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	Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau's Home Page
		Sprite designers chose for transparency and high performance at the cost of residual dependencies and significant complexity in the kernel.
		On the other hand, the targeted environment of the Sprite system was a collection of workstations on a LAN (instead of a wider network) and in particular, memebers of the Sprite project.
		Sprite makes every attempt to keep the migration transparent to the user and the process, which is an important contribution of this system.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~dusseau/Classes/CS739/Writeups/spritemigration.html (2836 words)

	Sprite (computer graphics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sprites were originally invented as a method of quickly compositing several images together in two-dimensional video games using special hardware.
		For each frame the sprites are first bit blited (short for "bit block transfer") into the fast, large, double, and costly frame buffer and then the frame buffer is sent to the screen.
		Software sprites were used to refer to subroutines that used bit blitting to accomplish the same goal on systems such as the Atari ST and the Apple II whose graphics hardware had no sprite capability.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sprite_(computer_science) (1820 words)

	Building Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Foundations of Framework Design
		Michael Goedicke is professor of computer science in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Essen, Germany.
		Ralph E. Johnson is on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois.
		Andreas Rüping received a diploma (master of science) from the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Dortmund and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
	www.wiley.com /legacy/compbooks/frameworks/auindex.htm (6501 words)

	Department of Computer and Information Science :: IUPUI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The context of computing in history and society; information representation in digital computers; introduction to programming in a modern high-level language; introduction to algorithm and data structures; their implementation as programs.
		Computational aspects of linear algebra; linear equations and matrices; direct and iterative methods; eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices; error analysis.
		Topics include the formalisms within which these problems are studied, the computational methods that have been proposed for their solution, and the real-world technological systems to which these methods have been applied.
	www.cs.iupui.edu /academicrecourses (4393 words)

	The Mystery Behind Lightning's Puzzling Friend - Science - RedOrbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sprites, so-named by a University of Alaska scientist inspired by the creatures in Shakespeare's "The Tempest," have been observed since the 1800s, though rarely visible from the ground.
		Sprites, like lightning strokes, are largely unpredictable and brief - lasting only 3 to 10 milliseconds and inherently difficult to study.
		Sprites and other phenomena, including elves - that bring a millisecond flash of light that fills the entire night sky within a 100 kilometer (62 mile) radius of the associated lightning strike - are generating much interest because of their strong electric fields and electromagnetic pulses that may interact with the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=154420&source=r_science (803 words)

	Atmospheric 'sprites' captured in explosive detail
		Sprites are fleeting events, which normally last between 10 and 100 milliseconds.
		The researchers say sprites typically begin at an altitude of about 50 miles (80 kilometres) in the sky in single spots where the electric field creates a spark.
		Based on the new images, the team says "isolated dots" that glow intensely and often outlast the rest of the sprite are the result of a collision of streamers.
	www.fuchsiashockz.co.uk /articles/science/Atmospheric_sprites.php (466 words)

	Computer Science 134--- Homework Laboratory # 3
		Frequently the sprites change appearance when they are moving so they appear to be facing in the direction of motion.
		The applet responds only to mouse press events, and then only when the sprite is not moving and it is pressed in a cell that is in the same cell row or column as the sprite.
		Responsibilities Display the sprite (with mouth closed or open in the direction of motion), moves the sprite, animates the sprite motion, and reports whether the sprite is moving.
	www.cs.indiana.edu /~chaynes/c212/f02/a/6 (1083 words)

	LiveScience.com - Secret Sprites: Study Explains High-altitude Flashes
		The sprites, as they are known, rise as high as 50 miles into the atmosphere and last only milliseconds, so they are very difficult to study.
		Sprites have cousins called elves, which are intense flashes of lightning that can light the night sky within a 62 mile (100 kilometer) radius.
		Sprites over thunderstorms in Kansas on Aug. 10, 2000, observed in the mesosphere, with an altitude of 30-55 miles (50-90 kilometers) as a response to powerful lightning discharges from tropospheric thunderstorms.
	www.livescience.com /forcesofnature/050608_sprites.html (650 words)

	SpriteSoftware » Company
		Sprite Software was founded in 2001 by Chairman Murray Haszard and CEO Sean Connolly, both formerly of Binary Research Inc, developer of the well known Ghost software that was sold to Symantec in 1998.
		Sprite Software is a company dedicated to providing a better experience for the exponentially growing number of people who use and rely upon mobile devices for their personal and commercial needs.
		Sprite has become the popular choice, trusted to save and protect the valuable information that is often stored on handhelds and mobile phones.
	www.spritesoftware.com /company (524 words)

