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		<title>The latest 20 Google Tech Talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GTAC 2011 Closing Keynote Secrets of&#8230; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE-t5J7hnHE Human Perception Viewed as a&#8230; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXGxZUno5qY GTAC 2011 Angular http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQclnI_8Vmg GTAC 2011 Lightning Talks II (Web Testing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5lb32EY8s GTAC 2011 The Latest in Google Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQtBrmUU8Uk GTAC 2011 WebDriver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsNkcUq0veI GTAC 2011 Browser Automation with&#8230; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJdgTz8LwQ GTAC 2011 Lightning Talks I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7kk-WdiPy0 GTAC 2011 Keynote &#8211; How Hackers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GTAC 2011 Closing Keynote Secrets of&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE-t5J7hnHE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE-t5J7hnHE</a></p>
<p>Human Perception Viewed as a&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXGxZUno5qY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXGxZUno5qY</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 Angular<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQclnI_8Vmg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQclnI_8Vmg</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 Lightning Talks II (Web Testing)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5lb32EY8s">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU5lb32EY8s</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 The Latest in Google Test<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQtBrmUU8Uk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQtBrmUU8Uk</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 WebDriver<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsNkcUq0veI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsNkcUq0veI</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 Browser Automation with&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJdgTz8LwQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJdgTz8LwQ</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 Lightning Talks I<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7kk-WdiPy0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7kk-WdiPy0</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 Keynote &#8211; How Hackers See&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onpxOG3TrWg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onpxOG3TrWg</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 Developing and&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olyxa0LVtiI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olyxa0LVtiI</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 Web Consistency Testing<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6fV-6eMSUM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6fV-6eMSUM</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 Keynote &#8211; Part the Clouds and&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXIA3VYN1To">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXIA3VYN1To</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 BidiChecker<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTrzDFP8yVg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTrzDFP8yVg</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 Automating Hadoop<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUcej07dGu4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUcej07dGu4</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 How to Hit a Moving Target in&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2fUFSdUq20">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2fUFSdUq20</a></p>
<p>GTAC 2011 Opening Keynote Address<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1jWe5rOu3g">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1jWe5rOu3g</a></p>
<p>The Cherokee Nation and Internet<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsP9YP30dlc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsP9YP30dlc</a></p>
<p>Haskell Amuse-Bouche<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9FagOVqxmI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9FagOVqxmI</a></p>
