118 research outputs found
Native American Educators and Their Leadership Roles on Reservations in the Northern Great Plains
Native American educators occupy a significant place within their respective communities. In this article I report findings from a qualitative investigation on the various ways Native educators define their roles to their students, schools, and communities. Using personal interviews in conjunction with combined snowball and purposive sampling techniques, I documented the perceptions and experiences of 21 Native American educators on their roles as professionals serving reservation schools in the Northern Great Plains. Reflecting the complexities of reservation life, the educators played a myriad of intertwined roles. Analysis of the data led me to identify two types of educators. One I refer to as affinitive educators and the other facilitative educators. Moreover, upon closer examination, I also discovered that the participants articulated two types of roles they perform, definitional roles and foundational roles. In this article I present the two types of educators and the associated roles expressed by the participants
A VISUAL DESIGN METHOD AND ITS APPLICATION TO HIGH RELIABILITY HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS
This work addresses the problem of the production of hypermedia
documentation for applications that require high reliability, particularly
technical documentation in safety critical industries. One requirement of this
application area is for the availability of a task-based organisation, which
can guide and monitor such activities as maintenance and repair. In safety
critical applications there must be some guarantee that such sequences are
correctly presented. Conventional structuring and design methods for
hypermedia systems do not allow such guarantees to be made. A formal
design method that is based on a process algebra is proposed as a solution
to this problem. Design methods of this kind need to be accessible to
information designers. This is achieved by use of a technique already
familiar to them: the storyboard. By development of a storyboard notation
that is syntactically equivalent to a process algebra a bridge is made
between information design and computer science, allowing formal analysis
and refinement of the specification drafted by information designers.
Process algebras produce imperative structures that do not map easily into
the declarative formats used for some hypermedia systems, but can be
translated into concurrent programs. This translation process, into a
language developed by the author, called ClassiC, is illustrated and the
properties that make ClassiC a suitable implementation target discussed.
Other possible implementation targets are evaluated, and a comparative
illustration given of translation into another likely target, Java
Active Logics: A Unified Formal Approach to Episodic Reasoning
Artificial intelligence research falls roughly into two categories:
formal and implementational. This division is not completely firm:
there are implementational studies based on (formal or informal)
theories (e.g., CYC, SOAR, OSCAR), and there are theories framed with
an eye toward implementability (e.g., predicate circumscription).
Nevertheless, formal/theoretical work tends to focus on very narrow
problems (and even on very special cases of very narrow problems) while
trying to get them ``right'' in a very strict sense, while
implementational work tends to aim at fairly broad ranges of behavior
but often at the expense of any kind of overall conceptually unifying
framework that informs understanding. It is sometimes urged that this
gap is intrinsic to the topic: intelligence is not a unitary thing for
which there will be a unifying theory, but rather a ``society'' of
subintelligences whose overall behavior cannot be reduced to useful
characterizing and predictive principles.
Here we describe a formal architecture that is more closely tied to
implementational constraints than is usual for formalisms, and which
has been used to solve a number of commonsense problems in a unified
manner. In particular, we address the issue of formal, integrated, and
longitudinal reasoning: inferentially-modeled behavior that
incorporates a fairly wide variety of types of commonsense reasoning
within the context of a single extended episode of activity requiring
keeping track of ongoing progress, and altering plans and beliefs
accordingly. Instead of aiming at optimal solutions to isolated,
well-specified and temporally narrow problems, we focus on satisficing
solutions to under-specified and temporally-extended problems, much
closer to real-world needs. We believe that such a focus is required
for AI to arrive at truly intelligent mechanisms with the ability to
behave effectively over considerably longer time periods and range of
circumstances than is common in AI today. While this will surely lead
to less elegant formalisms, it also surely is requisite if AI is to get
fully out of the blocks-world and into the real world.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-99-65
Montana Kaimin, March 1, 1989
Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/9175/thumbnail.jp
New Mexico Lobo, Volume 029, No 18, 1/28/1927
New Mexico Lobo, Volume 029, No 18, 1/28/1927https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1927/1003/thumbnail.jp
Las Vegas Daily Gazette, 03-07-1882
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/lv_gazette_news/1144/thumbnail.jp
Walter E. Heller Western Incorporated, a California corporation v. US Rock Wool Company, Inc., a Utah corporation; V. Ross Ekins; S.O. Ekins : Brief of Respondent
Appeal From A Judgment Of The District Court Of Salt Lake County, State Of Utah The Honorable David B. Dee, Judg
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