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Ethics for Digital Journalists
ETHICS FOR DIGITAL JOURNALISTS The rapid growth of online media has led to new complications in journalism ethics and practice. While traditional ethical principles may not fundamentally change when information is disseminated online, applying them across platforms has become more challenging as new kinds of interactions develop between jour- nalists and audiences. In Ethics for Digital Journalists , Lawrie Zion and David Craig draw together the international expertise and experience of journalists and scholars who have all been part of the process of shaping best practices in digital journalism. Drawing on contemporary events and controversies like the Boston Marathon bombing and the Arab Spring, the authors examine emerging best practices in everything from transparency and verifi cation to aggregation, collaboration, live blogging, tweet- ing, and the challenges of digital narratives. At a time when questions of ethics and practice are challenged and subject to intense debate, this book is designed to provide students and practitioners with the insights and skills to realize their potential as professionals. Lawrie Zion is an Associate Professor of Journalism at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and editor-in-chief of the online magazine upstart. He has worked as a broadcaster with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and as a fi lm journalist for a range of print publications. He wrote and researched the 2007 documentary The Sounds of Aus , which tells the story of the Australian accent. David Craig is a Professor of Journalism and Associate Dean at the University of Oklahoma in the United States. A former newspaper copy editor, he is the author of Excellence in Online Journalism: Exploring Current Practices in an Evolving Environ- ment and The Ethics of the Story: Using Narrative Techniques Responsibly in Journalism . -
China's Progress in Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment
MARCH 2021 China’s Progress in Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Accelerants and Policy Implications CSET Policy Brief AUTHORS Will Hunt Saif M. Khan Dahlia Peterson Executive Summary China has a chip problem. It depends entirely on the United States and U.S. allies for access to advanced commercial semiconductors, which underpin all modern technologies, from smartphones to fighter jets to artificial intelligence. China’s current chip dependence allows the United States and its allies to control the export of advanced chips to Chinese state and private actors whose activities threaten human rights and international security. Chip dependence is also expensive: China currently depends on imports for most of the chips it consumes. China has therefore prioritized indigenizing advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME), which chip factories require to make leading-edge chips. But indigenizing advanced SME will be hard since Chinese firms have serious weaknesses in almost all SME sub-sectors, especially photolithography, metrology, and inspection. Meanwhile, the top global SME firms—based in the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands—enjoy wide moats of intellectual property and world- class teams of engineers, making it exceptionally difficult for newcomers to the SME industry to catch up to the leading edge. But for a country with China’s resources and political will, catching up in SME is not impossible. Whether China manages to close this gap will depend on its access to five technological accelerants: 1. Equipment components. Building advanced SME often requires access to a range of complex components, which SME firms often buy from third party suppliers and then assemble into finished SME. -
The World's Largest Optical Networking and Communications Event
EXHIBITOR PROSPECTUS The world’s largest optical networking and communications event. of the OFC 2017 exhibit hall is SIGN UP NOW! EXHIBITION: 21-23 March 2017 LOS ANGELES CONVENTION CENTER CALIFORNIA, USA Sponsored by: OFCconference.org OFC 2017 EXHIBIT SPACE IS 96% JOIN 600+ EXHIBITORS AND SOLD OUT—SECURE YOURS TODAY. 13,000 BUYERS AT THE INDUSTRY’S LARGEST EXHIBITION. of exhibit attendees spent 99% of attendees visited the exhibits 32% 10+ hours on the show floor of all attendees have a role 72 countries represented in buying decisions. OFC attendees 13,000 are C-Level ATTENDEES of OFC 96% attendees come exhibitor satisfaction rate with from outside of 41.5 leads per exhibitor. the US OFC is the world’s largest from optical components and devices Exhibiting at OFC grows your A large and dynamic market. Capital and most prestigious to systems, test equipment, software business. expenditures among network event dedicated to and specialty fiber—OFC is where your operators will be nearly $180 billion optical networking and customers and prospects come to make With a solid and expanding base of in 2016, according to market research communications. their purchasing plans. 