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Fwd: I: EXPERT GROUP ON THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ON EU LABOUR MARKETS - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (Deadline 4th June)
by Margot Bezzi May 23, 2018

May 23, 2018

fyi ------------------------------ *Da:* iesicommunity(a)iesi.eu <iesicommunity(a)iesi.eu> per conto di Gianluca Misuraca <gianluca.misuraca(a)ec.europa.eu> *Inviato:* martedì 22 maggio 2018 20:40 *A:* IESI Community *Oggetto:* [iesi_community] EXPERT GROUP ON THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ON EU LABOUR MARKETS - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (Deadline 4th June) Dear colleagues, The Commission is setting up a high-level expert group (HLG) on the impact of the digital transformation on EU labour markets, in the context of its broader activities on the future of work. See https://ec.europa.eu/esf/ transnationality/content/call-applications-expert-group- impact-digital-transformation-eu-labour-markets Call for applications – Expert group on the impact of the ... <https://ec.europa.eu/esf/transnationality/content/call-applications-expert-…> ec.europa.eu Call for applications – Expert group on the impact of the digital transformation on EU labour markets - EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND A *call for applications <http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=calls.calls_for_app> *to select the 9 members of the expert group was published on 4 May and *applications can be submitted until 4 June 2018*. The goal of the expert group is to *analyse and advise* the Commission on the impact of the digital transformation on EU labour markets, and *explore policy options* in this regard. It will, among other things: - analyse how to shape the transformation and what framework conditions to be put in place to make it smooth and human-centric, - identify the potential social impacts (risks and opportunities) of digitalisation and artificial intelligence, - assess to what extent current systems (such as social security, tax and benefits, lifelong learning) are fit for purpose, and - make suggestions on a way forward. The expert group will report on its *analysis and findings by early 2019*. *Context* Digitalisation is transforming the world of work at unprecedented speed. Technological change has the potential to create jobs, increase the productivity of labour, and boost innovation, investment, and economic prosperity. However, these benefits are not automatic, nor are they evenly distributed among European regions and citizens. Europe must steer these developments to foster well-being and economic growth, ensuring decent working conditions, social protection and equal opportunities for all. More information available here <http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=news.open_doc&id=14…> . You are receiving this message because you are a member of the community IESI Community <http://iesi.eu/iesi_community>. View this contribution on the web site <http://iesi.eu/_/j9r1f4ab> A reply to this message will be sent to all members of IESI Community. Reply to sender <gianluca.misuraca(a)ec.europa.eu> | Unsubscribe <leave.iesicommunity(a)iesi.eu>

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I: EXPERT GROUP ON THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ON EU LABOUR MARKETS - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (Deadline 4th June)
by Margot Bezzi May 23, 2018

May 23, 2018

fyi ________________________________ Da: iesicommunity(a)iesi.eu <iesicommunity(a)iesi.eu> per conto di Gianluca Misuraca <gianluca.misuraca(a)ec.europa.eu> Inviato: martedì 22 maggio 2018 20:40 A: IESI Community Oggetto: [iesi_community] EXPERT GROUP ON THE IMPACT OF THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ON EU LABOUR MARKETS - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (Deadline 4th June) Dear colleagues, The Commission is setting up a high-level expert group (HLG) on the impact of the digital transformation on EU labour markets, in the context of its broader activities on the future of work. See https://ec.europa.eu/esf/transnationality/content/call-applications-expert-… Call for applications – Expert group on the impact of the ...<https://ec.europa.eu/esf/transnationality/content/call-applications-expert-…> ec.europa.eu Call for applications – Expert group on the impact of the digital transformation on EU labour markets - EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND A call for applications<http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=calls.calls_for_app> to select the 9 members of the expert group was published on 4 May and applications can be submitted until 4 June 2018. The goal of the expert group is to analyse and advise the Commission on the impact of the digital transformation on EU labour markets, and explore policy options in this regard. It will, among other things: * analyse how to shape the transformation and what framework conditions to be put in place to make it smooth and human-centric, * identify the potential social impacts (risks and opportunities) of digitalisation and artificial intelligence, * assess to what extent current systems (such as social security, tax and benefits, lifelong learning) are fit for purpose, and * make suggestions on a way forward. The expert group will report on its analysis and findings by early 2019. Context Digitalisation is transforming the world of work at unprecedented speed. Technological change has the potential to create jobs, increase the productivity of labour, and boost innovation, investment, and economic prosperity. However, these benefits are not automatic, nor are they evenly distributed among European regions and citizens. Europe must steer these developments to foster well-being and economic growth, ensuring decent working conditions, social protection and equal opportunities for all. More information available here<http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=news.open_doc&id=14…>. You are receiving this message because you are a member of the community IESI Community<http://iesi.eu/iesi_community>. View this contribution on the web site<http://iesi.eu/_/j9r1f4ab> A reply to this message will be sent to all members of IESI Community. Reply to sender<mailto:gianluca.misuraca@ec.europa.eu> | Unsubscribe<mailto:leave.iesicommunity@iesi.eu>

