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The \u201cHarmonic Walk\u201d and Enactive Knowledge: an Assessment Report
The Harmonic Walk is an interactive, physical environment
based on user\u2019s motion detection and devoted to the
study and practice of tonal harmony. When entering the
rectangular floor surface within the application\u2019s camera
view, a user can actually walk inside the musical structure,
causing a sound feedback depending on the occupied zone.
We arranged a two masks projection set up to allow users
to experience melodic segmentation and tonality harmonic
space, and we planned two phase assessment sessions, submitting
a 22 high school student group to various test conditions.
Our findings demonstrate the high learning effectiveness
of the Harmonic Walk application. Its ability to
transfer abstract concepts in an enactive way, produces important
improvement rates both for subjects who received
explicit information and for subjects who didn\u2019t
A study of the very high order natural user language (with AI capabilities) for the NASA space station common module
The requirements are identified for a very high order natural language to be used by crew members on board the Space Station. The hardware facilities, databases, realtime processes, and software support are discussed. The operations and capabilities that will be required in both normal (routine) and abnormal (nonroutine) situations are evaluated. A structure and syntax for an interface (front-end) language to satisfy the above requirements are recommended
Applying Formal Methods to Networking: Theory, Techniques and Applications
Despite its great importance, modern network infrastructure is remarkable for
the lack of rigor in its engineering. The Internet which began as a research
experiment was never designed to handle the users and applications it hosts
today. The lack of formalization of the Internet architecture meant limited
abstractions and modularity, especially for the control and management planes,
thus requiring for every new need a new protocol built from scratch. This led
to an unwieldy ossified Internet architecture resistant to any attempts at
formal verification, and an Internet culture where expediency and pragmatism
are favored over formal correctness. Fortunately, recent work in the space of
clean slate Internet design---especially, the software defined networking (SDN)
paradigm---offers the Internet community another chance to develop the right
kind of architecture and abstractions. This has also led to a great resurgence
in interest of applying formal methods to specification, verification, and
synthesis of networking protocols and applications. In this paper, we present a
self-contained tutorial of the formidable amount of work that has been done in
formal methods, and present a survey of its applications to networking.Comment: 30 pages, submitted to IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorial
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