Freud's theory of jokes explains how they overcome the mental "censors" that make it hard for us to think "forbidden" thoughts. But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense as for other comical subjects. In this essay…

Omega is a description system for knowledge embedding which incorporates some of the attractive modes of expression in common sense reasoning such as descriptions, inheritance, quantification, negation, attributions and multiple viewpoints. A formalization of Omega is developed as a framework…

The object oriented programming style used in the Smalltalk and Actor languages is available in Lisp Machine Lisp, and used by the Lisp Machine software system. It is used to perform generic operations on objects. Part of its implementation is…

This memo reports the results of a case study into how children learn in the absence of explicit teaching. The three subjects, an eight year old, a ten year old and a thirteen year old were observed in both of…

The goal of the commodity expert project was to develop a prototype program that would act as an intelligent assistant to a commodity market analyst. Since expert analysis must deal with very large, yet incomplete, data bases of unreliable facts…

The Didactics of Geography in the schools must leave traditional and obsolete elements that constitute the basis of the geographic knowledge at the present time. On the matter, the education of that discipline is in a deficient and limited situation…

This is an essay where an interpretation of applied research that is current in the System of Studies of Post grade of the University of Costa Rica (SEP) is exposed, for the final work of graduation in the professional masters'…

This article is descriptive-explanatory with a documentary approach. It outlines the main theories and approaches to the assessment of learning, in line with their time of appearance, and then set up a scenario for participative management in the classroom from…

Different programs that analyze the education of sciences like Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics look to explain the low interest of the student on those subjects. An explanation of this phenomenon is the methodological procedure that the teaching staff uses…

To think about education implies to think about social actors, scenes and contexts. Sexuality, education, the learning, the experience and the corporeality play a preponderant role in the formation of the citizen's conscience of the participation in a plural and…