With the fading monopoly of the industrial mode of production and the emergence of the “information revolution,” modern technology has pervaded almost every aspect of human life. In education, however, information technology has yet to find a place, despite the unceasing attempts to “fit” it into the existing educational system. The paper argues that the industrial mode of production was succes...

The debate on the impact of the information and communication technologies (ICT) on contemporary democracy has lasted in political science since the beginning of the information revolution. Two dominating and antagonistic standpoints present the electronic democracy as either the cure for democracy crisis, or the factor deepening major problems of democracy. The text questions such a simplified...

Résumé. Dans la littérature, de nombreux travaux traitent de méthodes d’alignement d’ontologies. Ils utilisent, pour la plupart, des relations basées sur des mesures de similarité qui ont la particularité d’être symétriques. Cependant, peu de travaux évaluent l’intérêt d’utiliser des mesures d’appariement asymétriques dans le but d’enrichir l’alignement produit. Ainsi, nous proposons dans ce pa...

mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. Access controlled : the shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace / edited by Ronald Deibert. .. [et al.] ; foreword by Miklos Haraszti. p. cm. — (Information revolution and global politics) Report from the OpenNet Initiative. Includes bibliographic...

Modern Computation and Information theories have had significant impact on science in the 20th century in theory and application. This influence is tracked (through a generalized, Information-laden scientific Style of Reasoning denoting the Information-theoretical and Computational turn in science), with a focus on the information processing and transfer metaphors and descriptive tools prevalen...

The concept of issuance revolution is synonymous with the expansion of revolution that it was considered by Imam at at beginning of the revolution. Before the revolution western countries's effort and program involved in the dried roots of Islam in different countries and reduced the concepts and doctorins of it. Because of this the most important influence of Islamic revolution was. Series of ...

The concept of issuance of revolution is synonymous with the expansion of revolution that Imam considered it at beginning of the revolution. Before the revolution, western countries’ effort and program involved in the dried roots of Islam in different countries and reduced the concepts and doctorins of it. For this reason, this was the most important influence of Islamic revolution was. Series ...

This article describes in some detail an academic library organization in a continual process of adaptation to a changing external environment. Confronting and dealing with two significant environmental realities – constrained funding and the digital information revolution – the library has realized that to remain true to its core mission of identifying, preserving and making available the key ...

The flow of information brings a tremendous change in the civil engineering industry as well as the politics, economy and culture of a society. The civil engineering field with the information revolution sees the combination of digital technology and construction technology, such as development of integrated construction systems, electronic databases, document management systems, and simulation...

In October of 2000, I launched a website, www.chinesememorial.org, to record the names of the people who died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution. Through years of research, involving over a thousand interviews, I had compiled the stories of hundreds of victims, and placed them on the website. By clicking on the alphabetically-listed names, a user could access a victim’s personal in...