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Horizon Summer Internships 2017
by Ansgar Koene 11 Jul '17

11 Jul '17

*FINAL REMINDER* Hello, Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute has 6 internships available at The University of Nottingham. 4 of the internships are funded for 15 weeks and the remaining 2 for upto 6 months. The internships are aimed at undergraduate students and current postgraduate students. Postgraduate students from The University of Nottingham are able to apply, on the understanding they suspend their stipend this is due to the nature of the funding source, for oversees students a Visa has to be in place already and to cover the duration of the internship to be eligible. For more details of each internship and how to apply, see the webpage at http://www.horizon.ac.uk/Internships-available I would be grateful if you could circulate to colleagues at other Universities, create a tweet etc to give as wide a circulation as possible. The closing date is Saturday 15th July 2017. Kind Regards Kevin Beales Horizon Digital Economy Research University of Nottingham Innovation Park Triumph Road Nottingham NG7 2TU Email: kevin.beales(a)nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:sophie.dale@nottingham.ac.uk> Office: +44 (0)115 84 67251 Mobile: +44 (0)77908 57601 (with voicemail) Fax: +44 (0)115 82 32551 Web: http://www.horizon.ac.uk<http://www.horizon.ac.uk/> Twitter: @horizonDER This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

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RTIS 2017
by ijwa＠dline.info 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

Second International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems University of Macau, Macau & December 08-10, 2017 University of Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco October 18-20, 2017 http://www.socio.org.uk/rtis http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319607436 http://www.springer.com/series/11156 (Springer's Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing) The conference has- Doctoral Consortium DEMO Session Journal Track Mentorship Programme Ph.D. Dissertation Competition Proofreading translation program Real-Time Computing covers a broad spectrum of the intensively developing area of low-latency priority-driven system responsiveness under certain time constrains to essential and decisive human-computer interactions with constantly incoming data stream. Research on real-time intelligent systems is of a multi-disciplinary nature, exploiting concepts from the areas as diverse as signal processing technologies, computational intelligence, location systems, data processing, digital document processing and embedded system design. To accomplish its real-time performance, systematic analysis is carried out when the systems are working. Therefore, over the last few years real-time intelligent computing has radically transformed human life style. In the today's competitive and highly dynamic environment, analyzing data in real time is a must to understand in detail how the systems are processing the data and to reason the outputs and anticipate the trends in intelligent computing, has become critical. To leverage the full potential of the opportunity build complex real time systems, intense research is required and this conference will serve as one such platform to manifest the ongoing research in the real time intelligence system. The conference welcomes theoretically grounded, methodologically sound research papers from academia and industry that address variety of aspects and innovations related to real-time computing systems. The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to the following areas: Streaming data, streaming engines Big Data systems and applications for high-velocity data Analysis in advanced domains such as energy, sensors, etc Artificial Intelligence Broadband Intelligence Cloud Computing and Intelligence Collaborative Intelligence Crowdsourcing and crowd intelligence Data capture in real-time Intelligent Database Systems Data mining Intelligent Data Analysis OLAP for real-time decision support Data quality and cleansing Intelligent Fuzzy Systems Event-driven analytics Visualizing real-time data and information Intelligent Soft Computing Privacy and security in Intelligence Architectures for Intelligence Internet of Things Intelligent Robotic Systems Smart Services and Platforms Intelligent Transportation Systems Mobile Smart Systems Trace-based intelligent real-time services (eye-tracking, image tracking) Real-time intelligent alert systems Machine translation in real time Multilingual information access Multiagent Intelligent Systems Intelligent Information Systems Adaptive vision algorithms Real-time Intelligent Network solutions Real-time distributed coding Real-time modelling user’s information needs Real-time noise removal systems Real-time intelligent communication Real-time remote access systems Decision support systems in real time Real-time multiprocessor systems The Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems, Volume 2 RTIS 2017. (http://www.springer.com/series/11156 ) Selected top papers presented will be published in the following journals. 1. Journal of Medical Internet Research (SCI & Scopus) 2. Virtual Reality (SCI & Scopus) 3. The Journal of Intelligent Systems (SCI & Scopus) 4. Future Internet (SCI & Scopus) 5. Machine Learning (SCI & Scopus) 6. Journal of Digital Information Management (Scopus) General Chairs Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Abderrahim Sekkaki, University Hassan II, Morocco Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, Opole University, Poland Program Chairs Abderrahim Sekkaki, UH2C, Casablanca, Morocco Mohamed Lahby UH2C, Casablanca, Morocco Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Lab., India Important Dates Paper Submission: July 25, 2017/August 10, 2017 (For Macau) Paper Notification: August 25, 2017/September 05, 2017 (For Macau) Camera ready: September 30, 2017/October 15, 2017 (For Macau) Registration: October 05, 2017/October 31, 2017 For (Macau) Conference Dates: October 18-20, 2017/December 08-10, 2017 (For Macau) Submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/rtis/paper-submission/ Contact: rtis at socio.org.uk ---------------------------------

