16.563 wireless

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Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 01:50:27 EST

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       [1] From: Sara Monaci <monaci@museonazionaledelcinema.org> (20)
             Subject: Re: 16.557 wireless & humanities computing?

       [2] From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@ischool.utexas.edu> (9)
             Subject: Re: 16.557 wireless & humanities computing?

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             Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:40:03 +0000
             From: Sara Monaci <monaci@museonazionaledelcinema.org>
             Subject: Re: 16.557 wireless & humanities computing?

    At the National Cinema Museum we're usung PDA in a Wireless Lan network to
    distribute multimedia contents to visitors.

    In this phase we're testing a prototype of this application, using PDA iPaq
    connected to the wireless lan with multimedia contents related to the
    museum's exhibit.

    We involved focus-groups of students in IT to test the application and we
    had a good feedback.

    We really hope to carry out a service fit to our audience's requirements.
    in this way we could replace the more obsolete audioguides and give an
    innovative service to the Museum.

    Sara Monaci

    Sara Monaci
    New Media
    Museo Nazionale del Cinema
    Via Montebello, 15
    10124 Torino - Italy
    Tel. ++39 +11 8122814
    Fax. ++39 +11 8398501

    monaci@museonazionaledelcinema.org
    http://www.museonazionaledelcinema.it

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             Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:47:29 +0000
             From: Patricia Galloway <galloway@ischool.utexas.edu>
             Subject: Re: 16.557 wireless & humanities computing?

    Too bad the student couldn't just walk across campus and appreciate the
    spring leafing instead of being chimed by her computer, chirruped by her
    cell phone, or dinned at by music on her walkman (well, okay, Vivaldi might
    be nice). Wireless computing on the University of Texas campus is so far
    limited to individual buildings and is suffering from turf wars and serious
    existing RF interference, particularly in the science-heavy parts of the
    campus. I see that AT&T is looking to experiment with having pay phone
    sites become also sites for wireless access to the Internet...
    Pat Galloway

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