HotOS XIV Opening Remarks Summarized by Rik Farrow ([email protected]) Petros Maniatis, Intel Labs, the PC chair, explained the ground rules for the HotOS ’13. Presenters had only 10 minutes, with a few minutes for questions and answers as the next presenter set up his or her laptop. Each talk session was followed by a half-hour open mike session, where participants were welcome to speak on any to...

To answer our questions, we looked at existing administrative documentation and practices. We also looked at similar questions and answers from other campuses, particularly those generated in the context of the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching’s "Scholarship Revisited" projects. Also, we asked each academic department at Cal Poly to engage in collegial discussion about the scholarship of teachi...

This paper suggests that online collaborative environments like Knowledge Forum provide an important arena for students to exercise their ability to formulate reflective ideas. A discourse analysis of three primary 4 classes’ verbal and written activities during a two-week science unit showed that, during online activities there was a significant increase in the number of words students used to...

Objective. To determine if a flipped classroom improved student examination performance in a pharmacotherapy oncology module. Design. Third-year pharmacy students in 2012 experienced the oncology module as interactive lectures with optional case studies as supplemental homework. In 2013, students experienced the same content in a primarily flipped classroom. Students were instructed to watch vo...

Answering questions that ask about temporal information involves several forms of inference. In order to develop question answering capabilities that benefit from temporal inference, we believe that a large corpus of questions and answers that are discovered based on temporal information should be available. This paper describes our methodology for creating AnswerTime-Bank, a large corpus of qu...