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On the Social Implications of Collective Adaptive Systems IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-09-22 Antonio Bucchiarone; Mirko D’Angelo; Danilo Pianini; Giacomo Cabri; Martina De Sanctis; Mirko Viroli; Roberto Casadei; Simon Dobson
Many Collect ive Adaptive Systems (CASs) exist in nature: think of ant colonies, where large collectives of ants operate autonomously but interact with other ants and the environment to provide resilient global behaviors that sustain their colony. Following scientific studies that were aimed at understanding and predicting the evolution of these systems, and fueled by technological advances, research
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Emerging Drone Services: Challenges and Societal Issues IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Majed Alwateer; Seng W. Loke
A recent application using drones for business is the Google project (Wing) approved in early 2019 [25]. Urban Air Mobility projects with drone services, though mainly focusing on delivery of parcels, are taking off in over 60 cities around the world [23]. As with many advances in technology, e.g., smartphones, there is an emergence of a service ecosystem associated with the technology (e.g., an app
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Socialbots: Impacts, Threat-Dimensions, and Defense Challenges IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Muhammad Abulaish; Mohd Fazil
Online Social Networks (OSNs) are the modern communication media at the peak of Internet technology that facilitate users' ability to connect with friends and celebrities, and to disseminate breaking news and updates on real-life events. Connections and interactions among OSN users generate a massive amount of data containing a rich collection of knowledge that could be useful to various realworld
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Reducing Parking Space Search Time and Environmental Impacts: A Technology Driven Smart Parking Case Study IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Khan Aftab; Parag Kulkarni; Ian Shergold; Michael Jones; Marko Dogramadzi; Pietro Carnelli; Mahesh Sooriyabandara
Over the last half century, the proportion of humans living in cities has dramatically risen from around a third to just over half. As cities continue to rise in popularity, demand for basic services such as transportation increases. The automobile has been the dominant method of inner city transportation for many cities across the globe, resulting in increased congestion and air pollution. As the
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"We Live on Hope...": Ethical Considerations of Humanitarian Use of Drones in Post-Disaster Nepal IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Ning Wang
As international humanitarian assistance from governments and private donors continued to increase in recent years, the pace of growth, however, has slowed down [1]. For instance, in 2018, while US$17.0 billion out of US$28.1 billion funding was committed to UN-coordinated appeals, there was still a funding shortfall of US$11.1 billion, with only 61% of requirements met [1]. Against this backdrop,
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Regulating Big Data in Agriculture IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Brianna B. Posadas; Juan E. Gilbert
In the year 2050, it is expected that the global human population will outgrow the current food supply. It is a year of concern for those in the agricultural sciences, and many projects and initiatives are designed around solving this problem [1], [3], [5], [6]. From genetically modified foods, stronger antibiotics and fungicides, to upgraded crop models, everyone in this area is hard at work finding
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Between Engineering and Science IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Javier Aracil
When I was an engineering student, during the 1960s, a common joke was that if a space rocket reached its goal, it was called a success of science; but if it did not succeed, then it was a failure of engineering. This witticism is a sample of the latent dispute between science and engineering. Science has played a fundamental role in the development of modern engineering by showing how the natural
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Front Cover IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23
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ISTAS 2020 IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23
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Be Well [President's Message] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Robert Dent
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Table of Contents IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23
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Masthead IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23
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Sustainability in the Digital Age [Special Issue Introduction] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Amy Luers; Lyse Langlois; Mathilde Mougeot; Sana Kharaghani; Alexandra Luccioni
The articles in this special section focus on how disruptions whether they be natural or human impact society, technological development, and future outlooks. This section explores the opportunities and challenges of leveraging AI and other digital capabilities to drive the transformative system changes needed to tackle the climate crisis and related global sustainability challenges. The work presented
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Sustainability in the Digital Age [Commentary] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23
This article presents a Draft statement prepared from discussion held during the CIFAR workshop September 18-20, 2019, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The workshop was co-sponsored by CIFAR,* U.K. Research and Innovation (UKRI), and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and cohosted by Future Earth, The Observatory of Social Impacts on AI and Digital Technology, the U.K. Office for
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The Five Words Shaping Humanity?s Ultimate Sustainability [Opinion] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 John C. Havens
Discusses the steps needed to ensure that people's lives are protected and the lockdown measures of the COVID-19 pandemic save lives.
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Capitalizing on AI?s Potential to Help Tackle the Climate Crisis [Opinion] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Sana Khareghani
Discusses the potential for artificial intelligence to address and tackle climate change.
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Algorithmic Reflexive Governance for Socio-Techno-Ecological Systems IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Jeremy Pitt; John Dryzek; Josiah Ober
This position paper develops an algorithmic approach to deliberation as the basis for institutional reflexivity. We propose the idea of algorithmic reflexive governance for socio- techno-ecological systems, bringing together interdisciplinary ideas from Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Theory in systems that recognize the interactions between social, technological, and ecological actors and processes
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Should AI be Designed to Save Us From Ourselves?: Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Myanna Lahsen
The environment is being destroyed at alarming rates, undermining prospects of reconciling human wellbeing and development and respect for planetary boundaries [1]. Even a thirty percent increase in global action towards goals already en - shrined in international agreements on environment, trade and development would not achieve widely shared sustainability goals without transgressing planetary boundaries
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We Need Standards for Digital Cooperation to Occur IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23 Michel Girard
This article makes the case for a new regional mechanism to coordinate the development of data standards. Data standards are necessary to achieve digital cooperation. We need standards to create data value chains that string together data collection through collaborative platforms in order to generate insights and solve longstanding problems. Organizations of all sizes, whether public, private, or
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IEEE 3rd Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century: Being Human in a Global Village IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23
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Understanding the Role of Technology in Society IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-06-23
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Front Cover IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13
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ISTAS 2020 IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13
Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers.