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Convegno "L'entrata in vigore del Regolamento (UE) 2016/679: la riforma alla prova dela prassi in Italia e in Spagna"- Università di Pisa, 8 e 9 giugno 2018
by Dianora Poletti May 22, 2018

May 22, 2018

Gentilissimi, seguo da tempo le interessanti segnalazioni e discussioni in lista, dalle quali traggo molti stimoli. Sperando di fare cosa gradita, intervengo per segnalare a mia volta il Convegno "L'entrata in vigore del Regolamento (UE) 2016/675: la riforma alla prova della prassi in Italia e in Spagna", che si terrà presso l'Università di Pisa nei giorni 8 e 9 giugno p.v. L'ingresso è libero, previa conferma della propria partecipazione all'indirizzo scuolalegale(a)mail.jus.unipi.it <mailto:datagovernance@unimi.it>. Trametto in allegato la locandina dell'iniziativa. Con molti cordiali saluti Dianora Poletti /Ordinario di Diritto Privato e Diritto dell'Informatica - Università di Pisa Direttrice Master II livello in Internet Ecosystem: Governance e Diritti / --- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Ex-Intel security expert: This new Spectre attack can even reveal firmware secrets
by gabriele elia May 22, 2018

May 22, 2018

A mio avviso conferma il fatto che non ci può essere sicurezza nazionale senza "indipendenza" e controllo della industria dei processori e dei semiconduttori, cosa che l’Europa ha dismesso e obiettivo che non è nemmeno analizzato, e che la Cina ha messo come priorità per il 2025 per sganciarsi dal predominio USA ricordo che ARM è diventata giapponese, tutte le altre aziende di microprocessori sono USA o , secondariamente, coreane o cinesi e le foundry significative in USA, Taiwan e parte Cina g https://www.zdnet.com/article/ex-intel-security-expert-this-new-spectre-att… [https://zdnet1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2018/05/18/05a88543-c7e5-4866-b7b1-ce…]<https://www.zdnet.com/article/ex-intel-security-expert-this-new-spectre-att…> Ex-Intel security expert: This new Spectre attack can even reveal firmware secrets | ZDNet<https://www.zdnet.com/article/ex-intel-security-expert-this-new-spectre-att…> www.zdnet.com A new variant of Spectre can expose the contents of memory that normally can't be accessed by the OS kernel. Ex-Intel security expert: This new Spectre attack can even reveal firmware secrets A new variant of Spectre can expose the contents of memory that normally can't be accessed by the OS kernel. By Liam Tung<https://www.zdnet.com/meet-the-team/eu/liam-tung/> | May 18, 2018 -- 12:55 GMT (13:55 BST) | Topic: Security<https://www.zdnet.com/topic/security/> Yuriy Bulygin, the former head of Intel's advanced threat team, has published research showing that the Spectre CPU flaws can be used to break into the highly privileged CPU mode on Intel x86 systems known as System Management Mode (SMM). Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities<https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-flaws-affect-every-intel-chip-since-…> enable software attacks using CPU design flaws common to Intel, AMD, and Arm chips to access secrets stored in memory. Bulygin, who has launched security firm Eclypsium, has modified Spectre variant 1 with kernel privileges to attack a host system's firmware and expose code in SMM, a secure portion of BIOS or UEFI firmware. SMM resides in SMRAM, a protected region of physical memory that should only be accessible by BIOS firmware and not the operating system kernel, hypervisors or security software. SMM handles especially disruptive interrupts and is accessible through the SMM runtime of the firmware, knows as System Management Interrupt (SMI) handlers. As a former Intel researcher explained<http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~karavan/research/SMM_IISWC_preprint.pdf> in a 2013 paper, when an SMI event occurs, say, due to thermal throttling or system health checks, all the CPU's cores enter SMM or system management mode. "Because SMM generally has privileged access to physical memory, including memory isolated from operating systems, our research demonstrates that Spectre-based attacks can reveal other secrets in memory (eg, hypervisor, operating system, or application)," Bulygin explains<https://blog.eclypsium.com/2018/05/17/system-management-mode-speculative-ex…>. To expose code in SMM, Bulygin modified a publicly available proof-of-concept Spectre 1 exploit running with kernel-level privileges to bypass Intel's System Management Range Register (SMRR), a set or range registers that protect SMM memory. "These enhanced Spectre attacks allow an unprivileged attacker to read the contents of memory, including memory that should be protected by the range registers, such as SMM memory," he notes. "This can expose SMM code and data that was intended to be confidential, revealing other SMM vulnerabilities as well as secrets stored in SMM. Additionally, since we demonstrate that the speculative memory access occurs from the context of SMM, this could be used to reveal other secrets in memory as well."

