Click Here Our guest for this episode is Vint Cerf, who is considered to be one of the fathers of the internet. Vint is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and currently serves as Google’s vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist – we’ll talk in this episode about how that title came to be. Vint has served […]
Inrupt, the startup founded by Web creator Tim Berners-Lee and technologist John Bruce has raised about $30 million in its Series A financing round reported TechCrunch The company has grown from research on its SOLiD platform which is attempting to “reshape the internet” by building a platform that gives users control of their data according […]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001216k Living With Artificial Intelligence. The lecturer, Stuart Russell of the University of California Berkeley, focuses on the benefits and the hazards of AI, and asks the central Web Science question of how we can control super-intelligent systems and ensure that they serve human purposes, especially in ethically complex areas such as defence and the […]
I was thrilled to be able to participate in the Future Worlds Challenge. On the very first day, I was nervous and excited because I did not know what to expect, but the cheerful and helpful Teachers put me at ease immediately and I was able to follow the class easily and learn the code. […]
Click Here Our guest for this episode is David Lazer, a Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. David is among the leading scholars in the world on misinformation, and he has also researched how we can use the web as a tool to improve our political system. He co-wrote […]
Notes In 2016, an MIT Graduate student gave a TEDx Talk in New York. Joy Buolamwini’s How I am fighting Algorithmic Bias, has been viewed by nearly 1.5 million people, and it later led to a journey of deeper discovery with other researchers and filmmaker Shalini Kantayya. Their resulting film, Coded Bias, was launched at the […]
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued the Cabinet Office with a £500,000 fine over a data breach that disclosed the personal details of more than 1,000 people listed for 2020’s New Year Honours. The ICO said its investigation into the breach revealed that the Cabinet Office had failed to put proper technical and organisational […]
Computing reports Insurance firms are worried about profits as ransomware gangs become more sophisticated. Whilst previousy insurance companies typically cooperated with customers (and with Cybercriminls) to cover losses, cyber attacks have risen in number and sophistication which is forcing insurance companies to cut the amount of cover they provide to customers. Insurers have increased premiums, cut […]
This new book collects a series of pieces by leading authors in the field of Digital Humanism including our own WST Trustee George Metakeides as well as WSTNet Lab Directors Hans Akkermans and Mannfred Hauswirth. The book: Aims to set an agenda for research and action in the emerging field of Digital Humanism Contains short […]
The BBC reports that ClearView, an Australian firm selling access to a database of more than 10 billion facial images, is facing a potential £17m fine in thge UK over its handling of UK personal data. The Information Commissioner’s Office said “it had significant concerns about Clearview AI”, whose facial recognition software is used by […]