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New book: pioneering Usenet newsgroups in astrophysics
by Marra, Monica 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Dear all at AoIR, this email is for those of you who are interested in early internet history. Please be informed that a new book has been published “On some Pioneering Usenet Newsgroups in Astrophysics”. I am the author. It is true that the subject is disciplinary, but some major steps in the evolution of Usenet newsgroups at large have been conveyed. Also, an insight into the perception and use of these early cmc tools by the research community concerned has been tentatively given. The book is open access. At the moment it can be found on the publisher’s website at https://mucchieditore.it/prodotto/on-some-pioneering-usenet-newsgroups-in-a… but it will be made available also - e.g. - on my ResearchGate account in the next future. Any comment is welcome; you can contact me at the email address monica.marra(a)inaf.it Regards, Monica Marra -- Dr. Monica Marra, technologist INAF - OAS Bologna via Gobetti 93/3 40129 Bologna, Italy https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Monica_Marra Teleworker Working days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

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[Call for Abstracts] 2nd Workshop on Stimulating Cognitive Engagement in Hybrid Decision-Making: Friction, Reliance, and Biases (June 10 2025, Pisa, Italy - co-located with HHAI25)
by Chiara Natali 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call) -------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS Second Workshop on Stimulating Cognitive Engagement in Hybrid Decision-Making: Friction, Reliance, and Biases Co-located with the 4th International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI25) June 10, 2025 | Pisa, Italy (in-person) https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home <https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home> -------------------------------------------------- **Workshop Overview** Building on the success of its first edition at HHAI 2024, the full-day workshop on "Stimulating Cognitive Engagement in Hybrid Decision-Making: Friction, Reliance, and Biases" advances the exploration of over-reliance and biases in Human-AI Interaction. Central to this discussion are approaches that intentionally introduce moments of cognitive effort and reflection into AI interactions to prevent passive or automatic reliance. While conventional AI design prioritises efficiency and seamlessness, this workshop invites participants to examine AI systems that strategically slow down decision-making when necessary to mitigate automation bias, cognitive offloading, and over-trust, ultimately fostering accuracy, responsibility, and human oversight. Such friction-in-design encompasses strategies that encourage users to reflect before acting, such as requiring justification before accepting AI recommendations, displaying confidence scores with uncertainty visualisations, or using explainability mechanisms that slow decision-making to reinforce human oversight. This workshop fosters interdisciplinary dialogue across AI research, cognitive science, HCI, and governance to ensure AI systems empower users rather than encourage unchecked reliance. The program will feature keynote presentations by leading experts in academia and industry, author presentations, and interactive discussions to advance the discourse on cognitively engaging and responsible AI design. Keynote speakers include: • Prof. Federico Cabitza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) – Expert in AI-assisted decision-making and medical AI. • Bart Van Leeuwen (Fire Services Expert, Netherlands) – Expert in human factors and situational awareness in high-risk environments. **Topics of Interest** We welcome contributions from researchers, practitioners, and policymakers on topics including, but not limited to: • Design Principles for Cognitive Engagement • Measuring and mitigating automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and cognitive offloading • Ethical and Governance Perspectives on Friction-in-Design • Applications, Case Studies and Experimental Findings We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines, including AI, HCI, cognitive science, law, philosophy, and beyond. **Submission Details** • Types of Submissions: Extended Abstracts (500-1,000 words) • Format: CEURART-WS style preferred • Submission Portal: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FrictionalAIWorkshop2025 <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FrictionalAIWorkshop2025> • Proceedings: All accepted papers will be published in the HHAI 2025 Workshop Proceedings on CEUR-WS. Authors of accepted contributions are required to attend the workshop in-person and register to the HHAI25 conference (single-day registration available, details TBA). **Important Dates** • Paper Submission Deadline: April 4, 2025 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: May 2, 2025 • Camera-Ready Submission: TBD (authors will be invited to expand their contributions following workshop discussions) • Workshop Date: June 10, 2025 **Beyond the Workshop** Our aim is to foster a research network. Authors from all editions, if desired, will be invited to participate in future initiatives, including knowledge exchanges, collaborative publications, special journal issues, and online lecture series. **Organising & Programme Committee** • Chiara Natali (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy & IDSIA, SUPSI, Switzerland) • Mohammad Naiseh (Bournemouth University, UK) • Brett Frischmann (Villanova University, USA) • Programme Committee: full list available at https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home <https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home> For more information, visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home <https://sites.google.com/view/frictional-ai/home>

