ELB designed the study, wrote many of the computer programs, conducted analyses, and wrote the manuscript.
KT contributed to conception of the study and design of the computer experiments, wrote the MATLAB® code for the parameter fitting pipeline, performed the computer simulations, analysed the data and wrote the paper.
This extensive online survey builds upon the findings of an earlier observational case study of the use of computer tools by a small engineering team.
Hopefully it has an optimistic bearing on the study of computer programming for non-computer science students when an interactive multimedia application is developed based on Gagne's theory of learning.
RGK participated in the design of the study, implemented the computer program and the web server, and prepared the manuscript.
AM conceived of the study, selected the computer model inputs, adapted and calibrated the computer model, conducted the analysis, and authored the first draft of the manuscript.
Previously, he was a fellow of the International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where he researched the links between nuclear energy technology and nuclear weapons, and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, where he studied the origins of the computer.
If it were possible to measure these quantitatively, it could provide the basis for the first truly objective way of studying the influence of the computer on the consultation.
In the last year, he says, he has thrown himself into the study of computer security techniques with the same passion with which he once studied the intricacies of the nation's phone system.
FS participated in study coordination and supervision of the computer assisted planning.
