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Professor Mayer reviews 10 research-based tactics for how to design Web-based and paper-based multimedia instructional materials.

Allan Knight is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara. Allan's research interests are in Plagiarism Detection Systems, Collaborative Technology Architectures and Automatic Multimedia Integration.

Ben Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the areas of networking, distributed systems, simulation and modeling.

In this talk, Dr. Mayer-Patel explores some of the barriers to media convergence and characterize when and why convergence can be successful and when and why convergence is likely to fail. In doing so, he articulates a new model for thinking about the future of multimedia which he calls "confederated media".

Dr. Richard Mayer is a professor in the Psychology department at UC Santa Barbara. Professor Mayer's research involves the intersection of cognition, instruction, and technology with a special focus on multimedia learning and problem solving.

In this talk Professor Turk discusses several of the key individuals in the long history of computing and their contributions to logic and computing that paved the way for the "universal machines" of today and tomorrow.

Dorothy Chun professor of Applied Linguistics talks about studies she has conducted on cognitive processes in learning with multimedia CD-ROMs and websites for second language acquisition.