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Re: [Air-L] Do you have Twitter assignments?
by Carmel Vaisman 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

Hi Franklin, It's not exactly a Twitter assignment but I ask students to tweet papers from the syllabus, that is a rhetorical exercise to see if they can summarize the main argument and even find space for their own stance under a commentary hashtag. They love the challenge, they think it is easier than turning in a one page summary but it actually isn't, and it is a good way to make sure they read and understand for any class not just a digital media one. I sometimes use it to help them think from different stances too, instead of simply asking what Marx or Foucault would have said about this and that i ask them to produce a Marxist/postmodern tweet about it, like those satiric accounts that try to guess what dead philosophers would have said nowadays... Enjoy! Carmel Vaisman, PhD. http://www.absolutecarmel.com Twitter: @carmelva Dear Colleagues: Do any of you have any meaningful and effective Twitter > assignments for 100 and 300 level social media classes you could consider > sharing with me? I look forward to your responses. > > Thanks. > > Franklin > > -- > Franklin Nii Amankwah Yartey, Ph.D > Associate Professor of Communication > Communication Department > University of Dubuque > 2000 University Ave > Dubuque, Iowa, 52001 > Office: Van Vliet 311 > Email: fyartey(a)dbq.edu > Phone: 563-589-3181 > Fax: 563-589-3416 > http://www.franklinyartey.com/ <http://www.dbq.edu/> > > > ------------------------------ > > >

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New Issue of CyberOrient
by Vit Sisler 09 Jul '17

09 Jul '17

Dear colleagues, it is my pleasure to announce that a new issue of the CyberOrient journal is available online! All the best, Vit Sisler Managing Editor CyberOrient, Vol. 11, Iss. 1, 2017 Editor-in-Chief: Daniel M. Varisco Managing Editor: Vit Sisler http://www.cyberorient.net/ Articles Middle Eastern Women’s ‘Glocal’: Journeying between the Online and Public Spheres Dina Hosni http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=9814 Saudi Women and Socio-Digital Technologies: Reconfiguring Identities Hélène Bourdeloie, Caterina Gentiloni Silveri and Sara Houmair http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=9822 Science and Islam Videos: Creating a Methodology to Find “All” Unique Internet Videos Vika Gardner and Salman Hameed http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=9831 Youth Activism and Social Networks in Egypt Ahmed Tohamy http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=9815 About CyberOrient CyberOrient (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Anthropological Association, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts. -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University Faculty of Arts Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/

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WEBCAST TODAY: Kenya Internet Governance Forum #KIGF2017
by Joly MacFie 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

This is underway. It follows 3 days of the Kenya School of Internet Governance Workshops, so a well focused group of participants. In previous years the KIGF has often highlighted topics only just looming on other national agendas, and their conclusions have wide influence. This year the emphasis is on Internet and Elections. [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/kigf2017>Today, *Thursday 6 July*, the 2017 *Kenya Internet Governance Forum <http://kigf.or.ke/>* (KIGF) takes place in Nairobi. The Kenya IGF is a unique platform for all stakeholders to openly exchange perspectives and concerns on key issues that may affect the future of the Internet for millions of Kenyans, and the outcomes will feed into the *Global IGF <http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2017>* slated for December 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland. The global theme for this year’s IGF is “*Shape Your Digital Future!*” while the local theme is "*Internet and Elections*". Today's event event will be webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/kigf2017>*, with a simulcast on the *IGF Kenya facebook group <https://www.facebook.com/KenyaIGF/>*. Nairobi is 7 hours ahead of NYC. *What: Kenya Internet Governance Forum <http://kigf.or.ke/>Where: Laico Regency Hotel, NairobiWhen: Thursday 6 July 2017 08:00-18:00 EAT | 05:00-15:00 UTCAgenda: http://kigf.or.ke/front-page-features/kenya-igf/kigf-program/ <http://kigf.or.ke/front-page-features/kenya-igf/kigf-program/>Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/kigf2017 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/kigf2017>Simulcast: https://www.facebook.com/KenyaIGF/ <https://www.facebook.com/KenyaIGF/>Twitter: #KIGF2017 http://bit.ly/kigf2017 <http://bit.ly/kigf2017>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9269#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9269#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9269 - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Post-doc in Tweets location inference
by Babiga Birregah 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

