Art Under Attack – FREEMUSE Annual Statistics on Censorship and Attacks on Artistic Freedom in 2015: “Artistic freedom is under extreme pressure in far too many countries. The Freemuse annual report summarises censorship and threats on artistic freedom in over 70 countries. While at the UN level there have been positive signs of larger attention… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Growing personal impact of large-scale government and corporate data collection
Via Fast CoExit – Your Data Footprint Is Affecting Your Life In Ways You Can’t Even Imagine – Job decisions, college admissions, health care decisions: All are now being fundamentally altered by your big data, and you might not even know. “…Predictions about you (and millions of other strangers) are starting to deeply shape your… Continue Reading
Macroeconomic Dimensions of Public-Private Partnerships
Macroeconomic Dimensions of Public-Private Partnerships, International Monetary Fund Working Paper, March 24, 2016. The voluminous literature comparing public-private partnerships (P3s) and own-investment (OI) by the public sector is dominated by contributions from microeconomic theory. This paper gives macroeconomics a voice in the debate by investigating the repercussions of P3 vs. OI in a dynamic general… Continue Reading
Housing, Housing Policy, and Housing Finance: Time for a Re-Assessment
White, Lawrence J., Housing, Housing Policy, and Housing Finance: Time for a Re-Assessment (March 24, 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2754311 “The shapers of the American mortgage finance system hoped to achieve the security of government ownership, the integrity of local banking and the ingenuity of Wall Street. Instead they got the ingenuity of… Continue Reading
NYT – Race Is On to Control Artificial Intelligence and Tech’s Future
The Race Is On to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech’s Future By John Markoff and Steve Lohr – “Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft are using high salaries and games pitting humans against computers to try to claim the standard on which all companies will build their A.I. technology.” Continue Reading
Wellcome Trust Open Access Publishing Data
Follow up to previous posting – Controversy over free journal access database keeps Sci-Hub in legal and research spotlight – see Wellcome Trust and COAF Open Access Spend, 2014-15: “…Once a year we ask all those institutions in receipt of an open access (OA) grant from the Trust to provide details on how the grant… Continue Reading
Challenges for Big Data to Solve Big Problems
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation – Big Data Can Solve Big Problems, But Only if Computing Can Keep Up – Joshua New, March 24, 2016. “The scientific community, particularly in fields such as particle physics and genetic sequencing, is using vast quantities of data to tackle some of the most challenging problems known to science,… Continue Reading
FAA Aviation Forecasts 2016
Aerospace forecasts – “The FAA has developed a set of assumptions and forecasts consistent with the emerging trends and structural changes taking place within the aviation industry. The purpose of the forecasts is to accurately predict future demand. FAA develops the commercial aviation forecasts and assumptions from statistical (econometric) models that explain and incorporate emerging… Continue Reading
Report – Millennials’ Media Habits Are Different and Distinct
Nielsen – “The difference between an 18-year-old and a 34-year-old is often like night and day. From where they live to what they wear to how much discretionary income they take home, a vast array of differences exist within what is often portrayed as a monolithic group of consumers. Likewise, according to Nielsen’s Q4 2015… Continue Reading
Paper – Cryptopolitik and the Darknet
Cryptopolitik and the Darknet By Daniel Moore, Thomas Rid, Publication: Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, February–March 2016, Pages: 7-38, Volume: 58. Edition number: 1. Date: 19 January 2016 “Encryption policy is becoming a crucial test of the values of liberal democracy in the twenty-first century. The trigger is a dilemma: the power of ciphers protects citizens… Continue Reading
Solar Climate Engineering and Intellectual Property: Toward a Research Commons
Reynolds, Jesse and Contreras, Jorge L. and Sarnoff, Joshua D., Solar Climate Engineering and Intellectual Property: Toward a Research Commons (February 29, 2016). Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2753833 “Climate change is one of the greatest challenges confronting society today. Solar climate engineering (SCE) has the potential… Continue Reading
Interactive Graphic: Student Loan Calculator
Interactive Graphic: Student Loan Calculator – Bryan Anselm for The New York Times. Continue Reading