<p>Jürgen Schmidhuber at AGI-2011 Fast&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkCNbi26Hds">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkCNbi26Hds</a></p>
<p>Zen and the Brain<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEIXijQctlQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEIXijQctlQ</a></p>
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		<title>BBC ONE HD changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>am</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was to watch the Canadian F1 GP qualifying broadcast, only to discover that BBC HD and BBC ONE HD have changed. The full explanation here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2011/06/changes_to_bbc_hd_channels_on.html The new location here: Satellite: Astra 2D tp.50 Frequency: 10,847MHz (vertical polarity) Modulation: DVB-S2, QPSK Symbol Rate: 23.0 FEC: 8/9]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was to watch the Canadian F1 GP qualifying broadcast, only to discover that BBC HD and BBC ONE HD have changed.</p>
<p>The full explanation here:<br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2011/06/changes_to_bbc_hd_channels_on.html">http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2011/06/changes_to_bbc_hd_channels_on.html</a></p>
<p>The new location here:<br />
Satellite: Astra 2D tp.50<br />
Frequency: 10,847MHz (vertical polarity)<br />
Modulation: DVB-S2, QPSK<br />
Symbol Rate: 23.0<br />
FEC: 8/9</p>
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		<title>Cassandra vs relational databases</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>am</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some big Web databases are making people more aware of *NO* relational databases alternatives. For example, Twitter and Digg are going Cassandra&#8216;s way &#8211; as Facebook did.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some big Web databases are making people more aware of *NO* relational databases alternatives.</p>
<p>For example, <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9161078/Twitter_growth_prompts_switch_from_MySQL_to_NoSQL_database?taxonomyId=9">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://about.digg.com/blog/looking-future-cassandra">Digg</a> are going <a href="http://cassandra.apache.org/download/">Cassandra</a>&#8216;s way &#8211; as Facebook did.</p>
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		<title>NASA Worldwind [on Windows 7]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>am</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some tips and notes for those running Worldwind on Windows 7: (1) After installing the application, run it ONCE, so that it can write the configuration file. Then close the application and open the corresponding XML code at C:\Users\&#60;your user name&#62;\AppData\Roaming\NASA\World Wind\1.4.0.0\WorldWind.xml The purpose of editing the XML is one setting alone: the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are some tips and notes for those running Worldwind on Windows 7:</p>
<p>(1) After installing the application, run it ONCE, so that it can write the configuration file.</p>
<p>Then close the application and open the corresponding XML code at</p>
<p><strong>C:\Users\&lt;your user name&gt;\AppData\Roaming\NASA\World Wind\1.4.0.0\WorldWind.xml</strong></p>
<p>The purpose of editing the XML is one setting alone: the cache folder location.</p>
<p>In my system the default, otherwise uneditable, location was</p>
<p>&lt;CachePath&gt;<strong>C:\wp\geo\nasaww\Cache</strong>&lt;/CachePath&gt;</p>
<p>but I wanted it to be something else in a different hard drive, because I use many GBs of cache packs, that consists of one million+ JPGs, that are just too many for I what I think there should exist in the system disk.</p>
<p>(2) Some valueable shortcuts are</p>
<p>ALT+Q for the GUI (Graphical User Interface) for the settings;</p>
<p>CTRL+H for the download progress manager, very useful to check if there is communication going on, or if the tiles are coming from the cache.</p>
<p>(3) Some useful URLs are</p>
<p><a href="http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html">http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html</a> &#8211; the main download site;</p>
