Educational systems around the world are under increasing pressure to use the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to provide students the knowledge and skill they need in the 21 Century, [1]: “designing and implementing successful ICT-enabled teacher education programmes is the key to fundamental, wide-ranging educational reforms”, [1]. Starting 1993, in the University of Unive...

Often, when modelling a system there are properties and operations that are related to a group of objects rather than to a single object. In this paper we extend Java with Swarm Behavior , a new composition operator that associates behavior with a collection of instances. The lookup resolution of swarm behavior is based on the element type of a collection and is thus orthogonal to the collectio...

1294 www.thelancet.com Vol 376 October 16, 2010 More than two decades ago I was a young researcher in a laboratory in San Francisco, California, using multichannel electroencephalography (EEG) to study the functions of the brain. One of our experiments was on the eff ects of fatigue on memory, and we were interested to learn how the brains of elite professionals whose work required extraordinar...