Ubiquitous Music

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
Flávio Luiz Schiavoni ◽  
Leandro Costalonga
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Computer Scientist ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Scientists

Ubimus is a research field that merges Ubicomp and music and studies the influence of ubiquitous devices and applications in Music. This field has been explored by musicians and social scientists around the world helped by a countless number of computer scientists. Nevertheless, it is not easy to a novice computer scientist understand Ubimus concepts and specially how to take part of this research field. Based on this, the authors present in this paper a point of view of Ubimus associating fields in computer science and hardware and software definitions and suggestions to be explored with Ubimus.

Medical Diagnosis from a Clinician’s Point of View

1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
F. T. De Dombal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Medical Diagnosis ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
The World

This paper discusses medical diagnosis from the clinicians point of view. The aim of the paper is to identify areas where computer science and information science may be of help to the practising clinician. Collection of data, analysis, and decision-making are discussed in turn. Finally, some specific recommendations are made for further joint research on the basis of experience around the world to date.

Medical Diagnosis from a Clinician’s Point of View

1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. T. De Dombal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Medical Diagnosis ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
The World

This paper discusses medical diagnosis from the clinicians point of view. The aim of the paper is to identify areas where computer science and information science may be of help to the practising clinician. Collection of data, analysis, and decision-making are discussed in turn. Finally, some specific recommendations are made for further joint research on the basis of experience around the world to date.

Developing the Agta Demographic Database: A Computer Scientist's Adventure into the World of Anthropology

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Ray Uehara
Keyword(s):  
Research Tool ◽  
Computer Scientist ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Development Tools ◽  
The World ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Computer Scientists ◽  
Data Requirements ◽  
The Web

Anthropologist Thomas Headland requested help developing his Agta Demographic Database for publication on the Web for anthropological research. This was not a typical programming job for a computer scientist who did not have experience in anthropology. Knowledge and discipline boundaries needed to be crossed by both the computer scientist and the anthropologist in order to produce a successful research tool. This article chronicles the project and what was learned from an interdisciplinary and collaborative process. Unusual data requirements and limitations in the development tools can present challenges that require collaborative solutions. Several recommendations are given for anthropologists who will work with computer scientists.

Gender and Professionalism in IT Fields

2011 ◽  
pp. 446-452
Author(s):  
Esther Ruiz Ben
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Technical Management ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
Computer Scientists ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Male Occupations

From a historical point of view, IT professions have their origin in increasing computerisation, especially in the insurance and banking businesses. This stimulated a rise in demand for highly qualified programmers with the ability to take into account the economic side of business gains during the 60s1. To satisfy the need for such qualified people, computer science was institutionalised in universities in the 70s. The newly emerging software enterprises, mostly from the U.S., occupied the fields formally served by hardware enterprises and played a crucial role in the development of the IT industry. This included the development of new organisational cultures that were less hierarchically oriented. Moreover, the expansion of the sector and creation of new jobs enlarged the jurisdictional fields of work for software developers. At this stage in the evolution of IT professionalisation, we can find many optimistic views stating that new computing areas would be gender-neutral spaces that provided opportunities for women’s participation (Deakin, 1984). Nevertheless, as Griffiths (1988, p. 145) pointed out at the end of the eighties, within a decade computers had been appropriated by men. With the Internet boom of the 1990s, the sector became even more diversified in its jurisdictional fields, which hindered an institutionalisation of career paths and professionalisation2. New occupations arose alongside the technological progress in the information and communication industries. This brought about structural changes that influenced the development of professional groups: First, there was a common dynamic of innovation processes in the IT branch.” This was followed by increasing standardisation processes in the working fields and an essential erosion of jurisdictional constancy within the professional groups (Baukrowitz & Boes, 2000). Moreover, the jurisdictional fields for computer scientists, especially the field of application development, were not yet totally monopolised by any particular group because there was “no undisputed dominance of information technological knowledge” (Hartmann, 1995, p. 164). Thus to a large extent, the failure to restrict the jurisdictional fields of computer science is the reason for “the low professionalisation” of the sector (Rothenwald, 2001, p. 17). From a gender perspective, the first question that arises here is how women participate in this particular development of the IT professions. From a historical perspective, Kritzer points out that the so-called semi-professions (those without a recognized and institutionalised corpus of expertise) have been the main area of women’s paid work, while the professions have been male-dominated (Kritzer, 1999). Connected to this division of work, we can also observe a horizontal gender segregation of professions with implications for the inclusion/exclusion of men and women from certain professional areas irrespective of task attributes that correspond to stereotyping in male or female terms. In this sense, Witz (1990, p. 675) refers to “professionalisation projects.” Nevertheless, these projects also change over time. Gatta and Ross (2002) point out that changing societal expectations of men’s and women’s roles, changing skill mixes, declining discrimination, and reduced male resistance to women’s entry into work influences the increase of women’s presence in traditionally male occupations and also alters employers’ expectations. As we can see from historical discussions of computer science3, women have always been involved in computing and mathematics. Nevertheless, several authors have shown that women are concentrated in those IT occupation areas with the poorest employment conditions, whereas men are overrepresented in fields that are more valued, such as technical management, systems analysis, and programming (Ruiz Ben, 2003; Webster, 1996; Webster & Valenduc, 2003; Woodfield, 2000). The question arising here involves the extent to which the professionalisation process of IT occupations represents an opportunity for women to play an active role in the innovation paths of the information society, as well as the gendering or de-gendering practices linked to this process. Our aim in this chapter is to provide an overview of the scholarly literature in the social sciences on the debate about gender and professionalisation in IT fields and sort through the current discussion about the professionalisation of software development in Germany. We present evidence for the gender segregation in IT professions and discuss the key issues that have been addressed by the empirical literature.