<p><a href="http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/index.php">http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/index.php</a> &#8211; the main WorldWind community forum, I think;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.worldwinddata.com/">http://www.worldwinddata.com/</a> for *OLD* cache packs;</p>
<p>*carefully* browse NASA&#8217;s</p>
<p>arc.nasa.gov</p>
<p>machines to find the very latest cache packs.</p>
<p>To find which NASA&#8217;s sub-domains you should search, use a http proxy between Worldwind and the Internet and observe the traffic. For example, I am observing the planet Venus and one tile just came from:</p>
<p><a href="http://worldwind25.arc.nasa.gov/venus/venus.aspx?T=fmap-color&amp;L=1&amp;X=5&amp;Y=2">http://worldwind25.arc.nasa.gov/venus/venus.aspx?T=fmap-color&amp;L=1&amp;X=5&amp;Y=2</a></p>
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		<title>Opera 11 not showing full URL?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>am</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opera is my favorite brower, but the latest version is doing something absolutely crazy in my view: the address bar does NOT show the full URL, by default. They are dumbing down users, thinking that users will be better served if not aware of all the URL&#8217;s details. This rises a security risk, obfuscates browsing, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Opera is my favorite brower, but the latest version is doing something absolutely crazy in my view: the address bar does NOT show the full URL, by default.</p>
<p>They are dumbing down users, thinking that users will be better served if not aware of all the URL&#8217;s details. This rises a security risk, obfuscates browsing, makes learning the WWW structure less trivial for newcomers, and it simply trashes the underlying technology fundamentals.</p>
<p>Not acceptable!</p>
<p>Fortunately there is a way to get your full URL back:</p>
<p>(1) at the address bar type</p>
<p><strong>opera:config</strong></p>
<p>(2) <strong>pick the &#8220;show all&#8221; check box</strong></p>
<p>(3) do <strong>CTRL^F</strong> (find) for the text &#8220;<strong>show full URL</strong>&#8220;</p>
<p>(4) once found, <strong>check the corresponding check box</strong></p>
<p>(5) pick <strong>save</strong></p>
<p>It is done.</p>
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		<title>20090618 &#8211; Eden Lake (2008)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>am</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched Eden Lake on 2009&#8211;06&#8211;18. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020530/ I was expecting an intense movie and indeed it was. Labelled as of the horror genre, it could be more precisely classified as a torture sick flic, with a twist. The twist is that the torturers are british children and the victims are a&#160;young couple, with a life [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I watched Eden Lake on 2009&ndash;06&ndash;18.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020530/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020530/</a></p>
<p>I was expecting an intense movie and indeed it was. Labelled as of the horror genre, it could be more precisely classified as a torture sick flic, with a twist. The twist is that the torturers are british children and the victims are a&nbsp;young couple, with a life project, that is going to end at &ldquo;Eden Lake&rdquo;, a beautiful location, where you would never expect bad things to happen.</p>
<p>So is this introduction a spoiler? It is not. The movie is promoted giving away this much, so most viewers know what to expect. However,&nbsp;because &ldquo;horror&rdquo; is also about suspense and surprise, I was disappointed that the movie came short on both, particularly regarding the ending chapter.</p>
<p>I usually appreciate &ldquo;sad endings&rdquo;, because in horror movies, once things start turning less bad for the leading &ldquo;good&rdquo; characters, the trend tends to hold, up to a previewable end.</p>
<p>The same goes for Eden Lake, but this time I would have appreciated a &ldquo;happy ending&rdquo;!, because of its surprise effect: the unfortunate young couple gets into trouble very early on&hellip; and that is it. It is a very &ldquo;heavy&rdquo; movie, that doesn&rsquo;t uplift a person in any possible way. Quite an experience.</p>
