Academic literature on the topic 'Technologie – Société – Cuba'

Scientific production is one of the indicators of relevance to measure the efficiency in the institutional environment, which implies a development conditioned in all the sectors from the society to world level. In the same way, the technologies of the information (TI) represent a decisive element for their administration which has experienced a constant growth during the last decades similar to the consolidation of the university studies in the different areas of the knowledge and study modalities. The following article makes a reflection on the base of the concepts and tendencies of the scientific investigation and its linking with the technologies of the information. The production of the investigation was characterized in the countries of Ecuador, Cuba and Colombia, as well as the existent relationship among the investment in technologies of the information and the institutional productivity, which was performed with the analysis of bibliometric indicatives. As a result, it was set down the bases for the theoretical-practical deeping of the investigation. Also, it was verified that the investment in IT focused in articles and scientific magazines, contribute to a better knowledge in academic institutions and that the three countries develop policies to motivate this activity, being Colombia the one with more production in the last ten years, as well as the one that has had bigger expense in IT as percentage of the GDP, which is carried out mainly by the government; although the administration of the knowledge has a transcendental impact for the economic and social development of any country.

La educación a distancia en la era de las TIC. Una visión desde los docentes de una carrera técnica de perfil agropecuario AUTORES: Gemma Domínguez Calvo[1] Annia García Pereira[2] Alexis Torres Alfonso[3] Alexander López Padrón[4] DIRECCIÓN PARA CORRESPONDENCIA: gemma@unah.edu.cu Fecha de recepción: dr - mr - Fecha de aceptación: da - ma - RESUMEN La virtualización de la enseñanza como uno de los principales objetivos en la Agenda 2030 para la educación y el desarrollo implica un cambio de paradigma hacia un proceso de formación y gestión universitaria sustentado en el uso de las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC). El objetivo de la presente investigación fue evaluar la evolución de la EaD en Cuba y la percepción de los docentes para implementar la modalidad en una Carrera Técnica Agropecuaria en este caso la Ingeniería en Procesos Agroindustriales. Para ello se realizó el análisis histórico del surgimiento de la EaD, mientras que auxiliados de otros métodos teóricos y empíricos se estableció su desarrollo teniendo en cuenta la evolución de los recursos tecnológicos como medio para establecer la comunicación e interrelación y las características de los recursos educativos. Con tal propósito, en el contexto cubano y para la formación de ingenieros en Procesos Agroindustriales, se realizó una investigación de tipo descriptiva, con el empleo de la escala de actitud de Osgood y una encuesta para docentes. Los resultados alcanzados evidenciaron que, aunque la sociedad cubana da pasos agigantados en el uso de las TIC no es aprovechada al máximo sus potencialidades en los procesos formativos, reflejándose en la indeterminación de los docentes ante la modalidad a distancia para una carrera técnica, al tiempo que reconocen las potencialidades del empleo de las TIC para los procesos de formación. Palabras Clave: educación a distancia; tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones; ubicuidad. Distance education in the ICT era. A view from the teachers of a technical career with an agricultural profile ABSTRACT The virtualization of education as one of the main objectives in the 2030 Agenda for education and development implies a paradigm shift towards a university training and management process based on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The objective of this research was to evaluate the evolution of distance education (E@D) in Cuba and the perception of teachers to implement the modality in an Agricultural Technical Career, in this case Engineering in Agroindustrial Processes. For this, the historical analysis of the emergence of E@D was carried out, while aided by other theoretical and empirical methods, its development was established taking into account the evolution of technological resources as a means to establish communication and interrelation and the characteristics of educational resources. For this purpose, in the Cuban context and for the training of engineers in Agroindustrial Processes, a descriptive investigation was carried out, using the Osgood attitude scale and a survey for teachers. The results achieved, showed that although Cuban society takes giant steps in the use of ICTs, its potentialities are not fully exploited in the training processes, reflecting in the indeterminacy of teachers before the distance modality for a technical career, at the same time that recognize the potential of the use of ICT for training processes KEYWORDS: long distance education; Information technology and communications; ubiquity. [1] Ingeniero en Mecanización Agropecuaria, Máster en: Sistemas de Ingeniería Agrícola. Responsabilidades académicas. Universidad Agraria de la Habana. Cuba. ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5591-1387 [2] Ingeniero en Mecanización Agropecuaria, Doctor en Ciencias en Ingeniería Agrícola y Biosistemas. Profesora Titular. Universidad Agraria de LA Habana, Cuba. E-mail: annia@unah.edu.cu ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3420-1113 [3] Licenciado en Educación. Doctor en Ciencias de la Educación. Profesos Titular. Universidad Agraria de La Habana, Cuba. E-mail: alexist@unah.edu.cu ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3043-901X [4] Doctor en Medicina Veterinaria. Doctor en Ciencias Pedagógicas. Postdoctorado en Teoría y Métodos Educativos. Profesor Tiempo Completo Principal del Instituto de Posgrado de la Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador. E-mail: alexander.lopez@utm.edu.ec ORCID iD http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1032-7758

