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Journal
for
the Informatics Professional, and UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork).
UPGRADE is a technical, independent, non-commercial, and freely distributed electronic publication, promoted by CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), an organization that unites 36 Informatics Professional Societies from 32 European countries and is the voice of more than 200,000 ICT Professionals in our continent.
UPENET is the network of publications, paper or electronic, from CEPIS member societies. It has UPGRADE as its anchor point.
Comments, criticisms, suggestions are much welcome and should be sent to the Editorial Team of UPGRADE.
December 21, 2009: Latest news about UPGRADE and UPENET
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
The latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding to October 2009, is available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A
monograph entitled "Experiences and
Advances in Software Quality" which brings together a collection
of reflections and experiences from leading experts in the field of
software quality. The papers are grounded in both research and practice
delivering insights that summarize the state of the discipline while
describing avenues for improvement and placing new trends in the
context of improving quality in an organizational setting.
- UPENET
(UPGRADE European
NETwork) includes an article from Italian digital journal Mondo Digitale which presents
insightful and extraordinarily well-documented views on the famous
Turing test, an experiment proposed by the great British matematician
and logician Alan Mathison Turing aiming at determining whether a
machine (a computer) can think.
- CEPIS NEWS provides an update on
some of the projects that CEPIS and its member societies are currently
working on.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
November 2, 2009: Latest news about UPGRADE and UPENET
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- 4th
Edition of the
Novática Award presented
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
The latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding to August 2009, is available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A
monograph entitled "20 Years of CEPIS:
Informatics in Europe today and tomorrow" which, in honour of
the 20th anniversary of CEPIS, gathers contributions from throughout
greater Europe to highlight both the unity and the diversity of the IT
profession through regional perspectives and thematic areas such as
skills, professionalism and the current state of the ICT industry.
- UPENET
(UPGRADE European
NETwork) features an article from the Cypriot journal Pliroforiki which
synthesises the available literature and the recent trends in
contemporary Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning scholarship, and
an article from the Spanish journal Novática
which analyses the new WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Guidelines published by
the World Wide Web Consortium in December 2008
- CEPIS
NEWS presents a position paper from the ECDL Foundation
outlining why ICT infrastructure should be complemented by investment
in skills development.
4th Edition of the Novática Award presented
The 4th Edition of the Novática Award has been presented to the best article published in 2008 by Novática, journal of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática), publisher of UPGRADE, the digital journal of CEPIS.
From a final shortlist of five articles, the Jury, comprising the 50 editors of Novática's various technical sections, selected the winning one: "Integrating Web-Based and 3D Learning Environments: Second Life Meets Moodle", authored by Daniel Livingstone (United Kingdom) and Jeremy Kemp (USA). Daniel Livingstone is lecturer on Computer Game Technology at the University of the West of Scotland (formerly University of Paisley), United Kingdom, and Jeremy Kemp is faculty at San José State University School of Library and Information Science in California, USA, and a doctoral student at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
The authors describe the open source Sloodle project, which is working on integrating learning and teaching across Second Life and Moodle, a popular open source VLE. They review the history and current status of Sloodle, and present results from user surveys which highlight the benefits educators hope to reap from this integration.
The article was published in Novática issue 193 (May-June 2008), and UPGRADE, Vol. IX, issue no. 3 (June 2008).
For the Spanish version of the article click here, and for the English one click here.
Detailed information about the award can be found, in Spanish, by clicking here or contacting Llorenç Pagés-Casas, Chief Editor of Novática and UPGRADE, at novatica AT ati DOT es . The history of the Novática Award, in Spanish, can be traced back by clicking here.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
August 17, 2009: Latest news about UPGRADE and UPENET
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
The latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding to June 2009, is available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A
monograph entitled "Libre Software for
Enterprises" which describes how companies of all sizes working
in the ICT sector are defining their strategies regarding free/libre
software. It includes descriptive cases of how European companies use
and create free/libre software and, in particular, how they relate to
other players (other enterprises, volunteers and professionals) within
that scenario.
- UPENET
(UPGRADE European
NETwork) with an article from the Spanish journal Novática which presents
a case study of the implementation of the Global System of Mobile
Communication (GSM) in Nigeria. It shows how beneficial it is to
introduce such technologies in developing countries and provides some
insights into the problems these countries face in this industry
compared to those of the developed world.
- CEPIS
NEWS which includes an article by the ECDL Foundation that
discusses the importance of keeping skills at the centre of all capital
investment projects in these challenging times.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
To subscribe click here
and
follow the directions described.
July 2,
2009: Latest
news about UPGRADE
and UPENET
The latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding to April 2009, is available now at this website.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
To subscribe click here and follow the directions described.
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
The latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding to April 2009, is available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- An editorial article entitled titled "Social Networks - Problems of Security and Data Privacy Statement" which consists of a position paper from CEPIS on Social Networks.
- A monograph entitled "Geographic
Information Systems" which presents the so-called
"(Geo)Information
Society" in which GIS makes an invaluable contribution to the knowledge
of the environment
and the consequences of people's interactions with it, giving rise to a significant improvement in decision-making in many areas of human activity.
The guest editors of this monograph are Irene Compte-Lobera (Girona University, Spain), Monica Wachowicz (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) and Jordi Guimet (Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Spain).
- UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork) with an article from the Slovenian journal Informatica which aims to demonstrate how advances in information technologies in the last two decades have helped to improve stock market efficiency, and an article from the British magazine ITNOW which is intended to provide explanatory descriptions of cutting-edge concepts of High Performance Computing.
- CEPIS NEWS which provides an update on some of the projects that CEPIS and its member societies are currently working on.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
To subscribe click here and follow the directions described.
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
The latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding to February 2009, is available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A monograph
entitled “Universal, Ubiquitous and
Intelligent Web” which describes
how the most recent developments are focused on achieving the
three main goals stated by the World Wide Web founders and leaders:
universality, ubiquity and intelligence.
The guest
editors of that monograph are Klaus Birkenbihl (Operations Coordinator of the W3C's World Offices,
Germany), Encarna
Quesada-Ruiz (Pez de Babel, Spain), and Pablo
Priesca-Balbín (CTIC Foundation, Spain).
- UPENET
(UPGRADE European
NETwork), with an article from the Spanish journal Novática
which presents the new "European Computer Driving Licence - Health"
programme, launched in a pilot in Italy, the UK and the United States,
whose main purpose is the promotion of informatics
culture within health organizations.
- CEPIS
NEWS which provides an update on some of the projects that
CEPIS and its member societies are currently working on.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
- Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
- UPGRADE Newslist reminder
The latest issue of our open digital journal, corresponding to December 2008, is available now at this website.
It features the following sections:
- A monograph
entitled “New Trends in Network
Management” which describes present and
future solutions to be incorporated into networks to ensure a good
quality of service to users and applications. Winding up the monograph
is an interview with Radia Perlman (the "Mother of the Internet") whose
farsightedness on the issues addressed makes for a compulsory
reading.
The guest
editors of that monograph are Ramon Puigjaner-Trepat (Illes Balears University, Balearic Islands, Spain) and
Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada).
- UPENET
(UPGRADE European
NETwork), with an article from the German journal Informatik Spektrum
which presents how the model-driven architecture (MDA) paradigm is used
in the field of model-based software development and discusses some
issues that are still problematic and need to be dealt with carefully.
- CEPIS
NEWS which provides an update on some of the projects that
CEPIS and its member societies are currently working on.
UPGRADE Newslist reminder
We remind you of the existence of the UPGRADE Newslist, whose almost 2,000 subscribers come from all over the world, but mainly from Europe, and belong to academia, business and public administration.
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