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Upcoming deadline - ISA conference sessions on sociodigital methods - call for participation
by Rebecca Coleman 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Call for abstracts! Upcoming deadline! Submission deadline 15 March. The ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures, University of Bristol and the Southern Centre for Digital Transformation, University of Naples, are looking for researchers to join us in Naples this September for a conference panel event exploring the methodological challenges of sociodigital research.  Are you: * Researching the entanglement of the social and digital in contemporary life? * Questioning the limits of conventional non-digital and digital methods? * Adapting or creating new research methods? CenSoF are also leading a hands-on exploration of Chatbots in use to explore sociological engagement with Large Language Models. For more information and to submit please visit Call for Abstract: RC33 Eleventh International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Naples, Italy, September 2025 – RC33.<https://rc33.org/call-for-abstract-rc33-eleventh-international-conference-o…> See sessions 13 and 14. You can submit an abstract for the paper panel at the link above. You can apply to the LLM training session at this link: https://rc33.org/11icssm-traning-courses-and-workshops/ About the conference The eleventh International Sociological Association conference on ‘Logic and Methodology’ takes place in Naples between 22-25 September 2025. It is hosted by Department of Social Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Organised by the Research Committee on Logic and Methodology in Sociology of the International Sociological Association, the conference is attended by academics from a variety of fields and is relevant to anyone interested in research methods linked to social topics. There are lots of sessions including those covering online communities, data visualisation, future visions, creativity, participatory methods, queer methods, AI and data. You can find more information on these, and more, at the link above. About the Centre for Sociodigital Futures These sessions are being co-convened by the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures (CenSoF) <https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/centres/sociodigital-futures/> - a flagship research centre led by the University of Bristol in collaboration with 12 other Universities in the UK and globally. Founded in 2022, the Centre brings together world-leading expertise from Social Sciences, Engineering and the Arts, as well as partner organisations and businesses. Together, we create new approaches to sociodigital research and explore sociodigital futures-in-the-making. ___ Rebecca Coleman Professor, Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI<https://www.bristol.ac.uk/bristol-digital-futures-institute/>) Centre for Sociodigital Futures (CenSoF<https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/centres/sociodigital-futures/>) School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS<https://www.bristol.ac.uk/spais/>) Researcher in Residence at Knowle West Media Centre<https://kwmc.org.uk/>: Making Digital Futures with Community Tech Address: G1, SPAIS, 3 Priory Road, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TU, UK. University webpage<https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Rebecca-Coleman-7c06f77d-650b-43f5-…> | Bluesky<https://bsky.app/profile/rcecoleman.bsky.social> Recent article: Corine van Emmerik, Rebecca Coleman and Dawn Lyon (2024) 'Towards a minor sociology of futures: Shifting futures in Mass Observation accounts of the Covid-19 pandemi<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14407833241248672>c', Journal of Sociology. Recent edited special issue: Creating Feminist Futures: Research Methodologies for New Times<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cafs20/38/115-116?nav=tocList>, Australian Feminist Studies. 2024. Edited with Kat Jungnickel. Recent book: How to do social research with...<https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/how-to-do-social-resea…> 2024. Edited with Kat Jungnickel and Nirmal Puwar.

