Four Ways Technology Has Negatively Changed Education

Technology for learning: how it has changed education

As a result of the digital revolution we have experienced in the last 25 years, a range of new teaching and learning formats is available, from e-modules, sophisticated simulations and serious games, to online collaborative learning. In this special issue, we cover several of these promising new formats of technology-enhanced learning (or e-learning or online learning), referring to the use of ...

Computing has changed biology--biology education must catch up.

541 EDUCATIONFORUM A dvances in computing have forever changed the practice of biological research. Computational biology, or bioinformatics, is as essential for biology in this century as molecular biology was in the last. In fact, it is diffi cult to imagine modern molecular biology without computational biology. For example, a diffi cult algorithmic puzzle had to be solved in order to succes...

Four Generations of Spec Cpu Benchmarks: What Has Changed and What Has Not

Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) CPU benchmark suite which was first released in 1989 as a collection of 10 computation-intensive benchmark programs (average size of 2.5 billion dynamic instructions per program), is now in its fourth generation and has grown to 26 programs (average size of 230 billion dynamic instructions per program). In order to keep pace with the architectu...

Has Feminism Changed Physics?

Stuxnet: What Has Changed?

This paper considers the impact of Stuxnet on cyber-attacks and cyber-defense. It first reviews trends in cyber-weapons and how Stuxnet fits into these trends. Because Stuxnet targeted an industrial control system in order to wreak physical damage, the focus is on weapons that target systems of that type and produce physical effects. The paper then examines the impact of Stuxnet on various doma...