Dr. Inventor, Promoting Scientific Creativity by Utilising Web-based Research Objects, FP7

Scientific creativity and innovation represent the beating heart of European growth at a time of rapid technological change. Dr Inventor is built on the vision that technologies have great potential to supplement human ingenuity in science by overcoming the limitations that people suffer in pursuing scientific discovery. It presents an original system that will provide inspiration for scientific creativity by utilising the rich presence of web-based research resources. Dr Inventor will act as a personal research assistant, utilising machine-empowered search and computation to bring researchers extended perspectives for scientific innovation by informing them of a broad spectrum of relevant research concepts and approaches, by assessing the novelty of research ideas, and by offering suggestions of new concepts and workflows with unexpected features for new scientific discovery. Dr Inventor is an attempt to understand the potential of technology in the scientific creative process within current technology limitations. It represents a sound balance between scientific insight into individual scientific creative processes and technical implementation using innovative technologies in information extraction, document summarization, semantics and visual analytics. The outcomes will be integrated into a web-based system that will allow evaluation in a selected research area under real-world settings with carefully designed metrics, benchmarks and baseline for creative performance, leading to tangible measurements on the performance of the technologies in enhancing human creativity and a blueprint for future technologies in computational creativity. Dr Inventor has huge implications for scientific innovation in Europe, as it has the potential to change the way in which scientific research is undertaken. The acceptance of the system by general research communities will open opportunities for many industrial sectors, leading to reinforced leadership of European industry

Desigualdades educativas estruturais no Brasil: entre estado, privatização e descentralização Structural schooling inequalities in Brazil: between state, privatization and descentralization

No Brasil, mais que em outros países do Sul, a escola constitui um produto social desigualmente distribuído. Seu acesso é modulado não apenas por múltiplos padrões distintivos (categoria socioeconômica, sexo, etnicidade, local de residência…), como também pelo tipo de rede escolar freqüentado (pública, particular). Este artigo analisa a constituição histórica e progressiva de uma escolarização em várias velocidades. O discurso político republicano, que insiste sobre a função homogeneizadora e igualitária da escola que socializa em comum e fabrica cidadãos iguais, foi se esvaziando progressivamente de sua substância. A heterogeneidade provocada pela atual fragmentação do sistema escolar brasileiro em várias redes reproduz, acentuando-as, as desigualdades sociais e compromete de modo durável o desenvolvimento econômico e social desse país.<br>In Brazil, more than in any other Southern country, school is an unequally distributed social product. Access to it depends not only on such distinctive standards as socioeconomic position, sex, ethnicity, location of residence etc., but also on the type of network attended (public, private). This paper analyses the historical and progressive constitution of a multispeed schooling network. The republican political speech, which highlights the egalitarian and homogenizing function of school, has been gradually losing its substance. The heterogeneity resulting from the current fragmentation of the Brazilian schooling system into various networks reproduces, magnifying them, all social inequities and lastingly endangers the social and economical development of this country