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REMINDER CfP_Digital Culture & Society_ March 15
by Jascha Bareis 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

Dear all, Reminder for submitting an abstract for the Special Issue of the journal Digital Culture & Society https://www.transcript-publishing.com/journals/digital-culture-society/?f=1… Towards Popular Techno-Futures - a Global Policy Perspective Submission deadlines for abstracts (200-300 words): March 15 and full papers (6000-8000 words): August 15, 2025 Please submit all contributions to: techfutures(a)posteo.com This special issue will bring together articles exploring Popular Techno-Futures from interdisciplinary and international perspectives, i*ncluding Cultural and Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies and related disciplines.* The goal of this special issue is to decenter the discussion on socio-technical futures and the role of popular culture, aesthetics and media in their (re)production. In the Global North, official policies and cultural engagements with techno-futures are predominantly driven by a small group of libertarian techno-oligarchs who, in spite of reinforcing critical and dystopian counter-discourses, propound celebratory views of technological progress - of enhancing, or overcoming the human - motivated by their desire to attract venture capital. These futures emerge as increasingly hegemonic, as governments tend to share these celebratory views to further their own interests of economic and national competitiveness. Nationalist, elitist, and often ethnocentric imaginaries and narratives blur the line between political, economic, and pop-cultural realms and become obstacles to a nuanced and inclusive discourse on the risks and benefits of future technologies. What is worse, the political surrender to capitalist and competitive growth-lock-ins disregards or even erases a vast imaginary zone of alternative futures. Focused on the interests of individual nations, these narratives tend to disregard the historical and current economic entanglements between technological developments in the North and the exploitation of the South. Political and cultural media discourses in the North tend to cast the Global South as war-torn, technologically underdeveloped, and in need of help. At the same time, official national strategies in the Global North as well as the Global South foreground the use of technology to further development and economic growth. These efforts tend to disregard the economic precarity of local populations and the necropolitical exploitation of the lands of the South. Rarely acknowledged in official media discourses and dominant cultural references, these connections nevertheless emerge in counter-cultural discourses and artistic productions predominantly from the Global South which imagine their own techno-futures. Preexisting research on techno-futures and their impact on the societal acceptance, design, and use of technologies has mostly focused on the ‘key players’ of the West (and its antagonism to China), while other parts of the world have been neglected. Conceptually, Cultural Studies and STS scholarship have long stressed the interplay between the social imagination and the de facto production of scientific facts or socio-technical authority. Contributions will work from the general premise that technologies are shaped not only by the policies and views of political or economic elites and the allocation of resources but also by various narratives and discourses drawing on popular imaginaries and cultural frameworks of techno-futures. Technology, and therefore also technological futures, are always socially situated, relational, and enmeshed in (dominant) narratives of societal sense-making, constantly reworked and understood differently by users and contexts. Narratives, in particular, have not only been understood as reservoirs of sense-making, but also as performative trajectories, causing dominant perceptions, expectations and investments - powerfully transforming future ideas into material being. While the intersecting fields of cultural studies and STS have begun to acknowledge voices from the Global South, there is still more work to be done to arrive at a more just and inclusive picture. Such a global take on tech-futures has taken on a renewed urgency in times of rising geopolitical block formations, growing tensions, and a worrying resparking of nationalist sentiments. In this special issue, we plan to focus on forms of tech-future societal discourses from a global and popular perspective to counter the dominant Western mode of inquiry and its (de-)construction of tech-futures. Eligible articles should thus tackle (one or more of) the following questions: * How do different forms of sense-making, like belief systems, media, cultural memory, myths, political culture, and social ideals around the globe reflect, shape, and