November 2, 2017 Sydney, Australia
Author: Guest Author
LETTER: Licensing Engineering Professionals
By Guest Author on October 12th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Licensing of Engineering Professionals: Is there any validity to this practice? The Education Department of the State of New York says — there is. IEEE Policy also says there is. The reality, I have come to continuously over four decades in practice as an electrical power engineer in the service of more than a dozen U.S. firms — is that there is none!
The Dangers of Distributed Intelligence
By Guest Author on August 4th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
There is an increasing interest in, and implementation of the Internet of Things. As the number and types of interconnections… Read More
Algorithmic Bias: Addressing Growing Concerns
By Guest Author on July 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Leading Edge, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
In the context of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, and with support… Read More
Getting from 1932 to 1945
By Guest Author on July 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Societal Impact
Responsibilities of Scientists and Engineers in Times of Chaos and Upheaval If the future is coming at an ever accelerating… Read More
Pressed for Time
By Guest Author on July 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Human Impacts, Societal Impact
Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism. By Judy Wajcman. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2015,… Read More
Going Fishing Matters
By Guest Author on July 28th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
Dear Editor, Katina Michael, in “Gone Fishing: Breaking with the Biometric Rhythm of Tech-Centricism” (IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Dec…. Read More
Big Data’s Big Future – But for Whom
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
PetaJakarta.org team survey damage along the Ciliwung River using GeoSocial Rapid Assessment Survey Platform (#GRASP) via Twitter, as neighborhood children… Read More
Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security
By Gary T. Marx, University of Chicago Press, 2016. Reviewed by Donna L. Halper It goes without saying that we… Read More
Why Did the 3D Revolution Fail?: The Present and Future of Stereoscopy
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Figure 1. Popularity of the search terms (a) “Stereoscopy” and (b) “3D television” between January 2007 and October 2016, based on… Read More
Human by Design: An Ethical Framework for Human Augmentation
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Rapid advances in science and technology are opening doors for the fulfillment of human desires in ways that were not… Read More
Brain Implants and Memory
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact
Heather M. Roff and Peter W. Singer [1] strikingly identify a problem for the next American president in the form… Read More
Children and Technology: Parent Guidelines for Every Age
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Leading Edge, Magazine Articles
What can parents do? Children need different rules at different ages of development. Here are some 3-6-9-12 Rules for the… Read More
Human Microchipping, Past, Present, and … Future?
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security, Societal Impact
I sat staring at the computer on February 6th, 2006, thinking about the press release I was about to send… Read More
Ethical Imperatives for Veteran Healthcare Resources
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles
Dear Editor, After receiving my discharge from the United States Marine Corps, the most deplorable fight of my life/career started…. Read More
Social Network Neutrality, Anyone?
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Having recently relocated to a country where I know very few people, I tried looking for a local branch of… Read More
Marvin Minsky: 1927-2016
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Minsky (left) was keynote speaker at ISTAS 2013 held at the University of Toronto, Canada. (Right: Steve Mann, ISTAS ’13… Read More
The Police Crisis of Visibility
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security, Societal Impact
A rugged male Metro Toronto police officer stares down a female protester outside the Toronto G-20 meetings in 2010. She… Read More
Pondering Effects of Video Games on Children
By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion
Dear Drs. Albrecht and Michael, I recently came across your Editorial titled: “We’ve Got to do Better” [1] and felt… Read More
Who’s Monitoring the Baby Monitors?
By Guest Author on December 14th, 2016 in Articles, Privacy & Security
Guest Blog entry by Cassie Phillips With the recent, record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks carried out with hijacked Internet-of-Things… Read More