Although the social inclusion of boys and girls with disabilities has methodological, academic and even legal requirements, well-defi ned demands for Cuban society, they manifest themselves in their local leaders, and social representations that impede the process. The use of new information technologies in a training strategy in this regard is a valuable alternative and constitutes the relevance of this research. The general objective of this research is to demonstrate the opportunity and relevance of the use of new technologies in the development of a training strategy that contributes to the empowerment on social inclusion of boys and girls with disabilities in local leaders of Cuban community. It constitutes a qualitative research of the action - research type supported by theoretical, historical, logical, analytical, synthetic, inductive, deductive, systemic, structural, and modeling methods as well as those of the empirical level such as observation, ethnographic survey, consultations with specialists, and discussion group. As a population,  local leaders were selected in charge of contributing to the social inclusion of boys and girls with disabilities. As a result, a training strategy emerges that, based on the advantages of the use of new technologies, makes it possible for each action not only to transform reality, but also to get the protagonists involved. Its fl exible and cyclical nature allowed adaptability in the process and the possibility to incorporate other knowledge. By way of conclusions, it was determined that the strategy is a valuable tool in the face of current demands for the elimination of gaps and inequities from the community context. From the perspectives of the theory of social representations, it guarantees a new way of projecting the training of change managers towards the social inclusion of girls and boys with disabilities.

The progress of scientific-technical progress constitutes one of the most influential factors in contemporary society, its proper use contributes to the development of learning systems in accordance with the educational needs of learners, since education, by its very essence, constitutes a social process. In this context, inescapable projects integrate the English language as an instrument of communication, as well as the appropriate use of technologies such as access and information processing. This work aims to assess the social impact of scientific-technological development in teaching English at the current Cuban university.

Abstract: Datamining is a method of finding interested patterns from huge volume of data. Datamining techniques helps to make business decisions. It analyses information from multiple sources like DataMart, databases. In this paper, we are focussing on datamining tasks and its variety of applications in different fields, which is boon to the society. Keywords: KDD, Decision Tree, OLAP servers, Cube API, ODBC, Frequent patterns

In recent years, Earth observation (EO) satellites have generated big amounts of geospatial data that are freely available for society and researchers. This scenario brings challenges for traditional spatial data infrastructures (SDI) to properly store, process, disseminate and analyze these big data sets. To meet these demands, novel technologies have been proposed and developed, based on cloud computing and distributed systems, such as array database systems, MapReduce systems and web services to access and process big Earth observation data. Currently, these technologies have been integrated into cutting edge platforms in order to support a new generation of SDI for big Earth observation data. This paper presents an overview of seven platforms for big Earth observation data management and analysis—Google Earth Engine (GEE), Sentinel Hub, Open Data Cube (ODC), System for Earth Observation Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Monitoring (SEPAL), openEO, JEODPP, and pipsCloud. We also provide a comparison of these platforms according to criteria that represent capabilities of the EO community interest.

This article deals with the issue of updating the principles of creation of e-textbooks via graphical interface. The close attention has to be paid to the transformation of the modern society where the new generation of people uses computers, smartphones and tablets not only as working tools but as the means of discovering the world as well. Therefore the graphical interface is considered the code of understanding the information environment. It is emphasised that the spread of information technologies and information transmission and processing methods have become an integral element of human thinking and perception of the world. Getting most of their information through the Internet modern people perceive process and memorize it according to the principles of the interface and programming languages. In this regard graphical interface is seen as the fundamental of the e-textbook visualization. The article presents the model description of the e-textbook “History of Ukraine” visualized as the cube. Each tier in this cube describes the cultural stratum of the epoch and shows the general dynamics of historical development. Each plane in this cube analyses the content of each problem. Studying every part, students open consistently the horizontal cube stratums and see the topics of the epoch represented by the graphical interface device. Every topic contains visualized scheme with hyperactive dates and surnames with zero traditional text with hyperlinks. The advantage of such e-textbook structure is to rise student cognitive activity due to the new principles of the educational material visualization. The e-textbook interface is intuitive; it can be updated and used to get the insight into selected topics and questions. It has means to activate the resources of human higher nervous system taking into account the individual features of students and topics they are studying. Attention is drawn to the fact that scientific progress has been made possible largely thanks to the improvement of semiotics, that is, the development of our language, especially those of its branches, as the language of symbolic logic, rather than by improving brain function.