produce their own tech-futures? * How are these futures co-produced through local and regional experiences, histories and narratives, and how do such narratives interweave traditional and futuristic discourses to create culturally specific futurisms (Sinofuturism, Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurisms)? * What role do the denial or promotion of, opposition or attraction to, and resistance against or adoption of Western modernist and techno-progressive paradigms play? * How do tensions between spheres of global or local, official or informal shape artistic and media explorations of techno-futures? * What kind of cultural productions and media embody and represent tech-futures? What is the role of the arts, stories, markets, ideals, figures, imagery, humor, narrativity etc. in transmitting and producing different techno futures? * What kind of different hermeneutical approaches and tools exist in contribution or opposition to creating typologies, comparisons, discourses, symbols, analysis etc.? * Which transnational patterns and connections and block formations can be identified in their development? When submitting an abstract, authors should make explicit to which of the following categories they would like to submit their paper: Field Research and Case Studies (full paper: 6000-8000 words) We invite articles that discuss empirical findings from studies that approach the relationships between neurobiology, brain research, computational intelligence, biopolitics, psychological research and the new AI movement. These may include practices of circulating or collecting data as well processes of production and evaluation. Methodological Reflection (full paper: 6000-8000 words) We invite contributions that reflect on the methodologies employed when researching the practices of the new tendencies of AI (e.g. artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, deep learning, prognostics and predictive modelling, computer vision). These may include, for example, the specificities of ethnographic fieldwork in online/offline environments; challenges and opportunities faced when qualitatively researching quantifiable data and vice versa; approaches using mixed methods; discussions of mobile and circulative methods; and reflections of experimental forms of research. Conceptual/Theoretical Reflection (full paper: 6000-8000 words) We encourage contributions that reflect on the conceptual and/or theoretical dimension of the new artificial intelligence paradigm, and discuss or question how digital intelligence can be defined, what it can describe, and how it can be differentiated. Entering the Field (2000-3000 words; experimental formats welcome) Publication schedule March 15: Collection of abstracts August 15: Collection of full papers September onwards: Peer-review Early 2026: Publication of the Special Issue *Please submit your abstract of 200-300 words until March 15, 2025 to the following email address:* techfutures(a)posteo.com Publication fees None. The issue will be made fully open access one year after initial publication. We strongly encourage researchers and practitioners around the world (especially the ones outside, or countering, the scientific production of the global North) to submit an abstract. *Please circulate widely.* Guest editors: Jascha Bareis Scientific Staff at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) & Associate researcher at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) Anya Heise-von der Lippe Assistant Lecturer with the Chair of Anglophone Literatures at the English Department of the University of Tübingen Felix Spremberg Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University -- *Jascha Bareis*(Profile) <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_bareis_jascha.php>(Scholar) <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bf1gf9AAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao>(LinkedIn) <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jascha-bareis-36082523b/> Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis(ITAS) <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/index.php> Karlsruher Institute of Technology(KIT) <https://www.kit.edu/english/index.php> Research Group Digital Technology and Societal Change(FG DigIT) <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/rg_digit.php> *Recent Publications* Ask Me Anything ! 😈How ChatPGT Got Hyped Into Being.SOC ARXIV Preprint <https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jzde2> The Trustification of AI. Disclosing the bridging pillars that tie Trust and AI together.Big Data & Society <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241249430> Technology Hype: Dealing with bold expectations and overpromising, with M. Roßmann and F.Bordignon.Journal of Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice <https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7073>

