Douglas Yeung at Scientific American: “The conversation about unconscious bias in artificial intelligence often focuses on algorithms that unintentionally cause disproportionate harm to entire swaths of society—those that wrongly predict black defendants will commit future crimes, for example, or facial-recognition technologies developed mainly by using photos of white men that do a poor job of identifying women and people with darker skin.
Builders, creators, inventors, and tinkerers – we can start to connect half the world. Meet us at Mozfest.
Around 3.5 billion people do not have Internet access, many of them living in remote locations. How can they share the benefits of this amazing resource?
Tackling the digital divide is not easy, but everyone can help. Community networks are a great way to get involved.
Paper by Carla Hamida and Amanda Landi: “Recently, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg was on trial for the misuse of personal data. In 2013, the National Security Agency was exposed by Edward Snowden for invading the privacy of inhabitants of the United States by examining personal data. We see in the news examples, like the two just described, of government agencies and private companies being less than truthful about their use of our data.
Dan Kopf at Quartz: “The poetically named “random forest” is one of data science’s most-loved prediction algorithms. Developed primarily by statistician Leo Breiman in the 1990s, the random forest is cherished for its simplicity. Though it is not always the most accurate prediction method for a given problem, it holds a special place in machine learning because even those new to data science can implement and understand this powerful algorithm.
Honigbienen bilden Gesellschaften, in denen tausende von Bienen als eine Einheit funktionieren. Arbeiter in Bienen-Gesellschaften engagieren sich in verschiedenen Aufgaben, kooperieren und kommunizieren bei der Ausübung ihrer Arbeit, genau wie Menschen in menschlichen Gesellschaften. Durch ihre gemeinsame Anstrengung entstehen neue Verhaltenseigenschaften, die die Fähigkeiten einzelner Arbeiterbienen weit übersteigen. Sie verteidigen kollektiv ihre Kolonien und nutzen effizient Nahrungsquellen durch ausgeklügelte Kommunikationssysteme, wie z.B. ihre "Tanzsprache".
Blog by Federico Ast at Thomson Reuters: “Human communities of every era have had to solve the problem of social order. For this, they developed governance and legal systems. They did it with the technologies and systems of belief of their time….
Reposted from the , the programme features interview with our colleague and Platform Cooperativism co-originator Nathan Schneider, as well as political scientist and author Virginia Eubanks
Book by Ann Mei Chang: “As we know all too well, the pace of progress is falling far short of both the desperate needs in the world and the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals. Today, it’s hard to find anyone who disputes the need for innovation for global development.
Paper by Jane Lawrence Sumner, Emily M. Farris, and Mirya R. Holman: “The adage “All politics is local” in the United States is largely true. Of the United States’ 90,106 governments, 99.9% are local governments. Despite variations in institutional features, descriptive representation, and policy making power, political scientists have been slow to take advantage of these variations.
Jean-François Bonnefon, Iyad Rahwan et al in Nature: “With the rapid development of artificial intelligence have come concerns about how machines will make moral decisions, and the major challenge of quantifying societal expectations about the ethical principles that should guide machine behaviour. To address this challenge, we deployed the Moral Machine, an online experimental platform designed to explore the moral dilemmas faced by autonomous vehicles.
“Figshare’s annual report, The State of Open Data 2018, looks at global attitudes towards open data. It includes survey results of researchers and a collection of articles from industry experts, as well as a foreword from Ross Wilkinson, Director, Global Strategy at Australian Research Data Commons. The report is the third in the series and the survey results continue to show encouraging progress that open data is becoming more embedded in the research community.
“I don’t believe in borders, I don’t like flags, I have no boundaries.
My only homeland: friendship, love and justice for all.”
Dedicated to the memory of
Myra Landau (1926–2018)
This blog was written by James McKinney, Oscar Montiel and Ana Brandusescu
For the second time in history, the International Open Data Conference (IODC) opened a space for us to talk about #openwashing. The insights from IODC16 have been brilliantly summarised by Ana Brandusescu, also a host of this year’s session.
Shifts in our communication infrastructures have reshaped the very possibilities of social order driven by markets and commercial exploitation. Some people even regard this as a new form of capitalism. Focused on data extraction rather than the production of new goods, “surveillance capitalism” generates intense concentrations of power over extraction and threatens core values such…
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Cerca de 4.000 personas asistieron el sábado 13 de octubre a la primera de las dos jornadas de la XII Fiesta de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, organizada por el PAR Explora de CONICYT Región Metropolitana Sur Oriente.
La iniciativa de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) es la actividad de difusión científica más grande de la Casa de Bello, y contará en esta oportunidad con más de 70 charlas magistrales, exhibiciones temáticas y stands de las carreras de ingeniería y ciencia que se imparten en dicha unidad académica.El campus Beauchef se prepara para abrir sus puertas este 18, 19 y 20 de octubre para mostrar la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación que allí desarrollan, en el IV Festival de Ingeniería y Ciencias de la Facultad de Ciencia
La representante de la Oficina de Educación Internacional y Becas del plantel danés conoció esta semana la Universidad de Chile en el marco del Programa Erasmus+ de la Unión Europea, que considera movilidad de funcionarios, estudiantes y profesores.
The European Parliament recently took the final vote on the new Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). The text, which can be considered final, now awaits only the formal approval of the Council. The AVMSD will become the first legally binding instrument to impose new, and extensive, responsibilities for content regulation on privately owned Internet platforms. They are required to establish and apply detailed rules in areas such as hate speech, child pornography, protection of children’s development and preventing terrorism.
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Heidi J. Larson at Nature: “A hundred years ago this month, the death rate from the 1918 influenza was at its peak. An estimated 500 million people were infected over the course of the pandemic; between 50 million and 100 million died, around 3% of the global population at the time.
Nicholas Carr’s blog: “A few years ago, the technology critic Michael Sacasas introduced the term “Borg Complex” to describe the attitude and rhetoric of modern-day utopians who believe that computer technology is an unstoppable force for good and that anyone who resists or even looks critically at the expanding hegemony of the digital is a benighted fool.