The left and right, democratic, hybrid, and authoritarian systems, consolidated and unconsolidated democracies, rising giant-states and underdeveloped economies coexist in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean, which covers more than three dozen states that share common historical destiny, language, and religion. This makes the region a fertile ground for studying various types of regimes, political processes and alternative development paths in the modern world, as vividly demonstrated by the collective monograph “Latin America: Political Landscape in the Midst of Turbulence”, published at the end of 2022. Based on a thorough analysis of the situation in the region, the authors of the monograph show that political life in Latin America is characterized by instability and constant reshaping of the political landscape. The strengthening of the positions of right-wing forces replaced the left turn of the 2000s, and since the beginning of the 2020s, the continent has again drifted to the left. The authors pay special attention to the following factors of turbulence in the development of the region: a natural-resource-based economy in most Latin American countries, poor quality of governance, a decline in trust in political institutions caused by regular corruption scandals, the criminalization of society, the increase in drug trafficking and violence, and the inability of law enforcement agencies to ensure citizens’ safety. Several chapters of the monograph are devoted to the varieties of regimes of the “21st century socialism” that exist in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, as well as to the oldest socialist regime on the continent in Cuba. According to the reviewer’s conclusion, with the publication of this monograph the readers received valuable work that allows them to better comprehend the essence of the complex political processes that take place in Latin America today.

Cette thèse s’attache à comprendre les processus de résilience dans le domaine technique à Cuba. Cette culture s’est nourrie grâce aux éléments superstructurels liés à l’idéologie révolutionnaire, mais elle est également tributaire d’une histoire de différentes ruptures techniques. J’ai identifié des tactiques mises en place pour permettre que la vie quotidienne puisse continuer et je les ai désignées par le concept de «technocontestations ». La genèse de ces pratiques est à comprendre d’une part sur une échelle macro, en analysant stratégies étatiques de lutte contre l’impérialisme et, d’autre part, par le bas, en m’intéressant aux tactiques populaires dans la vie quotidienne dont l’origine à trouver dans une forme de mètis bien plus ancienne.La dialectique entre ces deux échelles, macro et micro, m’a semblé le point de départ pour penser un régime de contestation dans la sphère technique. Je postule, aux côtés de Jacques Ellul et d’Andrew Feenberg, que la sphère technique constitue un espace de plus en plus autonome et que l’étude des outils et des objets permet d’avoir une prise sur des pratiques contestataires du Système technicien. M’attacher à observer les appropriations, les réparations et les réappropriations, sont autant d’éléments à prendre en compte pour comprendre ce registre de lutte et les modalités de résistance et comment celles-ci peuvent s’exportent dans d’autres domaines
This dissertation aims to understand the processes of resilience in the technical field in Cuba. I postulate that a specific technical culture has been forged. This culture was fostered by the superstructural elements linked to revolutionary ideology, but it is also dependent on a history of various technical breakthroughs (i.e the change in technical standards with the mass arrival of Soviet aircraft, material shortages linked to the restrictions of the Bloqueo on the transport of products and spare parts to repair the existing fleet and the sudden disappearance of Soviet factories and objects and spare parts produced, etc.). I have identified tactics put in to ensure that daily life can continue and I have referred to them as "technocontestations". The genesis of these practices is to be understood on a macro scale, by analyzing state strategies to fight imperialism on the one hand, and on the other hand, from below, by looking at popular tactics in everyday life whose origin can be found in a much more ancient form of mètis. The dialectic between these two scales, macro and micro, seemed to me to be the starting point for thinking about a regime of contestation in the technical sphere. I postulate, alongside Jacques Ellul and Andrew Feenberg, that the technical sphere constitutes an increasingly autonomous space and that the study of tools and objects allows us to have a grip on the contesting practices of the Technician System. Focusing on observing appropriations, repairs and reappropriations are all elements to be taken into account in order to understand this register of struggle and the modalities of resistance and how these can be exported to other fields