dear all I am wondering if some of you can share relevant approaches and "simple" to implement about how to detect Tweet location. Thank for your help. *Please spread this announcement* We are actively looking for a Postdoctoral researcher in Twitter #BigData <https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/content/?keywords=%23BigData&origin…> analysis. https://goo.gl/MNWomx Please spread this announcement or if you are interested let me know. Regards -- -- BIRREGAH Babiga, Phd Enseignant-Chercheur/ Assistant professor ICD UMR-CNRS 6281 (Université de Technologie de Troyes) Joint Research Unit in Sciences and Technologies for Risk Management Department of Operational Research, Applied Statistics and Simulation UTT - ROSAS LM2S H107 12 Rue Marie Curie CS 42060 10004 TROYES CEDEX Tél. +33 (0) 325715869 Fax. +33 (0) 325715649 QR: http://goo.gl/Et0A4

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One-year postdoc in UnBias project available (Edinburgh)
by Ansgar Koene 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

Apologies for cross-posting. See below announcement for one-year postdoc position related to our Unbias project http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: UnBias, CaSMa & Horizon Policy Impact Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham Working group chair for IEEE Standard on Algorithm Bias Considerations http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/7003.html https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ ________________________________ From: Michael Rovatsos <mrovatso(a)inf.ed.ac.uk> Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 4:48 PM Subject: [unbias] One-year postdoc in UnBias project available (Edinburgh) Dear Colleague we have a one-year postdoc position to fill in Edinburgh on one of my research projects - I'd be very grateful if you could distribute the announcement below among your colleagues and junior staff. >>> An opening for a postdoctoral RA position has become available on our EPSRC-funded UnBias project (http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/) from 1st September 2017 for 12 months full time (possibly with a slightly earlier part-time start, where appropriate). See https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs… for details, the application deadline is *** 27th July 2017 ***. UnBias investigates problems surrounding algorithmic bias in data-driven systems (think biased search engines, recommender systems, fake news, etc) together with colleagues from Nottingham and Oxford. The project involves a heavy human factors and policy making element, which the other partners take care of, while in Edinburgh we focus on developing fair algorithms, i.e. on the technical side of things. So far, we have mainly worked on fairness in resource allocation, which has mostly involved game-theoretic multiagent systems techniques, but depending on the profile of the person who will replace the current Edinburgh postdoc, over the next year we could also take a slightly different direction - e.g. prediction fairness in machine learning algorithms, or more content-based notions of fairness, e.g. representing different opinions accurately in debates, which might involve more NLP work. For informal enquiries please feel free to contact Michael Rovatsos (mrovatso(a)inf.ed.ac.uk) <<< Many thanks for your help with this! Best Michael ... .. . .. ... .... ..... .... ... .. . .. ... .. . .. .. michael rovatsos senior lecturer school of informatics the university of edinburgh informatics forum 2.12a mrovatso(a)inf.ed.ac.uk +44 131 6513263 homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mrovatso . .. ... .... ..... .... ... .. . .. ... .... ..... .... . -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ unbias mailing list unbias(a)horizon.ac.uk http://lists.cs.nott.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/unbias This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.

