DOCSLIB.ORG

Download July 2021 Newsletter

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Download July 2021 Newsletter Vol. 50, No. 3 July 2021 Newsof the lHistoryetter of Science Society Table of Contents Reflections on Gender in our Reflections on Gender in our Society Society 1 Autobiography of an Article 5 Editor’s note: Following up on the recent report from the co-editors of Isis, Alix Hui and Matt Lavine, about the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on submissions from women, the HSS Newsletter invited them to Roundtable with Erika Milam, talk about the meaning and implications of the data collected for the journal and the society more broadly. Future HSS 2020 Levinson Prize Winner 8 President, Karen Rader, and the co-chairs of the HSS Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (CoDI), Don Opitz and Myrna Perez Sheldon, joined them with their insights on this important issue. Why Translate?: A Conversation 12 What was the impetus for conducting this weigh in, and until we’d received some feedback from Member News 18 survey? Could you give us some of the back Isis's June 2020 Open Conversations special section In Memoriam: Frances Kohler 23 story? on the subject. Isis editors: We had known coming into the editorship Isis had collected and shared data on the gender of HSS News 25 in 2019 that we had an obligation to make sure that authors submitting to the journal with the Women’s Notes from Our Bibliographer 29 the Society’s publications, especially Isis, reflected the Caucus for many years before we took over as editors. diversity of its membership. At the start, that endeavor We put this effort on hold when we took over, in part News from the Profession 31 took the form of working with CoDI, the Women’s because it had relied on assignment of gender after Caucus, and the Executive Committee on planning the fact. Within a few weeks of the start of pandemic- From Our Readers 35 how to do intake surveys that would let us collect related shutdowns at universities, however, there were data on gender, race, career status, and nationality in already rumors circulating about the sudden and the best possible way. For us, that meant finding the disproportionate increase in childcare and classroom best possible middle ground between techniques that teaching responsibilities falling on women. This yield easily computable data and those that would problem wasn’t limited to the humanities, but it wasn’t allow people submitting manuscripts to accurately long before we noticed our own submissions had self-define without having to fit their identities into begun to skew towards men. Alix reached out to a pre-established categories. Given how complicated a number of our peer journals and convened a discussion process finding that path promised to be, we decided about whether this was idiosyncratic to us—it wasn’t— not to collect that data until the ITGR had a chance to and what steps we should all take going forward. Part Continued on Page 2 History of Science Society Newsletter Reflections on Gender in our Society, cont. History of Science Society Executive Office History of Science Society of our response was to see what we could learn, Was your survey looking at the gender of 440 Geddes Hall quantitatively, from the submissions we received the authorship of submissions, or also at University of Notre Dame the way in which gender itself was a topic Notre Dame, IN 46556 in the months following the shutdown. Phone: 574-631-1194 of papers in Isis, or both separately. E-mail: [email protected] CoDI: The earlier (2020) Isis report, to which Web site: http://www.hssonline.org/ Isis editors: These are two separate issues for us, the latest report was a follow-up, exposed a Subscription Inquiries although it’s female scholars who do the greater University of Chicago Press gender differential in article submission during Phone: 877-705-1878 the initial months of the pandemic. It was share of work on female historical actors, so E-mail: [email protected] they’re not unrelated. In fact, that goes directly Or write: University of Chicago Press, discussed among the plenary “Futures” panels Subscription Fulfillment Manager, PO Box 37005, of the HSS Virtual Forum last October. Various to why having a representative author pool is Chicago, IL 60637-7363 Isis Moving? panelists and attendees affirmed anecdotally essential to keeping relevant to our field. The work that historians do isn’t determined by their Please notify both the HSS Executive Office and their sense that the pandemic indeed the University of Chicago Press. personal experiences, but it is shaped by it. For disproportionately affected women scholars Editorial Policies, Advertising and Submissions as well as scholars of the “Global South,” us, staying current with our field’s notoriously The History of Science Society Newsletter is difficult-to-define boundaries means doing what published in January, April, July, and October, independent scholars, and early-career scholars. and sent to all individual members of the Society. These latter groups already tend to experience we can to nurture and promote scholarship that The Newsletter Editor is Neeraja Sankaran. The considers the widest possible range of actors, format and editorial policies are determined less access to resources and therefore have felt by the Editor in consultation with the Society more acutely the impact of archive and library places, institutions, and forms of scientific Editors. All advertising copy must be submitted knowledge. In “normal” times—that is, the first in electronic form. Advertisements are accepted closures. on a space-available basis only, and the Society nine months of our editorship before March reserves the right not to print a submission. The rates are as follows: Full page (10 x 7”), $625; It is also worth noting that shortly after the 2020—that meant doing things like encouraging Two-thirds page (6.625 x 7”), $450; Horizontal release of the follow-up report, Nature ran an submissions from as wide a variety of scholars as Half page (10 x 3.5”), $375; Horizontal or Vertical Third page (6.625 x 3.5” or 3.25 x 7”), $275; editorial that discussed the gender patterns we could, and making clear to as many people as Sixth page (3.25 x 3.5”), $150. The deadline for across scientific fields more broadly, and that we could the ecumenical approach we brought to insertion orders is six weeks prior to the month of publication and should be sent to info@hssonline. the trends observed therein seem consistent with the question of what an Isis article is. But that’s org. Please send photographs in a jpeg format, in the highest resolution possible (minimum 4MB) what we observed with Isis. also why we understood the gender skew after to maintain quality during sizing and printing. shutdowns began as such a threat, even though, The deadline for news, announcements, and job/ fellowship/prize listings is firm: four weeks prior on the whole, 2020 was a banner year for total to the month of publication. Long items (feature manuscripts submitted. stories) should be submitted eight weeks prior to the month of publication. Please send all material to the attention of the Executive Office: [email protected]. Continued on Page 3 © 2021 by the History of Science Society 2 History of Science Society Newsletter • July 2021 History of Science Society Newsletter Reflections on Gender in our Society, cont. Could you talk a little about what data responsibilities for caring for their families. There pandemic on things such as child-care or you collected and what the numbers doesn’t seem to be any room for doubt that the personal health? mean? middle months of 2020 were simply lost to many Isis editors: As we mentioned earlier, increased women in our field in ways that they weren’t to Isis editors: family-care responsibilities was the most Because HSS had not yet settled men. on a demographic-collection policy, the need frequently cited reason for declining to write to confirm the general trend forced us to make Going forward, what are plans for data reviews or contribute to special sections, and one we heard most often from women. And the uncomfortable decision to arbitrarily assign collection? gender to authors after the fact and without their this is surely an underrepresentation; it’s hard to input. This decision was not one we took lightly, CoDI: We have been advising both Isis and imagine that everyone for whom this was true or without regret. We recognize that this kind the Committee on Meetings and Programs on mentioned it to us in precisely those terms. of act is a form of trans erasure, to say nothing better practices in demographic data collection. Karen: My first leadership role in HSS was as of the possibility of outright error. What we Based on this advice the latter implemented co-chair of the Women’s Caucus, back when I found confirmed our suspicions in stark terms: a demographic survey that allows for self- was just starting my first tenure-track job at Sarah our new submissions had gone from exact male/ description of identity characteristics as part Lawrence College, and I had small children. The female parity in the first three months of 2020 of the proposal submission process. CoDI fact that many decades later, despite concerted to a 3:1 ratio of men to women in the second has also developed a set of recommendations efforts and attention, we are still talking about three months. We also saw that the responses for data collection and analysis by the Society how to make things like childcare at annual from women to requests for article or book (which was presented to the Council in June) meetings truly work for members is discouraging, reviews after the shutdowns took place was and which we hope will offer further guidance to say the least.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • 2000 HSS/PSA Program 1
    HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY 2000 ANNUAL MEETING PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 2000 BIANNUAL MEETING 2-5 November 2000 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Hyatt Regency Vancouver CONTENTS Acknowledgments 3 HSS Officers, Program Chairs, and Council 4 PSA Officers and Program Committee 5 General Information 6 HSS / PSA 2000 Annual Meeting Book Exhibit Layout 7 Floor Plans: Hyatt Regency Vancouver 8-9 Vancouver Points of Interest 10-13 Committees and Interest Groups 14-15 HSS Full Program Schedule 16-20 HSS 2000 Program 21-43 HSS Distinguished Lecture 40 HSS Abstracts 44-187 PSA Full Program Schedule 188-190 PSA 2000 Program 191-202 PSA President’s Address 197 PSA Abstracts 203-245 HSS/PSA Program Index 246-252 Advertisements 253 Cover Illustration: SeaBus riders get the best view of Vancouver from the water. Offering regular service on the busiest routes from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. and late night owl service on some downtown suburban routes until 4:20 a.m., Greater Vancouver’s transit system--the bus, SkyTrain and SeaBus-- covers more than 1800 square kilometers (695 square miles) of the Lower Mainland. The SkyTrain, a completely automated light rapid transit system, offers direct, efficient service between downtown Vancouver and suburban environs. It follows a scenic elevated 29 kilometer (18 mile) route with 20 stations along the way. All the SkyTrain stations, except Granville, have elevators and each train is wheelchair accessible. The SkyTrain links with buses at most of the 20 stations and connects with the SeaBus in downtown Vancouver. It operates daily, every two to five minutes.