Esta tese é uma Análise Dialógica do Discurso (ADD), de perspectiva bakhtiniana, a cerca dos discursos sobre o trabalho, na obra Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, de Machado de Assis, publicada em 1881. A investigação constitui-se como parte integrante do projeto de pesquisa “A formalização discursiva do universo do trabalho e da tecnologia em textos literários” e das discussões do grupo de pesquisa “Discurso sobre Tecnologia, Trabalho e Identidades Nacionais”, inserido na Linha de pesquisa Tecnologia e Trabalho, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Tecnologia e Sociedade, da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, de viés interdisciplinar. Inicialmente apresentamos alguns discursos sobre o trabalho como atividade assalariada ou não, desde o século XIX: as vozes marxianas, de Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels e Paul Lafargue, seguidos de György Lukács, Herbert Marcuse, André Gorz, Richard Sennett, Christophe Dejours, Zigmund Baumann, Ricardo Antunes e Danièle Linhart, autores contemporâneos. A análise dialógica seguiu a linha teórica de Bakhtin e o Círculo: dialogicidade, alteridade, o signo ideológico, a intersubjetividade, o plurilinguismo, o gênero romanesco e a enunciação. Traçamos um perfil das relações de trabalho no Brasil oitocentista, dialogando sobre a História com autores como Boris Fausto, Sidney Chalhoub, Maria Sylvia C. França, Gilberto Freyre, Sergio B. de Holanda entre outros. Quanto ao horizonte social e cultural do autor fluminense, sua biografia e sua fortuna crítica, dialogaram críticos como Antonio Candido, Roberto Schwarz, entre outros. Objetivou-se trazer para análise, a partir da ideologia do cotidiano formalizada no romance, os diálogos, as contradições e os embates que ocorrem entre os discursos, como também perceber a positividade, a danação ou a negação do trabalho a partir da linguagem, na forma arquitetônica irônica do autor e nos elementos composicionais pertinentes ao romance, como as construções híbridas, a alternância de estilos e tons, a resposta antecipada, o riso reduzido e a sátira menipeia. A perspectiva metodológica da ADD conduziu a um corpus composto por três dimensões discursivas, que compõem a enunciação machadiana sobre o trabalho: o discurso do favor representado pela personagem Dona Plácida; o discurso da escravidão representado pela personagem Prudêncio e o discurso do trabalho imaterial ou do não-trabalho, representado pelas personagens Brás Cubas e Quincas Borba. Chegou-se às seguintes conclusões: a linguagem machadiana discursa veementemente sobre o trabalho no século XIX. Sua enunciação transita entre positivá-lo ou negativá-lo, reforçando a distinção entre trabalho material e trabalho imaterial. As atividades imateriais são vistas como positivas pela elite, porque, além de redundarem em não-trabalho, representam prestígio e ascensão. O escravo exercia a maior parte do trabalho e o agregado cumpria um papel de mediador, já que não pertencia a ninguém, mas precisava encontrar formas de sustentar-se. No discurso machadiano, o trabalho não é ontológico; ele é forma de sobrevivência, inclusive de um discurso, que mantém uma ordem social.
This thesis is a Dialogical Discourse Analysis (DDA), from Bakhtin’s perspective, about the discourses on work, in Machado de Assis’ work Posthumous Memories of Brás Cubas, published in 1881. The investigation was an integral part of the research project “The discursive formalization of the universe of work and technology in literary texts” and the discussions of the research group “Discourse on Technology, Work and National Identities”, inserted in the research line Technology and Work, of the Post-Graduate Program in Technology and Society, at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná, of an interdisciplinary bias. Initially we presented some discourses about work as an employed activity or not, since the nineteenth century: Marx’s voices, by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Paul Lafargue, followed by György Lukács, Herbert Marcuse, André Gorz, Richard Sennett, Christophe Dejours, Zigmund Baumann, Ricardo Antunes and Danièle Linhart, contemporary authors. The dialogical analysis followed the theoretical line of Bakhtin and the Circle: dialogicity, alterity, ideological sign, intersubjetivity, plurilingualism, romanesque genre and enunciation. We drew a profile of labor relationships in nineteenth-century Brazil, discussing history with authors such as Boris Fausto, Sidney Chalhoub, Maria Sylvia C. França, Gilberto Freyre, Sergio B. de Holanda, among others. As for the social and cultural horizon of the author from Rio de Janeiro, his biography and his critical fortune, there were dialogues among critics such as Antonio Candido, Roberto Schwarz, among others. The objective was to bring for analysis, from the ideology of everyday life formalized in the novel, the dialogues, the contradictions and the clashes that occur among the discourses, as well as to perceive the positivity, the damnation or the denial of the work from the language, in the author’s ironic architectural form and in the compositional elements pertinent to the novel, such as hybrid constructions, alternating styles and tones, the early response, reduced laughter and the menipeaen satire. The methodological perspective of DDA led to a corpus composed by three discursive dimensions, is composed of Machado de Assis´s enunciation on work: the discourse of ‘favor’ represented by the character Dona Plácida; the discourse of ‘slavery’ represented by the character Prudêncio and the discourse of ‘immaterial work’ or ‘non-work’, represented by the characters Brás Cubas and Quincas Borba. The following conclusions were reached: Machado’s language vehemently discourses on work in the nineteenth century. Its enunciation transits between positivizing it or denying it, reinforcing the distinction between material work and immaterial work. The immaterial activities are seen as positive by the elite, because, besides being redundant in non-work, they represent prestige and ascension. The slave practiced most of the work and the aggregate played the role of mediator, since it belonged to no one, but he needed to find ways to support himself. In Machado’s discourse, work is not ontological; it is a form of survival, including a discourse, which maintains a social order.