	Lightning Above the Clouds
		Sprites are faint, colorful and exceedingly brief flashes that are now known to erupt high in Earth's atmosphere in a region just below the ionosphere, which begins at an altitude of about 50 miles.
		Earlier work also ties each sprite to an unusually strong cloud-to-ground lightning bolt, followed by a second discharge at heights of 25-50 miles.
		The lightning and sprite events were linked by their timing and locations, the first being logged by the National Lightning Detection Network, while the sprites were video-imaged by University of Alaska researchers.
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2001/02/sprites209.html (900 words)

	Computer animation Summary
		Computer animation capitalizes on a number of principles of human perception in order to trick the viewer into believing that the images seen on a flat, two-dimensional screen are three-dimensional: that is, in addition to height and width, the picture also has depth.
		Computer graphics pioneer Matt Elson predicts that in the first half of the twenty-first century, three-dimensional characters will be created that will have the ability to "think" and to interact with their environments.
		In 2D computer animation, moving objects are often referred to as “sprites.” A sprite is an image that has a location associated with it.
	www.bookrags.com /Computer_animation (4971 words)

	SPACE.com -- New Clues to Fleeting Flashes High In the Atmosphere
		Previously, sprites were thought to be related only to positive cloud-to-ground lightning, a far less common variety.
		Red sprites also have on occasion been preceded by lower-altitude flashes known as elves, which are produced by the widespread heating of the atmosphere, caused by lightning.
		Grasping the extent of red sprites, and their physics, could bear on the understanding of upper atmospheric chemistry and even on high-energy particles known to affect satellites.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/planetearth/red_sprites_991208.html (1099 words)

	Sprite Reterospective
		Sprite is a research operating system whose development I have had the pleasure of leading over the last eight years.
		Sprite is one of only a few systems where process migration has been used on a day-to-day basis by a large user community.
		Sprite has served us long and well as a research vehicle; now it is time to move on to other things.
	www.eecs.berkeley.edu /Research/Projects/CS/sprite/retrospective.html (2561 words)

	Clearest Video of Lightning-Generated 'Sprites' High Above Thunderstorms Captured
		Sprites are one of the most common of a number of so-called mesospheric transient luminous events (TLEs) driven by lightning, Cummer said.
		Sprites typically last for 10 to 100 milliseconds -- shorter than the blink of a human eye, which takes an average of 300 to 400 milliseconds.
		Their transience makes sprites difficult to see with the naked eye, despite their common occurrence in association with certain types of active thunderstorms, the researchers said.
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2006/02/sprites.html (1263 words)

	Computer Science Course Descriptions
		The evolution of the computing environment, standards and open systems, client and server platform specialization, client-server communication in local and wide area networks and major communication protocols are used as a foundation.
		The study of computer science includes the study of how information is organized in a computer, how it can be manipulated, and how it can be utilized.
		Prerequisite: Computer Science 355, Computer Science 360, Computer Science 370.
	www.desu.edu /colleges/cmnst/computer_science/coursedesccompsci.php (2131 words)

	ScienceDaily: Researchers Capture Unusual Sprite-Like Blue Jet
		Science Daily — University Park, Pa. Deep in the Puerto Rican tropical jungle surrounding the Arecibo Observatory, a team of stalwart researchers captured an elusive blue jet on video tape and found the first evidence of a connection between the ionosphere and cloud top in these events.
		Sprites usually propagate from 60 down to about 25 miles, are predominantly red and last for only milliseconds.
		This is similar to the normal upper terminal altitude of blue jets and the lower terminal altitude of sprites." Whether this is a newly captured atmospheric phenomenon or simply a variation on a blue jet is not yet known.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2002/03/020314080637.htm (1007 words)

	Computing Papers on Sprite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In video sprites, instead of storing whole images, the object of interest is separated from the background and the video samples are stored as a sequence of alpha-matted sprites with associated velocity information.
		A sprite is a large con ict occurring in the critical path of the current processes in con ict.
		The relaxation rates for sprites appear to have an upper bound that is consistent with the dissociative electron attachment rates expected at sprite altitudes.
	computing.breinestorm.net /sprite (2825 words)

	Sprites and Elves in the Atmosphere
		Sprites have a distinctive delicate shape, much like a small human form, which flashes for only a fraction of a second in the sky.
		Connected to the oscilloscope was a notebook computer, which collected the data for processing.
		Regardless of which type of occurrence dazzled the night sky, sprites and elves were indeed connected exclusively with lightning that produced a slow tail.
	www.rps.psu.edu /sep97/sprites.html (960 words)

	Computer Science 134--- Homework Laboratory # 3
		If a user clicks on a sprite, and if the sprite they currently control is not moving, they take control of the sprite on which they clicked.
		If a user clicks on an cell in the same row or column as the sprite they currently control, and if that sprite is not moving, that sprite moves smoothly in the direction of the clicked cell and stops.
		If a wall or another sprite is in the sprite's path of motion, the sprite stops just before moving into the square which contains that object.
	www.cs.indiana.edu /~chaynes/c212/s05/a/6 (997 words)

