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CfA TATuP 35/1 (2026): the future of warfare: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
by Jascha Bareis 11 Mar '25

11 Mar '25

Dear list members, on behalf of the editorial team, please consider submitting an abstracts for /TATuP, /Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, topic: „Technology assessment and future warfare: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. /TATuP Special topic in issue 35/1 (2026), /*/Submit your abstract by 11 April 2025./* *Please read the complete **_CfA here: _* <https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/404> *_https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/404_* *_ _* *Guest editors of this TATuP Special topic:* * Prof. Dr. Karsten Weber^1 , _karsten.weber(a)oth-regensburg.de_ <mailto:karsten.weber@oth-regensburg.de>, _https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8875-2386_ <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8875-2386> * Prof. Dr. Markus Bresinsky^2 , _markus.bresinsky(a)oth-regensburg.de_ <mailto:markus.bresinsky@oth-regensburg.de> ^1 Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, Institute for Social Research and Technology Assessment, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Regensburg, DE ^2 ^Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences and Cultural Studies, Department of International Politics and Social Sciences, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Regensburg, DE, Best TATuP editorial office ____________________________________________________________________ *TATuP* – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis Karlstr. 11 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany _www.tatup.de_ <http://www.tatup.de/> _redaktion(a)tatup.de_ <mailto:redaktion@tatup.de>

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Special issue on Critical Discourse Analysis and GenerativeAI
by hossein kermani 11 Mar '25

11 Mar '25

Dear colleagues, Dr. Khosravinik (U of Newcastle) and I are editing a special issue on Critical Discourse Analysis and GenerativeAI for Discourse & Society. We invite scholars to submit their latest works in this field to the special issue. You can find the cal below: https://www.hosseinkermani.com/blog Best.Hossein

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ACM RecSys Challenge Kick-off
by Starke, Alain 11 Mar '25

11 Mar '25

Dear all, I am pleased to announce the kick-off of the 'RecSys Challenge', which is part of the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Prague, September 22-26. The RecSys (Recommender Systems) Challenge is the official challenge of the ACM RecSys conference series, in which participants need to come up with the best approach for a given problem with a dataset. The challenge has been organized since 2012 and each a different company makes a dataset available: https://www.recsyschallenge.com/2025/. This year's challenge features the concept of Universal Behavioral Profiles-user representations that encode essential aspects of each individual's past interactions. These profiles are designed to be universally applicable across multiple predictive tasks, such as churn prediction and product recommendations. By developing representations that capture fundamental patterns in user behavior, we enable models to generalize effectively across different applications. The challenge involves to predict a data model on several tasks, including Churn Prediction, Product Propensity and Category Propensity. There are also several hidden tasks. The data will be evaluated with the AUROC metric. All information is available on the challenge website: https://www.recsyschallenge.com/2025/. Prizes The first three teams that come up with the best model can win prizes of $3,500, $2,500 and $1,500. The best academic teams can win prizes of $2,500, $1,500, and $500. The dataset has been released on March 10, the first leaderboard will be published on April 10. Check out all details on the website: https://www.recsyschallenge.com/2025/. Happy participation! Kind regards, Alain Starke Publicity Co-Chair ACM RecSys

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Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute- call for applications
by Nicole Stremlau 11 Mar '25

11 Mar '25

2025 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Jesus College, Oxford 28 July – 8 August 2025 https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/oxford-media-policy-summer-institute Media policy in a time of global crises and geo-political (re)ordering The 2025 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute comes at a critical moment. Today’s international system faces unprecedented challenges including fragmentation and new modes of ordering with significant implications for media and communications technologies. The future of media development is uncertain, fact-checking and content moderation efforts are being undermined, and inequalities are deepening. Join us in Oxford for two weeks as we engage speakers and participants from around the world to debate rapidly changing current events. From the politics of AI policymaking across the global south, to the approach of Big Tech- from the US to China- towards global markets, and the erosion of ethics and responsibility in AI, we will also explore efforts of resistance emerging from Africa and alternative ways of fostering inclusion and reimagining a shared future. In the context of continuing global conflicts and intersected crises, we will also explore some of the ideological underpinnings that appear to be infusing some of the sweeping shifts we are witnessing, including questions around the role of the state, law (or non-law), and values. Our approach is decidedly global, with an emphasis on the global south. We will also use our vantage point from the UK to discuss leading issues in the EU and engage with local actors, including Ofcom, the BBC, and the European Commission. As with Summer Institutes in the past, we will have speakers from across Oxford and prominent guests from policy, government and the private sector. One of the most exciting aspects of the Summer Institute is the vibrant and engaged group of participants and the lasting networks of solidarity and collaboration created. For over two decades, the Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute has built a dynamic cohort of alumni worldwide. It promises to be an engaging and vibrant two weeks, with the opportunity to reflect, step back from your work, and engage with new perspectives and ideas from around the world. Join us during these unprecedented times to discuss pressing issues of global media policy over breakfast, during seminars, and on long walks through the Oxford countryside! Please get in touch with us if you have any questions at pcmlp(a)csls.ox.ac.uk<mailto:pcmlp@csls.ox.ac.uk> We recommend applying early, particularly if you require a visa to travel to the UK. Apply by March 21, 2025 for an early decision. The final application deadline is April 25, 2025. Apply here: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/oxford-media-policy-summer-institute

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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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