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CSUSB professor co-authors paper, ‘Introduction of progress in education under recent technology revolution’
Mobile Networks and Applications
Feb. 5,2021
Qingquan Sun, a CSUSB associate professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, co-authored a paper about the new technology revolution bringing “fast progress for pedagogy. The popularization of cloud computing, edge computing and 5G network provides a new opportunity for the development of mobile education, which makes the lifelong education and fragmented education possible.”
Listed with Sun as authors are Chengyan Li of the School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, China; and Xin Gao of the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Read the complete article at “Introduction of progress in education under recent technology revolution.”
CSUSB professor comments on what may cripple right-wing extremist groups
Bloomberg
Feb. 5, 2021
An article about federal investigators gathering evidence against right-wing extremist groups indicating that they planned for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol included comments by Brian Levin, who runs the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
Reuters reported on Wednesday that U.S. prosecutors are weighing charges against members of far-right groups under a federal law usually reserved for organized-crime cases, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. “You can decapitate these groups in a variety of ways,” Levin said. “Nobody wants to be a member of a group that’s under investigation.”
In Congress, lawmakers are debating possible legislation to address those ideologically motivated attacks, including a new domestic terrorism law that would direct more resources toward investigations of militia groups and other threats. But even a vigorous domestic-terrorism prosecution targeting the leadership of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers would be unlikely to curb right-wing extremism in the U.S.
“We are going to see a reduction in activities of some of these larger, over-the-top groups, and unfortunately see an increase in activities of more fragmented loners, duos and cells who dine from a buffet of grievance and anger,” said Levin. “The threat is not the groups. The threat is the significant divisions and pressure that exist in this country.”
Read the complete article at “Proud Boys’ plotting emerges as U.S. paints picture of riot plan.”
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