Technology v Technocracy: Fintech as a Regulatory Challenge

Crime Reduction as a Regulatory Challenge

Sequence Alignment as a Database Technology Challenge

Sequence alignment is an important task for molecular biologists. Because alignment basically deals with approximate string matching on large biological sequence collections, it is both data intensive and computationally complex. There exist several tools for the variety of problems related to sequence alignment. Our first observation is that the term ’sequence database’ is used in general for ...

Beyond functionality and technocracy: creating human involvement with educational technology

Innovation of education is highly topical. It is obviously boosted by a range of new technologies, which enable new modes of learning that, are independent of time and place through Web-based delivery and computer-mediated communication. However, innovators in education often encounter intrinsic conservatism or even deliberate obstructions. For innovators it is important to be aware of and to u...

Mechatronics as a Challenge for Teaching Technology in Secondary Education

1 Slavko Kocijancic, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education, Dept. Physics and Technology, Kardeljeva pl. 16, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, [email protected] Abstract  Teaching of technology in Slovenian lower-secondary schools has, in the past, been primarily focused on design and construction of simple everyday objects. The technology curriculum was renewed in 1999 emphas...

FinTech in Taiwan: a case study of a Bank’s strategic planning for an investment in a FinTech company

Case description: This study used a case study investigation of a top-5 bank in Taiwan. The major data sources include the meeting notes of the FinTech investment task force and interviews with the team members. Co-opetition theory was adopted as the theoretical framework and interview questions were derived from the PARTS strategies in co-petition theory. The results relate to: (1) the strateg...