Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences for January to June 2011 - November 11, 2010

If you attend the same conferences each year, you don’t need to scan this list. This list is your opportunity to “push the envelope” by trying something new. There are hundreds of professional development events that may give you a different perspective or help you learn a new skill. Rather than attend the same event you always do, scan this list and investigate conferences, symposiums, or workshops you have never attended. The list below covers selected events focused primarily on the use of technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration. Only listings until June 2011 are complete as dates, locations, or URLs are not available for a number of events held after June 2011. A Word 2003 format is used to enable people who do not have access to Word 2007 or higher version and those with limited or high-cost Internet access to find a conference that is congruent with their interests or obtain conference proceedings. (If you are seeking a more interactive listing, refer to online conference sites.) Consider using the “Find” tool under Microsoft Word’s “Edit” tab or similar tab in OpenOffice to locate the name of a particular conference, association, city, or country. If you enter the country “United Kingdom” in the “Find” tool, all conferences that occur in the United Kingdom will be highlighted. Then, “cut and paste” a list of suitable events for yourself and your colleagues. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website. Note also that some events will be cancelled at a later date. All Internet addresses were verified at the time of publication. No liability is assumed for any errors that may have been introduced inadvertently during the assembly of this conference list. If possible, please do not remove the contact information when you re-distribute the list as that is how I receive updates and corrections. If you publish the list on the web, please note its source

Educational Technology and Education Conferences, June to December 2012

The conference list contains events such as "Learning and Teaching","Innovation in e-Learning", "Online Teaching", "Distance Learning Administration", "The World Open Educational Resources Congress", "Mobile Health", and "Realizing Dreams"

2012 Annual Report - Advanced Biomedical Information Technology Core

This material is based upon work supported in part by the following funding agencies and grant awards: • Lilly Endowment, for its support of the Indiana Genomics Initiative (INGEN) – 2000; Indiana Metabolomics and Cytomics Initiative (METACyt); Indiana Pervasive Computing Research (IPCRES) initiative and Pervasive Technology Institute (1999 and 2008 respectively) • National Science Foundation under grants 01116050 MRI: Creation of the AVIDD Data Facility: A Distributed Facility for Managing, Analyzing and Visualizing Instrument-Driven Data (Michael A. McRobbie, PI); 0521433 MRI: Acquisition of a High-Speed, High Capacity Storage System to Support Scientific Computing: The Data Capacitor (Craig A. Stewart, PI); 0521433 ABI Development: National Center for Genome Analysis Support (Craig A. Stewart, PI) • National Institutes of Health NIAAA awards U24 AA014818-01 (Craig A. Stewart, PI) and U24 AA014818-04 (William K. Barnett, PI) Informatics Core for the Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder • Subcontracts through the following NIH grant awards: 5P40RR024928 (Kenneth Cornetta, PI), 2U01AA014809 (Tatiana Foroud, PI), 1DP2OD007363-01 (Alexander Niculescu, PI), UL1RR025761-01 (Anantha Shekhar, PI), 3UL1RR025761-04S2 (Anantha Shekhar, PI), and 3UL1RR025761-04S3 (Anantha Shekhar, PI) • Funding from the general funds of Indiana University Any opinions expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies above

Reducing Power Consumption and Latency in Mobile Devices using a Push Event Stream Model, Kernel Display Server, and GUI Scheduler

