{"title":"From Leonardo to the Next Rembrandt – The Need for AI-Pessimism in the Age of Algorithms","authors":"Péter Mezei","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3592187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3592187","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a part of our daily life, and “algorithmic creativity” has similarly gained a spotlight recently. From paintings to music, machines generate outputs that seem to comply with various prerequisites of copyright protection. The idea (and to some degree the need) to honour such achievements by legal protection has also emerged. This article demonstrates that contrary to the view of the proponents of an AI-copyright regime, time has not ripened for AI-copyright. The core elements of copyright law - namely the concept of authorship, originality and moral rights, as well as copyright’s history and incentives - are deeply rooted in an anthropocentric (although not only author-centric) world. Unless paradigm shift in copyright law, the lack of direct human element of an AI-generated output shall lead to the unavailability of copyright protection for these outputs. The article similarly highlights why the proposed alternative forms of copyright related rights or sui generis protection are doctrinally unfounded or practically unfit to provide for a sound solution that does not destroy the existing copyright regime and diminish the value of human creations.","PeriodicalId":443021,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Educator: Courses","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130634835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementing TED Talks as Authentic Videos to Improve Taiwanese Students’ Listening Comprehension in English Language Learning","authors":"Chia-Pei Wu","doi":"10.24093/awej/call6.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24093/awej/call6.2","url":null,"abstract":"This research paper explores implementing authentic video materials in EFL listening classrooms. Videos have been used as one of the English listening learning resources; however, without effective learning supports, EFL students are likely to encounter difficulties in comprehending the content on videos and then demotivate learning English. This study aimed to incorporate authentic online videos into students' English listening activities in college-level English classrooms in a private comprehensive university in southern Taiwan. Based on the research background and rationale, there were three main questions :(1) Is there a significant difference among students with different majors on the perceptions of the effectiveness of the listening activities on watching Technology Entertainment and Design Talks videos? (2) Is there a significant difference among students with the content familiarity in their learning with TED Talks videos? (3) What are the students' perceptions of practicing English listening with TED Talks videos? This research was conducted in a one-semester project to uncover 82 EFL learners’ self-reports of learning their online video materials. TED Talks videos and listening activities were utilized in this learning environment. A questionnaire was administered and consisted of demographic information, Likert scale questions, and interviews. The results showed that most students considered that they improved their listening comprehension after learning the TED talks video. Students recalled their background knowledge and analyzed content in the TED Talks.","PeriodicalId":443021,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Educator: Courses","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123937788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rehan Butt, Xuezhou Wen, R. Y. Hussain, Sabeeh Pervaiz
{"title":"Effect of Job Stress, Benefits and Salary on Employee Job Satisfaction Based on Mediating and Moderating Role of Work Environment and Leadership: Evidence from Telecom Sector","authors":"Rehan Butt, Xuezhou Wen, R. Y. Hussain, Sabeeh Pervaiz","doi":"10.31033/ijemr.10.3.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31033/ijemr.10.3.19","url":null,"abstract":"The study aimed to explore the mediating role of work environment with employee job satisfaction, job stress and benefits and salary, to investigate the moderating effects of leadership between work environment and employee job satisfaction. The quantitative and inductive approach was used to collect data for 515 employees. The data was collected through a field survey with a closed-ended questionnaire methodology. The Smart-Partial Least Square (PLS-3.0) was used to analyze structural equation modeling (SEM) for studied variables. Furthermore, findings proved that there is a positive relationship between benefits and salary with employee job satisfaction. The work environment mediates the relationship between Benefits & salary and employee job satisfaction. Here, leadership moderates between work environment and employees' job satisfaction. The job stress has a relationship between employee job satisfaction, whereas, the work environment has a positive effect on job stress. This study assists the executive bodies of the telecommunication sector, how to reduce job stress and raise the level of job satisfaction among employees.","PeriodicalId":443021,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Educator: Courses","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115868828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of Mobile Communication with Emerging Technology in COVID-19","authors":"R. Bhavya, S. Sambhav","doi":"10.30534/ijatcse/2020/131932020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30534/ijatcse/2020/131932020","url":null,"abstract":"This study shows impact of technology for communication in our day to day life and how our system welcomed emerging technology during this pandemic. Corona virus is causing serious health hazards all over the world causing many deaths and infections. It’s not an ordinary disease, as it spread very easily due to number of factors like handshake or touching infectious surface and its complete treatment has also became a challenge for doctors as vaccine is not there and proper equipment are also not there because number of COVID-19 patients are very large. As its further spread is nearly impossible to stop but we can control the spread of infection by getting least socialized. Government of many countries all over the world has announced complete lockdown ordering all institutes, shopping malls, transports and organization to be closed so that social gathering could be avoided as far as possible, in this case our mobile phones are becoming our service provider. Mobile phone and its applications has become the life savior indirectly as whatever we used to do before, is possible to do now also like banking, ordering groceries, video calls, news, job, education and many more. Our technologies like artificial intelligence, big data analysis, robotics, drone, contact tracking, 5G, 3D printers etc., are helping to analyze and control the spread also making the treatment fast as well as effective. This study also focusing on connection with 5G communication and how this is helping our life along with mobile computing.","PeriodicalId":443021,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Educator: Courses","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122415837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fair Secure Dominating Set in the Corona of Graphs","authors":"Lorelyn