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Intelligenza Artificiale e Comunità del Futuro | 16 marzo MDW
by Marco Zappalorto Feb. 28, 2019

Feb. 28, 2019

Cari tutti, Sperando di fare cosa gradita, vi contatto per informarti riguardo un evento realizzato da *Nesta Italia* all'interno della Milano Digital Week: "*Intelligenza Artificiale e Comunità del Futuro*". L'evento vuole indagare le potenzialità sociali dell'intelligenza artificiale e capirne la sua influenza sulle comunità del futuro. L'evento si divide in un momento di arena cittadina al mattino con la presenza di esperti sull'argomento e un workshop al pomeriggio per spiegare il funzionamento di questa nuova tecnologia. L'evento si svolgerà *sabato 16 marzo dalle 09.30 alle 14.30 in viale Sarca 226 Milano*. Vi chiedo cortesemente di registrare il vostro interesse utilizzando il seguente form <https://nestaitalia-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1rZG7m_79QLRbg…> . Buona giornata, Marco [image: AIforSocial19-Nesta_SaveTheDate.jpg] -- Marco Zappalorto | Chief Executive Nesta Italia| M: +39 3392087213 | *Intelligenza artificiale. Cosa ne pensate? Fateci sapere le vostre opinioni compilando il nostro survey qui: **https://it.surveymonkey.com/r/AIforthePeople <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://it.surveymonkey.com/r/AIforthePeople&s…>* *Bastano pochissimi minuti!*

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Nadella: Microsoft will sell war tech to democracies to “protect freedoms”
by Giacomo Tesio Feb. 28, 2019

Feb. 28, 2019

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says that company's $480 million contract to supply HoloLens technology to the military is a "principled decision" and that the company will not "withhold technology" from democratic governments. [...] The intent is to integrate the HoloLens hardware with thermal-imaging, weapons-targeting, and health-monitoring systems to, among other things, provide "increased lethality" of the soldiers using it. A number of Microsoft employees have signed an open letter saying that the company should cancel the contract, arguing that it crosses a line into weapons development. Some 250 staff are said to have signed the letter. Speaking to CNN Business, Nadella defended the decision to enter the contract, saying, "We made a principled decision that we're not going to withhold technology from institutions that we have elected in democracies to protect the freedoms we enjoy," adding, "We were very transparent about that decision and we'll continue to have that dialogue [with employees]." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/nadella-microsoft-will-sell-war-tec…

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A QUIC Look at Web Tracking
by Giacomo Tesio Feb. 28, 2019

Feb. 28, 2019

QUIC has been developed by Google to improve the transport performance of HTTPS traffic. It currently accounts for approx. 7% of the global Internet traffic. In this work, we investigate the feasibility of user tracking via QUIC from the perspective of an online service. Our analysis reveals that the protocol design contains violations of privacy best practices through which a tracker can passively and uniquely identify clients across several connections. This tracking mechanisms can achieve reduced delays and bandwidth requirements compared to conventional browser fingerprinting or HTTP cookies. This allows them to be applied in resource- or time-constrained scenarios such as real-time biddings in online advertising. To validate this finding, we investigated browsers which enable QUIC by default, e.g., Google Chrome. Our results suggest that the analyzed browsers do not provide protective measures against tracking via QUIC. https://svs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/publications/2019/2019-02-26-Sy-PET_S…

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Tomasin: “Testo digitale, tu ci inganni”
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 28, 2019

Feb. 28, 2019

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/cultura/2019-02-25/testo-digitale-tu-ci-ing… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Paris Call - Software Source Code as Heritage
by Giacomo Tesio Feb. 28, 2019

