scholarly journals Advance Gender Prediction Tool of First Names and its Use in Analysing Gender Disparity in Computer Science in the UK, Malaysia and China

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Zhao ◽  
Fairouz Kamareddine
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Gender Disparity ◽  
Prediction Tool ◽  
The Uk

Creating and Capturing Value through Crowdsourcing

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Systems Biology ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk

Examples of the value that can be created and captured through crowdsourcing go back to at least 1714, when the UK used crowdsourcing to solve the Longitude Problem, obtaining a solution that would enable the UK to become the dominant maritime force of its time. Today, Wikipedia uses crowds to provide entries for the world’s largest and free encyclopedia. Partly fueled by the value that can be created and captured through crowdsourcing, interest in researching the phenomenon has been remarkable. For example, the Best Paper Awards in 2012 for a record-setting three journals—the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Academy of Management Perspectives—were about crowdsourcing. In spite of the interest in crowdsourcing—or perhaps because of it—research on the phenomenon has been conducted in different research silos within the fields of management (from strategy to finance to operations to information systems), biology, communications, computer science, economics, political science, among others. In these silos, crowdsourcing takes names such as broadcast search, innovation tournaments, crowdfunding, community innovation, distributed innovation, collective intelligence, open source, crowdpower, and even open innovation. The book aims to assemble papers from as many of these silos as possible since the ultimate potential of crowdsourcing research is likely to be attained only by bridging them. The papers provide a systematic overview of the research on crowdsourcing from different fields based on a more encompassing definition of the concept, its difference for innovation, and its value for both the private and public sectors.

scholarly journals Development of a Cancer Risk Prediction Tool for Use in the UK Primary Care and Community Settings

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 421-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artitaya Lophatananon ◽  
Juliet Usher-Smith ◽  
Jackie Campbell ◽  
Joanne Warcaba ◽  
Barbora Silarova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Risk Prediction ◽  
Prediction Tool ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
The Uk

Gender and Computing at University in the UK

2009 ◽  
pp. 1583-1590
Author(s):  
Ruth Woodfield
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
The Us ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Educational Field

In the late 1970s, women’s progress and participation in the more traditional scientific and technical fields, such as physics and engineering, was slow, prompting many feminist commentators to conclude that these areas had developed a nearunshakeable masculine bias. Although clearly rooted in the domains of science and technology, the advent of the computer was initially seen to challenge this perspective. It was a novel kind of artefact, a machine that was the subject of its own newly created field: “computer science” (Poster, 1990, p. 147). The fact that it was not quite subsumed within either of its parent realms led commentators to argue that computer science was also somewhat ambiguously positioned in relation to their identity as masculine. As such, it was claimed that its future trajectory as equally masculine could not be assumed, and the field of computing might offer fewer obstacles and more opportunities for women than they had experienced before. Early predictions of how women’s role in relation to information technology would develop were consequently often highly optimistic in tone. Computing was hailed as “sex-blind and colour-blind” (Williams, Cited in Griffths 1988, p. 145; see also Zientara, 1987) in support of a belief that women would freely enter the educational field, and subsequently the profession, as the 1980s advanced. During this decade, however, it became increasingly difficult to deny that this optimism was misplaced. The numbers of females undertaking undergraduate courses in the computer sciences stabilised at just over a fifth of each cohort through the 1980s and 1990s, and they were less likely to take them in the more prestigious or researchbased universities (Woodfield, 2000). Tracy Camp’s landmark article “The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline” (1997), using data up to 1994, plotted the fall-off of women in computer science between one educational level and the next in the US. It noted that “a critical point” was the drop-off before bachelor-level study—critical because the loss of women was dramatic, but also because a degree in computer science is often seen as one of the best preparatory qualifications for working within a professional IT role1. The main aim of this article is to examine how the situation has developed since 1994, and within the UK context. It will also consider its potential underlying causes, and possible routes to improvement.

