Many workers now simply choose to don headphones to shut out the external world creating "virtual walls" between colleagues.
People come into their offices in the middle of the night to have virtual meetings with colleagues in different time zones.
In Durban and later in Johannesburg, he kept an open table; his house was a virtual hostel for younger colleagues and political coworkers.
To create a more realistic picture of how seismic waves move, Tromp and colleagues sent virtual seismic waves through a three-dimensional model of the L.A. basin recently devised by geologist John Shaw of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Fotoohi and his colleagues believe that virtual worlds – in which social media will integrate with a three dimensional web – have a great future.
We would not know how the N.S.A., through its Prism and other programs, has become, in the words of my colleagues James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, "the virtual landlord of the digital assets of Americans and foreigners alike".
In its new permanent locations in New York, for example, Empire HealthChoice plans to install a low-cost videoconferencing system that works over the Internet, enabling colleagues to establish virtual meetings without a lot of fuss.
Just because putting crosses into the box has fallen out of favour in Spain does not mean the rest of the world must follow suit, and though Darren Bent may not be the silkiest of footballers – and had to play most of this match in virtual isolation from his attacking colleagues – there was nothing wrong with his reaction once he got a sniff near goal.
Spoor and colleagues created a virtual reconstruction of the OH 7 specimen, which was found 55 years ago, to correct for postmortem distortion.
When students arrive home or to their end destination, they can simply plug back into the Internet, upload their materials, and share their information with colleagues in the virtual classroom.
At a press briefing yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (ScienceNOW's publisher), Cassell said that she and her colleagues originally developed virtual children 10 years ago, in part to study how literacy and conversation skills develop in normal children.
