Academics and practical issues

Does Athletics Undermine Academics? Examining Some Issues

When I was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1960s, philosopher Paul Weiss published his ground-breaking book, Philosophy of Sport. I distinctly remember a review of the book from The New York Times being posted on the graduate student bulletin board under a sign with very large letters that said, “Write on this subject only if you already have tenure.” In retrosp...

Variation in Approaches to Lab Practical Classes among Computing Academics

As part of a wide-ranging phenomenographic study of computing teachers, we explored their varying understandings of the lab practical class and discovered four distinct categories of description of lab practicals. We consider which of these categories appear comparable with nonlecture classes in other disciplines, and which appear distinctive to computing. An awareness of this range of approach...

Hayfever--practical management issues.

Practical Issues in Process

is that form of abstraction that requires elaboration before execution: the actual implementation is left to the process executor and is bounded either by a formal grammar, a system of constraints, or by the existence of the available building blocks. This kind of abstraction enables one to provide guidance without prejudging the solution (important for generic processes) or straight-jacketing ...

Machine translation: practical issues

Many of the problems with (and consequently much of the resistance to) machine translation (MT) has sprung from ignorance: on the part of early developers, who failed to appreciate the magnitude of the problems they faced, and hence made outrageous claims; on the part of opponents, who frequently fail to understand what translation is about, and how it is (properly) performed; on the part of ze...