The World Bank Group’s capacity to collect, manage, analyze and distribute geospatial data is coordinated by the Geospatial Operational Support Team (GOST). GOST is looking for a qualified candidate to join the team as a Geospatial Programmer. This role requires a person with a combination of skills in geography, GIS,…
IEEE International Workshop on Resilience Engineering (IWRE) – Call for Papers
Website: https://paris.utdallas.edu/iwre19/ The workshop will be co-located with the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (https://qrs19.techconf.org/), in Sofia, Bulgaria, July 22-26, 2019. Resilience is rapidly spreading throughout domains traditionally studied by quality, reliability, and security researchers. It is widely recognized that progressively higher levels of resilience…
Bezos World Or Levelers: Can We Choose Our Scenario?
Artificial intelligence (AI) augurs changes in society at least as large as those of the industrial revolution. But much of the policy debate seems narrow – extrapolating current trends and asking how we might manage their rough edges. This essay instead explores how AI might be used to enable fundamentally different future worlds and how one such future might be enabled by AI algorithms with different goals and functions than those most common today.