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OA article - “Accountability in artificial intelligence: what it is and how it works”
by Luciano Floridi 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

In case it may be of interest to members of the list: “Accountability in artificial intelligence: what it is and how it works” has now been published in AI & Society. The free OA preprint can be downloaded @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4180366 With best wishes, Luciano ______________ Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Oxford Internet Institute Fellow, Exeter College University of Oxford PA Krystal Whittaker<mailto:lucianofloridi.pa@gmail.com> Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication Director, Centre for Digital Ethics Department of Legal Studies Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna SA Elisabetta Bulla<mailto:segreteria.amministrativa.cde@gmail.com>

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CHI’23 Workshop, CfP: Bridging Distances for Global Participation: Conducting and Theorizing Participatory Design and Research in Hybrid Contexts
by Ylipulli Johanna 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Hi all, Please consider participating our hybrid workshop, we could still fit in a few papers! Deadline of extended abstracts: Feb 19, 2023 (23:59 AoE) Kind regards, Johanna ********* Call for Papers CHI’23 Workshop Bridging Distances for Global Participation: Conducting and Theorizing Participatory Design and Research in Hybrid Contexts Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/urbanai/conducting-hybrid-pd<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.goo…> CHI conference website: https://chi2023.acm.org/ In this hybrid workshop, we explore the opportunities of conducting multi- site participatory design (PD) and research through hybrid present-telepresent participatory methods, and share issues, challenges, methods, and empirical examples pertaining to this as a goal. PD must increasingly be able to address and serve various global contexts. Overall, then, there is a fundamental need to raise previously unheard global voices in technology design and development, and to bring various stakeholders together. The bread and butter of participatory methodology has been physically co-located creative work with participants, with the aim to immerse the practitioners in the use context, and to learn about the practices, needs and values relevant for the stakeholders in this context. This embedded, hands-on work is crucial and arguably forms the basis of PD practice. Often, this has also meant that PD research teams have been mostly physically co-located, at least for the duration of the PD process. This approach has fundamental validity, as PD requires an in-depth understanding of the cultural context in which it is performed. Nevertheless, this approach also has its drawbacks, as collocated work means both geographical and financial limitations to the type of work that can be accomplished. Conducting multi-site co-located work may be prohibitively time-consuming and expensive, and may also require extensive physical capabilities from both practitioners and participants, leaving many voices unheard. Furthermore, the rapid adoption of various synchronous and asynchronous communication methods through online collaborative tools offer opportunities for more continuous, more dispersed, and more diverse PD research settings and processes. During the world-wide social distancing efforts of 2020–2022, an enormous leap forward was made seemingly overnight in adopting novel modalities of participation and collaboration. As we have since moved into a post social distancing world, it is important and timely to both seize the lessons learned from the pandemic-induced forced hybridization of PD, and to keep developing the potentialities that emerged from the experience. However, this opportunity also raises several questions, including: How can we enable various global stakeholders to take part in global hybrid PD? How can PD practitioners work across cultural spheres in distant settings, and how can we perform culturally aware and sensitive work without ‘being there’? What can a partly technology-mediated PD process consist of, what knowledge can it produce, and what limitations does it have? What novel challenges and opportunities pertaining to accessibility emerge in a technology-mediated PD process? What values, competences and awareness do PD practitioners need when conducting PD work in culturally diverse hybrid settings? What PD processes or methods are not suited to hybrid work and best left for the “nonline” world? What theories, methods and lessons from other fields of research, e,g, from remote ethnography or Computer-Supported Collaborative Work, could be applied? We invite those interested to submit a position paper (3–4 pages) in the SIGCHI Single column paper format (https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio…) These contributions may address, for example: * Theoretical considerations: e.g., utilising key theoretical concepts from various fields to build understanding of how to conduct hybrid participatory design and research in various global contexts * Case studies: empirical works that analyze experiences of hybrid participatory design and research in various global contexts * Design-based explorations in real-world settings: e.g. implementation of participatory design and research approaches in different global contexts in hybrid environments * Methods: Methodologies that can contribute towards better implementation of participation in various global contexts and in hybrid environments * Thematic issues; e.g. ethical issues; various user or stakeholder groups, various areas of design, global perspectives, etc. pertaining to conducting hybrid PD in multi-side, multi- cultural contexts Extended Deadline: Feb 19, 2023 (23:59 AoE) Notifications: Mar 1, 2023 (23:59 AoE) Workshop Duration: one day Date & place: Sunday April 23, Hybrid workshop (Hamburg, Germany / online) Papers should be sent to: aale.luusua(at)oulu.fi<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Foulu.fi%2F…> AND johanna.ylipulli(at)aalto.fi<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faalto.fi%2…> Organizers: * Aale Luusua, University of Oulu, Finland * Johanna Ylipulli, Aalto University, Finland * Dani K. Raju, Studio Hasi, India * Emilia Rönkkö, University of Oulu, Finland ****************** Johanna Ylipulli Dr., Docent/Adjunct professor Academy of Finland Research Fellow Information networks, Department of Computer Science Aalto University johanna.ylipulli(a)aalto.fi<mailto:johanna.ylipulli@aalto.fi> +358 50 312 0109 LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-ylipulli-366ba983/> Google Scholar<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.g…>

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Online panel: Dealing with Algorithmic Risks through EU Policy | 16 Feb 2023
by Orsolya Gulyás 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, A quick reminder that the Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation (CD2I) at the Brussels School of Governance is organising an online panel discussion about the European Union’s approach to artificial intelligence policies. The event will bring together researchers and policymakers from academia and the European Commission to tackle pressing questions about the challenges faced in an algorithmized world, such as platform governance, disinformation, data infrastructures, and questions of fairness and transparency in the datafied society. The panel discussion will take place on 16 February at 15.30 (CET) on Zoom, please register to receive the meeting link. Registration: https://brussels-school.be/event/online-panel-discussion-dealing-algorithmi… Speakers: * Rocco Bellanova, Research Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel * Emilia Gómez, Senior Researcher, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission * Gabriele Mazzini, Team Leader on the AI Act, European Commission * Trisha Meyer, Director of the Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation, Brussels School of Governance * Claire Pershan, EU Advocacy Lead, Mozilla Foundation Best wishes, ORSOLYA GULYÁS PhD Researcher orsolya.gulyas(a)vub.be<mailto:orsolya.gulyas@vub.be> Brussels School of Governance<https://brussels-school.be/> Pleinlaan 5 - 1050 Brussels

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Call for Contributions | DigiMethods 2023 Colloquium: Future Proofing Journalism and Media Education in Africa
by Kayla Roux 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

DigiMethods 2023: Future Proofing Journalism and Media curricula in Africa Colloquium The Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies invites you to join us in visualising a curriculum for our shared future as educators teaching journalism and media in the 21st century at a colloquium entitled Digimethods 2023: Future Proofing Journalism and Media Curricula in Africa. At this colloquium, we are interested in what it is that the digital enables: which new directions, new genres and forms of storytelling characterise this shifting terrain? And how do we as educators respond to them and apply them in our various different (and often challenging) contexts? Happening directly after our cutting-edge Digital Research Methods Winter School which will empower media researchers with a range of digital tools, this colloquium is aimed at teachers and educators who want to think and work together on the problem of future-proofing journalism and media curricula in Africa. When? The colloquium will be held from 23-24 June 2023. Where? Africa Media Matrix, Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa. BACKGROUND Over a decade ago, JMS worked to imagine a future post-apartheid in a series of Journalism Education Colloquia, which interrogated how journalism teaching needed to respond to the demands of the post-apartheid context. Last year, another series of colloquia saw us turn our focus to the specific circumstances facing journalism today: including the current ‘crisis’ of journalism in the face of digitisation and defunding, and multilingualism in journalism education. In 2023, we continue this series of rigorous engagements with the changing face of journalism. As media educators, we face new challenges as media production has become almost entirely a digital practice requiring specialised digital skills. >From artificial intelligence and immersive storytelling to data journalism and social media scraping: the rapidly changing digital context (both locally and globally) poses a range of challenges - and opportunities - for teachers, supervisors and students in African spaces. Ours is a social context of extreme inequalities experienced along lines of gender, income, race, age, and geographical location; it is a context that is also characterised by highly unequal access to infrastructural, educational, health and other services. Given this uneven social landscape, northern approaches to teaching and researching digital media studies and media production cannot be seamlessly transposed to our southern space. So, we want to bring together some of the best and brightest minds currently working in this terrain in South Africa and the world to find ways of ‘future-proofing’ our curricula: designing programmes and teaching philosophies that are as flexible as they are strong, able to adapt to new contexts and changing technologies, and properly equip our students with the tools they need. SUBMISSIONS Whether you are already a seasoned digital guru or a media educator who would like to join in on some cutting edge conversations and see how you can use new media innovations in your teaching practice, we would love for you to join us. Participants are invited to make a contribution in the format of their choice (papers, presentations, experiential narratives, demonstrations, multimedia presentations, etc). If you would like to participate in this colloquium, please complete the following form, which includes a description (no longer than 750 words) of what you would like to present at the colloquium and in which format. Colloquium application form: https://forms.gle/EAvEzY8npP5YKeas6 Please include your name and affiliation in the email for administrative processing. Suggested themes for submissions Here are some suggested themes that might spark your thinking about issues we are responding to, as media educators living and working in this complex digital terrain: - What the digital enables: new directions, genres, forms of journalism/media production - Classroom case studies: Creative applications of new media tools and platforms in the curriculum - Decolonising journalism and media education? Adapting global technologies to local contexts - ‘Cyclists on the superhighway’ of media innovation: how do we teach students the skills they need to survive and thrive in an ever-changing world? - The role of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence in journalism and their impact on contexts in the Global South - Telling stories from the Global South using multimedia and new technologies - Artificial intelligence and student innovation: Dangerous threat to intellectual property, or powerful new learning tool? - Using immersive technologies in locative and world-building media production - Creative practice-based research projects aimed at developing journalisms for the Global South - Developing practice-led postgraduate programmes in journalism and media studies Feel free to suggest another topic based on your expertise and teaching practice. Additionally, if there are particular journalists or media educators you think should be present, please add their names and contact details to your submission. See you in Makhanda, either virtually or in person! Deadline for submission: Monday 24 April at 5pm Email k.roux(a)ru.ac.za for more information or if you have any questions. Kind regards Kayla Roux Digital Media Lecturer School of Journalism and Media Studies Rhodes University South Africa Kind regards Kayla Roux Digital Media lecturer School of Journalism and Media Studies Rhodes University South Africa +27 46 603 7137

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Postdoctoral position in philosophy and technology
by Sille Obelitz Søe 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Dear All, I am looking for a postdoc to work with me in my new project Absence of information in decision-making processes (ABSENCE). The full call for applications can be found here: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=158489 Postdoctoral position in philosophy and technology The Department of Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral position focusing on theoretical investigations of absence of information and automated decision-making to be filled by 1 August 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is part of the Absence of information in decision-making processes (ABSENCE) research project funded by DFF. The position is for 24 months. Job content The project Absence of information in decision-making processes (ABSENCE) investigates the concept of absence and its role in communication in order to advance our knowledge of decision-making processes for humans and machines. The project asks what we can learn from human social intelligence when developing automated systems. Through the focus on absence of information, the project aims to tease out the tacit elements of communication and decision-making in order to understand these in relation to algorithmic processes. On a fundamental level, ABSENCE asks what it means to be human in relation to technology. The postdoc's research activities will contribute to the aims of the project through conceptual analyses and/or technical developments and applications working at the intersection of philosophy and technology. The successful candidate will be expected to advance the theoretical and philosophical work on absence-based inference in order to inform and advance our understanding of automated decision-making. Further, the postdoc will be expected to conduct expert interviews in order to understand the prospects and pitfalls of new technologies - especially artificial intelligence - in relation to absence and automated decision-making processes. For more information about ABSENCE, visit the website: https://komm.ku.dk/forskning/information-teknologi-og-relationer/absence/ The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the theoretical and philosophical studies and the conceptual development devised by the project framework - both independently and in collaboration with the project leader Assistant Professor Sille Obelitz Søe. The successful candidate will be expected to publish scientific articles within the context of the project and to participate in the organization of activities and research events within the project. Best wishes, Sille Sille Obelitz Søe Tenure Track Assistant Professor Philosophy of Information University of Copenhagen Department of Communication Karen Blixens Plads 8 2300 København S DIR +45 35 32 14 09 sille.obelitz(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:sille.obelitz@hum.ku.dk> www.komm.ku.dk<http://www.komm.ku.dk/> - - Selected Publications - - Sille Obelitz Søe and Jens-Erik Mai, (2022) "Data identity: privacy and the construction of self" Synthese, Vol 200 Issue: 6, paper 492, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-022-03968-5 Sille Obelitz Søe, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, and Jens-Erik Mai, (2021) "What is the 'personal' in 'personal information'?" Ethics and Information Technology, Vol 23 Issue: 4, pp. 625-633, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-021-09600-3 Sille Obelitz Søe, (2021) "Nonnatural Personal Information. Accounting for Misleading and Non-misleading Personal Information" Philosophy & Technology, Vol 34 Issue: 4, pp. 1243-1262, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-021-00457-4 Sille Obelitz Søe, (2021) "A unified account of information, misinformation, and disinformation" Synthese, Vol 198 Issue: 6, pp. 5929-5949, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02444-x Kira Vrist Rønn and Sille Obelitz Søe, (2019) "Is social media intelligence private? Privacy in public and the nature of social media intelligence", Intelligence and National Security, Vol 34 Issue: 3, pp. 362-378, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2019.1553701

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Call for Abstracts! Children and Screens Congress
by Stephanie Reich 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development is now accepting abstract submissions for its 2023 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.childrenandscreens.com/2023-digital…>, to be held in-person in Washington D.C. September 20-23, 2023. This conference will convene experts in developmental science, medicine, neuroscience, education, computer science, media psychology, public health and public policy (among others) to present and discuss the latest research on a wide range of timely issues for youth, including mental health, digital addictions, using digital media to promote health and well-being, cognitive impacts, emerging technologies, methodologies, and more. Sessions will cover the latest empirical research and solutions, and feature interdisciplinary panel discussions, keynote presentations, a poster session, networking opportunities, hands-on demonstrations, and a Tools and Methodologies Exposition. This interdisciplinary gathering is a not-to-be-missed event for anyone and everyone interested in children and media research. More information about the event and submitting an abstract are available here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.childrenandscreens.com/2023-digital…>. Please submit questions to congress(a)childrenandscreens.com<mailto:congress@childrenandscreens.com>. We hope to see you in D.C. in September!

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UM DSI Summer Institute: Digital Physical Entanglements
by Germaine R Halegoua 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

Hi everyone, Please note that the UM Digital Studies Institute is currently accepting applications for our 3rd Annual *Digital IDEAS Summer Institute:* *Digital Physical Entanglements: Environments, Bodies and Space <https://docs.google.com/document/d/17uREOw2Mot5dG8dDf6KWX_rhMJU8ZPBMeno0vxH…>* See below for more information on the summer institute, featured speakers, and how to apply. Applications are *due Feb 21*. Please reach out with any questions as I'm on the planning committee and happy to chat. And please forward to anyone who might be interested. Thank you! Best, Germaine -- The UM Digital Studies Institute <https://www.digitalstudies.umich.edu/> is excited to announce the 3rd Annual *Digital IDEAS Summer Institute:* *Digital Physical Entanglements: Environments, Bodies and Space <https://docs.google.com/document/d/17uREOw2Mot5dG8dDf6KWX_rhMJU8ZPBMeno0vxH…>. * This year’s theme, *Digital Physical Entanglements*, addresses the intertwining relations between digital and physical with a focus on impacts to environments, bodies, and space. We have an exciting lineup of speakers who will be attending this year including Mél Hogan <https://www.melhogan.com/>, Mimi Onuoha <https://mimionuoha.com/>, and Lisa Parks <https://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/person/lisa-parks/> - just to name a few! Applications are officially open to apply to attend this year's Summer Institute which is scheduled over two weeks in July 2023. The first week, July 17th - 21st, will be held virtually, while the second week, July 24th - 28th, will be held in-person/hybrid on the University of Michigan Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Please check our website <https://www.digitalstudies.umich.edu/digital-ideas/apply-here.html> to learn more about Digital IDEAS Summer Institute 2023 and Apply Here <https://forms.gle/PsQpqSG6eGgThy3GA> before the deadline on *February 21, 2023*! Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions! All questions can be directed to Sarah Torsch at dsi-studentservices(a)umich.edu -- Germaine R. Halegoua (she/her) John D. Evans Development Professor & Associate Professor of Communication and Media Director of Graduate Studies, Digital Studies Institute <https://www.digitalstudies.umich.edu/> University of Michigan Author: The Digital City <https://nyupress.org/9781479882199/the-digital-city/>, Smart Cities <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/smart-cities>

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[CFP-MedComNet 2023] Deadline extension: Mar. 8, 2023 -- 1th Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (13-15 June, Island of Ponza, Italy)
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

======================================================================== Deadline extended to 8th of March (firm and final!) ======================================================================== ======================================================================== MedComNet 2023 13-15 June, Island of Ponza, Italy Call for Papers ======================================================================== MedComNet 2023 continues the tradition of the MedHocNet conference series that started in Sardinia in 2002 and was held annually in beautiful locations on the shores of the Mediterranean. This year's edition will take place from the 13th to the 15th of June on the island of Ponza, Italy. MedComNet is a forum for the presentation of new research results in the broad area of wired and wireless communication and computer networking. All aspects of the networking research area are welcome. MedComNet will request the technical co-sponsorhip of IEEE. Extended versions of the best papers presented at the conference will be considered, by invitation and upon additional review, for publication in the Elsevier Computer Networks journal. The best paper in the conference will be awarded the Mario Gerla Best Paper Award. Topics include but are not limited to: Networking for future applications: - Internet of Things / Cyber-physical systems - Vehicular networks - Localization and location-based services - Networking for the metaverse - Edge, fog and cloud computing - AI-as-a-Service - Distributed Ledger Technologies Networks at large: - Beyond 5G networks - Edge AI, Networking for AI - Network security and privacy - Routing and multicast - Energy efficiency in networks - Mobile sensing and mobility management - Network economics and pricing - Network management - Network measurement and analysis Physical and MAC layers: - mmWave, THz, VLC networking - MIMO-based networking - Dynamic spectrum sharing - Interference management and mitigation - Optical networks - Satellite networks - Software-defined Radios - Open RAN Tools and techniques for advanced networking: - Network coding for 5G - Machine Learning and AI for networks - Software-defined networking - Network virtualization Please click here to go to the EDAS submission page: https://edas.info/N30533 ======================================================================== Important dates: ======================================================================== Extended paper submission deadline: Mar. 8, 2023 (FIRM!) Acceptance notification: Apr. 14, 2023 Camera Ready Papers due: May 3, 2023 Conference: June 13-15, 2023 ======================================================================== Instructions for authors: ======================================================================== Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research related to the aforementioned topics of interest. All paper submissions must be written in English and must be formatted in standard IEEE 2-column format. Only Adobe PDF files will be accepted for the review process. Further instructions (including the submission link) will be published on the website. Be aware that this is still under constructions and it is currently just a mirror of 2022 edition. The website for 2023 should become online soon. Keep an eye on it! https://www.medcomnet.org/ We will consider two different categories of papers: Full papers should describe novel research contributions and are limited in length to ten (10) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, tables, and references. Papers exceeding ten (10) pages will not be accepted at EDAS, nor reviewed at all. Short papers should be more visionary in nature and may report on work in progress without finished results. They are meant to present novel perspectives, so as to foster discussion about innovative directions and new points of view. They are limited to at most four (4) pages including figures, tables, and references, but might in many cases be even shorter. Accepted short papers will be included in the proceedings and they will be given (a shorter) time for oral presentation at the conference. ======================================================================== No-show policy: ======================================================================== Submission to the conference implies willingness to present. No-shows will be excluded from the proceedings. No-show papers are defined as papers submitted by authors who subsequently did not present the paper in-person at the technical meeting (given the current situation, remote presentations may be allowed). Presentations by proxies are not allowed. No refund of the paid fees can be claimed by the no-show author. Exceptions to this policy can only be made by the Technical Program Chairs and only if there is evidence that the no-show occurred because of unanticipated events beyond the control of the authors, and every option available to the authors to present the paper was exhausted. ======================================================================== Presentations in case of travel restrictions: ======================================================================== The organizing committee will consider the possibility of remote presentations for authors coming from countries with travel restrictions in place due to the COVID pandemic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 -- Nashville, Tennessee, June 26-30, 2023 -- Paper Registration Deadline: February 23, 2023
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

=============================================================================================================== ================================================================================================================ IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, June 26-30, 2023 https://smartcomp.isis.vanderbilt.edu/ https://twitter.com/IEEESmartComp Paper Registration: 2.23.23 Paper Submission: 3.2.23 ================================================================================================================ ================================================================================================================ SMARTCOMP 2023 is the 9th edition of the premier conference on smart computing. Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain based on the synergistic influence of advances in sensor-based technologies, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, big data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing, ambient intelligence, and artificial intelligence. Applications of smart computing can be found in various societal domains, including transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, industrial systems, entertainment, and social media. Algorithmic and systems advancements of cloud computing, mobile and pervasive computing, sensor networking, and social computing are taking smart computing to a new level while improving our ways of living. SMARTCOMP 2023 welcomes novel, cutting-edge, and creative research. Authors are encouraged to discuss the importance, timeliness, significance of their work, as well as limitations, potential future extensions, and open research directions. Topics SMARTCOMP 2023 solicits submissions that address the fundamental questions of smart computing, namely how to design and build scalable and reliable smart computing systems, and how to use computing technology for resource sustainability to improve the human experience. Topics of interest include---but are not limited to---the following: Emerging Smart Computing Paradigms Evaluation Studies and Datasets of Smart Environments Algorithms for Smart Computing AI and Machine Learning in Smart Computing Security, Privacy, and Trust in Smart Computing Smart and Usable Security and Privacy Fairness and Socio-technical Aspects of Smart Computing Middleware for Smart Systems Mobile and Ubiquitous Smart Systems Cloud, Edge, and Fog based Smart Computing Platforms Data Architectures and Analytics for Smart Computing Computing for Smart and Connected Communities Smart Green Computing Distributed Sensing and Computation Social Computing and Smart Systems Wearable Computing and IoT Architectures and Software for Smart Computing Novel Communication Paradigms (e.g., 5G/6G, VLC, DSA) in Smart Computing Contact-free Sensing Backscatter Communicating Smart ComputingÂ Platforms Quantum Computing in Smart Systems Interdisciplinary Approaches to Smart Computing Applications of Smart Computing: - Healthcare and Digital Epidemiology - Agriculture - Smart Cities - Power Systems - Transportation - Water Distribution - Manufacturing - Workspaces Important Dates (All Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth) Paper Registration: February 23, 2023 Paper Submission: March 2, 2023 Acceptance Notification: April 4, 2023 Camera-ready Submission: May 10, 2023 Conference: June 26-30, 2023 The conference is planned as an in-person event in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The organizers will monitor the public health situation and may make adjustments if necessary. Paper Submission Guidelines Paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages (the page count limit includes the references list) and formatted according to the two-column IEEE proceedings template. IEEE provides corresponding formatting templates at IEEE proceedings template. Authors should use the conference mode of the template, i.e., LaTeX users must use the conference option of the IEEEtran document class. Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file on US Letter size paper (not A4), with all fonts embedded (PDF-A standard complies with this), through EDAS. All submitted papers that conform to these guidelines will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Journal Fast Track Extended versions of selected high-quality papers accepted by IEEE SMARTCOMP 2023 will be considered for publication in Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal (IF: 3.453). Program Chairs Aron Laszka, Pennsylvania State University, USA Stephan Sigg, Aalto University, Finland Contact Information For any questions about the conference, please contact the TPC Co-Chairs at smartcomp2023(a)list.aalto.fi<mailto:smartcomp2023@list.aalto.fi> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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Information & Culture seeking book reviewers
by James A Hodges 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

Greetings! Please accept my apologies for cross-posting. I'm the Senior Book Reviews Editor for *Information & Culture* ( https://infoculturejournal.org/) an information studies journal published by the UT Austin School of Information. We're currently looking for a few reviewers. In particular, we're looking for someone to review a few recent titles, listed below (although I welcome suggestions/pitches for anything within our wheelhouse that has been published within the last 6 months or so). Reviews are generally under 1,000 words and directed at a wide audience of media, library, information, and communication scholars. You can also read our full book review guidelines at https://bit.ly/ICReviewGuidelines. "The Political Lives of Information Information and the Production of Development in India" By Janaki Srinivasan https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544047/the-political-lives-of-information/ "An Anthropological toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts" by David Zeitlyn https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/ZeitlynAnthropological "Semantic Media: Mapping Meaning on the Internet" by Andrew Iliadis https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/ZeitlynAnthropological "Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age" by Heather Ford https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046299/writing-the-revolution/ "A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago" by E. James West https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252086397/a-house-for-the-struggle/ "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" by Geert Lovink https://valiz.nl/en/publications/stuck-on-the-platform If you are interested in reviewing for us, *please send your response to reviews(a)ischool.utexas.edu <reviews(a)ischool.utexas.edu>* Thank you! Sincerely, James A Hodges, Ph.D. Senior Book Reviews Editor -- *JAMES A. HODGES, PH.D. *(he/him/his) Assistant Professor San José State University School of Information http://www.jameshodges.net Senior Book Reviews Editor Information & Culture <https://infoculturejournal.org/> Member, Committee on Publication Ethics <https://publicationethics.org/> (COPE) Junior Fellow, Rare Book School Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography <https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/sofcb/>

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