The joint interview took a slightly odd turn when, halfway through, the Microsoft executives consented to give the audience of computer industry executives a "sneak peek" of the next version of Microsoft's operating system, known as Windows 7.
In contrast to formal lecturing, interactive seminars make use of several techniques to promote interaction, such as questioning the audience, interactive computer systems providing learners with immediate, anonymous feedback on their knowledge, clinical cases, debates between students presenting different opinions, films or videotapes or other audiovisual aids, and effective presentation skills.
The shift of Facebook's audience from computers to smartphones could mirror the shift of audiences from print to digital media.
The Spectrum was among the first mainstream audience home computers in the UK, similar in significance to the Commodore 64 in the USA.
Keep the capabilities of your audience's computers in mind.
In fact, the emergence of the "buff magazines" for the computer audience, magazines that exploited their enthusiast audiences proudly, selling ad space to technical companies that wanted to reach exactly these kinds of geeks, changed the dynamics of advertising.
He described mainstream pop, aimed at a teenage audience, as "a computer and a vocal that was doctored to goodness knows how much".
Ghesquière trapped his audience in a computer game, dedicating his show to the point where cyber life and real life intersect, and to a host of female computer-game heroines.
Mr. Wright's installation, which is alternating with other new electronic pieces in the bar area through Thursday night, is largely self-sustaining, with audience members using computer track pads installed on the bar to modify the sounds being produced.
Smartphones are "emasculating" – at least according to Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, who explained his view while addressing an audience wearing a computer headset that made him look slightly like a technological pirate.
In addition, Maner's earlier trailblazing efforts, and those of other people who had been inspired by Maner, had generated a "ready-made audience" of enthusiastic computer science and philosophy scholars.
