BACKGROUND Australian children as young as five years are using computers in the home and school environments with increased frequency and longer duration as they age. Consequently, they may be exposed to risk factors for the development of physical health problems described in studies of adult computer users. To date schools have focused on providing children with the latest computer technolog...

Learning from anywhere anytime is a contemporary phenomenon in the field of education that is thought to be flexible, time and cost saving. The phenomenon is evident in the way computer technology mediates knowledge processes among learners. Computer technology is however, in some instances, faulted. There are studies that highlight drawbacks of computer technology use in learning. In this stud...

In this modern era the developing countries will be remain mired in poverty unless they preoccupy more on widening the technology and innovation to everywhere throughout the country including urban to small rural areas. The essence of Computer is now swelling in such an extent that we can not think a single moment without Computer; everyone residing in a country now needs to be proficient in di...

I give an historic overview of education, competition, and competition within education, with an emphasis on computing science education. It appears that large-scale formalized competitions are a relatively recent phenomenon in the long history of education. I argue that in the future the role of competitions should be expanded, but that this requires more effort from all branches of society. A...

Cloud computing is a new computing model which is based on the grid computing, distributed computing, parallel computing and virtualization technologies define the shape of a new technology. It is the core technology of the next generation of network computing platform, especially in the field of education, cloud computing is the basic environment and platform of the future E-learning. It provi...

research areas include service-oriented computing, embedded systems and robotics, dependable computing and computer science education. He has published seven books and over 100 conference and journal publications. His current research interests include network software engineering, assurance networks and mobile ad hocnetworks. He is a member of IEEE, IEICE and IPSJ. He has published over 150 co...

One of the continuing challenges facing industry is the security and protection of information. Advances in information security have been unable to keep pace with advances in computing in general. One of the recognized ways to combat the threat to information security is education needed to prepare students to create a secure and ethical computing environment.

This paper examines the issue of High-Performance Computing (HPC) platforms in undergraduate education and the Bootable Cluster CD (BCCD) to facilitate hands-on, classroom immersion in HPC topics. There is measurable benefits derived from teaching HPC topics through providing hands-on clustering experience to the students. Supporting an HPC environment for instruction, however, is accompanied b...

Grid computing presents a new trend to distributed computing and Internet applications, which can construct a virtual single image of heterogeneous resources, provide uniform application interface and integrate widespread computational resources into super, ubiquitous and transparent aggregation. ChinaGrid project, founded by Ministry of Education of China, is an attempt to achieve above goals ...

Virtual machine (VM) technology is widely used in higher education to support pedagogy and research. However, without a standard platform for managing VM technology, VM-based infrastructure is likely to be acquired and deployed in an ad-hoc manner. The virtual computing lab (VCL) system is an open source cloud computing platform developed specifically to support higher education. The main goal ...