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EDBT 2025 Summer School: Call for Applications
by Announce 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS EDBT 2025 Summer School on AI & Data Management 7th to 11th of July, 2025, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus https://dmai.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 7th, 2025! * Registration Open! (Limited Seats of about 60 participants) * Registration Site: http://tiny.cc/glxb001 * Student Grants will be announced later *************************************************************** The EDBT association and the University of Cyprus are happy to announce a jointly sponsored Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Management, which will be hosted at the Resource Center "Stelios Ioannou", University of Cyprus, Monday July 7, 2025 to Friday, July 11, 2025. It will cover a diverse range of topics around artificial intelligence and data management, with a special focus on Large Language Models, AI agents and Vector Databases. It will have 9 tutorials from internationally renowned researchers in the field, and several social activities. Each tutorial will be 3 hour long. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS =================== The summer school will feature 9 invited speakers. The preliminary list of speakers along with tentative titles (in order of appearance) is listed below: + Prof. Ioana Manolescu (Ecole Polytechnique, France) | "Interconnection of Heterogeneous Data using AI" + Prof. Sihem Amer-Yahia (CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes, France) | "AI Planning for Data Exploration" + Dr. Charalampos Tsourakakis (RelationalAI & Boston University, USA) | "Algorithmic Techniques in Graph Analytics" | "Machine Learning in Graph Analytics" + Prof. Volker Markl (Technical University Berlin, Germany) | "Large-scale Data Management in Flink" | "Edge Data Management in NebulaStream" + Prof. Constantine Dovrolis (Georgia Tech, USA & Cyprus Institute, Cyprus) | "Neuro-inspired AI for Continual Learning" | "The New Mathematics of Deep Learning" + Prof. Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA) | "Machine Learning for Big Spatial Data and Applications" | "Large Language Models for Spatio-temporal Queries" + Prof. Li Xiong (Emory University, USA) | "Large Language Models and Privacy" + Prof. Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California, USA) | "DeepNN for Private Spatiotemporal Queries" | "Synthetic Trajectory Generation" TARGET AUDIENCE =============== The school will be open to about 60 qualified, motivated and pre-selected candidates. The school is primarily intended for graduate (Master’s & PhD) students and post-doctoral researchers, but we also welcome motivated applications from advanced undergraduate students and academic and industrial researchers. There are no formal prerequisites, but prior experience in one or more of the following areas would be helpful for benefiting from the lectures of the school: Data Management, AI & Machine Learning, Data Mining, Informational Retrieval, Parallel and Distributed and Cloud Computing. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION ======================== The EDBT 2025 Summer School on AI & Data Management community is committed to the promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our professional activities (https://dbdni.github.io/) We celebrate the diversity in our community and welcome everyone regardless of age, gender identity, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, country of origin, religion, sexual orientation, physical ability, education, and work experience. We also welcome people and opinions of all political persuasions, as long as they abide by the ACM policy against harassment. (https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment) STUDENT GRANTS =============== There will be a limited number of grants (fellowships). Half grants cover the registration fee, while full grants also cover accommodation in a student residence room. A call for applying for these grants will be announced later and applicants must briefly explain why attendance could not be financed by other means. Grants will be awarded taking into account the applicant’s profile (motivations, research background), financial need and diversity and inclusion aspects. Grants will be announced after the application deadline on the website. REGISTRATION ============ All Registration options include: + Tutorial Lectures + Coffee Breaks + 5 Lunches + 1 Banquet Dinner + 2 Dinners + Welcome Cocktail (with Snacks) + 1 Tour Trip + Bus from Hotel to Venue (two way). + Registration options with accommodation include Breakfast There are three registration options: + Registration with No Accommodation: 600.00 euro + Registration with (Shared) Twin Room (5 nights): 850.00 euro + Registration with (Private) Single Room (5 nights): 1100.00 euro *** Registration Site: http://tiny.cc/glxb001 *** IMPORTANT DATES =============== Deadline for applications: Monday, April 7, 2025 Notification of acceptance: Monday, April 14, 2025 Deadline for registration: Monday, April 28, 2025 Summer school: July 7–11, 2025 LOCAL ARRANGEMENT ================== - Venue: https://dmai.cs.ucy.ac.cy/#venue - Accommodation: https://dmai.cs.ucy.ac.cy/#local_info - Special Lufthansa Group airlines fares for flights to Larnaca or Paphos: https://www.lufthansa.com/content/lh/markets/cy/en/event/edbt-summer-school… ORGANIZATION ============ Prof. Demetris Zeinalipour University of Cyprus https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/ Prof. Panos K. Chrysanthis University of Cyprus and University of Pittsburgh, USA https://panos.cs.pitt.edu/ For academic matters, please contact the organizers at edbt2025summerschool(a)gmail.com Local Arrangements Contact: > Help with travel, accommodation and visa issues (if attending outside Europe): - Email: info(a)easyconferences.eu - Call us at: +357 22 591 900

