Conference CFP: Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context
April 22, 2024: 300-500 word paper proposals due
July 18, 2024: Date of online conference
Submit your fabulous work!
https://uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-the-inevitability-of-ai/
L'incroyable Niklaus Wirth vient de mourir, son travail méritait bien qu'on revienne sur sa vision de la simplicité et de l'optimisation : https://www.standblog.org/blog/post/2024/01/05/Deces-de-Niklaus-Wirth cc @sroccaserra
A Cormas model for driftwood collection presented at MISS ABMS by François Vendel and Sorebou Hilaire Sanni Worogo
The same agent-based model implemented in three different platforms: Cormas, Gamma, and NetLogo
New release of Cormas v0.7 🥳
Most important changes:
- Improved the implementation of the space view, fixed important bugs
- Fixed the translation, added new languages (Ukrainian, Polish, Norvegian)
- Added Language item to the menu
- Fixed some important UI bugs
- Reduced dependency on ProjectFramefork
- Increased test coverage from 26% to 36%
For more details, see the Changelog:
https://github.com/cormas/cormas/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v07-18-august-2023
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Editorial by Nature [1] on the #OpenLetter to combat global #inequality to the #UN secretary general and #WorldBank president (https://equalshope.org/index.php/2023/07/17/setting-serious-goals-to-combat-inequality )
From the open letter:
"We are living through a time of extraordinarily high economic inequality. Extreme #poverty and extreme wealth have risen sharply and simultaneously for the first time in 25 years. Between 2019 and 2020, global inequality grew more rapidly than at any time since #WW2."
From Open Source Initiative @osi : LLAMA2 license is NOT Open Source.
Surprised? 😐
https://blog.opensource.org/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source/
Our Institute in Macau is the first among United Nations University Institutes to move to the new UNU website: https://unu.edu/macau
Soon more update information on our research activities.
Cormas v0.6 is out 🥳
Most important changes:
- We now use traits (TCMLocated, TCMCommunicating) instead of the hierarchy of agents (CMLocatedCommunicatingAgent)
- All deme models were moved into separate repositories
For more details, see the Changelog:
https://github.com/cormas/cormas/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v06-25-july-2023
We (@emilymbender, @mmitchell_ai and I) are organizing a virtual Stochastic Parrots Day on March 17. We thought it was time for a retrospective, & plan to discuss the current landscape, how we got here & where we need to go instead. Sign up below to join us.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stochastic-parrots-day-tickets-524219965027
Don't forget to join our career information session next Monday to learn more about our new research positions. Join our multi-disciplinary research team at @UNUMACAU to work on how collective intelligence can leverage a sustainable future
#computationalsocialscience #SDG #responsibleAI #sustainability #complexsystems
https://cs.unu.edu/events/archive/event/unu-macau-research-career-information-sessions-2.html
The Institute has recently developed its Strategic Plan (2021-2025), where systems thinking, and participatory approaches are the two major pillars of the research portfolio https://go.unu.edu/DZBVR
We are looking for candidates passionate about Sustainable Development Goals and Digital Technology. #SDGs
UNU-Macau conducts UN policy-relevant research and generates solutions, addressing key issues expressed in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through high-impact innovations and frontier technologies.
Our research Institute
is a UN global think tank working at the intersection between Information Communication Technologies and sustainability.
🇺🇳🇲🇴🇫🇷 Computer Science PhD, Head of Research at United Nations University #SDG #sustainability #complexsystems #responsibleAI #opensource
Still on Twitter for the moment: https://twitter.com/SergeStinckwich