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Unfair Game: How Trump Won
by gianlucaquaglia＠gmail.com May 22, 2018

May 22, 2018

[...] Facebook Analytica and the man behind Trump's success In the shadows of Trump lies an enigmatic billionaire, Robert Mercer, a man who has poured millions of dollars into conservative causes for a decade, including Trump's campaign. He controls Breitbart News, an ultra-conservative website turned into an alt-right propaganda machine, headed by Steve Bannon, a white nationalist and Trump's former chief strategist. Mercer's psychometric firm, Cambridge Analytica , obtained big data from Facebook, Google, banks, credit companies, social security and more, to learn all about voters in order to try and change their political opinions and influence the election in Trump's favour. In the days before the election, using a little-known Facebook feature, "dark posts", Trump's campaign - with the help of Cambridge Analytica - deployed highly manipulative and personalised messages, which could be seen only by the user before disappearing. In the darkness of the web, democracy was trumped by data. [...] continua qui https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2018/05/unfair-game-trum…

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The Privacy Scandal That Should Be Bigger Than Cambridge Analytica
by Antonio Vetrò May 22, 2018

May 22, 2018

UN caso su cui la FCC sta investigando: "Wireless carriers are sharing your real-time location with shady third parties and a bug lets anyone use that data to track you." https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-locationsmart-scandal-is-bigger-th… <https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-locationsmart-scandal-is-bigger-th…> Un caro saluto, A.V.

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The left turns up the heat to break up Facebook - Axios
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 21, 2018

May 21, 2018

https://www.axios.com/facebook-mark-zuckerburg-left-coalition-regulation-c7… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Henry A. Kissinger - How the Enlightenment Ends - The Atlantic
by Diego Latella May 21, 2018

May 21, 2018

I've just got the link from M. Vardi and I'm please to forward it D > > > Moshe > p.S. Did you see this? > https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/henry-kissinger-ai-cou… <https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/henry-kissinger-ai-cou…> > > > Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity. -- Sir Joseph Rotblat

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60° Nexa Lunch Seminar | 23 maggio 2018
by Nexa Media May 21, 2018