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VIDEO – House Energy & Commerce – Fixing Biden’s Broadband Blunder
by Joly MacFie 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

I made the effort to edit/transcribe this session. What I learnt was that, while the Republicans are griefing over over-regulation and local red tape holding things up, the Democrats are griefing over the Republicans holding things up while they review same. Everybody agrees that, if SCOTUS kills USF, Congress has to move quickly to reinstate it. On March 5 2025, the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing titled 'Fixing Biden’s Broadband Blunder' to discuss the state of the Broadband Equity Access and … [image: ISOC LIVE] <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=0c34a809997861ca362214d4…>On *March 5 2025*, the *United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=cc45e7bf78111b391353de6e…>* *Subcommittee on Communications and Technology* held a hearing titled '*Fixing Biden’s Broadband Blunder <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=c2751b76452929641e8c65ff…>*' to discuss the state of the *Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=ad47c451766a2f5487940a1f…>* (BEAD) which provides $42.45 billion to expand high-speed Internet access in the country, under the new administration. This video has been lightly edited for clarity. *PANEL* *Grant Spellmeyer*, President and CEO, ACA Connects *Tim Donovan*, President and CEO, Competitive Carriers Association *Greg Hale*, CEO, LTC Connect *Sarah Morris*, Former Deputy Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (Acting) *CHAIR* *Rep. Richard Hudson* (R-NC) *YOUTUBE <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=893a5cb75ee678c2e6add50b…> | TRANSCRIPT <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=e2d621984d2c6a6ba07d06dd…> | SUMMARY <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=25d3329e4c5f323c0f691cfa…> | ARCHIVE <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=8b1e90b6b3dc07e9815c547c…>* *ORIGINAL LIVESTREAM <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=f15dc7b3eb1889b2844efdff…> | PERMALINK <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=e5b8f18646a3b4f6ca0a69a8…>* *TWITTER #BEAD @HouseCommerce* *MASTODON <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=eb64722c6921147ba16c9983…>* | *BLUESKY <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=9b97c58c08b957ee4ae2de97…>* | *INSTA <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=e22c23fe83f06e02fd10265d…>* *** ISOC.LIVE is a free webcasting support service for the Internet Society Community * *- ISOC LIVE is currently unfunded - if you would like to become a monthly sponsor - contact support(a)isoc.live *** - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2025 - 2nd Call for Workshops and Tutorials
by Beyza Yaman 09 Mar '25

