Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately. After arguing that recently developed theories of metaphor seem better able to shed light on the nature o...

During the last decade, we have witnessed a rapid development of extended reality (XR) technologies such as augmented (AR) and virtual (VR). Further, there been tremendous advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning (ML). These two trends will significant impact on future digital societies. The vision an immersive, ubiquitous, intelligent space opens up new opportunities for c...

Instruction hints have become an important way to communicate compile-time information to the hardware. They can be generated by the compiler and the post-link optimizer to reduce cache misses, improve branch prediction and minimize other performance bottlenecks. This paper discusses different instruction hints available on modern processor architectures and shows the potential performance impa...

This paper adopts an “advice for action” approach to feedback in educational practice: addressing how provision of “hints” to participants before they write academic essays can support their understanding and performance in essay-writing tasks. We explored differences in performance by type of hint, and whether there was a transfer of better performance in subsequent essays. Fifty participants ...

The provision of hints during problem solving has been a successful strategy in the learning process. There exist several computer systems that provide hints to students during problem solving, covering some specific issues of hinting. This paper presents a novel software player module for providing hints in problem-based learning. We have implemented it into the XTutor Intelligent Tutoring Sys...

This work explores the effects of using automatically generated hints in Deep Thought, a propositional logic tutor. Generating hints automatically removes a large amount of development time for new tutors, and it also useful for already existing computer-aided instruction systems that lack intelligent feedback. We focus on a series of problems, after which, the control group is known to be 3.5 ...