Science Outreach Grants: Zombie attack!

Zombie Science & Geoscience

Zombies are reanimated, shambling and catatonic corpses of voodoo and video that know not when they are dead. Zombies have analogs in obsolete conjectures–propped up as conventional wisdom–in science and maintained for reasons and methods outside of science (Charlton, 2008). Zombie hypotheses are unproductive (they do not produce useful results) but are not completely sterile (uncreative). They...

Detection and Isolation of Zombie Attack under Cloud Environment

Network security, data security and several other security types such as the computer security collectively compose the word “Cloud Security”. Cloud computing posses a new challenge because traditional security mechanism is being followed are insufficient to safeguard the cloud resources. Cloud computing can easily be targeted by the attackers. A group of malicious users or illegitimate users c...

The Zombie Attack on theComputational Conception of Mind

The Zombie Attack on the Computational Conception of Mind∗

Many proponents of computationalism, the view that cognition is computation, are busy trying to practice what they preach: they are trying to build artificial persons. Two such proponents are the philosophers John Pollock and Daniel Dennett. In his last two books, How to Build a Person [45] and Cognitive Carpentry: A Blueprint for How to Build a Person [44], Pollock argues that in the future hi...

Coordinating Science Education, Outreach, and Research

This paper describes the development of a new university physics course which integrates physics education, research, and community outreach. The coordinated system of activities links the new course to local community efforts in pre-college education, university education, university outreach, and research on teaching and learning. The course was found to improve student understanding of physi...