According to Rene Kizilcec, a PhD student at the Lytics Lab at Stanford University, the style of presentation on a computer screen can make a big difference to learning.
In 2003, the psychologist Ian Skurnik and several of his colleagues asked senior citizens to sit through a computer presentation of a series of health warnings that were randomly identified as either true or false — for example, "Aspirin destroys tooth enamel" (true) or "Corn chips contain twice as much fat as potato chips" (false).
According to Microsoft, the unusual presentation of a model rather than computer graphics was chosen to look at "the themes that lie at the heart of the Halo trilogy war, duty, sacrifice, and most importantly the heroism of Master Chief".
Trainers may need presentation tools, a computer or chalk.
The evening, which began at 7 with a two-hour critique of monetary economics, became by midnight a utopian presentation of a money-free and computer-driven vision of the future, a wholesale reimagination of civilization, as if Karl Marx and Carl Sagan had hired John Lennon from his "Imagine" days to do no less than redesign the underlying structures of planetary life.
These artifacts are all on display here with more than 1,000 others in the Computer History Museum, billed as "the world's largest museum for the preservation and presentation of the computer revolution and its impact".
France Télécom found itself having to rush out part of its earnings report for the first half of 2001 a week ahead of schedule today, after a draft version of a computer slide presentation about the results was e-mailed to some analysts on Wednesday.
"We need this because even if the 2016 election wasn't hacked, the 2020 election might well be," said J. Alex Halderman, a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan, during a presentation with Matt Bernhard, a computer science PhD student.
Mr. Jobs, who makes his presentations seated on stage in front of a computer keyboard, which he plays like a concert pianist, received repeated ovations and on one occasion a gasp from his audience of 3,800 Macintosh software developers when he showed a clever way to find documents on a cluttered computer screen.
That's hard to do if you are sitting in front of a computer driving your presentation.