P. Gomez, Enrico L. Enriquez","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3646011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3646011","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we extend the concept of fair secure dominating sets by characterizing the corona of two nontrivial connected graphs and give some important results.","PeriodicalId":443021,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Educator: Courses","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115343295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study on Web Based Online Examination System","authors":"Anjali Choubey, Avinash Kumar, Ayush Ranjan Behra, Anil Raj Kisku, Asha Rabidas, Beas Bhadra","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3611554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3611554","url":null,"abstract":"Online examination system is a web-based examination system where examinations are given online. Either through the internet or intranet using computer system. The main goal of this online examination system is to effectively evaluate the student thoroughly through a totally automated system that not only reduce the required time but also obtain fast and accurate results. The main objective of our software is to efficiently evaluate the candidate thoroughly through a fully automated system there is no need of paper and pen. The user can write exam without going to the exam centre. Also the website will provide a good.","PeriodicalId":443021,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Educator: Courses","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116187254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Active Learning to Foster STEM Education in Vulnerable Urban and Rural Contexts","authors":"Andrés Acero","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3601316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3601316","url":null,"abstract":"This study moves the field of engineering education toward the culturally responsive formation of high school students for capability building on community resilience. This research will lead to the creation of a novel methodological framework that integrates culturally and socially appropriate pedagogy approaches with the teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for the improvement of life quality conditions of vulnerable peri-urban communities around Bogotá and inside the region that surrounds this city, which are areas with deep levels of inequality. This new methodological framework will provide a holistic perspective to understand and propose recommendations to positive social changes by designing and creating prototypes of low-cost technologies or methodologies to deal with local problems, which are especially necessary for the surpass of poverty and the design of socially resilient infrastructures based on STEM tools. Furthermore, this project will try to connect community-based peace building initiatives through engineering and sciences perspectives by working with internal and external migrants who have been victims of different social and economic conflicts. Most importantly, this study illuminates what teachers, schools, and communities can do to support this kind of population into engineering and science learning, excite adolescents and motivate them to become outstanding, creative, and productive engineers and scientist. In addition to using science and technology for dealing with local problems, this framework can be extended to other tools and methodologies for specific social and environmental projects and sectors, especially in areas of armed conflict or to work with vulnerable populations.","PeriodicalId":443021,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Educator: Courses","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134609175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology for Project Liftoff","authors":"C. Hewitt","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3581859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3581859","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses technology for universal Integrative Secure Intelligent Systems with the following technology stack: Actor myriad-cores architecture with ActorScript(TM) for massive robust concurrency, strongly-typed architecture (without doubling the pointer size) to protect security of Actors including dynamic relocation and automatic pause-less storage reclamation, 10ns average communication latency Actor communication to provide quick response time to users, Services for underlying operations, e.g., interoperation with datacenters and other Citadels, Massive Inference-Robust Ontology [Guarino and Musen 2015, Hewitt 2016-2019] for operations on massive amounts of pervasively inconsistent information including statistics and correlations, Matrix [Bender, Flickinger, and Oepen 2002, Bender et. al. 2010] for discourse, rhetoric and narratology, Experiences [Gurman 2017, Mundy 2016, Shapiro, et. al. 2015] for collaborations, gestures, video, etc. \u0000 \u0000Citadels [Hewitt 2019] for increased performance and robustness with no single point of failure and rectifying mistakes ASAP. \u0000 \u0000Project Liftoff(TM) is to develop the above technologies for universal deployment in this decade. \u0000 \u0000The project stands to be a huge development effort comparable to the Apollo Project. Education will be crucial to the success of Project Liftoff because there is an enormous talent shortage. \u0000 \u0000Project Liftoff for education, science, and technology to create universal Integrative Secure Intelligent Systems by 2030. \u0000 \u0000Integrative Secure Intelligent Systems, as envisioned, will over considerable time become the most complex software that has ever been created.","PeriodicalId":443021,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Educator: Courses","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122769449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Extension of Calderón Transfer Principle and its Application to Ergodic Maximal Function","authors":"Sakin Demir","doi":"10.22377/ajms.v4i2.272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22377/ajms.v4i2.272","url":null,"abstract":"We first prove that the well known transfer principle of A. P. Calderon can be extended to the vector-valued setting and then we apply this extension to vector-valued inequalities for the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function to prove the vector-valued strong type $L^p$ norm inequalities for $1<p<infty$ and the vector-valued weak type $(1,1)$ inequality for ergodic maximal function.","PeriodicalId":443021,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Educator: Courses","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129540143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Results on Common Fixed Point Theorems in Hilbert Space","authors":"N. S. Rao, K. Kalyani","doi":"10.22377/AJMS.V4I1.251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22377/AJMS.V4I1.251","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides the existence and uniqueness of a common fixed point for a pair of self-mappings, positive integers powers of a pair, and a sequence of self-mappings over a closed subset of a Hilbert space satisfying various contraction conditions involving rational expressions.","PeriodicalId":443021,"journal":{"name":"Engineering Educator: Courses","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130487448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}