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		<title>How to run C# binaries, as CGI applications, in IIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>am</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to use C# to write CGI applications, you might stumble on some technical difficulties, when using the IIS web server: no matter what are the permissions you set for the folder holding the CGI executable, whenever executing it, the web server doesn’t process the file and tries to serve it as if [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to use C# to write CGI applications, you <strong><em>might</em> </strong>stumble on some technical difficulties, when using the IIS web server: no matter what are the permissions you set for the folder holding the CGI executable, whenever executing it, the web server doesn’t process the file and tries to serve it as if the client had requested its download!</p>
<p>One workaround is to explicitly map some dummy extension, to the EXE that you want to use as the CGI application.<br />
For example, map “.CSX” to the executable that is the output of your C# CGI solution.</p>
<p>The HTML that needs to invoke the CGI, <strong><em>must </em></strong>invoke the dummy (zero bytes) .CSX file, because invoking the .EXE would produce the IIS problem already mentioned.</p>
<p>In order to do the “.CSX” &lt;—&gt; “CGI.EXE” mapping, (1) create one server side directory (virtual or not) to hold the C# CGI solutions.</p>
<p>The picture below shows that, in some computer, the “\cgi-bin\cgi_cs” folder was chosen to hold the C# executables.</p>
<p><img border="0" alt="IIS configuration for C# CGI (1 of 6)" src="http://arturmarques.com/images/blog/iis_cgi_cs_config_01_ok.jpg" /></p>
<p>After (1), make sure that you (2) create an “IIS application” for the folder, having execute permissions for BOTH script and executables.</p>
<p><img border="0" alt="IIS configuration for C# CGI (2 of 6)" src="http://arturmarques.com/images/blog/iis_cgi_cs_config_02_ok.jpg" /></p>
<p>Once the application is created, it is possible to configure it. So, (3) click the configuration button.</p>
<p><img border="0" alt="IIS configuration for C# CGI (3 of 6)" src="http://arturmarques.com/images/blog/iis_cgi_cs_config_03_ok.jpg" /></p>
<p>(4) The relevant tab in “application configuration” is the “mappings” tab. Here, click the “Add” button. This operation is the way to build the aforementioned “.CSX” &lt;—&gt; “CGI.EXE” relation.</p>
<p><img border="0" alt="IIS configuration for C# CGI (4 of 6)" src="http://arturmarques.com/images/blog/iis_cgi_cs_config_04_ok.jpg" /></p>
<p>(5) In the “mapping” dialog, browse to the C# .EXE file that is intended to run as a CGI; then type “.CSX” as the extension; then you can uncheck the “check that file exists” option and, finally, press the OK button.</p>
<p>If the OK button is dimmed/grayed/not enabled, just click once on the executable textbox!</p>
<p><img border="0" alt="IIS configuration for C# CGI (5 of 6)" src="http://arturmarques.com/images/blog/iis_cgi_cs_config_05_ok.jpg" /></p>
<p>(6) After this, the “application configuration” dialog box should list the “.CSX” extension at the bottom.</p>
<p>In order to use the new mapping, restart (stop, then start) the IIS web server.</p>
<p>Having done these six steps, all that is left is to code the right invocation of the CGI. For example, if using forms and its action attribute, point the action to some empty .CSX file.</p>
<p>To build an empty CGI.CSX file, go to the “command prompt” and type “copy con cgi.csx”, followed by ENTER, followed by CTRL+Z (which is the end-of-file character).</p>
<p><img border="0" alt="IIS configuration for C# CGI (6 of 6)" src="http://arturmarques.com/images/blog/iis_cgi_cs_config_06_ok.jpg" /></p>
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		<title>Microsoft ITeach @ Microsoft Portugal, 2006-11-16</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>am</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ITeach é mais uma iniciativa da Microsoft Portugal, para a educação. A sua apresentação aconteceu na quinta-feira, 2006&#8211;11&#8211;16.O site oficial&#160;está em http://www.iteach.pt/default.aspx. Cheguei ao evento ITeach, pelas 13:55, tendo logo encontrado Vitor Santos&#160;&#8211; Gestor de Programas Académicos de Ciência dos Computadores da Microsoft Portugal &#8211; e o Professor Brasileiro Flávio Soares Silva, do Laboratório de [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ITeach é mais uma iniciativa da Microsoft Portugal, para a educação. A sua apresentação aconteceu na quinta-feira, 2006&ndash;11&ndash;16.<br />O site oficial&nbsp;está em <a href="http://www.iteach.pt/default.aspx">http://www.iteach.pt/default.aspx</a>.</p>
