Gamedec. UKW in IGDA Curriculum Framework

Launched in October 2013, GAMEDEC: game studies Design is a specialisation track within the 2nd Gen Humanities (aka Humanities 2.0) 3-year BA programme at Kazimierz Wielki University (UKW) in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The curriculum was created by UKW academic staff with game design experience, guided by the IGDA 2008 Framework and consulted with game dev professionals. It underwent slight modifications in 2014 and a significant transformation in 2015. This paper aims at a thorough analysis of the structure of the curriculum as seen through the lens of the IGDA Framework (2008), including the coverage of both Core Topics and Institutional Considerations. The analysis is conducted in the context of foreign (mostly U.S.- based) game degrees and supported with comments on its design, implementation and modifications

C# 3.0 makes OCL redundant!

Other than its 'platform independence' the major advantages of OCL over traditional Object Oriented programming languages has been the declarative nature of the language, its powerful navigation facility via the iteration operations, and the availability of tuples as a first class concept. The recent offering from Microsoft of the "Orcas" version of Visual Studio with C# 3.0 and the Linq library provides functionality almost identical to that of OCL. This paper examines and evaluates the controversial thesis that, as a result of C# 3.0, OCL is essentially redundant, having been superseded by the incorporation of its advantageous features into a mainstream programming language

Introduction(s) to Men in Feminism

In the Spring of 1988 I received a note from Doug Blandy asking if I wanted to co-ordinate a panel on Men in Feminism with him. The idea of men working with feminist ideas was not new to our discussions. When we worked together at Bowling Green State University, we often wondered (and indeed frequently laughed) at how gender related the reactions of our faculty and students probably were to our successes and failures. Shortly after I agreed to coordinate this panel with Doug, I attended a conference in the Pennsylvanian mountains in Women, Art and Society. This was my first major conference exclusively designed for women dealing with women\u27s issues

The Faculty Notebook, September 2016

The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost

Editorial for the Special Issue: "Novel Solutions and Novel Approaches in Operational Research"

This special issue of Business Systems Research (SI of the BSR) is being co-published by the Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA – Section for Operational Research (SSI -SOR). It focuses on recent advances in Operations Research and Management Science (OR / MS), with a particular emphasis on linking OR / MS with other areas of quantitative and qualitative methods in the context of a multidisciplinary framework. The ten papers that were chosen for this Special Issue of the BSR present advancements and new techniques (methodology) in the field of Operations Research (OR), as well as their application in a variety of fields, including risk management, mathematical programming, game theory, gravity, spatial analysis, logistics, circular economy, continuous improvement, sustainability, e-commerce, forecasting, Gaussian processes, linear regression, multi-layer perceptron, and machine learning

Proposed Television Production Program For Senior High School Students To Develop Critical Thinking Skills

The purpose of the Practicum herewith presented was to create a high school television production that would develop and improve the broadcast journalism student\u27s critical thinking skills. The method proposed to accomplish the task set forth, was a five minute daily newscast written, produced and telecast by the broadcast journalism students. The focus of the newscast, broadcast over closed circuit cable TV to the school community, are the events, accomplishments, and activities of the high school population. The broadcast journalism students were responsible for gathering information, organizing the information into 30 second and 60 second reports, and presenting the information orally and visually on video tape. That daily reports included a montage of information based on school functions that appealed to the wide range of interests of the viewing audience. The results of two pre and post Critical Thinking Skills Tests and the practical application of producing a daily five minute newscast initiated the beginning of the students\u27 produced television productions. The News Director and Director had the responsibility of selecting the most important taped stories appealing to the widest student interest and formatting them into a five minute production. All students participated in various production and/or talent roles, as well as acted as writers of news releases, publicity for special programs which expanded from the newscasts and acting as hosts for celebrities and guests from other classes. Students were assigned positions as studio crew and remote crews, serving to gather the facts and produce the facts into an interesting video presentation. The Criteria for Creating a News Story was used as a guide for reporters to establish a professional measure of quality in obtaining information for 30 or 60 second news item. A guideline of excellence, accuracy and interest was the main criteria for production and to enhance story content into visual expression. The critical thinking skills were expressed in the final visual product of the newscasts, timed, organized, edited and synchronized into a one-take performance to be aired. The five minute newscast expanded into a major newly created news conference format which brought other classes into the studio to hear and question guest speakers from the local state and national community (See Appendix D). The students learned not only how to produce, perform and telecast the news and news conferences, but to write news releases, handle guests, and organize a major event involving up to 150 people seated in the studio. All productions began precisely as scheduled and all news shows were telecast daily without interruption in the program schedule during the entire practicum study. The newscasts and news conferences will continue as well as the special sports, informational and entertainment programs that resulted from the students\u27 proficiency and professionalism in television production

A guided tour of asynchronous cellular automata

Research on asynchronous cellular automata has received a great amount of attention these last years and has turned to a thriving field. We survey the recent research that has been carried out on this topic and present a wide state of the art where computing and modelling issues are both represented.Comment: To appear in the Journal of Cellular Automat

Public relations guide for CPAs

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