SSIT Newsletter

The SSIT newsletter hits member inboxes around the middle of each month.

Please contact the SSIT Newsletter Editor, Heather Love (Heather.Love@uwaterloo.ca) if you have a news item, SSIT-related update, volunteer opportunity, Call for Papers, award notice, or “Feature Article” idea for a future issue.

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From our most recent issue:

IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society: Inaugural Issue Now Available!

Editor in chief Katina Michael is pleased to announce that the inaugural issue of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society is now available.

Be sure to check out the issue’s introductory editorial piece, “ Dealing with Technological Trajectories: Where We Have Come From and Where We Are Going” (Katina Michael, Roba Abbas, George Roussos, Eusebio Scornavacca, and Samuel Fosso-Wamba) as well as the four full papers:

Issues Related to Face Recognition Accuracy Varying Based on Race and Skin Tone(K. S. Krishnapriya, Vítor Albiero, Kushal Vangara, Michael C. King, and Kevin W. Bowyer)
Digital Psychiatry: Risks and Opportunities for Public Health and Wellbeing(Christopher Burr, Jessica Morley, Mariarosaria Taddeo, and Luciano Floridi)
Responsible AI—Two Frameworks for Ethical Design Practice (Dorian Peters, Karina Vold, Diana Robinson, and Rafael A. Calvo
Managing Technological Vulnerability of Urban Dwellers: Analysis, Trends, and Solutions (Lindsay J. Robertson, Albert Munoz, and Katina Michael)

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