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  • Planning Grant for an IMAX Film: THE SEARCH FOR INFINITY
    Date: 09/15/2000
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The Reuben H. Fleet Space Center is developing "The Search for Infinity," a large-format film on mathematics and nature. The current concept, based on a film idea developed in collaboration with Sir Arthur C. Clarke, is to center the film on an intelligent computer running an unmanned space probe. By following the actions of the computer, ... »
  • An Affective Mobile Robot Educator with a Full-time Job
    Date: 01/01/1999
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Sage is a robot that has been installed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History as a full-time autonomous member of the staff. Its goal is to provide educational content to museum visitors in order to augment their museum experience. This paper discusses all aspects of the related research and development. The functional obstacle avoidance ... »
  • Tracking The Human Brain
    Date: 07/01/1997
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    Carnegie Mellon University is developing an interactive, multimedia planetarium presentation about the human brain. The interdisciplinary project team will build upon and refine the experience gained from its recently completed planetarium show, Journey Into the Living Cell. The context for this work is the need for increased public understanding ... »
  • The Virtual Fish Tank
    Date: 09/15/1996
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The Computer Museum will develop two 2500 sq. ft. computer-based exhibits the "Virtual Fishtank: Splashing Into Complex Systems". One exhibit will be installed permanently in the Computer Museum and the other will travel nationally for three to five years. These exhibits will use computer modeling of fish to introduce the public to new ideas about ... »
  • The Institut fur Museumskunde
    Date: 01/01/1996
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    In this article, Bernhard Graf discusses the work of the Institut fur Museumskunde (Institute of Museum Studies), a division of the Staatliche Museen (State Museums) in Berlin. The Institut is devoted to research and documentation in the various areas of museum work, defined by the scientific disciplines relevant to the individual project. ... »

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