Innovations From a technological innovation perspective, the project outlined is likely to accelerate the application of NGI services for public health education and training, as well as the development of technical methods for producing educational software for this environment. From an education and training perspective, the work will advance our knowledge of the application of these technologies using more effective models for professional education. Quality of Service is used here to describe the technical quality of media services. For purposes of our project, QoS refers to motion video of sufficient quality to support educational goals. Measures of QoS include video window size, frame rate, latencies between selecting a video stream and its actually starting, synchronization between video and audio.
Data mining refers to automated methods of deriving information from massive amounts of raw data.
Agents are information processing programs that can act autonomously and can adapt to a user's needs. Also the title for a highly relevant, government-sponsored initiative. Browsers, e.g. from Microsoft and Netscape, have so far been distributed at little or no cost to the end-user, even though they have been developed at great cost. This is done largely to promote the development of enormous new markets and lucrative models for Internet-based commerce. Toward a new design for teaching and learning in the professions.