Providing students universal access to a centralized, graphical computing environment

Proceedings of the 10th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 79-83

  Goldwasser, Michael H ^a   Letscher, David ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computing Environment; Linux; Thin client

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT; THIN CLIENT BASED CONFIGURATION;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; STUDENTS;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 29844440157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1067445.1067470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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