09 Mar '25

SEMANTiCS 2025 - Second Call for Workshops and Tutorials 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems Vienna, Austria September 03-05, 2025 Important Dates for Workshops: - *Proposals WS Deadline: March 22, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Notification of Acceptance: 29, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars, show-cases, etc., without call for papers): - *Proposals Tutorial Deadline: June 11, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* *Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025>* *SEMANTiCS Workshops and Tutorials* SEMANTiCS 2025 is a major venue for research and industrial innovation and features a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse practical interests of its audience. This program is intended to offer a rich diversity of topics to conference attendees and local participants seeking to pick up new skills and stay up-to-date regarding the latest developments in the community. We encourage submissions of proposals on all topics in the general areas of SEMANTiCS 2025 and proposals bridging or introducing new perspectives and/or challenges in these areas. Workshops and tutorials may incorporate panel discussions, lightning talks, meetings, networking or hands-on sessions, hackathons and other practical formats where applicable. Rooms for business or project meetings are available upon request as well. *Scope and Goals* Workshops and tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2025 allow your organization or project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased visibility. The workshops and tutorials will be announced on the SEMANTiCS website, and they will be seen by all participants. SEMANTiCS 2025 workshops and tutorials can be incubators for industrial and scientific communities that form and share a particular research and development agenda, and they will provide a forum for presenting contributions and findings to a diverse and knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a closed format for research/commercial project consortia meetings. *Proceedings* Workshop papers will be published in the SEMANTiCS side event proceedings through CEUR. Side events proceedings will include posters & demos and contributions from workshops. *Setup and Requirements* SEMANTiCS 2025 workshops and tutorials may be either half or full-day long. Workshops and tutorials take place on the days before and/or after the main SEMANTiCS 2025 EU conference (03th of September 2025). Further details will be communicated in due time. Organizers of workshops and tutorials will be granted three free tickets (only for the workshop & tutorial day) for organization purposes or keynotes. Participants of workshops and tutorials will only be charged a reduced fee to cover the basic costs. Workshop and tutorial proposals must include the following information: - outline of the *themes and goals of the event*, including a title and a brief abstract (less than 200 words) intended for the SEMANTiCS 2025 website. - a statement addressing *why the event is important*, *why the event is timely*, and how it is relevant to SEMANTiCS 2025 and the field of Semantic Web. For the tutorials, why the presenters are qualified for a high-quality introduction to the topic. - *related workshops and conferences*, i.e., specifying if this is a continuation of a workshop series or a new workshop. Please provide information about past versions (in any) and other related workshops (including URLs and submission/acceptance counts, if available). - a statement addressing the *quality assurance criteria* that will be used by the event organizers to select the papers for the workshops and the presenters for the tutorials (e.g., peer review or review/evaluation by event organizers). If a peer review process is chosen as a quality assurance criterion for the workshops, the organizers will be responsible for their own reviewing process. Workshop organizers will be responsible also for their own publicity (e.g., website, timelines and call for papers) and proceedings production. - *structure of the event* and plans for generating and stimulating discussion; how will the interaction be organized in case of a hybrid event. - expected *number of event participants* and (in case of previously held events) number of registered attendees and website for previous editions of the event - a description of the intended *audience* and the expected learning *outcomes.* - desired *prerequisite* knowledge of the audience. - proposed *duration of the event* (i.e., half or full day), different sessions if applicable (final time slot will be assigned in accordance with the SEMANTiCS program). - any *equipment*, room capacity, or other logistic constraints. - full *contact information* of all organizers of the event and main contact person; a brief description of each *organizer's background*, including relevant past experience in organizing events. Proposals for workshop and tutorial proposals must be submitted via Easychair: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semantics2025> (max 4 pages) *Important Dates* Important Dates for Workshops: - *Proposals WS Deadline: March 22, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Notification of Acceptance: March 29, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Workshop website is online: April 15th, 2025* *Suggested* dates for Workshop organizers (with Call for Papers) - *Submission WS papers Deadline: June 14, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Notification of Acceptance: July 05, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars, show-cases, etc., without call for papers): - *Proposals Tutorial Deadline: June 11, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* - *Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)* *Review and Evaluation Criteria* Workshop and tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the SEMANTiCS 2025 Workshop Chairs, as well as by the SEMANTiCS 2025 organizing committee, according to the following criteria: - The potential to advance the state of Semantic Web research and practice - The quality assurance criteria proposed by the organizers to select high-quality papers for workshops and presenters for tutorials - The organizers' experience and ability to lead a successful event - Timeliness and expected interest in the event topics - The balance and synergy between all SEMANTiCS 2025 events *Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):* - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management - Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) - Interplay between Large Language Models, generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval Augmented Generation) - Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring, integration, publication) - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering - Reasoning, Rules, and Policies - Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) - Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Mathematical Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI - Multimodal Knowledge Graphs - Semantics in Data Science - Semantics in Blockchain environments - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - IoT, Stream Processing, dealing with temporal data - Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems - Provenance and Data Change Tracking - Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.) - Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases - Robust and scalable management, querying and analysis of semantics and data - User interfaces for the Semantic Web & its management - Explainable and Interoperable AI - Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Federated querying, link traversal) - Application of Semantically-Enriched and AI-based Approaches, such as, but not limited to: - Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics, Medical AI and Preventive Healthcare - Clinical Use Case of semantic-enabled AI-based Approaches - AI for Environmental Challenges - Semantics in Scholarly Communication and Scientific Knowledge Graphs - AI and LOD within GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) institutions - Knowledge Graphs & hybrid AI for predictive maintenance and Industry 4.0/5.0 - Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage - LegalTech, AI Safety, EU AI Act - Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems We especially invite contributions that illustrate the applicability of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries. Workshop proposals on *emerging themes* and *open challenges* for the topics listed above are encouraged. In case you have additional questions concerning the submission process, please do not hesitate to contact us via Easychair. We are looking forward to your contribution! *Workshop & Tutorial Chairs:* - Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (email: daniel.garijo(a)upm.es) - David Chaves-Fraga, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Spain (email: david.chaves(a)usc.es) Kind Regards, Beyza Yaman On behalf of the organising committee.