The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Scientists ◽  
Communication Dynamics ◽  
Private Domain

Communication technologies, including the Internet, social media, and countless online applications, create the infrastructure and interface through which many of our interactions take place today. This form of networked communication creates new questions about how we establish relationships, engage in public, build a sense of identity, and delimit the private domain. Digital technologies have also enabled new ways of observing the world; many of our daily interactions leave a digital trail that, if followed, can help us unravel the rhythms of social life and the complexity of the world we inhabit, including dynamics of change. The analysis of digital data requires partnerships across disciplinary boundaries that–although on the rise–are still uncommon. Social scientists, computer scientists, network scientists, and others have never been closer to their goal of trying to understand communication dynamics, but there are not many venues in which they can engage in an open exchange of methods and theoretical insights. This book opens that space and creates a platform to integrate the knowledge produced in different academic silos so that we can address the big puzzles that beat at the heart of social life in this networked age.

scholarly journals From “Computer Info” to “How I do my computing” : a foundational text’s history.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Akmut
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Computer Scientist ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Computer Scientists ◽  
History Of

History of “How I do my computing” by computer scientist and freesoftware activist Richard Stallman : a seminal text at the beginning ofa long tradition of similar texts within computer science and technology.But, when did computer scientists start considering the software and hard-ware they used as an object of both personal and public preoccupation?(Many open questions remain.)

Russia and China: The Vector of Development of Economic Cooperation

2004 ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
L. Kabir
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Basic Commodity ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Ties

This article considers the basic tendencies of development of trade and economic cooperation of the two countries with accent on increasing volumes and consolidating trade and economic ties in Russian-Chinese relations. The author compares Russian and Chinese participation in the world economy and analyzes the counter trade from the point of view of basic commodity groups.

THE GENESIS OF CONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY, DEVELOPMENT TRENDS AND PROSPECTS IN THE POLITICAL REFORM OF MODERN COUNTRIES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF RUSSIA AND FRANCE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
MARIETA EPREMYAN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Reform ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Conservative Ideology ◽  
The World ◽  
Christian Conservatism ◽  
The Future ◽  
Conservative Policy ◽  
Depth Interviews

The article examines the epistemological roots of conservative ideology, development trends and further prospects in political reform not only in modern Russia, but also in other countries. The author focuses on the “world” and Russian conservatism. In the course of the study, the author illustrates what opportunities and limitations a conservative ideology can have in political reform not only in modern Russia, but also in the world. In conclusion, it is concluded that the prospect of a conservative trend in the world is wide enough. To avoid immigration and to control the development of technology in society, it is necessary to adhere to a conservative policy. Conservatism is a consolidating ideology. It is no coincidence that the author cites as an example the understanding of conservative ideology by the French due to the fact that Russia has its own vision of the ideology of conservatism. If we say that conservatism seeks to preserve something and respects tradition, we must bear in mind that traditions in different societies, which form some kind of moral imperatives, cannot be a single phenomenon due to different historical destinies and differing religious views. Considered from the point of view of religion, Muslim and Christian conservatism will be somewhat confrontational on some issues. The purpose of the work was to consider issues related to the role, evolution and prospects of conservative ideology in the political reform of modern countries. The author focuses on Russia and France. To achieve this goal, the method of in-depth interviews with experts on how they understand conservatism was chosen. Already today, conservatism is quite diverse. It is quite possible that in the future it will transform even more and acquire new reflections.

Social Justice and Critical/Performative Communicative Pedagogy

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Warren
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Classroom Interactions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Just World ◽  
The World ◽  
Analytical Point ◽  
Embodied Pedagogy

Through narratives and critical interrogations of classroom interactions, I sketch an argument for a co-constitutive relationship between qualitative research and pedagogy that imagines a more reflexive and socially just world. Through story, one comes to see an interplay between one's own experiences, one's own desires and one's community — I seek to focus that potential into an embodied pedagogy that highlights power and, as a result, holds all of us accountable for our own situated-ness in systems of power in ways that grant us potential places from which to enact change. Key in this discussion is a careful analytical point of view for seeing the world and a set of practices that work to imagine new ways of talking back.

International School in Informatics “Junior” for IOI Training

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
Marina S. TSVETKOVA ◽  
Vladimir M. KIRYUKHIN
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
International School ◽  
International Training ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Event ◽  
School Computer

In 2018 the IOI will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary. Over these three decades, not only the world secondary school Olympiads in informatics community have been formed, which covers more than 80 countries from all continents, but a formation of an united methodological space of the school Informatics started also. This space allows many countries today to develop school computer science education, using the experience of other countries, materials from the IOI conference journal, sites of computer science contests, and other Internet resources. This article describes a model for organizing an international training event for juniors – International School in Informatics “Junior” – ISIJ.

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