	Creighton University Office of the Registrar
		Computer Science/Mathematics 509 may not be used to satisfy both Computer Science and Mathematics requirements.
		CSC 515 Computer Architecture (3) I or II Components of micro-, mini-, and mainframe architectures; microprogramming; stack computers; parallel computers; pipeline and vector processing, VLSI and systollic architectures, RISC architecture.
		CSC 555 Computer Graphics (3) I, AY Display memory; generation of points, vectors, shapes, etc.; interactive versus passive graphics; graphics display devices and plotters, analogue storage of images; digitizing and digital storage; pattern recognition; data structures and graphics; the mathematics of 2-D and 3-D transformations; projections; applications in computer-aided design and instructions.
	www.creighton.edu /Registrar/Bulletin/COURSES/CSC.html (1376 words)

	Sprite - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Sprite, sprite : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
		Phrases that include Sprite: austin-healey sprite, cherry sprite, diet sprite zero, sea sprite sail boats, sea sprite sailing yachts, more...
		Words similar to Sprite: elf, faerie, faery, fairy, pixie, fay, peri, pilwiz, pixy, more...
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=Sprite (301 words)

	Spirits of Another Sort
		Sprites are emitted near the tops of thunderclouds and reach up into the ionosphere (40-95 km range).
		To him, the sprites were as bright as the aurora borealis (the Northern Lights).
		Sprites are brief - lasting only 3 to 10 milliseconds - and that makes them difficult to study.
	science.nasa.gov /newhome/headlines/essd10jun99_1.htm (1253 words)

	University of Kentucky \| Office of the Registrar
		An overview of the discipline of computer science, examples of careers, the history of computing and experience with elementary computing tools are included.
		It will introduce students to the issues in computer and biological vision, to models of belief representation and modification, architectures for percept processing and reasoning, machine learning for vision, neural networks, path planning, intelligent localization based on visual cues, and to forward and inverse kinematics, intelligent grasping, and the integration of perception and action.
		This course provides graduate students in computer science and in other fields of science and engineering with experience of parallel and distributed computing.
	www.uky.edu /Registrar/bull0405/courses/cs.htm (3439 words)

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		Most Science Corner ideas involve students with interesting activities not experiments because there are no controls involved.
		Sprite: from a low of 386g to a hi of 393g and a mean of 389g
		Few elementary school science supply closets have a hot plate but this allows teachers to enlist the aid of the cafeteria staff who will supervise the boiling process on their stove.
	www.eiu.edu /~scienced/3290/science/discrepant/wannacoke.html (1423 words)

	C++ IDE
		The third component of the computer programming curriculum teaches you how to employ the C and C++ (pronounced "C plus plus") languages to construct both console-mode (i.e., textual) and true Windows programs (i.e., offering a graphical user interface).
		Assembly language is taught in the second component of this Computer Science Lab curriculum (all 3 components are distributed on the same CD-ROM).
		The Computer Science Lab curriculum is unique in that it teaches the C and C++ languages while employing true Windows programs.
	www.computersciencelab.com /CppIde.htm (1741 words)

	Bureaucracy catches up [rec.humor.funny] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		I am a charter member of the "Sprite" operating system project, so named 4 years ago after various flirtations with some other names.
		The Berkeley CS Division just announced the name of the new computer science building, "Soda Hall" -- named after a guy named Soda whose estate donated $15 million to the building.
		Dr. Robert Pepper is chairman of the Engineering Advisory Board and the computer science division has developed a computer operating system software (sic) known as Sprite.
	www.netfunny.com /rhf/jokes/89q2/sprite.499.html (142 words)

	Curriculum Vitae for Neil C
		Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University, June 1983, thesis "Rule-based Statistical Calculations on a Database Abstract" (supervised by Gio Wiederhold).
		Computer science and statistics: Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on the Interface, Atlanta GA, March 1984, 213.
		The most important has been the continuing seminar on problem-solving in computer science, taught chiefly for the Ph.D. students as preparation for their Written Qualifying Exam.
	www.cs.nps.navy.mil /people/faculty/rowe/vita.htm (6895 words)

	:: Computer Science and Engineering :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		He is currently professor and director of the School for Computing and Informatics as well as the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the director of the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering (InCISE) and Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC).
		Dr. Panchanathan is currently a Professor and Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department as well the Director of the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering, and Director of the Research Center on Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
		He was a guest editor of the special issue on "Visual Computing and Communications" in the Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
	cse.asu.edu /directory/faculty/panchanathan.php (949 words)

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