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Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing Learning Experiences
6th International Conference, LCT 2019, Held as Part of the 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Orlando, FL, USA, July 26–31, 2019, Proceedings, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
This two-volume set LNCS 11590 and 11591 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2019, held as part of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019, in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2019.
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The Golden Age of Drive-Thru It
The True Potential of It and How It Sells Itself Short
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Personal technology continues to evolve every day, but business technology does not follow that trend. Business IT is often treated as a necessary evil that cant be relied upon to take companies to the next level in their corporate evolution. In The Golden Age of Drive-Thru IT, author Kedar Sathe...
by Sir John Dermot Turing
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
'I do not see why it [the machine] should not enter any one of the fields normally covered by the human intellect, and eventually compete on equal terms.'
Alan Turing, 1949
Today computers shape every aspect of our lives. In our pockets, we carry mobile phones with computing power that was...
Wiki Writing
Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
When most people think of wikis, the first---and usually the only---thing that comes to mind is Wikipedia. The editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, have assembled a collection of essays that challenges this common misconception,...
by Douglas Chick
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
A Career in Computers is a straightforward and sometimes comical look into finding a job in the field of the computer sciences. It answers questions that many IT professionals and newcomers need to know when looking for a job and what they should expect. Most computer books deal with configuring software...
The Friendly Orange Glow
The Untold Story of the Rise of Cyberculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light-years ahead in experimenting with how people...
Tomorrow's Learning: Involving Everyone. Learning with and about Technologies and Computing
11th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers in Education, WCCE 2017, Dublin, Ireland, July 3-6, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers in Education, WCCE 2017, held in Dublin, Ireland, in July 2017.
The 57 revised full papers and 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions during...
New Science of Learning
Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
The earliest educational software simply transferred print material from the page to the monitor. Since then, the Internet and other digital media have brought students an ever-expanding, low-cost knowledge base and the opportunity to interact with minds around the globe—while running the risk of...
Computers Supported Education
8th International Conference, CSEDU 2016, Rome, Italy, April 21-23, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2016, held in Rome, Italy, in April 2016. The 29 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 164 submissions. The papers deal with the following topics:...
Computers Helping People with Special Needs
15th International Conference, ICCHP 2016, Linz, Austria, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The two volume set LNCS 9758 and 9759, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2015, held in Linz, Austria, in July 2016.
The 115 revised full papers and 48 short papers presented were carefully reviewed...
Screenplay
Children and Computing in the Home
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
What are young people really doing on computers at home?
Computers feature heavily in the lives of today's young people, and this book sets out to question commonplace assumptions about the use of technology by children at home. Bringing together research from the perspective of psychology, sociology,...
Computers Supported Education
9th International Conference, CSEDU 2017, Porto, Portugal, April 21-23, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in April 2017.
The 22 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. The papers deal with the...
by Eoghan Casey, BS, MA
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Handbook of Digital Forensics and Investigation builds on the success of the Handbook of Computer Crime Investigation, bringing together renowned experts in all areas of digital forensics and investigation to provide the consummate resource for practitioners in the field. It is also designed as an...
Invisible Users
Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
An account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.
The urban youth frequenting the Internet cafés of Accra, Ghana, who are decidedly not members of their country's elite, use the Internet largely as a way to orchestrate...