The new MBA curriculum is focused on the Web, which is used to organize and deliver information to students, including multimedia content and links to corporate sites. Before last year, courses were mostly text-based, with some supplemental videotaped material. In traditional case studies, we have to rely on the text to create a picture in the students' minds. One of our objectives is for students to come out with a certain literacy with the technology. An electronic hand raising feature lets the instructor or the students ask a question at any time.
Instructors also control the students' screens at all sites.
The tiny iron bead is coated with biotin, a protein that readily attaches to the end of a DNA molecule. Wirtz uses a joystick to control the bead and can target a site to within one nanometer, or one one-thousandth of a micron. Multiprocessor boards and software solutions will get us to a personal gigaflop or two very soon, and to a personal teraflop in ten years.