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Welcome New SSIT BoG Members [President's Message] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Robert Dent
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Table of Contents IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13
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Masthead IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13
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From Trust and Loyalty to Lock-In and Digital Dependence [Editorial] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Jeremy Pitt
Presents the introductory editorial for this issue of the publication.
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Correction [Correction] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13
Due to a proofreading error, the list of authors on page 45 of the December 2019 issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine was incorrect. The list of authors for the article “Building Trust in Social Robotics: A Pilot Study” should have read: Laura Leondina Campanozzi, Eugenio Guglielmelli, Eleonora Cella, Giampaolo Ghilardi, Mirta Michilli, Alfonso Molina, Massimo Ciccozzi, and Vittoradolfo Tambone
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The Age of Electroacoustics [Book Review] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 William Liles
This book is an fascinating read. The author does a good job of putting the study of acoustics in context within social, political, academic, and industrial environments through time. He concentrates primarily on the U.K. and Europe, with a few references to the U.S. and other countries. The Weimar Republic chapter of course deals almost exclusively with Germany during that era but that focus is acceptable
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My Fair Ladies [Book Review] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Rachel Maines
Julie Wosk's My Fair Ladies is an engaging historical account of female automata, with sidelights on dolls, disembodied electronic female voices, masks, make-up, and the sexual and gender implications of efforts to create artificial humans. Wosk focuses mainly on the Western cultural context, although recent Japanese and Korean explorations of the female-robot theme are presented toward the end of
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Females and STEM: The Anna Karenina Principle [Commentary] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Lukasz Tanas; Katarzyna Winkowska-Nowak; Joanna Roszak; Katarzyna Potega vel Zabik
Discusses the Anna Karenina Principle and examines the implications for women. This principle is a useful metaphor that captures the reasons behind the gender disparity in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
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On the Morality of Artificial Intelligence [Commentary] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Alexandra Luccioni; Yoshua Bengio
Examines ethical principles and guidelines that surround machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Smart Home Security: How Safe is Your Data? [Opinion] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Kristina Milanovic
Reports on the emergence of smart homes, the technologies and services that support these structures, and issues of security and privacy that impact people that live in these homes.
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Digital Exclusion of Favelas from the Solar Map of Rio de Janeiro IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Paulo Feitosa; Alberto Jorge Silva de Lima; Henrique Cukierman
The city of Rio de Janeiro is known worldwide for its natural beauty, with blue sea beaches and mountains covered by ebullient forests. However, less recognized in the tourist guides is the face of the city revealed by extreme events such as storms and floods that, more and more frequently, reach Rio's hillsides and lowlands, taking with them houses, lives, and dreams - especially those of the most
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Ableism, Technoableism, and Future AI IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Ashley Shew
Ableism (discrimination in favor of nondisabled people and against disabled people1) impacts technological imagination. Like sexism, racism, and other types of bigotry, ableism works in insidious ways: by shaping our expectations, it shapes how and what we design (given these expectations), and therefore the infrastructure all around us. And ableism shapes more than just the physical environment. It
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Robot Enhanced Therapy for Autistic Children: An Ethical Analysis IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Neil McBride
The use of social robots has been proposed for the delivery of therapy to autistic children. The aim of such projects, of which the DREAM project is an example, is to replace therapists by robots, operating in sensory environments that enable them to detect and respond to feedback from the child. This article considers the ethical concerns of autonomy, community, transparency, identity, value, and
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The Human Connection Drug: Should Addiction to Social Media Be Legislated Out? IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Bogdan Hoanca
Individuals, particularly those in the Western world spend large and increasing amounts of time online, and particularly so on social media (SM). Internet addiction (IA), spending too much time on the Internet at the detriment of health and social interactions, has long been a concern in many countries, where a range of measures have been deployed to curb excessive use. Preventive measures include
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Can Smart Contracts Learn from Digital Rights Management? IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Nicholas Paul Sheppard
While blockchain technology is best-known for cryptocurrencies, some chains also tout their ability to implement so-called "smart contracts." Ethereum, which bills itself as a "blockchain app platform," defines smart contracts as applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third-party interference (http://www.ethereum.org).
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Low-Carbon Energy Transition in India: Implications for Gender Equality and Social Inclusion IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Reihana Mohideen; Pankaj Batra; Prabhjot Khan
The Government of India has undertaken the ambitious target of 175-GW installed capacity of renewable power by 2022 as part of its climate treaty commitments.1 This will amount to 37% of projected installed capacity, second to coal and lignite (45%) and more than hydropower (11%). It has also undertaken a program of universal electricity access to all through the scheme called "Pradhan Mantri Sahaj
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SSIT Launches: IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13
Reports on the launching of a new publication, the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society.
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Exposing Technowashing: To Mitigate Technosocial Inequalities [Last Word] IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Christine Perakslis
The term whitewashing is a metaphor derived from the practice of applying substances onto surfaces of walls to conceal unwelcome elements, thereby giving the eye-gate a false impression. Thus, the reality of the situation is surreptitiously glossed over. Greenwashing is a label for an organization that creates a false portrayal of environmentally friendly practices or products. Redwashing refers to
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IEEE SSIT 3rd Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW) IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13
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Understanding the Role of Technology in Society IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag. (IF 1.256) Pub Date : 2020-03-13
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