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"L'intelligenza artificiale? Non è vera intelligenza"
by Marco Ciurcina April 2, 2019

April 2, 2019

Il filosofo americano: "I computer non hanno una mente perché non hanno una coscienza" Il mistero della realtà (Raffaello Cortina Editore, pagg. 300, euro 26) raccoglie dieci lezioni tenute da John Searle all'Università di Girona, nel 2015. In ciascuna di esse, il filosofo americano, allievo di Austin e «nipote» (intellettualmente parlando) di Frege, si occupa delle questioni ancora aperte per la filosofia del XXI secolo. Lo fa dal suo versante, quello della filosofia della mente e del linguaggio (che ha insegnato all'Università di Berkeley, dove oggi, a 86 anni, è professore emerito); quello della filosofia analitica, di cui è uno degli esponenti più celebri, grazie alla sua teoria degli «atti linguistici». E, in particolare, Searle affronta quella che per lui è «la vera domanda» per la filosofia oggi, ovvero: «Come è possibile conciliare ciò che pensiamo della realtà umana con la realtà più elementare descritta dalle scienze dure?». ... [continua qui] http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cultura/lintelligenza-artificiale-non-vera-in… Leggendo l'intervista parrebbe un libro interessante. Qualcuno l'ha letto? m.c.

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CfP Workshop on Engineering Accountable Information Systems Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden, June 10-11, 2019
by Ben Wagner April 2, 2019

April 2, 2019

Dear all, we currently have a call for papers on Accountable Systems for a workshop at ECIS 2019 that might be interesting for many people on this list: https://easychair.org/cfp/ECIS2019-EAIS <https://easychair.org/cfp/ECIS2019-EAIS> Deadline for submissions is 15 March 2019. If you have any questions about it please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Best, Ben -- Dr. Ben Wagner Assistant Professor Institute for Information Systems and Society Vienna University of Economics and Business Director, Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab Email: ben.wagner(a)wu.ac.at <mailto:ben.wagner@wu.ac.at> | Tel: +43-1-31336-6061 Web: https://www.privacylab.at/ <https://www.privacylab.at/> | Twitter: @benwagne_r ECIS 2019 Workshop: Engineering Accountable Information Systems The function of information systems in society is increasingly in focus of information systems research. One outstanding challenge is how to build information systems which promote accountability, as part of a wider debate on fairness, accountability, and transparency principles (e.g., ACM FAT*). This need for accountability must be reflected on all layers of systems engineering, ranging from process analysis to concrete technical components and primitives employed during implementation. Based on our existing research we believe that three specific areas of information systems research are most relevant in this context: user cognition and human behaviour in relation to the design of interfaces; automated decision-making systems and decision-support systems; critical business processes with a particular need for accountability. In all these and further areas, accountability in complex information systems needs to be addressed through technical mechanisms. Existing high-level considerations on accountability in information systems notwithstanding, however, the concrete engineering and implementation of such mechanisms has so far received only limited attention. Similarly, the challenges arising during such transformations of abstract accountability concepts into concrete technologies as well as the critical evaluation of respective implementations are only rarely covered by existing research. We see this workshop as an opportunity to close these gaps through engaging with the existing debate on accountability while integrating key knowledge from the information systems community. Importantly, our approach to accountable systems is not just focused on high level norms of system development, but indispensably also incorporates practical questions of engineering and designing actual systems. We therefore encourage submissions from the above-mentioned and other areas of accountability engineering as long as they sufficiently incorporate questions of concrete systems engineering and implementation. Submission Guidelines Authors should follow the ECIS 2019 guidelines for research in progress papers, with papers between 4 and 7 pages in length. A poster is not required. Full details are available here: http://ecis2019.eu/information-to-authors <http://ecis2019.eu/information-to-authors> Submissions must be made through the EasyChair system via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecis2019eais <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecis2019eais> For questions about the workshop, submissions or review process, contact the chairs via ecis2019eais[at]easychair[dot]org Relevant Dates • Submissions due by March 15 2019 • Replies by April 15 2019 • Final Papers due June 1 2010 • Workshop will be held on June 10 and 11, at Stockholm University’s Kista campus. Organizing & Program Committee Chairs • Ben Wagner, WU Vienna • Frank Pallas, TU Berlin • Florian Cech, TU Vienna • Ancsa Hannak, CSH Vienna Program Committee • Soheil Human, WU Vienna • Till Winkler, WU Vienna • Niels ten Oever, University of Amsterdam • Jörg Pohle, HIIG Berlin • Claudia Müller-Birn, FU Berlin • Juhi Kulshreshta, GESIS, Leibniz • Eliška Pírková, University of Helsinki • Juan Quintero, FAU Erlangen Nürnberg • Eva Zangerle, University of Innsbruck • Abhijnan Chakraborty, MPI Saarbrucken • Piotr Sapiezynski, Northeastern University • Jat Singh, University of Cambridge • Martina Zitterbart, KIT Karlsruhe • Giovanni Sartor, EUI Florence • Abbas Masnavi, CalTech • Golnaz Bidabadi, San Jose State University • Melanie Herschel, IPVS, University of Stuttgart Publication Accepted papers will be published as part of an open-access online collection with CEUR Workshop Proceedings http://ceur-ws.org/ <http://ceur-ws.org/> and an overview of the workshop findings will be published with CAIS (Communications of the Association for Information Systems). Venue The conference will be held in Stockholm University’s Kista campus on June 10 and 11. -- Dr. Ben Wagner Assistant Professor Institute for Information Systems and Society Vienna University of Economics and Business Director, Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab Email: ben.wagner(a)wu.ac.at | Tel: +43-1-31336-6061 Web: https://www.privacylab.at/ | Twitter: @benwagne_r

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Paper: “The Smart Home on FIRE: Amplifying and Accelerating Domestic Surveillance”
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 2, 2019

April 2, 2019

https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/v… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Exodus: Nuovo Spyware per Android Made in Italy
by Giacomo April 1, 2019

April 1, 2019

https://securitywithoutborders.org/blog/2019/03/29/exodus-ita.html Abbiamo identificato una nuova famiglia di spyware per Android che abbiamo nominato Exodus e che si compone di due stage che identifichiamo in questo rapporto come Exodus One e Exodus Two. [...] Secondo le statistiche pubblicamente disponibili, in aggiunta ad una conferma di Google, la maggior parte di queste applicazioni hanno raccolto qualche decina di installazioni ciascuna, con un caso che superava le 350 unità. Tutte le vittime si trovano in Italia. [...] Riteniamo che questa piattaforma spyware sia stata sviluppata da una società Italiana chiamata eSurv, di Catanzaro, che opera principalmente nel settore della videosorveglianza [...] Exodus è dotato di ampie capacità di raccolta e di intercettazione. È particolarmente preoccupante che alcune delle modifiche effettuate dallo spyware potrebbero esporre i dispositivi infetti a ulteriori compromissioni o a manomissioni dei dati. [...]

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