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University of Oregon Professors Create Educational Software for Students.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 1998 by McDonald, Sherri Buri
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 14 -- Faculty with the University of Oregon's Fine Arts Department are turning out some very fine art indeed. Just ask the second-graders at Meadowlark Elementary School in Eugene who are drawing and painting using Kid Pix, a computer program developed by associate professor Craig Hickman. Or ask the Japanese schoolchildren who are learning English with help from professor Kenneth O'Connell's program, Alphaplanet.
Hickman and O'Connell have defied the odds by getting their work to market in a cutthroat business where everyone, from fledgling software developer to major multimedia firm, is searching for the next bright idea.
Drawing on its faculty -- and its New Media Center, founded four years ago to...
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