<p>Cheguei ao evento ITeach, pelas 13:55, tendo logo encontrado <strong>Vitor Santos</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; Gestor de Programas Académicos de Ciência dos Computadores da Microsoft Portugal &ndash; e o Professor Brasileiro <a href="http://www.ime.usp.br/~fcs/">Flávio Soares Silva</a>, do <a href="http://www.ime.usp.br/~liamf/">Laboratório de Lógica, Inteligência Artificial e Métodos Formais</a>, da Universidade de São Paulo, que faria a terceira apresentação do dia.</p>
<p>Foi com o Professor&nbsp;Flávio Silva e, depois, com docentes do Instituto Politécnico de Beja &ndash; Luís Garcia e João Barros &ndash; que fiquei até ao início das sessões.</p>
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<td valign="top"><img alt="Microsoft Portugal - João Oliveira" src="http://arturmarques.com/images/blog/ms_pt_joao_oliveira.jpg" border="0" />&nbsp;</td>
<td valign="top">A primeira pessoa a falar foi <strong>João Oliveira</strong>, Director da Unidade de Negócio de Desenvolvimento e Plataformas, da Microsoft Portugal.<br />Agradeceu a presença de todos e fez um resumo do que iria ocorrer ao longo da tarde, até às 18 horas.</td>
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<td valign="top"><img alt="Microsoft EMEA - Mauricio Ulargui" src="http://arturmarques.com/images/blog/ms_emea_mauricio_ulargui.jpg" border="0" />&nbsp;</td>
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<p>O segundo interveniente foi <strong>Mauricio Ulargui</strong>, o espanhol &#8220;Academic Director for Microsoft EMEA&#8221;; ou seja, o responsável #1 da Microsoft para a relação com a &ldquo;Academia&rdquo;, na Europa, no Médio-Oriente e em África (EMEA = Europe Middle-East and Africa). Bill Gates desempenha hoje as mesmas funções, nos EUA.</p>
<p>Ulargui, com um sotaque exótico, falou em inglês sobre o interesse da Microsoft pela educação. Numa só frase, &ldquo;é um interesse estratégico&rdquo;. As empresas cujo domínio é apenas suportado pela liderança do seu produto/serviço tendem a ser rapidamente substituidas por outras, mercê dos ciclos de produto e da natureza da inovação.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;Uma empresa pode sustentar uma posição de liderança, por redes de parceriais. Por exemplo,&nbsp;a&nbsp;Microsoft não vende nem suporta directamente os seus produtos: fá-lo por intermédio de parceiros de negócio.<br />Na Educação, a Microsoft vê nas escolas parceiros que &ldquo;sabem como&rdquo; (know-how), mas que podem necessitar de apoios diversos, do financiamento à&nbsp;facilitação no acesso a recursos e contactos com outras organizações.</p>
<p>É essa simbiose Microsoft-ensino, que o programa ITeach objectiva intensificar e elevar, por exemplo, na forma de cursos e materiais de apoio pedagógico.<br />Outras iniciativas relacionadas são:</p>
<p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/">http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/</a>&nbsp;&ndash; developers&rsquo; network;<br /><a href="http://imaginecup.com/">http://imaginecup.com</a> &ndash; concursos para estudantes;<br /><a href="http://student-partners.com/">http://student-partners.com</a> &#8211; programa, para estudantes, mas que não inclui Portugal;<br />e mais, consultáveis a partir de <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/education/">http://www.microsoft.com/education/</a>.</p>
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<td valign="top"><img alt="Universidade de São Paulo - Flávio Silva" src="http://arturmarques.com/images/blog/usp_flavio_silva.jpg" border="0" />&nbsp;</td>
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<p>A terceira pessoa a falar foi <strong>Flávio Silva</strong>. Esta foi a primeira apresentação não-Microsoft.<br />Flávio Silva falou do problema da &#8220;quebra de atractividade dos cursos de Informática e Computação, a nível global&#8221;.<br />Este problema está identificado: na sua escola: &#8220;há 3 anos havia 60 candidatos por vaga, agora há menos de 30&#8230;&#8221;.<br />A tendência parece ser global: &#8220;o mesmo ocorre nos EUA e na Europa&#8221;.</p>
<p>Não são compreendidas as causa do fenómeno, aparentemente paradoxal, no contexto de uma sociedade cada vez mais intensa, do ponto de vista da tecnologia, da computação e da automação.</p>