Feb. 28, 2019

Call on each UNESCO Member State to 13. Recognise software source code as a precious asset of humankind, intersecting with human creativity, development, society and culture; 14. Recognise software source code as a fundamental enabler in all aspects of human endeavour; 15. Recognise software source code as a fundamental research document on a par with scholarly articles and research data; 16. Recognise that the source code of software used for the implementation of laws and regulations defines the experience of the law by citizens; 17. Create an enabling legal, policy and institutional environment where software source code can flourish as an integral part of knowledge societies; 18. Integrate the scientific fundamentals of computing/ informatics within general education for all citizens; 19. Support the development of shared infrastructures to collect, preserve and make available software source code; 20. Establish an open and international research infrastructural framework for the large scale analysis and improvement of the quality, safety and security of the software commons; 21. Ensure necessary exceptions to copyright and limitations on intermediary liability related to software for archival, preservation, accessibility, education and research purposes; 22. Enable effective independent auditing of software source code used to make decisions that may affect fundamental rights of human beings and where possible ensure it is made available under an open source license; 23. Implement, with support from UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme, the 2015 Recommendation concerning the Preservation of, and Access to, Documentary Heritage, including in Digital Form, inviting inter-alia Member States to facilitate access to proprietary codes, keys and unlocked versions of technology on a non profit basis. Call on software developers, memory institutions, the business sector, academia and civil society, within their competency, to: 27. Recognise that software is the result of a significant part of the intellectual efforts of humankind over recent decades, and it is an important part of our cultural and industrial heritage; 28. Support efforts to gather and preserve the artifacts and narratives of the history of computing, while the earlier creators are still alive; 29. Promote software development as a valuable research activity, and research software as a key enabler for Open Science/Open Research, sharing good practices and recognising in the careers of academics their contributions to high quality software development, in all their forms; 30. Recognize the importance of contributions by people of all genders from all over the world to the software commons, supporting a diverse and inclusive environment for all aspects of software development and curation; 31. Educating decision makers on the specificities of software, and software source code in particular, raising awareness about the threats to the software commons and the importance to protect it; 32. Encourage all stakeholders to develop a common system of cataloguing to allow for easy identification and retrieval of software source code, even across the many platforms and infrastructures used to develop and/or distribute it; 33. Support stakeholders in developing a universal archive, as part of a broad effort at digital preservation, that will ensure persistence of and universal access to software source code; 34. Encourage multidisciplinary activity in the field of software preservation, and in particular collaboration with the humanities and social sciences whose contributions are essential to study the history of technology; 35. Adapt processes, workflows and licensing schemas in the software industry to ease the transition of future proprietary software source code into the software commons once it is no longer commercially viable; 36. Foster international collaboration to build a common framework for software preservation and access, and mutualise resources, in order to avoid the dispersion of efforts; 37. Promote the recording of the activity of software developers, captured as documentary heritage either in analogue or digital form, which are suitable for preservation in their own right and ensure that they are linked with the source code. 38. Support all stakeholders in developing the understanding that software source code is intertwined more and more with the fabric of our society, hence the utmost care needs to be used during its development process to manage its potential consequences on society and people

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Fake news is part of a bigger problem: automated propaganda - Columbia Journalism Review
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 27, 2019

Feb. 27, 2019

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/algorithm-russia-facebook.php (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 27, 2019

Feb. 27, 2019

https://onezero.medium.com/your-speech-their-rules-meet-the-people-who-guar… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Portale Archivi della Scienza
by Rossana Morriello Feb. 27, 2019

Feb. 27, 2019

Segnalo la nascita del portale Archivi della Scienza, curato dal Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia e dallAccademia Nazionale delle Scienze con la collaborazione di diverse altre istituzioni http://www.museoscienza.org/archivi-della-scienza/ Il portale è stato presentato per la prima volta lunedì scorso a Roma e ci sarà una seconda presentazione lunedì 4 marzo a Milano (al link i dettagli). Archivi della Scienza raccoglie e rende disponibili online, con le relative descrizioni, oltre 1500 fondi di istituzioni di ricerca scientifica e carte personali di scienziati, conservati in più di 200 istituti su tutto il territorio italiano ed è aperto alla collaborazione e al contributo della comunità scientifica. Cordialità Rossana Morriello --------------------- Dott.ssa Rossana Morriello Politecnico di Torino Servizio Qualità e Valutazione Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino Tel. 011 0906009 <mailto:rossana.morriello@polito.it> rossana.morriello(a)polito.it <mailto:pubblicazioni@polito.it> pubblicazioni(a)polito.it ----------------------

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The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software
by Giacomo Tesio Feb. 27, 2019