The power consumed by mobile devices can be dramatically reduced by improving how mobile operating systems handle events and display management. Currently, mobile operating systems use a pull model that employs a polling loop to constantly ask the operating system if an event exists. This constant querying prevents the CPU from entering a deep sleep, which unnecessarily consumes power. We’ve improved this process by switching to a push model which we refer to as the event stream model (ESM). This model leverages modern device interrupt controllers which automatically notify an application when events occur, thus removing the need to constantly rouse the CPU in order to poll for events. Since the CPU rests while no events are occurring, power consumption is reduced. Furthermore, an application is immediately notified when an event occurs, as opposed to waiting for a polling loop to recognize when an event has occurred. This immediate notification reduces latency, which is the elapsed time between the occurrence of an event and the beginning of its processing by an application. We further improved the benefits of the ESM by moving the display server, a central piece of the graphical user interface (GUI), into the kernel. Existing display servers duplicate some of the kernel code. They contain important information about an application that can assist the kernel with scheduling, such as whether the application is visible and able to receive events. However, they do not share such information with the kernel. Our new kernel-level display server (KDS) interacts directly with the process scheduler to determine when applications are allowed to use the CPU. For example, when an application is idle and not visible on the screen, the KDS prevents that application from using the CPU, thus conserving power. These combined improvements have reduced power consumption by up to 31.2% and latency by up to 17.1 milliseconds in our experimental applications. This improvement in power consumption roughly increases battery life by one to four hours when the device is being actively used or fifty to three-hundred hours when the device is idle

Workshop Report: Campus Bridging: Reducing Obstacles on the Path to Big Answers 2015

For the researcher whose experiments require large-scale cyberinfrastructure, there exists significant challenges to successful completion. These challenges are broad and go far beyond the simple issue that there are not enough large-scale resources available; these solvable issues range from a lack of documentation written for a non-technical audience to a need for greater consistency with regard to system configuration and consistent software configuration and availability on the large-scale resources at national tier supercomputing centers, with a number of other challenges existing alongside the ones mentioned here. Campus Bridging is a relatively young discipline that aims to mitigate these issues for the academic end-user, for whom the entire process can feel like a path comprised entirely of obstacles. The solutions to these problems must by necessity include multiple approaches, with focus not only on the end user but on the system administrators responsible for supporting these resources as well as the systems themselves. These system resources include not only those at the supercomputing centers but also those that exist at the campus or departmental level and even on the personal computing devices the researcher uses to complete his or her work. This workshop report compiles the results of a half-day workshop, held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2015 in Chicago, IL.NSF XSED

La protección de la intimidad y vida privada en Internet: los flujos de información y la integridad contextual en las redes sociales, (2004-2014)

La presente tesis explora las actuales preocupaciones relativas a las intromisiones en la intimidad y vida privada de las personas producidas en los entornos digitales; concretamente, en las redes sociales. Con el objetivo de entender y explicar los principales riesgos en el uso de estos servicios de Internet, se pretende identificar y evaluar los flujos de información y la transferencia de datos personales que tienen lugar en dichos entornos. Asimismo, tras reseñar los problemas a los que habitualmente se enfrentan los usuarios para preservar, activamente, su esfera privada, se aporta una propuesta destinada a solventar dicha situación de vulnerabilidad, luchando contra la desinformación imperante en dichos contextos. Subrayamos, así, el papel esencial que ostenta el conocimiento, no sólo para prevenir las citadas injerencias, sino para posibilitar que los individuos ejerzan su autodeterminación informativa. Diseño/Metodología/Aproximación: En nuestro estudio haremos uso de las técnicas de análisis de contenido y comparativo aplicadas a una muestra de los más relevantes artículos e informes científicos relativos a las interacciones entre tecnologías digitales de la Web 2.0 e intimidad y vida privada (Existe una cantidad creciente y substancial de literatura que aborda la confrontación entre ambas variables). Ulteriormente, mediante el marco teórico de la “integridad contextual” aportado por Helen Nissenbaum, evaluaremos cómo la naturaleza de la Web 2.0 cambia la ecuación de lo público y lo que se considera privado. A través de las lentes de esta aproximación, analizaremos los flujos de información que se ocultan bajo la estructura de las herramientas de la Web 2.0, centrándonos, primordialmente, en la red social Facebook. Hallazgos/Resultados: Las principales contribuciones de nuestro estudio se resumen en dos. En primer lugar, se consigue ilustrar el papel esencial que el ostenta conocimiento en la propia protección que los usuarios ejercen sobre sus informaciones privadas; ayudándoles a tomar decisiones críticas y conscientes en lo que respecta a la preservación de su ámbito privado. Como segundo aporte, destacamos la presentación de una serie de recomendaciones, así como de un sistema para proporcionar a los individuos ese flujo de información necesario para satisfacer sus deseos de autodeterminación informativa..

