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  Protecting privacy through homomorphic encryption
Lauter K., Dai W., Laine K., Springer, New York, NY, 2022. 176 pp.  Type: Book (9783030772871)

With the growing use of sensitive personal information, which also corresponds to the term “personally identifiable information (PII)” in information and communications technology (ICT) environments, the requirements for privacy protec...

Jun 2 2023
  Data analysis for social science: a friendly and practical introduction
Llaudet E., Imai K., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, New Jersey, 2023. 256 pp.  Type: Book (0691199434)

Earl Babbie’s classic textbook The practice of social research, which went to its 15th edition in 2021 [1], is a standard reference for social science students and researchers. Its comprehensive review of research methods is still of ...

May 31 2023
  Big data and public policy: course, content, and outcome
Moody R., Bekkers V., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2023. 207 pp.  Type: Book (3031160304)

Big data and public policy: course, content, and outcome, by Rebecca Moody and Victor Bekkers, is an excellent book for those who are involved in policy-making processes and looking to learn how big data and public policy are strengthened t...

May 25 2023
   Beyond data: reclaiming human rights at the dawn of the metaverse
Renieris E., MIT Press, Cambridge,MA, 2023. 240 pp.  Type: Book (9780262047821)

This book is a short, focused essay on data security and privacy. The author makes it clear that these are two separate matters that are often in conflict both in practice and in law. Each of the book’s three major sections emphasizes a diff...

May 11 2023
  Identifying informative tweets during a pandemic via a topic-aware neural language model
Gao W., Li L., Tao X., Zhou J., Tao J. World Wide Web 2655-70, 2023.  Type: Article

Years ago, when Twitter was a new social media tool, I reviewed an article for Computing Reviews that looked at how tweets can be used in emergency situations. This new paper follows along similar lines: Twitter can be used to help with spe...

Apr 28 2023
  AI and neurotechnology: learning from AI ethics to address an expanded ethics landscape
Berger S., Rossi F. Communications of the ACM 6658-68, 2023.  Type: Article

Strategies developed by the artificial intelligence (AI) community for dealing with ethical issues should be useful in dealing with neurotechnology (neurotech). Some ethical issues associated with both AI and neurotechnology are illustrated by an ...

Apr 27 2023
  Language, gender and videogames: using corpora to analyse the representation of gender in fantasy videogames
Heritage F., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2021. 199 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-030743-97-0)

It has often been stated that the videogaming environment is filled with machismo, and there are many observations to that end: numerous studies have been published that back this assertion, based on the size comparison of the male and female gami...

Apr 25 2023
   Synthetic friends: a philosophy of human-machine friendship
Kempt H., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2022. 220 pp.  Type: Book (3031136306)

The relationships between human beings and robots have been a significant part of science fiction since Isaac Asimov’s robot stories and novels, starting in 1950, and movies and television shows like Forbidden Planet, Blade Runner<...

Apr 13 2023
   A hacker’s mind: how the powerful bend society’s rules, and how to bend them back
Schneier B., W. W. Norton, New York, NY, 2023. 304 pp.  Type: Book (0393866661)

By thinking like a hacker, that is, understanding why and how complex systems can fail by finding and taking unfair advantage of imperfections, we might be able to minimize or eliminate unwanted and potentially catastrophic misuse. Common examples...

Mar 29 2023
   Agile transformation: using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to think and lead differently
Spayd M., Madore M., Pearson Education, Boston, MA, 2021. 256 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-218853-17-0)

Agile methodology is not a new way of managing projects or conducting business. It has been used since approximately 1980, without much publicity. Nowadays, however, as we have the Internet and communication has become very easy, we often hear the...

Mar 20 2023
 
 
 
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