The use of big data in policing has clear benefits for struggling police forces. But society needs to maintain a critical perspective on moral and ethical grounds.
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Business managers often rely on predictive algorithms to make recruiting decisions that affect a company’s bottom line. But these kinds of algorithms aren’t really “predictive” at all.
Today’s communications platforms and the algorithms that power them have led to a radical change in how public discourse is conducted and public opinion formed.
More and more, news items, adverts and posts by friends are blurred in Facebook’s interface. This all merges into a single stream of information.
Plans for China to rate its citizens for their trustworthiness have been depicted as uniquely Chinese. Don’t be so sure.
All earthly and celestial things emit signals. The science of signal processing, born in the 19th Century and now greatly advanced thanks to computers, allows us to better understand them.
Social media companies arose from libertarian, free-market origins but must embrace social benefits and democracy to survive.
Robots, like drones, are filtering the natural world through algorithms and turning the world into data.
Automated tools could help encourage access to justice in areas such as divorce, owners corporation disputes and small value contracts.
High grades might be awarded to papers that show the structural features of highly persuasive writing – papers that follow the “persuasion script”, so to speak.
There are good reasons why business has not been as successful as sports teams at implementing algorithmic decision-making.
Creating an ethical machine learning system is no simple task, but maths can help.
This is how marketers are taking advantage of customer data to build predictive algorithms, and even tailor their products and offerings.
Hostile foreign powers and even tech companies are not attacking us with bullets and bombs; they’re doing it with bits and bytes. It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month, so what to do about the third world war being waged in cyberspace?
Turning zero from a punctuation mark into a number paved the way for everything from algebra to algorithms.
We prefer to go with our guts.
Computers today are fast and powerful but they still can’t think like a human when it comes to some tasks we find easy. That’s why tech companies are turning to neuroscience for help.
Political and community leaders must act now to preserve the American middle class and adapt the US economy for the 21st century.
Expressing music into mathematical formulae can help us understand why some pieces and performances can send shivers down your spine.
Interview with the scientist Claude Berrou, inventor of the turbocodes that protect the data of the connected objects. Today, he is exploring the neurosciences.
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Professor of Data Science; Director, Adelaide Data Science Centre, Adelaide University
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Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Professor in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Politics, UNSW
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Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Digital Media, Queensland University of Technology
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Head of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire
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University of Hertfordshire
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Professor, Real Estate, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Lecturer in Computer Science/Co-founder Women Leading in AI, Keele University
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Professor of Strategic Design, Queensland University of Technology
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Visiting researcher, Alan Turing Institute