Educational Technology and Related Education Conferences for June to December 2015

The 33rd edition of the conference list covers selected events that primarily focus on the use of technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration. Only listings until December 2015 are complete as dates, locations, or Internet addresses (URLs) were not available for a number of events held from January 2016 onward. In order to protect the privacy of individuals, only URLs are used in the listing as this enables readers of the list to obtain event information without submitting their e-mail addresses to anyone. A significant challenge during the assembly of this list is incomplete or conflicting information on websites and the lack of a link between conference websites from one year to the next

Scientific Research, Writing, and Dissemination (Part 2/4): Barriers to Effective-Research, at Engineering-School

This-is the-second-piece of a-tetralogy on Scientific-Research, Writing, and Dissemination. This-work critically examines the-local-institutional-context, to-identify actual or perceived-barriers,   to-effective scientific-research, at-Engineering-School. A-survey-questioner was tested-for-validity and reliability (in compliance-with the-ISO 20252:2006 (E)); interviews; observations; and a-document-analysis-instruments, were also-utilized. The-overall-finding, with no-fear of exaggeration, is that the-current-state of scientific-research, at the-institution, can-be-perceived as ‘a-crisis in-the-making’. The-profound-lack of, or in-some-cases, non-existence, of essential-ingredients for effective-research, were-identified, and can-be grouped-into: (1) Economic (inadequate-funding for research and research-infrastructure; low-remuneration; and self-sponsored-publishing); (2) Institutional (lack of Code of Practice, for Researchers; and mushrooming-campuses); (3) Behavioral (’publishing-prostitution’; ‘brain-drain’; ‘complex of intellectual-superiority’; and lack-of time, motivation, recognition, and mentorship); (4) Demographic (gender-imbalance; and aging-faculty); and (5) Managerial (lack of marketing of library-services, and training, for-technical-staff), among-others. Largely, the-research-findings were in-accord with the-conclusions of the-Commission for University-Education, Kenya. Additionally, the-following relevant-issues were elaborated-upon: The-state of engineering-education and accreditation of engineering degree-programs; Gender in engineering-research and education; Aging-faculty; Mentorship in-academic and research-activities; Funding for Research; Low-remuneration of teaching-staff; Collaborative and ‘Multiple-Disciplinary’ Research; The-Internet, as an-institutional-research-tool; Lack of time and office space; Self-sponsored publishing-demands; Code of Practice for Research; Recognition of academic-staff; and Lack of Technical-staff, among-others. Several-recommendations also-offered on how to-improve the-current depressing-situation. The-findings, alongside-with the-theoretical-coverage, will, expectantly, make a-contribution (in its-small-way) toward the-body of knowledge on-the-subject. The-ideas and opinions, expressed in this-work are the-author’s-own, and do not, necessarily, represent those of the-school; the-university, or the-government, or any of its-institutions, at-large. Keywords: faculty, accreditation, funding, multiple-disciplinary, mentorship, Kenya, developing-country

Spatially Aware Computing for Natural Interaction

Spatial information refers to the location of an object in a physical or digital world. Besides, it also includes the relative position of an object related to other objects around it. In this dissertation, three systems are designed and developed. All of them apply spatial information in different fields. The ultimate goal is to increase the user friendliness and efficiency in those applications by utilizing spatial information. The first system is a novel Web page data extraction application, which takes advantage of 2D spatial information to discover structured records from a Web page. The extracted information is useful to re-organize the layout of a Web page to fit mobile browsing. The second application utilizes the 3D spatial information of a mobile device within a large paper-based workspace to implement interactive paper that combines the merits of paper documents and mobile devices. This application can overlay digital information on top of a paper document based on the location of a mobile device within a workspace. The third application further integrates 3D space information with sound detection to realize an automatic camera management system. This application automatically controls multiple cameras in a conference room, and creates an engaging video by intelligently switching camera shots among meeting participants based on their activities. Evaluations have been made on all three applications, and the results are promising. In summary, this dissertation comprehensively explores the usage of spatial information in various applications to improve the usability

Actas da 10ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores

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