May 21, 2018

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-60> NEXA 60° Nexa Lunch Seminar Mercoledi 23 maggio 2018, ore 13.00 - 14.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-60 Game jam e game storm: innovativi workshop didattici basati sull'ideazione di giochi Speaker Matteo Uggeri (Fondazione Politecnico di Milano) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events I termini 'gamification', 'serious games' o 'game based learning' sono usati ed abusati in molti contesti, da quello scolastico fino al mondo aziendale nella sua deriva più commerciale, il marketing. *Troppo spesso, tuttavia, l'elemento ludico è pretestuoso* oppure - peggio - declinato nelle sue forme più banali, per dare luogo a competizioni basate su punteggi, classifiche e gare di varia sorta. *Esiste però una diversa accezione di gioco*, maggiormente legata alla questione della creatività, che sfrutta l'idea di progettare e realizzare dei giochi come forme di sblocco del pensiero, di brainstorming partecipativo, talvolta con ricadute maieutiche. Parliamo delle game jam e dei game storm, due format nei quali i partecipanti possono collaborare alla realizzazione di 'artefatti ludici', non necessariamente videogames, aventi specifiche finalità didattiche, formative o - meglio - trasformative. Matteo Uggeri, dell'Area Digital Learning della Fondazione Politecnico di Milano, esplora da alcuni anni queste possibilità e le loro relative applicazioni pratiche dalla scuola alla formazione aziendale, nel tentativo di proporre dei modelli laboratoriali che riescano da un lato a produrre un cambiamento, una trasformazione in chi vi partecipa, dall'altro a *generare delle idee, ma a volte anche dei prodotti (giochi) a loro volta spendibili come elementi didattici *o formativi. A partire da alcune esperienze con studenti universitari legate a progetti internazionali, passando per sporadici esperimenti in micro-laboratori in biblioteca con bambini di una classe quarta, per poi arrivare al ramo aziendale, Uggeri ci condurrà in un breve viaggio di inaspettate potenzialità educative. /Ingresso libero - Sarà disponibile un leggero rinfresco per coloro che si saranno registrati su http://lunch60.eventbrite.com entro il 21 maggio./ BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [UGGERI] *Matteo UGGERI* si occupa di eLearning sotto varie sfaccettature dal 1999, anno in cui ha iniziato lavorare presso Centro METID (Metodi e Tecnologie Innovative per la Didatttica) del Politecnico di Milano come interface designer e project manager di progetti nazionali e internazionali, tipicamente sui temi dell’eLearning. Dal 2012 è in forze alla Fondazione Polititecnico di Milano, dove si occupo degli stessi temi, e in particolare di Digital Learning, e-Collaboration e Gamification, sia a livello di progettazione che di consulenza e formazione sullo sviluppo di progetti in questo ambito, per committenti privati e pubblici. Conduce laboratori per bambini ed adulti; Game Jam o Game Storm, ossia incontri creativi volti alla realizzazione di giochi (in forma di prototipi, ma non solo) a valenza formativa, oppure di corsi strutturati sulle potenzialità del gioco nei contesti formativi. Da un anno fa parte del Comitato Scientifico dell'evento eXploring eLearning in veste di esperto su Engagement e Gamification. Si occupa anche di musica dal 1996, come autore di dischi, sound designer e produttore. Letture consigliate e link utili: * /http://www.jamtoday.eu//. * /Notte infestata nella biblioteca <https://lostinpixel.com/2017/01/16/notte-infestata-nella-biblioteca-worksho…>/. * /<https://globalgamejam.org/>/https://wearemuesli.itch.io//./ * //http://www.gamesforchange.org//. * /https://globalgamejam.org//. / // // Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e “Nexa Lunch Seminar” Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca indipendente e interdisciplinare che studia Internet e il suo effetto sulla società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. Durante i “*Mercoledì di Nexa*”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del mese* alle *ore 18 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma divulgativo, i temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto altro. Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi. Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 *ogni 4° mercoledì* del mese *dalle ore 13 alle ore 14* il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "*Nexa Lunch Seminar*". Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars. 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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How Judea Pearl Became One of AI's Sharpest Critics - The Atlantic
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 20, 2018

May 20, 2018

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/machine-learning-is-… How a Pioneer of Machine Learning Became One of Its Sharpest Critics Judea Pearl helped artificial intelligence gain a strong grasp on probability, but laments that it still can't compute cause and effect. Kevin HartnettMay 19, 2018 (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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