Feb. 27, 2019

It was just before midnight on New Years Eve, 2011, when Stephen Henson broke the internet. The 43-year old British software developer had accepted a small change to the code for OpenSSL, an open source encryption protocol that secures a substantial portion of the web. The fact that it was open source meant that anyone could see its code online and volunteer to help write code for the project. But just because anyone could contribute didn’t mean many people did. [...] Since its inception, one of the biggest selling points of open source development was what the software developer Eric Raymond called “Linus’s Law,” or the idea that with enough people looking at some code “all bugs become shallow.” Thus, after the Heartbleed bug was patched, the biggest questions on everyone’s mind was how such a critical vulnerability could go unnoticed for so long and whether similar bugs lurked in the code for other open source projects. [...] Henson was the only OpenSSL developer working on the project full time—and for a fraction of what he could have made taking his considerable technical skills elsewhere. “These guys don’t work on OpenSSL for money,” Marquess wrote. “They don’t do it for fame. They do it out of pride in craftsmanship and the responsibility for something they believe in...knowing that [they] will be ignored and unappreciated until something goes wrong.” Clearly, something was broken with a system where the security of the global internet was almost entirely supported by the selfless efforts of one overworked and underpaid programmer. As for who was to blame, Marquess pointed to the “commercial companies and governments who use OpenSSL extensively and take it for granted.” [... Mandatory citation of Stallman at MIT...] In the midst of the orgiastic dotcom bubble, when tech companies that barely existed were able to command obscene valuations, Stallman’s ethically-driven free software movement offered a starkly alternative vision of the future. Unlike the digital castles-in-the-air being churned out in the offices of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, free software worked. Stallman and his acolytes had demonstrated that it was possible to make great software that could be modified to meet the individual needs of users by combining ethical conviction and technical chops. For a brief moment in the mid-90s, it seemed like the future of software was free—as in freedom. Then in 1997, a programmer named Eric Raymond published The Cathedral and the Bazaar, an essay that analyzed the process of developing free software. At the core of Raymond’s seminal text is an idea that he has termed “Linus’s Law,” the idea that if enough people are working on a software program, any bugs hidden in the code will be caught and patched quickly. [...] The success [of open source] after Netscape would depend on replacing the negative Free Software Foundation stereotypes with positive stereotypes of our own [...] There was just one problem: The free software movement was burdened with a major ethical component, and ethics are bad for business. [... e dopo aver speso un terzo dell'articolo a spiegare che Etica e Free Software fanno male ...] Although open source software was rapidly embraced by many of the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley, economists struggled to explain how these projects, which bucked all the conventions of the marketplace, could be so successful. By that point, the standard explanation peddled by the free software crowd—that free software development could be sustained on the basis of the ethical imperatives of freedom and altruism—no longer seemed adequate to account for the rapid emergence and adoption of a project like Linux. To that point, no other industry in history had ever produced such a technically demanding project on that scale by relying solely on the goodwill of its contributors. Continua con analoghe buffe acrobazie logiche su https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43zak3/the-internet-was-built-on… Non sfiora lontanamente il pensiero degli autori che l'Open Source sia insostenibile proprio perché strumento di marketing (e quindi secondario agli interessi di chi lo produce) e che il Free Software funzioni COME funziona perché completamente indifferente agli aspetti commerciali e alla market share. Non li sfiora, perché la soluzione altrimenti sarebbe semplice: TASSE. Tasse sull'uso, sulla modifica e sulla distribuzione del software "bene comune". Tasse con cui finanziare il software libero. Giacomo

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"Technologies of Domination and Hacker Pedagogy" - Thursday, 28th February 6:30pm, Guarini Campus
by donna d.r. Feb. 27, 2019

Feb. 27, 2019

Ciao a tutt* domani alla John Cabot University ospitiamo un talk che potrebbe essere di interesse, qui sotto le info, grazie! Donatella You are cordially invited to “*Technologies of Domination and Hacker Pedagogy”*, *C.I.R.C.E. Research Group* on *Thursday*, *28th February 2019, at 6:30pm* in the *Aula Magna, Guarini Campus*. Kindly RSVP at: https://bit.ly/2DPhetS <https://bit.ly/2DPhetS> C.I.R.C.E. Research Group "Technologies of Domination and Hacker Pedagogy" <https://bit.ly/2DPhetS> bit.ly C.I.R.C.E. Research Group <https://bit.ly/2DPhetS> *Address*: Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus, John Cabot University, Via della Lungara 233, 00165 Rome

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