    [Show full text]
  • ''It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over'': Rethinking the Darwinian Revolution
    Journal of the History of Biology (2005) 38: 33–49 Ó Springer 2005 DOI 10.1007/s10739-004-6508-z ‘‘It Ain’t Over ‘til it’s Over’’: Rethinking the Darwinian Revolution VASSILIKI BETTY SMOCOVITIS Department of Philosophy and History of Science University of Athens, Athens Greece and Departments of Zoology and History University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 USA E-mail: [email protected]fl.edu Abstract. This paper attempts a critical examination of scholarly understanding of the historical event referred to as ‘‘the Darwinian Revolution.’’ In particular, it concentrates on some of the major scholarly works that have appeared since the publication in 1979 of Michael Ruse’s The Darwinian Revolution: Nature Red in Tooth and Claw. The paper closes by arguing that fruitful critical perspectives on what counts as this event can be gained by locating it in a range of historiographic and disciplinary contexts that include the emergence of the discipline of evolutionary biology (following the ‘‘evolutionary synthesis’’), the 1959 Darwin centenary, and the maturation of the discipline of the history of science. Broader perspectives on something called the ‘‘Darwinian Revolu- tion’’ are called for that include recognizing that it does not map a one-to-one corre- spondence with the history of evolution, broadly construed. Keywords: Darwin centennial, Darwinian Revolution, discipline, evolutionary biology evolutionary synthesis, historiography The Darwinian Revolution was probably the most significant revolution that has ever occurred in the sciences,
    [Show full text]
  • Table of Contents
    Vol. 45, No. 1 January 2016 Newsof the lHistoryetter of Science Society Table of Contents From the President: Janet Browne From the President 1 HSS President, 2016-2017 Notes from the Inside 3 Publication of this January 2016 Newsletter provides me in congratulating Angela very warmly on a task Reflections on the Prague a welcome opportunity for the officers of the Society carried out superbly well. Conference “Gendering Science” 4 to wish members a very happy new year, and to thank Lone Star Historians of It is usual at this point in the cycle of Society business our outgoing president Angela Creager most sincerely Science—2015 8 for the incoming president also to write a few forward- for her inspired leadership. Presidents come and go, Lecturing on the History of looking words. As I take up this role it is heartening to but Angela has been special. She brought a unique Science in Unexpected Places: be able to say that I am the eighth female in this position Chronicling One Year on the Road 9 combination of insight, commitment, and sunny good since the Society’s foundation, and the third in a row. A Renaissance in Medieval nature to every meeting of the various committees and The dramatic increase of women in HSS’s structure Medical History 13 phone calls that her position entailed and has been and as speakers and organizers at the annual meeting, Member News 15 an important guide in steering the Society through from the time I first attended a meeting, perhaps a number of structural revisions and essential long- In Memoriam: John Farley 18 reflects a larger recalibration of the field as a whole.