Handmade in Cuba is an in-depth examination of Ediciones Vigía, an artisanal press that published exquisite books crafted from everyday supplies during some of Cuba’s most dire economic periods. Vividly illustrated, this volume shows how the publishing collective responded to the nation’s changing historical and political situation from the margins of society, representing Cuban culture across the boundaries of race, age, gender, and genre. In this volume, poets and scholars reflect on the unique artistic work of Rolando Estévez, who oversaw the creation of over 500 handmade books and magazines between 1985 and 2014. They highlight the beautiful designs and unusual materials selected, including fabric, metals, wood, feathers, and discarded items. Through diverse perspectives, including an interview with Estévez himself, the essays showcase the unlimited inventive possibilities of books as objects, as sculptural pieces, and as installations. Even in the age of digital technology, Estévez generated enormous excitement and admiration for these hand-crafted books, and this volume offers the first inside view of this important alternative publishing space.

This chapter explores the perceptions of technology held by professionals in two distinctly different districts in the Midwest. Drawing upon Deanna Bogdan's work with the gap and continuum theories, as well as the influential work of Marshall McLuhan, the authors identify how the perceptions surrounding student behavior, technology, and schools' roles in society shape districts' approaches to technology access and use. Underlying all the decisions about technology access is the perception of the school's role in society. In an educational environment that has traditionally defined teachers as gatekeepers of information, technology can provide an interesting dilemma. Positioning technology as an issue of literacy may open a path that makes it easier for schools to travel (Cuban, 2001; Demetriadis, et al., 2003; Leu, O'Byrne, Zawilinski, McVerry, & Everett-Cacopardo, 2009). In doing so, teachers can provide students with navigational tools that will guide them toward success in the ever-changing, globally connected world.

Abstract Nanoscience is about the phenomena that occur in systems with nanometer dimensions. Some of the unique aspects of nanosystems arise solely from the tiny size of the systems. Nano is about as small as it gets in the world of regular chemistry, materials science, and biology. The diameter of a hydrogen atom is about one-tenth of a nanometer, so the nanometer scale is the very smallest scale on which we might consider building machines on the basis of the principles we learn from everyday mechanics, using the 1000 or so hydrogen atoms we could pack into a cube of size 1 nm 1 nm 1 nm. If this is all that there was to nanoscience, it would still be remarkable because of the incredible difference in scale between the nano world and the regular macroscopic world around us. In 1959, Richard Feynman gave a talk to the American Physical Society in which he laid out some of the consequences of measuring and manipulating materials at the nanoscale. This talk, “There is plenty of room at the bottom,” is reproduced in its entirety in Appendix B. It does a far better job than ever I could of laying out the consequences of a technology that allows us to carry out routine manipulations of materials at the nanoscale and if you have not already read it, you should interrupt this introduction to read it now.

Ground-bound transport systems in major cities are increasingly encountering their limits. Vertical Take-Off and Landing systems, in short VTOL systems, possibly autonomous and electrified, are a promising way to utilize urban space for public transportation. In this context, the application of the Compositional Unified system-Based Engineering (CUBE) methodology, enables the use of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to develop suitable VTOLs. This methodology can be used to move from abstract artifacts to concrete architecture and from system to subsystem development. In this paper, the CUBE methodology is presented using a feature-driven specification to demonstrate its general applicability. The model-based description of the System of Interest (SoI, i.e., the VTOL system) from an abstract use case to a technical architecture is exemplified using three features. This methodology approaches the creation of system- and feature-based models with a tailored level of abstraction to better manage complexity.

