Can they hack it? Yes they can

Investigating Teachers' Understanding of IMS Learning Design: Yes They Can!

In order to understand whether conceptual obscurity is truly the reason for the slow uptake of IMS Learning Design (LD), we have initiated an investigation into teachers’ understanding of IMS LD outside of technological environments. Using paper representations (“snippets”) of IMS LD component and method elements at levels A and B, 21 higher education teachers from nine countries recreated a pr...

Phoneme restoration in interactive activation models: Yes they can!

Grossberg and Kazerounian (2011) present a novel model of sequence representation for spoken word recognition, cARTWORD. They claim cARTWORD can simulate key patterns of phoneme restoration in human perception (replacing phonemes with noise yields restoration, replacement with silence does not), but TRACE (McClelland & Elman, 1986) cannot. I show that their TRACE simulations used flawed stimuli...

Awards and Competitions. What They Can Do and How They Can Do It

Can Frogs Find Large Independent Sets in a Decentralized Way? Yes They Can!

The problem of identifying a maximal independent (node) set in a given graph is a fundamental problem in distributed computing. It has numerous applications, for example, in wireless networks in the context of facility location and backbone formation. In this paper we study the ability of a bio-inspired, distributed algorithm, initially proposed for graph coloring, to generate large independent...

Regeneration If They Can Do It, Why Can't We?

The therapeutic potential of stem cells and nuclear cloning has led to renewed interest in classical models of regeneration. This longstanding problem is undergoing a renaissance spurred by the availability of new techniques that finally allow analysis on the cellular and molecular level.