    [Show full text]
  • 20.11 Essay Darwin.Indd MH AY.Indd
    OPINION DARWIN 200 NATURE|Vol 456|20 November 2008 ESSAY Birthdays to remember Anniversaries of Charles Darwin’s life and work have been used to rewrite and re-energize his theory of natural selection. Janet Browne tracks a century of Darwinian celebrations. Anniversaries are big business in obituaries stressed that Darwin biology seemed to be losing any sense of unity, the cultural world and have long was not an atheist. He was instead potentially diluting the power of Darwin’s all- been convenient events for promot- described as a good man, commit- embracing idea. Biometricians such as Karl ing agendas. Tourism, commerce, ted to truth and honesty. This was Pearson focused on a statistical view of popula- education; all these can be boosted true, but it was also valuable prop- tions to study evolution; pioneering ecological in the name of an anniversary. aganda at a time when relations thinkers such as Eugen Warming saw the key In science, anniversaries help us between science and religion were issue as organisms’ struggle directly against the to explore the implications of truly intensely fraught. The men of the environment. important achievements, confirm shared Royal Society used Darwin’s funeral as a way Darwinism as set out by Charles Darwin ideas, highlight the value of key players and to reassure their contemporaries that science seemed increasingly sidelined. The 1909 com- look forward to new problems to resolve. As was not a threat to moral values, but rather memorations, organized by a small group of we fast approach 2009, the bicentenary of was becoming increasingly important in the naturalists and Darwin family members from Darwin’s birth and the 150th year since the modern world.
    [Show full text]
  • Press Play: Red Banana Free Download
    PRESS PLAY: RED BANANA FREE DOWNLOAD Anne Fine,Joelle Dreidemy | 48 pages | 04 Sep 2006 | Egmont UK Ltd | 9781405218566 | English | London, United Kingdom Free Britney movement: The effort to wrest control of Britney Spears’ estate away from her father Tags: play, blue, start, start, play, press play, roblox start, roblox player, gaming, online, roblox game play, roblox kid, blue. Tags: ice, electro, music, house, party, club, dots, play, press, vanilla, dance, sexy, justice. Nicky and Tasha must get themselves ready for school and get baby Joe ready for playgroup without waking Press Play: Red Banana Tags: music, tapes, cds, artists, retro, cool, cassette. Nicky, Tasha and Joe's mum leaves for work early one day and she leaves instructions for them on a cassette-player - all they have to do is press play! Tags: everyday robots, damon albarn, blur, lonely press play. Tags: gamer, graphic, neon, ps4, xbox, bright, cool, original. Press Play with Madeleine Brand. Tags: press start, press play, gaming, video game, retro gaming, old school, arcade, insert coin, classic gaming. So since I write for the reader inside myself, Press Play: Red Banana always end up with the kind of book I would have loved to read if only someone else had bothered to write for me. Her mother still has some control through the conservatorship. Tags: wes, wes tucker, wesley tucker, pressplay, press play, social media. So the court date has now been pushed. Tags: s3rl, Press Play: Red Banana, music, party, press, play, walk, away, press play walk away. But it is very hard to get ready quietly, especially when your baby brother is crying for his toy rabbit! Press play! Reviews This product has not been reviewed yet.
    [Show full text]
  • Scientific Biography: History of Science by Another Means?
    Scientific Biography: History of Science by Another Means? Isis 2006 Nye, Mary Jo Department of History, Oregon State University Originally published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society and can be found at: http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=isis Citation: Nye, M. J. (2006, June). Scientific Biography: History of Science by Another Means. Isis, 97(2), 322-329. Available from the JSTOR website: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/504738 Scientific Biography: History of Science by Another Means? By Mary Jo Nye* ABSTRACT Biography is one of the most popular categories of books—and indeed the most popular category among nonfiction books, according to one British poll. Thus, biography offers historians of science an opportunity to reach a potentially broad audience. This essay examines approaches typical of different genres of scientific biography, including histo- rians’ motivations in their choices of biographical subject and their decisions about strat- egies for reconstruction of the biographical life. While historians of science often use biography as a vehicle to analyze scientific processes and scientific culture, the most compelling scientific biographies are ones that portray the ambitions, passions, disappoint- ments, and moral choices that characterize a scientist’s life. AMES ATLAS, a biographer and the editor of the Penguin Lives Series, writes in the J New York Times Book Review of a rainy afternoon leisurely spent in a London bookshop, where he was “stunned by the sheer profusion of ‘lives,’ as the British call biographies.” Biographies of Churchill lined an entire back wall, surrounded by shelves of biographies of people unknown or unfamiliar to Atlas.
