This article originally appeared in Computing on 9th June 2020 IBM is quitting the controversial facial recognition software market over concerns that the technology could be used to promote racial injustice and discrimination. In a letter to the members of the US Congress, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said that the …
ACM Web Science Conference 2020 | 6-10 July | Organised by the University of Southampton – delivered online https://websci20.webscience.org/ Registration is now open!!! The registration fee is £50.00 to attend the whole conference, including PhD Symposium, Workshops and the main conference (consisting of paper sessions, keynote talks, and panel sessions). …
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Dame Wendy Hall as Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute. Dame Wendy Hall DBE, FRS, FREng is one of the world’s foremost computer scientists and plays a leading role in shaping science and engineering policy and education in the UK and internationally. She is the …
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A body overseeing web addresses said it has vetoed a $1.1 billion deal to sell control of domain names ending in .org to a private investment firm after an outcry from internet pioneers and officials including California’s attorney general. Inventor of the Web, Sir Tim …
Please see the text in red below highlighting a change in the submission process. Making the Web Human-Centric? New Directions in the Web and AI 12th International ACM Web Science Conference7-10 July 2020, University of Southampton, UK Submission Deadline: May 3, 2020 OverviewOne of the WebSci’20 events on Tuesday 7th …
