by Tulsi D. Ramchandani., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2002., "February 2002.", Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-139).

Education involves a continuous process of exploration, acquisition, organization, integration and delivery of information and knowledge. In recent years, e-learning sites and applications have exponentially started to grow, being a central phenomenon for the industry and education fields. Key factors…

by James William Leigh., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1984., MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND DEWEY., Bibliography: leaves 131-134.

by Yasuyuki Sekioka., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-134).

The thesis explores a puzzle in technological capability development: many firms in China follow the "normal" way of technological capability development suggested by the existing literature but have not made much progress, while some firms that deviate from the "normal"…

his dissertation analyzes how local knowledge improves environmental decisions. The premise is that controlling pollution and addressing public health disparities are not problems that professionals alone can solve. Concerned lay publics, especially low-income populations and people of color that experience…

Effective collaboration is essential for engineers at geographically dispersed locations to accomplish good design with less iteration. Over the last several years, more and more efforts have been put into such research as many industries have distributed their product development…

The first two chapters of this thesis explore how coordination happens in simple games. The first chapter models the adaptive play of a 2 x 2 game by pairs of agents matched together from a large population. In contrast with…

by Kimberly G. Waters., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46).

Conversational interfaces have received much attention as a promising natural communication channel between humans and computers. A typical conversational interface consists of three major systems: speech understanding, dialog management and spoken language generation. In such a conversational interface, speech recognition…