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Big other Surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civiliz...
This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, ‘surveillance capitalism,’ and considers its implications for ‘information civilization.’ The... -
Compressed and Learned Data Structures Seminar
In this seminar cycle, students are guided in the direct usage of a powerful C++ library implementing many state-of-the-art compressed data structures for big data. Other than...-
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Challenging algorithmic profiling
The limits of data protection and anti-discrimination in responding to emergent discrimination The potential for biases being built into algorithms has been known for some time... -
Social Justice and Equality and Primary Care How Can Big Data Help
A growing body of research emphasises the role of ‘social determinants of health’ in generating inequalities in health outcomes. How, if at all, should primary care providers... -
Will big data algorithms dismantle the foundations of liberalism
In Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari argues that technological advances of the twenty-first century will usher in a significant shift in how humans make important life decisions.... -
The Trouble with Algorithmic Decisions
An Analytic Road Map to Examine Efficiency and Fairness in Automated and Opaque Decision Making We are currently witnessing a sharp rise in the use of algorithmic... -
Private Structural Invariants in Individuals Language Use The Ego Network of Words
The cognitive constraints that humans exhibit in their social interactions have been extensively studied by anthropologists, who have highlighted their regularities across... -
The role of geography in the complex diffusion of innovations
The urban–rural divide is increasing in modern societies calling for geographical extensions of social influence modelling. Improved understanding of innovation diffusion... -
The fundamental rights challenges of algorithms
Algorithms form an increasingly important part of our daily lives, even if we are often unaware of it. They are enormously useful in many different ways. They facilitate the... -
The democracy of emergency at the time of the coronavirus the virtues of privacy
The emergency of the Coronavirus imposes a cultural debate on the balancing of rights, freedoms and social responsibilities, finalized to the protection of individual and... -
The ambiguity of nestedness under soft and hard constraints
Many real networks feature the property of nestedness, i.e. the neighbours of nodes with a few connections are hierarchically nested within the neighbours of nodes with more... -
Recommender systems and their ethical challenges
This article presents the first, systematic analysis of the ethical challenges posed by recommender systems through a literature review. The article identifies six areas of... -
Privacy in the clouds
Informational self-determination refers to the right or ability of individuals to exercise personal control over the collection, use and disclosure of their personal data by... -
Measuring discrimination in algorithmic decision making
Society is increasingly relying on data-driven predictive models for automated decision making. This is not by design, but due to the nature and noisiness of observational... -
Explaining misclassification and attacks in deep learning via random forests
Artificial intelligence, and machine learning (ML) in particular, is being used for different purposes that are critical for human life. To avoid an algorithm-based...-
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Information Technology Privacy and the Protection of Personal Data
Information technology allows us to generate, store, and process huge quantities of data. Search engines, satellites, sensor networks, scientists, security agencies,... -
Identifying and exploiting homogeneous communities in labeled networks
Attribute-aware community discovery aims to find well-connected communities that are also homogeneous w.r.t. the labels carried by the nodes. In this work, we address such a... -
Ethical Value Centric Cybersecurity. A Methodology Based on a Value Graph
Our society is being shaped in a non-negligible way by the technological advances of recent years, especially in information and communications technologies (ICTs). The... -
Epidemics and city. How mobility and well being changed with COVID19 era
How did the COVID-19 epidemics change our mobility habits, and how did it impact on people’s well-being and on the virus transmissibility? In the first webinar of the seminar...-
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Efficient detection of Byzantine attacks in federated learning using last lay...
Federated learning (FL) is an alternative to centralized machine learning (ML) that builds a model across multiple decentralized edge devices (a.k.a. workers) that own the...-
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