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The University of Pennsylvania's Online Computing Magazine

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[Printout | About | Archives | Search ] March 1994 - Volume 10:5 March 1994 ON THE COVER: Recreating a vanished world. The palace of the Assyrian King Assurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.) at Nimrud (ancient Calah). The 3-D computer image was modeled from a plan of the site. The throne room view (inset) projects line drawings like the one above onto the virtual walls, giving the viewer a powerful sense of thhe effect of the actual stone frieze (now in museums) as they were originally installed. The view comes from an animated walk-through of the palace that puts adventure-game techniques at the service of art-historical scholarship. F E A T U R E S Can these stones live? Computing and the classroom. By Teresa Leo In-touch Touch-screen access to student financial data. By C.A. Murphy, M. Merritt, and J.M. Choate The idea of a University New opportunities for Penn in the information age. By Gregory C. Farrington and Michael Eleey ISC fiscal 1995 pricing A summary of services and charges. By Bonnie Gibson Jump into hyperspace Using Mosaic and World-Wide Web. By Judy Smith and Dan Updegrove Upcoming on PennData Nursing and allied health literature. By Sherry Morgan D E P A R T M E N T S Announcements Q&A Random Bits ISC: Keeping in touch