13,000 attendees from all sectors firm LightCounting. A strong growth of the market—from data center segment is in expansion of data Exhibit at OFC 2017 and be part OFC is Your BEST Opportunity to: end users and service providers and centers, with Google spending $10 of the ONE EVENT that defines carriers, to systems and component billion alone, and over $3 billion in • Connect with buyers the market and brings together vendors—OFC represents the transceiver sales for data centers • Meet decision makers the thought leaders and solution entire supply chain and provides across all customers, according to • Increase sales providers that drive the industry. -
Projected Roles for Disruptive and Emergent Technologies
50 Technology as a Driver of Future Change in the Forest Sector Technology as a Driver of Future Change in the Forest Sector: Projected Roles for Disruptive and Emergent Technologies George H. Kubik Abstract: This paper examines emergent and disruptive technologies as potential drivers of change in forest sector futures. Two questions are addressed: (1) Which emergent and disruptive technologies can be projected to substantively impact forestry futures? (2) What are the possible implications of emergent and disruptive technologies for decision makers, policymakers, and other stakeholders involved in forest sector futures? A 20-year timeframe is used for this explorative paper. A cross-disciplinary review of futures literature was implemented to identify and investigate leading emergent and disruptive technologies. A list of candidate technologies was developed from the literature review and eight technologies were selected: artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, electronic performance enhancement systems, genomics and synthetic biology, the Internet of Things, materials science, nanotechnology, and robotics. Each of the eight technologies was then defined and three representative forecasts were projected for each technology. The goal is to provide decision makers, policymakers, and other stakeholders in the forest sector with an awareness of emergent and potentially disruptive technologies and how they might disrupt forest sector futures. The purpose of this paper is not to predict the future in detail, but to (1) promote awareness and informed thinking about the relationship between potentially disruptive technologies and forest sector futures and (2) stimulate a research agenda based on the study of these projected futures. KEY WORDS: emergent technology, disruptive technology, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, electronic performance enhancement systems, genomics and synthetic biology, Internet of Things, materials science, nanotechnology and robotics Citation: Kubik, George H. -
149-Page PDF Version
By Bradford Hatcher © 2019 Bradford Hatcher ISBN: 978-0-9824191-8-2 Download at: https://www.hermetica.info/Intervention.html or: https://www.hermetica.info/Intervention.pdf Cover Photo Credit: Found online. Appears to be a conception of an evolved Terran reptilian life form. Table of Contents Part One 5 Preface 5 Puppet Shows 7 Waldo Speaking, Part 1 11 Waldo Speaking, Part 2 17 Wilma Speaks of Spirit 24 The Eck 30 Gizmos and the Van 34 Growing Up Van 42 Some Changes are Made 49 Culling Homo Non Grata 56 Introducing the Ta 63 Terrestrial and Aquatic Ta 67 Vestan, Myco, and Raptor Ta 72 Part Two 78 Progress Report at I+20 78 Desert Colonies 80 The Final Frontier, For Now 85 The Stellar Fleet 89 Remembering Community 94 Prototypes and Lexicons 99 For the Kids 104 Cultural Evolution 112 Cultural Engineering 119 Bioengineering 124 The Commons 128 The Tour 132 Mitakuye Oyasin 137 A Partial Glossary 147 Part One It gives one a feeling of confidence to see nature still busy with experiments, still dynamic, and not through nor satisfied because a Devonian fish managed to end as a two-legged character with a straw hat. There are other things brewing and growing in the oceanic vat. It pays to know this. It pays to know that there is just as much future as there is past. The only thing that doesn't pay is to be sure of man's own part in it. There are things down there still coming ashore. Never make the mistake of thinking life is now adjusted for eternity. -
An Outlook on EUV Projection and Nanoimprint