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Quitting Social Media - the project
by Feldman, Zeena 06 Jul '17

06 Jul '17

Dear AoIR friends and colleagues, I have been thinking a lot recently about people who chose to disengage from digital culture. To that end, I’ve launched a project at King’s called Quitting Social Media and I would love to hear from you about your experiences of social media use, ambivalence and retreat. I’d be especially grateful if you could complete this short online survey (it takes about 5 minutes): https://goo.gl/forms/Sca5AZB94DCsz0BA3. If you happen to be in London on Friday 14 July or Wednesday 26 July 2017, please consider taking part in a focus group. You can sign up at https://doodle.com/poll/xyz5a6vk58fpzmn4 or just drop me an email. The Quitting Social Media project aims to provide insight into how social media users – and former users – negotiate today’s connectivity culture. Full project details are at https://quittingsocialmedia.wordpress.com. Please share widely. Many thanks for your support, Zeena Dr Zeena Feldman Lecturer in Digital Culture Co-Director, BA Digital Culture King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities 26-29 Drury Lane, room 221 London WC2B 5RL +44 (0)20 7484 1421 / zeena.feldman(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:zeena.feldman@kcl.ac.uk> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/academic/feldman.aspx

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Online survey on Internet attitudes - netCommons project
by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

Dear colleagues, Please find below an invitation from our colleagues of the European project netCommons (http://netcommons.eu/) on networks infrastructure as a commons to participate to a survey to explore the potential of alternatives to ISP such as community networks. The survey link is: https://d52netcommons.limequery.com/357528?lang=en Thanks for your time (20 minutes) and your interest, Melanie ------------------------------------------------ Dear Sir/Madam We are a team of researchers based at the University of Westminster in London and working for the netCommons Project (EU Horizon 2020 project netCommons: Network Infrastructure as Commons, http://netcommons.eu) As part of the project, we are conducting an online survey to examine users’ concerns about Internet use and at the same time explore the potential of alternative Internet provision. Such concerns will provide useful input to policy makers and regulators who hold significant responsibilities over the telecommunications and Internet landscape, and consequently need to take informed steps towards the evolution of this landscape. We are looking in particular for respondents (Internet users) who are academic/research staff, students, IT product/services professionals or administrative/clerical staff at Universities or research institutes. We would be grateful if you could take some time (about 20 minutes) to complete the survey. The survey link is: https://d52netcommons.limequery.com/357528?lang=en The survey will be available online until 30 July 2017. Many thanks for your collaboration. Kind regards Prof Christian Fuchs Dr Maria Michalis, Reader Dr Dimitris Boucas, Research Fellow University of Westminster, UK -- Melanie Dulong de Rosnay Associate Research Professor (Permanent researcher) French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Institute of Communication Sciences (CNRS - Paris Sorbonne University - UPMC) http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article1558

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Internet of Things 2017
by ijwa＠dline.info 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

Call for Papers Third International Workshop on 'Internet of Everything' In Conjunction with the Twelfth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2017) http://icdim.org/internet.html Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan September 12-14, 2107 Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Technology Engineering Management Society Accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings indexed by IEEE Xplore. About the Workshop The Internet of Everything (IoE) is expected to also make impacts in government, education, finance and transportation. On the consumer side there are nearly endless combinations of applications. The Internet of Things will forever change our personal and professional lives. By 2020, there will be 50 billion connected devices communicating through the Internet. Devices can range from connected coffee makers, cars, or sensors on cattle to connected machines in a production plant. These devices provide data that offers new insights, and as they talk to each other, they develop their own intelligence and can advise customers about optimal ways to put them to use. This will revolutionize consumer habits and the way we do work and services. Realizing the potential of IoE the proposed workshop will address the new research and also visulaize the future IoT. The topics the workshop address includes but not limited to - The Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 Smart Services Sensors Smart Grid Effects on Society Challenges and Opportunities for Society Business Perspective Digital Transformation and Business Smart Software for Smart Services Enabling Technologies Challenges and Opportunities for Business IoT for Supply Chain Management IoT in Healthcare smartphone integration, automotive applications, vehicle connectivity Smart Factory Energy & Utility Management and other related topics Submissions Submissions should provide original and unpublished research results or ongoing research with simulations. The papers should be between 6 to 8 pages total in length in the IEEE format. * All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html) * Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed and indexed journals. (Indexed in Scopus, Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports, dblp, Engineering Index and many other databases) Important Dates Full Paper Submission July 15, 2017 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection August -05, 2017 Registration Due September -01, 2017 Camera Ready Due September -01, 2017 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 13, 2017 Main conference September 12-14, 2017 Organizers Dr. Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Technological University of Ciudad Juarez Chihuahua, Mexico Submissions at http://www.icdim.org/submission.html For additional inquiries, please contact - conference at icdim.org ------------------------------------------------------

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