Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-52> NEXA 52° Nexa Lunch Seminar Mercoledi 28 giugno 2017, ore 13.00 - 14.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-52 An open discussion on the data revolution Speaker Antonio Vetrò (Director of Research at Nexa Center) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events Humanity is witnessing an historical transition towards a world of massive, real time availability of data from our environments and from human behaviour it has been estimated that in the last 10 years humanity accumulated more information than in the rest of its entire history. This phenomenon is known as “Big Data”. *Big Data can profoundly change the world we live in, bringing disruptive innovations in fundamental sectors such as science and economy*, and even a revolution in the way we conduct our lives and we perceive it. Notwithstanding the high expectations on the impact of Big Data for our societies, we observe a plethora of notes of caution, too. *The revolutionary aspects above mentioned has been criticized in different fields*: scientific communities has raised doubt over the epistemological and methodological flaws in Big Data analytics, while data-driven decision-making entails ethical and legal issues about privacy, accountability, bias and discrimination. The aim of this lunch seminar is to openly discuss the phenomenon, *with an eye on the philosophical and historical roots*. Future research and policy directions will be also mentioned. /Ingresso libero - Saranno disponibili panini e bibite per coloro che si saranno registrati su http://lunch52.eventbrite.com entro il 26 giugno./ BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [VETRO] ANTONIO VETRÒ is Director of Research at the Nexa Center for Internet and Society at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Formerly, he has been research fellow in the Software and System Engineering Department at Technische Universität München (Germany) and junior scientist at Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering (MD, USA). He holds a PhD in Information and System Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He is specialised in empirical methodologies and statistical analyses, applying such an empirical epistemological approach to study the impact of technology on society. After working for a few years on methodologies to improve the quality of software and data, he recently steered his research on how to transfer technological innovations to industry and public institutions. Letture consigliate e link utili: * Viktor Mayer-Schnbergeri,/Big Data: A Revolution that will Transform how We Live, Work and Think/, Viktor Mayer-Schnberger and Kenneth Cukier, John Murray Publishers, UK, 2013. * Kent W. Staley, /An Introduction to Philosophy of Science/, Cambridge University Press * Floridi L. and Taddeo M.,/What is data ethics?/, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, Volume 374, Issue 2083, December 2016. * Lepri, B., Staiano, J., Sangokoya, D., Letouzé, E., & Oliver, N., /The Tyranny of Data? The Bright and Dark Sides of Data-Driven Decision-Making for Social Good/, arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.00323, 2016. * Brent Daniel Mittelstadt, Patrick Allo, Mariarosaria Taddeo, , Sandra Wachter, Luciano Floridi, /The ethics of algorithms: Mapping the debate/ <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053951716679679>, Big Data & Society, Vol 3, Issue 2 , First published date: November-01-2016. * Cecconi, F. and Cencini, M. and Falcioni, M. and Vulpiani, /Predicting the future from the past: An old problem from a modern perspective <http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.4746070>/, American Journal of Physics, 80, 1001-1008 (2012). * Francesco Sylos Labini, /Big Data Complexity and Scientific Method/ <http://www.syloslabini.info/online/big-data-complexity-and-scientific-method...>. * Chris Anderson, /The End of Theory/ <https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/anderson08/anderson08_index.html>, Edge. 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. 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