Gender and Computing at University in the UK

2011 ◽  
pp. 365-371
Author(s):  
Ruth Woodfield
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
The Us ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Educational Field

In the late 1970s, women’s progress and participation in the more traditional scientific and technical fields, such as physics and engineering, was slow, prompting many feminist commentators to conclude that these areas had developed a near-unshakeable masculine bias. Although clearly rooted in the domains of science and technology, the advent of the computer was initially seen to challenge this perspective. It was a novel kind of artefact, a machine that was the subject of its own newly created field: “computer science” (Poster, 1990, p. 147). The fact that it was not quite subsumed within either of its parent realms led commentators to argue that computer science was also somewhat ambiguously positioned in relation to their identity as masculine. As such, it was claimed that its future trajectory as equally masculine could not be assumed, and the field of computing might offer fewer obstacles and more opportunities for women than they had experienced before. Early predictions of how women’s role in relation to information technology would develop were consequently often highly optimistic in tone. Computing was hailed as “sex-blind and colour-blind” (Williams, Cited in Griffths 1988, p. 145; see also Zientara, 1987) in support of a belief that women would freely enter the educational field, and subsequently the profession, as the 1980s advanced. During this decade, however, it became increasingly difficult to deny that this optimism was misplaced. The numbers of females undertaking undergraduate courses in the computer sciences stabilised at just over a fifth of each cohort through the 1980s and 1990s, and they were less likely to take them in the more prestigious or research-based universities (Woodfield, 2000). Tracy Camp’s landmark article “The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline” (1997), using data up to 1994, plotted the fall-off of women in computer science between one educational level and the next in the US. It noted that “a critical point” was the drop-off before bachelor-level study—critical because the loss of women was dramatic, but also because a degree in computer science is often seen as one of the best preparatory qualifications for working within a professional IT role1. The main aim of this article is to examine how the situation has developed since 1994, and within the UK context. It will also consider its potential underlying causes, and possible routes to improvement.

scholarly journals Social Robotics and Engineering Students: Do They Match? Does Culture Matter?

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1149-1157
Author(s):  
Mustafa Suphi Erden
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Social Robotics ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Similar Tendency ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThis study investigates the level of familiarity and interest of students towards social robotics through a survey conducted with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Students at Heriot-Watt University in the UK and Electrical Engineering Students at Xidian University in China. The results indicate that whereas there is no significant difference in the level of familiarity within the three groups of students and no significant difference in the level of interest between the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Students at Heriot Watt University, there is a statistically significant difference in the level of interest towards social robotics between the Heriot-Watt University and Xidian University Students. Xidian University Students demonstrate a higher level of interest towards social robotics. The qualitative analysis shows that many of the Xidian University Students are willing to perceive and have robots as companions whereas none of the Heriot-Watt University Students show such or similar tendency. This observation indicates that cultural background plays a significant role in interests and preferences of the students towards social robotics.

scholarly journals Micro: Bit as a Tool for Improvement of Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Dragana Stanojević ◽  
Aleksandra Rosić ◽  
Branislav Ranđelović ◽  
Željko Stanković
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Process Use ◽  
Professional Challenges ◽  
The Uk

Technical education and Computer science education is easier to understand and more meaningful to learn using new teaching materials. This paper describes the use of miniature Micro: bit computers, developed by the British company BBC, in cooperation with several technology companies, with a purpose to increase the number of technologically educated people. Paper presents possible use of Micro: bit in teaching technical and informatics education and its impact on the development of digital competence. Micro: bit is already used in schools in the UK and part of teachers in Serbia had the opportunity to get acquainted with characteristics of this device. It is shown how students can try out the programming in the Microsoft Block Editor. Another benefit of this mini-computer is getting to know the basics of robotics. The curriculum in primary education enables the use of such tools in teaching process. Use of this tool and others, similar to it, in work with students, creates the atmosphere in school that is oriented towards new technologies. The simplicity of this mini-computer allows the student to become familiar with different professional challenges that can help them with choosing a future profession.

scholarly journals Rancang Bangun Wireless Router Menggunakan Raspberry PI

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Whisnumurti Adhiwibowo ◽  
Baik Catur Ardiansyah
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Wireless Network ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Single Board Computer ◽  
Wireless Router ◽  
The World ◽  
Implementation Method ◽  
The Uk

Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized SBC (Single Board Computer) developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the UK with the aim of teaching basic computer science at school. Raspberry Pi can be used for various things including wireless. In this study will be carried out the implementation of wireless routers by using Raspberry Pi as the main media. This is done to implement the use of Raspberry Pi devices as an alternative to Wireless Routers or in the world of networking. The Wireless Router implementation method used is the PPDIOO network cycle method owned by CISCO which has the stages of Prepare, Plan, Design, Implement, Operate, and Optimize. Wireless Router implementation uses several devices between Edimax - Wireless 802.11b / g / n usb wireless adapter as a device or Broadcast Wireless Raspberry Pi media as the main function of the device and system owned by the Wireless Router. Wireless Routers using Raspberry Pi become one of the best solutions for the needs of adding new wireless network segments if you see in terms of limited funds and existing devices. An administrator will easily build a new network using Raspberry Pi.

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