    [Show full text]
  • Presidential Address Commemorating Darwin
    Presidential Address Commemorating Darwin The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Browne, Janet. 2005. Presidential address commemorating Darwin. The British Journal for the History of Science 38, no. 3: 251-274. Published Version 10.1017/S0007087405006977 Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3345924 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA BJHS 38(3): 251–274, September 2005. f British Society for the History of Science doi:10.1017/S0007087405006977 Presidential address Commemorating Darwin JANET BROWNE* Abstract. This text draws attention to former ideologies of the scientific hero in order to explore the leading features of Charles Darwin’s fame, both during his lifetime and beyond. Emphasis is laid on the material record of celebrity, including popular mementoes, statues and visual images. Darwin’s funeral in Westminster Abbey and the main commemorations and centenary celebrations, as well as the opening of Down House as a museum in 1929, are discussed and the changing agendas behind each event outlined. It is proposed that common- place assumptions about Darwin’s commitment to evidence, his impartiality and hard work contributed substantially to his rise to celebrity in the emerging domain of professional science in Britain. During the last decade a growing number of historians have begun to look again at the phenomena of scientific commemoration and the cultural processes that may be involved when scientists are transformed into international icons.
    [Show full text]
  • Download New Glass Review 11
    The Corning Museum of Glass NewGlass Review 11 The Corning Museum of Glass Corning, New York 1990 Objects reproduced in this annual review Objekte, die in dieser jahrlich erscheinenden were chosen with the understanding Zeitschrift veroffentlicht werden, wurden unter that they were designed and made within derVoraussetzung ausgewahlt, da(3 sie the 1989 calendar year. innerhalb des Kalenderjahres 1989 entworfen und gefertigt wurden. For additional copies of New Glass Review, Zusatzliche Exemplare des New Glass Review please contact: konnen angefordert werden bei: The Corning Museum of Glass Sales Department One Museum Way Corning, New York 14830-2253 (607) 937-5371 All rights reserved, 1990 Alle Rechte vorbehalten, 1990 The Corning Museum of Glass The Corning Museum of Glass Corning, New York 14830-2253 Corning, New York 14830-2253 Printed in Dusseldorf FRG Gedruckt in Dusseldorf, Bundesrepublik Deutschland Standard Book Number 0-87290-122-X ISSN: 0275-469X Library of Congress Catalog Number Aufgefuhrt im Katalog der KongreB-Bucherei 81-641214 unter der Nummer 81-641214 Table of Contents/lnhalt Page/Seite Jury Statements/Statements der Jury 4 Artists and Objects/Kunstler und Objekte 9 Bibliography/Bibliographie 30 A Selective Index of Proper Names and Places/ Verzeichnis der Eigennamen und Orte 53 Is das Jury-Mitglied, das seit dem Beginn der New Glass Review Jury Statements A1976 kein Jahr verpaBt hat, fuhle ich mich immer dazu verpflichtet, neueTrends und Richtungen zu suchen und daruber zu berichten, wel- chen Weg Glas meiner Meinung nach einschlagt. Es scheint mir zum Beispiele, daB es immer mehr Frauen in der Review gibt und daB ihre Arbeiten zu den Besten gehoren.
    [Show full text]
  • Cash Box Introduced the Unique Weekly Feature
    MB USA FOR AFRICA DISBURSES FUNDS RIAA RESPONDS TO EXPLICIT LYRICS’ OUTCRY GUEST EDITORIAL: PAIN ERIC BEHIND THE BULLETS: METAL ACTS TAKE OVER new laces to n September 10, 1977, Cash Box introduced the unique weekly feature. New Faces To Watch. Debuting acts are universally considered the life blood of the recording industry, and over the last seven years Cash Box has been first to spotlight new and developing artists, many of whom have gone on to chart topping successes. Having chronicled the development of new talent these seven years, it gives us great pleasure to celebrate their success with our seventh annual New Faces To Watch Supplement. We will again honor those artists who have rewarded the faith, energy, committment and vision of their labels this past year. The supplemenfs layout will be in easy reference pull-out form, making it a year-round historical gudie for the industry. It will contain select, original profiles as well as an updated summary including chart histories, gold and platinum achievements, grammy awards, and revised up-to-date biographies. We know you will want to participate in this tribute, showing both where we have been and where we are going as an industry. The New Faces To Watch Supplement will be included in the August 31st issue of Cash Box, on sale August The advertising deadline is August 22nd. Reserve Advertising Space Now! NEW YORK LOS ANGELES NASHVILLE J.B. CARMICLE SPENCE BERLAND JOHN LENTZ 212-586-2640 213-464-8241 615-244-2898 9 C4SH r BOX HE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC / COIN MACHINE / HOME ENTERTAINMENT
    [Show full text]
  • Read It Here
