.
This began his lifelong passion for the ' idea ' of the university.
Although their efforts started out as a joke, some students began to seriously push for the idea, while others strongly opposed it and felt it was an embarrassment for the university.
Neill's idea was to make the new college an appendage to the university offering a thoroughly Christian curriculum based upon the British university model.
The foundation of Northwestern University is traceable to a meeting on May 31, 1850 of nine prominent Chicago businessmen, Methodist leaders and attorneys who had formed the idea of establishing a university to serve what had once been known as the Northwest Territory.
He visited Cambridge and stayed a night there, but gave up the idea of studying at the university because he could not afford it on his government scholarship.
This idea essentially states that a winning sports team can increase the recognition value of a university enough to make it a more elite school.
Owing to shyness and weak health Gellert gave up all idea of entering the ministry, and, establishing himself in 1745 as Privatdozent in philosophy at the university of Leipzig, lectured on poetry, rhetoric and literary style with much success.
By the 1960s, Reserve President John Schoff Millis and Case President T. Keith Glennan shared the idea that federation would create a complete university, one better able to attain national distinction.
Sir Chung Sze Yuen and the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Edward Youde, conceived the idea of another university in Hong Kong.
Although not a completely original idea ( as encouragement in 1412 the university chaplain was ordered to say mass for benefactors ), Bodley recognized that having the contributor's name on permanent display was also inspiring.
A group of patriots, the " Inconfidentes ," who rebelled against Portuguese domination, conceived of the idea of a university in the state of Minas Gerais, which was founded as the Universidade de Minas Gerais ( UMG ) in 1927.
The prevailing idea was to lay the groundwork for an independent Protestant Christian university modelled after the VU in Amsterdam, not under the governance of the state or any church.
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