In this paper we investigate how teaching programming to the modern generation of students, “digital natives” who grew up with Google and Facebook and do not know the world before the Internet, can be improved through a highly visual game-like approach. Many programming teachers report that modern programming students have short attention span, lack concentration and have poor motivation to lea...

Experimental demonstrations of quantum annealing with “native” implementation Boolean logic Hamiltonians are reported. As a superconducting integrated circuit, problem Hamiltonian whose set ground states is consistent given truth table implemented for no redundant qubits. examples the table, nand and nor successfully fabricated as an identical circuit. Similarly, native multiplier comprising si...

We report on an experimental study of the processing of noun-noun compounds by native and non-native speakers of English, based on Event-Related Potentials recorded during a maskprimed lexical decision task. Analysis was by generalised linear mixed-effect modelling and generalised additive mixed modelling. Non-native processing is found to display headedness effects induced by the mothertongue....

Although the term “digital native” by Prensky is not appreciated by all pedagogical researchers, it perfectly describes the nowadays students that continuously deal with technology. Over the last ten years, the way in which education and training are delivered has considerably changed due to the introduction of new technologies. One of them, very promising, is Game-Based Learning. The work prop...

Inspired by the success of digital-native companies such as Google or Salesforce, established companies such as car manufacturers, equipment manufacturers, or banks strive for value co-creation via open IT platforms. However, literature on value co-creation does not cater to the specific situation of established companies. Addressing this gap, we seek to improve our understanding of how establi...

This chapter introduces a complete storage and retrieval architecture for a database environment for XML documents. DocBase, a prototype system based on this architecture, uses a flexible storage and indexing technique to allow highly expressive queries without the necessity of mapping documents to other database formats. DocBase is an integration of several techniques that include (i) a formal...

Component-based software is a major recent design trend in robotics. It brings many benefits to system design, implementation, maintenance and architectural flexibility. While previous methods of structuring software led to monolithic robot software incapable of easily using multiple architectures, the component-based approach, combined with some suitable software engineering decisions, opens n...

The PowerPC Book E 1 architecture introduced the first major change to the PowerPC architecture since the original Green Book 2 PowerPC processors were introduced. Central to the Book E architectural changes is the MMU which is always in translation mode, even during exception processing. This presented some unique challenges for cleanly integrating the architecture into the Linux/PPC kernel. I...

A new generation of young learners often described as digital native school children are attitudinally and technically equipped to employ social media as a social process in learning. However, few international virtual learning projects have been implemented and researched. This article examines a trial which aimed to combine viable technology with future pedagogic solutions for primary student...

This position paper argues in favor of integrating personal response systems (PRSs) also known as audience response systems or clickers into traditional lectures to increase student engagement, participation, and achievement. Traditional lectures have been disregarded as an effective method of teaching and learning (Freisen, 2011). They are inferior in facilitating learning primarily because th...