Recent Articles
Design Science personnel often write articles that appear in peer-reviewed
journals and trade magazines, or give presentations at conferences. This page
provides links to some of our recent articles, which fall into these categories:
Accessibility
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How to Make Math
Accessible the DAISY Way |
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Dr. Neil Soiffer, Senior
Scientist at Design Science, Inc.
Steve Noble, Director of
Accessibility Policy at Design Science, Inc.
Presented at ATIA 2007 |
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Until recently, there was no way to represent math in
DAISY and NIMAS formats except as images with alt tags. However, DAISY
has approved the addition of math tags based on the W3C MathML standard,
greatly increasing the accessibility of math for those with
print-related disabilities (blindness, low vision, and some learning
disabilities such as dyslexia). |
| Making Math Accessible through Shaping
Education Policy |
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Steve Noble, Director of
Accessibility Policy at Design Science, Inc.
Presented at the Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN
2007) |
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This article highlights the need for accessible math
instructional content and assessments and describe the how participants
can become effective advocates for changing education policy that will
make accessible math a reality in the classroom. |
| No Child
Left Behind and Accessible Math: Where Are We Now? |
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Steve Noble, Director of
Accessibility Policy at Design Science, Inc.
Presented at ATIA 2007 |
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A variety of national indicators (such as the National
Assessment of Educational Progress) shows that students with
disabilities are way behind their peers without disabilities when it
comes to math. This article will examine the current best practices for
math accessibility to ensure compliance with NCLB, and present results
of a study conducted to examine how some States are addressing
accessibility in State math assessments. |
| Universally
Designed Math: Positive Implications for Students with Learning
Disabilities |
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Steve Noble, Director of
Accessibility Policy at Design Science, Inc.
Presented at the Learning Disabilities Association 44th Annual
Conference |
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This article provides a background in the concept of
universal design for mainstream math materials that can provide rich
content and learning supports for students with learning disabilities.
The author shows why support for math accessibility within both policy
and practice is vital to the learning disability community. |
Math and science communication
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Data Beyond Words - The Future of Scientific Communication |
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Paul R. Topping,
President & CEO of Design Science, Inc.
Scientific Computing World, August 2004 |
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The author describes a fundamental change in how
scientific ideas are being communicated. For hundreds of years, formal
scientific communication could be characterized as the publication and
exchange of papers consisting of words, mathematical equations, and
pictures. Although new technologies have made it possible for scientific
communications to include other kinds of content - movies, sounds,
spreadsheets, databases - generally, scientists have not taken advantage
of them before. Now strong forces are coming to bear on authors,
publishers, and readers that will work together to change how the face
of scientific publishing. |
MathML
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A Myriad of Uses for MathML
[PDF] |
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Dr. Robert Miner, Director
of New Product Development at Design Science, Inc.
Originally published in "Arbortext: XML Publishing Network", July 2005 |
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The author discusses how a number of enterprises are
using MathML in their XML publishing workflows to simplify the
historically challenging and arduous task of typesetting science and
math content. Dr. Miner provides insight into a number of
innovative ways MathML is being employed in enterprise publishing and
the benefits it brings to these XML workflows. |
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