The development of information and communication technologies is the dominant factor for the sustainable development of society. Problems of information security are of fundamental importance for the society. To achieve the required levels of security of the information a highly qualified personnel is needed. In this regard increased attention is paid to the training of specialists in this field, based on the continuous improvement of the educational process. The paper presents one of the classical ciphers in cryptography, the trifid cipher, a type of cipher that was used historically but now has fallen into disuse. Most classical ciphers can be practically computed and solved by hand. They are also usually very simple to break with modern technologies. In classical cryptography, the trifid cipher extends the concept of the bifid cipher to a third dimension, allowing each symbol to be fractionated into three elements instead of two. The trifid cipher turns them into coordinates on a 3×3×3 cube. As with the bifid cipher, this is then combined with transposition to achieve a higher degree of diffusion because each output symbol depends on three input symbols instead of two. Thus the trifid cipher was the first practical trigraphic substitution. The paper describes a modified algorithm for implementing the trifid cipher where 64-symbol alphabet (Latin letters, decimal digits and punctuation signs) is used and each symbol is fractionated into three elements turned into coordinates on a 4×4×4 cube. The paper presents MATLAB-based software tool implementing encryption and decryption of English texts using the trifid cipher and 64-symbol alphabet. The tool will be used in the course “Telecommunication Security” by students of the specialty “Telecommunication Systems” for the Bachelor degree at the University of Ruse.

One major problem of big cities is the congested traffic situation and the noise pollution generated by the traffic participants, i.e., cars, busses, and trams. Those ground-bound transport systems are already reaching their limits. The use of aerial taxi services has the potential to use the third, vertical dimension. Vertical take-off and landing systems, shortened to VTOL systems, possibly autonomous and electrified, with low noise emission and little ground space requirements are preferred. Applying an MBSE-based approach like our methodology called 'Compositional Unified system-Based Engineering', in short CUBE, enables to control the complexity of the challenge to develop appropriate VTOLs. This methodology has already proven itself in the automotive industry and its system development processes. In this paper the CUBE methodology will be transferred to the aerospace system development process to demonstrate its general usability. The fully systematical and model-based description of the System of Systems (SoS, meaning urban infrastructure here) is used to condense the requirements for the System of Interest (SoI, meaning VTOL) regarding many possibilities and limitations. This concept is a promising approach to create system-based and model-based specifications of requirements for the VTOL systems, which later shall operate seamlessly as part of the SoS.

Oil and Gas companies keep exploring every new possible method to increase the likelihood of finding a commercial hydrocarbon bearing prospect. Well logging generates gigabytes of data from various probes and sensors. After processing, a prospective reservoir will indicate areas of oil, gas, water and reservoir rock. Incorporating High Performance Computing (HPC) methodologies will allow for thousands of potential wells to be indicative of its hydrocarbon bearing potential. This study will present the use of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computing as another method of analyzing probable reserves. Raw well log data from the Kansas Geological Society (1999-2018) forms the basis of the data analysis. Parallel algorithms are developed and make use of Nvidia’s Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). The results gathered highlight a 5 times speedup using a Nvidia GeForce GT 330M GPU as compared to an Intel Core i7 740QM Central Processing Unit (CPU). The processed results display depth wise areas of shale and rock formations as well as water, oil and/or gas reserves.

The evolution of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their integration in the education lead to specific changes both in the pre-service and in-service teachers’ training programs curricula developed during the last decades in Romanian universities. ICT in education is seen both as a necessity, since universities need to have well trained graduates integrated in the society and on the job market, and as an opportunity because it gives students access to significant resources at very low costs of time and money. Initial teacher training for Romania primary teachers is nowadays accomplished by a three years program at the university. Starting with an analyze of the ICT student teacher training policies developed during the last two decades in several European countries, this article will discuss the main measures taken by the Romanian universities in order to integrate information and communication technologies in education and will present the results of a study which aimed to analyze student teachers’ attitude regarding ICT use in education and their opinion regarding ICT access at resources in the faculty where they are enrolled. Involving 60 students from the Pedagogy of Preschool and Primary School from two Romanian universities, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi and “Ştefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, our study also captures the main difficulties encountered by students when using ICT.In the end, we will discuss several implications of the results of this study on the specific information and communication technologies teacher training policies and strategies developed in the Romanian universities.