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<p>Foi então formulada uma recta de hipóteses explicativas:<br />- no extremo esquerdo situa-se um desínteresse acentuado dos candidatos pela tecnologia/Informática/automação;<br />- no extremo direito situa-se uma total desadequação, da forma de ensinar.</p>
<p>Flávio Silva argumentou que as explicações se situarão entre os extremos.</p>
<p>Explicou então como a sua escola tem procurado contrariar a tendência. Basicamente, em vez de fazer &#8220;chover&#8221; matéria sobre os alunos, primeiro cria-se-lhes a necessidade; isto é, os alunos têm que resolver problemas que lhes façam sentir carências em matérias, comummente associadas a adjectivos como &#8220;chatas&#8221;, &#8220;inúteis&#8221; e/ou &#8220;difíceis&#8221;.<br />Este esforço tem sido aplicado&nbsp;em licenciaturas e&nbsp;em mestrados, com &ldquo;algum sucesso&rdquo;, recorrendo a videojogos: os alunos sentem-se motivados pela vertente lúdica do videojogo e estudam com prazer matérias sem as quais o videojogo não poderia ser concebido, como lógica para inteligência artificial, álgebra para gráficos e física para a credibilidade nos movimentos.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Depois do intervalo &ldquo;para café&rdquo;, falou <strong>António Bob Santos</strong>, da CNEL (Coordenação Nacional da Estratégia de Lisboa), ou seja a entidade coordenadora do &ldquo;<a href="http://www.i-gov.org/">Plano Tecnológico</a>&rdquo; para Portugal.</p>
<p>Foi uma apresentação em que o MICrofone não funcionou, prejudicada por algum bla bla de fundo. O tema era de grande interesse: uma aferição de Portugal, em termos de qualificações escolares, relativamente a outros países da Europa, recorrendo a gráficos da UE (União Europeia) a 15 e, outras vezes, a gráficos da UE &laquo;alargada&raquo;.</p>
<p>Para além das qualificações, a aferição abrangeu assuntos relacionáveis, como a penetração da Internet de banda larga.</p>
<p>Sobre estas matérias de Economia do Conhecimento e de Políticas Públicas de Comunicações, este site publica os seguintes recursos:</p>
<p><a href="http://arturmarques.com/edu/em1/docs/em1_02_internet_e_economia_do_conhecimento.pdf">Internet e Economia do Conhecimento</a></p>
<p><a href="http://arturmarques.com/old_news/2003/news_29_january_2003.htm#tplana">Tarifa Plana</a></p>
<p>Os estudos apresentados parecem sugerir uma divergência entre o diagnóstico e a acção: em Portugal, desce o investimento público em educação superior, principalmente quando os cursos têm menos procura. Como muitos cursos com pouca procura são cursos tecnológicos, isto significa uma admissão de &ldquo;é importante qualificarmos a população para a Economia da Informação&rdquo;, mas uma decisão de &ldquo;não há dinheiro para cursos tecnológicos, se não tiverem procura&rdquo;&hellip;</p>
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<td valign="top"><img alt="FCT-UNL - Pedro Guerreiro" src="http://arturmarques.com/images/blog/fct_pedro_guerreiro.jpg" border="0" />&nbsp;</td>
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<p>Por fim, falou o&nbsp;professor <strong>Pedro Guerreiro</strong>, da FCT-UNL (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia &ndash; Universidade Nova de Lisboa).<br />Reconhecido como uma pessoa estimulante, sempre esforçada em motivar a audiência, Pedro Guerreiro conversou sobre boas práticas pedagógicas, no ensino de disciplinas como Programação, Fundamentos de Programação e afins.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Algumas das suas sugestões passam pelo (1) recurso a ferramentas como <a href="http://moodle.com/">Moodle</a>&nbsp;(um Course Management System), para a criação de uma comunidade escolar online, e&nbsp;(2) <a href="http://mooshak.dei.uc.pt/~mooshakdei/">Mooshack</a>&nbsp;(um classificador automático de programas de computador, como certos ou errados, em função das saídas que escrevem para ficheiro, relativamente a um ficheiro de respostas certas).</p>
<p>Também foi recomendada a participação em concursos de programação e apresentado um ranking dos &ldquo;melhores programadores&rdquo;, dominado por pessoas de países como Polónia e Rússia&hellip;</p>
<p>Não foi discutido o que é um &ldquo;bom programador&rdquo;.</p>
<p>&nbsp;João Oliveira&nbsp;encerraria&nbsp;a sessão, com agradecimentos aos oradores e à assistência.</p>
<p>Foi proveitoso.</p>
<p>Os slides utilizados por cada um dos oradores deverão&nbsp;ser&nbsp;publicados no <a href="http://www.iteach.pt/">ITeach.pt</a>.</p>
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