The idea for the original DevDays was to have high-bandwidth, intensive introductions to a wide variety of new technologies.

A more intensive introduction to Haida history is the company's 6- to 10-day tour on a 54-foot schooner that accommodates only six passengers.

With him were the Americans, including Anthony C. Zinni, a retired Marine general and a newcomer to this conflict, who received an intensive introduction today.

In the program, based in Manhattan, graduate students are given training in museum work along with an intensive introduction to the machinery of the contemporary art world.

This high stress period involves physical training, marching, and an intensive introduction to regimental life at the academy.

"The Factory was my intensive introduction to the New York art world's ruthless merchandising of talent," Ms. Eberstadt recounted in a recent interview.

In the three weeks preceding their first semester, first-year students attend the Language and Thinking (L&T) program, an intensive, writing-centered introduction to the liberal arts.

During some sprints people new to the project are welcomed and get an intensive hands-on introduction pairing with an experienced project member.

In these sessions, the School condenses its academic year program into an intensive introduction to the sites, museums, and monuments of Greece.

The M.I.T. course bulletin describes "Machine Vision" as an "intensive introduction to the prodcess of generating a symbolic description of the environment from an image."