Blockchain standards for compliance and trust

Blockchain methods are emerging as practical tools for validation, record-keeping, and access control in addition to their early applications in cryptocurrency. This column explores the options for use of blockchains to enhance security, trust, and compliance in a variety of industry settings and explores the current state of blockchain standards.N/

Reengineering cloud data centers

Data centers should be among the most automated, robust environments on the planet. Instead, they often remain stuck in the past as agglomerations of outdated technologies. It is time to take this problem seriously and directly address the needs of data centers for modern automation and control through analytics-driven methods

Survey form and methods for second CASC survey of academic research computing and data center usage

Full analysis paper is in the ACM PEARC'21 Proceedings: ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-8292-2/21/07. https://doi.org/10.1145/3437359.3465589Availability of cloud-based resource delivery modes is transforming many areas of computing. Many academic institutions that support research computing facilities are considering and changing their mix of on-premise and remote facilities (including in particular use of commercial cloud facilities). A working group of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (an educational nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization) has conducted an annual survey of higher education institutions now for two years running, with intentions of continuing. This survey asks a number of questions of academic institutions regarding their investments in research and data-oriented computing facilities, the extent of those facilities, and institutional activities. This technical report includes the full text of the survey instrument itself and describes the methods and survey population.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/167731/1/CASC 2021 Survey Methods and Form.pdfDescription of CASC 2021 Survey Methods and Form.pdf : Survey form and methods to accompany the full publication in the ACM PEARC'21 Proceedings, ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-8292-2/21/07. https://doi.org/10.1145/3437359.3465589SEL

Discutindo a educação ambiental no cotidiano escolar: desenvolvimento de projetos na escola formação inicial e continuada de professores

A presente pesquisa buscou discutir como a Educação Ambiental (EA) vem sendo trabalhada, no Ensino Fundamental e como os docentes desta escola compreendem e vem inserindo a EA no cotidiano escolar., em uma escola estadual do município de Tangará da Serra/MT, Brasil. Para tanto, realizou-se entrevistas com os professores que fazem parte de um projeto interdisciplinar de EA na escola pesquisada. Verificou-se que o projeto da escola não vem conseguindo alcançar os objetivos propostos por: desconhecimento do mesmo, pelos professores; formação deficiente dos professores, não entendimento da EA como processo de ensino-aprendizagem, falta de recursos didáticos, planejamento inadequado das atividades. A partir dessa constatação, procurou-se debater a impossibilidade de tratar do tema fora do trabalho interdisciplinar, bem como, e principalmente, a importância de um estudo mais aprofundado de EA, vinculando teoria e prática, tanto na formação docente, como em projetos escolares, a fim de fugir do tradicional vínculo “EA e ecologia, lixo e horta”.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació