May 2018 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

2, 000 wrongly matched with possible criminals at Champions League
by Alberto Cammozzo May 5, 2018

May 5, 2018

<http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-44007872> More than 2,000 people were wrongly identified as possible criminals by facial scanning technology at the 2017 Champions League final in Cardiff. South Wales Police used the technology as about 170,000 people were in Cardiff for the Real Madrid v Juventus game. But out of the 2,470 potential matches with custody pictures - 92% - or 2,297 were wrong. Chief Constable Matt Jukes said officers "did not take action" and no one was wrongly arrested. South Wales Police have made 450 arrests in the last nine months using the automatic facial recognition (AFR) software, which scans faces comparing them to about 500,000 custody images <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39735637>. * Policing Champions League final in Cardiff cost £5.7m <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-43410104> * Champions league brings record-breaking numbers to Cardiff <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40259821> The technology has helped the force convict a criminal to six years in prison for robbery while another got four-and-a-half years imprisonment for burglary. But facial recognition was wrong on 92% of the faces it matched on the day of the Champions League Final, with 2,297 incorrect matches according to data on the force's website <https://www.south-wales.police.uk/en/advice/facial-recognition-technology/>. [...]

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Il Prof. Roberto Di Cosmo al Politecnico di Torino | 14 maggio (doppio appuntamento)
by Francesco Ruggiero May 5, 2018

May 5, 2018

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <https://nexa.polito.it/2018/02/dicosmo> NEXA Lunedì 14 maggio 2018 ore 10.30 - 12.30 ore 16.30 - 18.30 Il Prof. Roberto Di Cosmo al Politecnico di Torino /(doppio appuntamento)/ /Lunedì 14 maggio, ore 10.30 - 12.30/ /Sala Consiglio di Facoltà, Politecnico di Torino in Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino/ https://nexa.polito.it/2018/01/dicosmo L'industria del Software libero: l'esperienza francese /Lunedì 14 maggio, ore 16.30- 18.30/ /Sala Conferenze "Luigi Ciminiera", DAUIN, Politecnico di Torino in Corso Castelfidardo 34/D, Torino/ https://nexa.polito.it/2018/02/dicosmo Building the Universal Software Archive for Open Science L'amministrazione pubblica è una grande utilizzatrice di software e può svolgere un ruolo molto importante per lo sviluppo di un'industria del software saldamente impiantata nel territorio. In questa conferenza, percorreremo insieme dei momenti essenziali dell'esperienza francese degli ultimi quindici anni, che hanno visto l'emergere di un'industria del software libero che conta più di 500 imprese e 50000 posti di lavoro qualificato, e pesa 5 miliardi di euro. REGISTRATI ALLA CONFERENZA <https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-lindustria-del-software-libero-lesper…> Software is at the heart of our digital society and embodies a growing part of our scientific, technical and organisational knowledge. The mission of Software Heritage is to ensure that this precious body of knowledge will be preserved over time and made available to all. We do this for multiple reasons. To preserve the scientific and technological knowledge embedded in software source code, that is a precious part of our heritage. To allow better software development and reuse for society and industry, by building the largest and open software knowledge database, enabling the development of a broad range of value added applications. And we do this in particular to foster better science, by assembling the largest curated archive for software research, and building the infrastructure for preserving and sharing research software, a necessary complement to Open Access and a stepping stone for reproducibility. BIOGRAFIA [DICOSMO] ROBERTO DI COSMO <http://www.dicosmo.org/index.html>, after obtaining a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, was associate professor for almost a decade at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and became a Computer Science full professor at University Paris Diderot in 1999. He is currently on leave at Inria. He has been actively involved in research in theoretical computing, specifically in functional programming, parallel and distributed programming, the semantics of programming languages, type systems, rewriting and linear logic. His main focus is now on the new scientific problems posed by the general adoption of Free Software, with a particular focus on static analysis of large software collections, that were at the core of the european reseach project Mancoosi. Following the evolution of our society under the impact of IT with great interest, he is a long term Free Software advocate, contributing to its adoption since 1998 with the best-seller Hijacking the world, seminars, articles and software. He created the Free Software thematic group of Systematic in October 2007, and since 2010 he is director of IRILL, a research structure dedicated to Free and Open Source Software quality. In 2016, he co-founded and directs Software Heritage, an initiative to build the universal archive of all the source code publicly available. See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Responsabile Comunicazione Centro Nexa su Internet & Società: *Francesco Ruggiero*, tel: +39 011 090 7219, Mob: +39 349 1335082, francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it <mailto:francesco.ruggiero@polito.it>. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa e i Nexa Lunch Seminar, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/events. Weekly Events Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription preferences, please click here <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>. Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more <http://nexa.polito.it/get-involved>.

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Datacrazia - Politica, cultura algoritmica e conflitti al tempo dei big data | 11 maggio 2018, Torino
by Francesco Ruggiero May 4, 2018

May 4, 2018

Carissimi, vi segnalo un incontro in programma *venerdì 11 maggio*, delle ore 17.30 alle ore 19.30. A partire dal libro di prossima uscita, *Datacrazia - Politica, cultura algoritmica e conflitti al tempo dei big data *(D Editore), si discuterà di un tema di grande attualità sul piano sociale, economico e politico, provando a ragionare su cause e conseguenze di una realtà in profondo mutamento. L'incontro rientrerà all'interno della cornice del corso del prof. Juan Carlos De Martin "Rivoluzione Digitale <http://rivoluzionedigitale.polito.it/>” e si svolgerà al *Politecnico di Torino*, *aula 7*, in corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24. Parteciperanno *Juan Carlos De Martin*, *Daniela Gambetta *(curatore del libro) ed *Eleonora Priori* (co-autrice del libro). Maggiori informazioni all pagina: https://www.facebook.com/events/249529978955423/ Cordiali saluti, Francesco -- Francesco Ruggiero Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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The Origins of “Artificial Intelligence”
by Giacomo Tesio May 2, 2018

May 2, 2018

Un saggio onesto ed interessante di Rodney Brooks sulla storia (e sul presente ;-) della intelligenza artificiale. Mi ha ricordato da vicino l'intervento di Carlo Batini al seminario del 4 marzo a milano. > Just because someone says they are working on AGI, Artificial General > Intelligence, that does not mean they know how to build it, how long it > might take, or necessarily be making any progress at all. These lacks have > been the historical norm. Certainly the founding researchers in Artificial > Intelligence in the 1950’s and 1960’s thought that they were working on key > components of general intelligence. But that does not mean they got close > to their goal, even when they thought it was not so very far off. > > So, journalists, don’t you dare, don’t you dare, come back to me in ten > years and say where is that Artificial General Intelligence that we were > promised? It isn’t coming any time soon. > http://rodneybrooks.com/forai-the-origins-of-artificial-intelligence/ Giacomo

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