A Lifetime of Theory and Action on the Ethical Use of Computers: A Dialogue with Enid Mumford

An analytical on the gap between theory and action in Allamah Tabatabaei

The gap between theory and ethical action is known an important problem in ethics and education. Analyzing the relationship between theory and ethical action and deciding the elements having to do with optional actions of human and their interaction, one may perceive the reasons and roots of the gap and, on this basis, improve educational theories to attain the harmony between theory and action...

بررسی عوامل مؤثر بر مصرف بهینه برق رایانه‌های شخصی در یک مرکز آموزش عالی در سال 1393: یک گزارش کوتاه

Background and Objective: Computer is one of the most common office equipment that spends around 25% energy consumption in an administrative building. As an action toward resistive economy policy in saving energy, we conducted a study on affecting factors on personal computers (PCs) power consumption in an academic center. Materials and Methods: This research was a cross-sectional study...

ETHICS: The Past, Present and Future of Socio-Technical Systems Design

Since computers were first introduced in the late 1960’s there has been continued debate on the impact of technology, organisations and staff within those organisations. Enid Mumford was one of the key researchers who looked at the Socio-Technical implications through the decades, and as part of her research she developed the ETHICS method to help improve the integration of technology in organi...

Enid Mumford¡¯s Contribution to Information Systems Theory and Theoretical Thinking: Introduction to the Special Issue

On-Line Learning of a Persian Spoken Dialogue System Using Real Training Data

The first spoken dialogue system developed for the Persian language is introduced. This is a ticket reservation system with Persian ASR and NLU modules. The focus of the paper is on learning the dialogue management module. In this work, real on-line training data are used during the learning process. For on-line learning, the effect of the variations of discount factor (g) on the learning speed...