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CFP | Asian American Media Lab: Summer Workshop at UW-Madison
by Rachel Kuo 09 Mar '25

09 Mar '25

Hi all, Please see the CFP below: *Call for Participants | Asian American Media Lab: Summer Workshop* The Asian American Media Lab (AAMLAB) <https://asianamerican.wisc.edu/aamlab/> at University of Wisconsin-Madison is bringing together scholars of Asian American media for a one-day gathering centered on community, mentorship, and critical discussions about the future of our field. This space is designed for those studying Asian American media — including film, television, digital media and technology, gaming, social media, and beyond — who are looking to connect with their scholarly community and engage in conversations about emerging research directions. Participants will have the opportunity to connect to a network of scholars dedicated to Asian American media research, share and discuss new directions and methodologies in the field, and engage in shaping the future of Asian American media studies. All participants will be expected to present a short lightning talk introducing their research. https://asianamerican.wisc.edu/aamlab/ Co-chairs: *Lori Kido Lopez <https://commarts.wisc.edu/staff/lopez-lori/>* and *Rachel Kuo <https://gws.wisc.edu/staff/kuo-rachel/>* Dates: Friday, June 6 (with travel in/out on June 5 and 7) Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison Cost: Flight, lodging, and meals covered for all selected participants To apply: Please submit as one PDF document through *this form <https://forms.gle/k2gpzkGh4EPQHCUq6>*: 1) a cover letter describing how your research connects to Asian American media studies; 2) your CV; and 3) a representative writing sample. Save the file as LastNameFirstName_SummerConvening. Please submit applications by March 31, 2025. Participants will be notified by April 20, 2025. Questions can be sent to LKLopez(a)wisc.edu. -- *Rachel Kuo, Ph.D. (she/her), rskuo(a)wisc.edu <rskuo(a)wisc.edu>* Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies <https://criticalracedigitalstudies.com/> Asian American Feminist Collective <https://www.asianamfeminism.org/> rachelkuo.com <https://www.rachelkuo.com/>

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Programme online: Conference Societal Impact through Collaborative Research
by Schaefer, M.T. (Mirko) 09 Mar '25

09 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, With the advance of a political sentiment hostile to scholarship and science, our conference gained even more urgency. On April 7 and 8 we will gather in Utrecht (NL) for a workshop conference on societal impact through collaborative research, we bring action research to critical data and AI studies. This conference is not a platform for presenting papers but for engaging actively in discussing challenges of collaborative research and learning about good practices. We share and train skills, develop capacities, define objectives and plan for action. The programme is now online: Making a Difference. Societal Impact through collaborative research https://impact.dataschool.nl/ * Our keynote speakers are Rob Kitchin, Payal Arora and Minna Ruckenstein. * Our workshops cover university-industry collaboration, measuring impact, team science, gen(der) AI safety, multiple stakeholder collaboration, AI ethics in media, and more. Our conference takes place a couple of days before the AlgoSoc Conference, the Future of Public Values in the Algorithmic Society, in Amsterdam, which gives you an opportunity to visit both conferences. Also, check out our open access volume Collaborative Research for the Datafied Society. Methods and Practices of Investigation and Intervention: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048555925/collaborative-research-in-the-data… We hope to see many of you in Utrecht at our conference. Best wishes, mirko Mirko Tobias Schäfer | Associate Professor for AI, Data & Society| Sciences Lead at Data School | Department of Information & Computing Sciences | Utrecht University | ICS | Princetonplein 5 | 3584 CC Utrecht | Netherlands |

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JOBS: IGF Secretariat Consultancies
by Joly MacFie 09 Mar '25

09 Mar '25

1) Meaningful Access https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/254585 2) Artificial Intelligence https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/254588 3) Internet Fragmentation and Cybersecurity https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/254589 Deadline March 14 -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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