    United States of America OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION 1924 Building - Room 2R90, 100 Alabama Street, S. W. Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3104 [email protected] Phone: (404) 562-1640 Fax: (404) 562-1650 NOTICE OF DECISION In Reference To: SECRETARY OF LABOR v_ Film Allman, LLC OSHRC Docket No_I4-1385 I. Enclosed is a copy of my decision. It will be submitted to the Commission's Executive Secretary on September 28, 2015. The decision will become the final order of the Commission at the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of docketing by the Executive Secretary, unless within that time a Member of the Commission directs that it be reviewed. All parties will be notified by the Executive Secretary of the date of docketing. 2. Any party that is adversely affected or aggrieved by the decision may file a petition for discretionary review by the Review Commission. Any petition must be filed with the Review Commission's Executive Secretary within twenty (20) days from the date of the Executive Secretary's notice of docketing. See Paragraph No. I. The Executive Secretary's address is as follows: Executive Secretary Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission One Lafayette Centre H20-20th Street, NW - 9th Floor Washington, D.C. 20036-3457 3. The full text of the rule governing the filing of a petition for discretionary review is 29 C.P.R. § 2200.91 (2012). It is appended hereto for easy reference, as are related rules prescribing posthearing Deadline.comprocedures. Sharon D. Calhoun Judge Date: September 15, 2015 Atlanta, Georgia OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION 1924 Building - Room 2R90, 100 Alabama Street, SW Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3104 [email protected] Secretary of Labor, Complainant, v.
    [Show full text]
  • New Technology in Education As Viewed Through the Utopic and Dystopic Worlds of Science Fiction
    Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern Electronic Theses and Dissertations Graduate Studies, Jack N. Averitt College of Spring 2007 New Technology in Education as Viewed through the Utopic and Dystopic Worlds of Science Fiction Vivian Elaine Jackson Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd Recommended Citation Jackson, Vivian Elaine, "New Technology in Education as Viewed through the Utopic and Dystopic Worlds of Science Fiction" (2007). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 456. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/456 This dissertation (open access) is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Studies, Jack N. Averitt College of at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 NEW TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION AS VIEWED THROUGH THE UTOPIC AND DYSTOPIC WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION by VIVIAN ELAINE JACKSON (Under the Direction of John A. Weaver) ABSTRACT The use of educational technology has become a focus of reform efforts designed to enrich student learning. Proponents of technology view it as the panacea of education while others ask us to question this myth-information. Throughout America, school districts are designating millions of dollars for technology. Nevertheless, while there are schools with desirable infrastructures, too many schools are ill equipped for enhancing learning through technology. In addition, many classrooms house computers used to merely advance traditional teaching modes, e.g., drill and practice, rather than teach the importance of social responsibility for humankind and the environment through our use of technology.
    [Show full text]
  • Two Wheeled Balancing Robot
    University of Southern Queensland Faculty of Engineering and Surveying Building a Two Wheeled Balancing Robot A dissertation submitted by Mr Peter Miller In fulfilment of the requirements of Courses ENG4111 and 4112 Research Project towards the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) Submitted: October, 2008 i Abstract Two wheeled balancing robots are an area of research that may well provide the future locomotion for everyday robots. The unique stability control that is required to keep the robot upright differentiates it from traditional forms of robotics. The inverted pendulum principle provides the mathematical modelling of the naturally unstable system. This is then utilised to develop and implement a suitable stability control system that is responsive, timely and successful in achieving this objective. Completing the design and development phase of the robot requires careful consideration of all aspects including operating conditions, materials, hardware, sensors and software. This process provides the ongoing opportunity of implementing continued improvements to its perceived operation whilst also ensuring that obvious problems and potential faults are removed before construction. The construction phase entails the manufacture and assembly of the robots circuits, hardware and chassis with the software and programming aspects then implemented. The later concludes the robots production where the final maintenance considerations can be determined. These are essential for ensuring the robots continued serviceability. The analysis and evaluation of the completed robot provides the ability to assess the robots effectiveness and efficiency in maintaining stability. This allows a comparison to be undertaken between the actual system performances and the anticipated project objectives. The opportunity to calibrate and perform additional fine tuning of the design is also explored.
    [Show full text]