Adv. Opt. Techn. 2017; 6(3-4): 159–162 Editorial Jan van Schoot* and Helmut Schift Next-generation lithography – an outlook on EUV projection and nanoimprint DOI 10.1515/aot-2017-0040 But different from expected, the current solutions are still using most of the ingredients of traditional optical Lithography is dead – long live lithography! For years, lithography. In 1986, Hiroo Kinoshita proposed the use of optical lithography has been the workhorse for high- extreme UV (EUV) as the consequent continuation of pho- volume manufacturing (HVM) of sophisticated semicon- tolithography with smaller wavelengths, which means ductor chips used for data processing and storage. The 13.5 nm instead of 193 nm from deep ultraviolet (DUV) [1]. need for smaller and smaller structures has called for new However, instead of transmission lenses, mirrors have to patterning solutions, some of them involving the exten- be used; also, the mask has to be operated in reflective sion of existing optical principles, parallel patterning, and mode. EUV projection lithography (EUVL) will enable step and repeat by covering the surface of silicon wafers to go back to single mask exposure instead of double or with consecutive exposure of identical patterns, projec- quadruple exposure, at least for the coming node N7 and tion of demagnified patterns from a mask onto the wafer later N5 (see also Figure 1) [2]. instead of proximity printing. Others are employing differ- The leading semiconductor manufacturers are ent physical concepts from using massive parallel electron making now the transition toward putting EUV lithogra- beams or even mechanical imprinting of resists, which phy into production [3]. -
Nanotechnology and Picotechnology to Increase Tissue Growth: a Summary of in Vivo Studies
Nanotechnology and picotechnology to increase tissue growth: a summary of in vivo studies Ece Alpaslan1 and Thomas J Webster1,2 Author information ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract The aim of tissue engineering is to develop functional substitutes for damaged tissues or malfunctioning organs. Since only nanomaterials can mimic the surface properties (ie, roughness) of natural tissues and have tunable properties (such as mechanical, magnetic, electrical, optical, and other properties), they are good candidates for increasing tissue growth, minimizing inflammation, and inhibiting infection. Recently, the use of nanomaterials in various tissue engineering applications has demonstrated improved tissue growth compared to what has been achieved until today with our conventional micron structured materials. This short report paper will summarize some of the more relevant advancements nanomaterials have made in regenerative medicine, specifically improving bone and bladder tissue growth. Moreover, this short report paper will also address the continued potential risks and toxicity concerns, which need to be accurately addressed by the use of nanomaterials. Lastly, this paper will emphasize a new field, picotechnology, in which researchers are altering electron distributions around atoms to promote surface energy to achieve similar increased tissue growth, decreased inflammation, and inhibited infection without potential nanomaterial toxicity concerns. Keywords: nanomaterials, tissue engineering, toxicity Go to: Introduction Bone tissue and other organ dysfunction can be provoked by poor eating habits, stress, age-related diseases such as osteoarthritis or osteoporosis, as well as accidents.1 To date, common procedures to restore or enhance life expectancy involve medical device insertion or organ transplantation.1 However, due to the low number of donors and its high cost, organ transplantation is limited. -
Big Historical Foundations for Deep Future Speculations: Cosmic Evolution, Atechnogenesis, and Technocultural Civilization
Found Sci DOI 10.1007/s10699-015-9434-y Big Historical Foundations for Deep Future Speculations: Cosmic Evolution, Atechnogenesis, and Technocultural Civilization Cadell Last1 Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 Abstract Big historians are attempting to construct a general holistic narrative of human origins enabling an approach to studying the emergence of complexity, the relation between evolutionary processes, and the modern context of human experience and actions. In this paper I attempt to explore the past and future of cosmic evolution within a big historical foundation characterized by physical, biological, and cultural eras of change. From this analysis I offer a model of the human future that includes an addition and/or reinterpretation of technological singularity theory with a new theory of biocultural evo- lution focused on the potential birth of technological life: the theory of atechnogenesis. Furthermore, I explore the potential deep futures of technological life and extrapolate towards two hypothetical versions of an ‘Omega Civilization’: expansion and compression. Keywords Big history Á Anthropology Á Futures Á Evolution Á Singularity Á Philosophy 1 Introduction My focus is to explore the ‘deep future’ of ‘big history’ in-as-far as it can be explored given a lack of empirical data, inability to test future predictions, and an incomplete knowledge of local and global physical, biological, and cultural processes currently in operation. We can gain a new understanding of possible future trends and processes by analyzing the emerging science of cosmic evolution within the narrative architecture of big history. Although modern phenomena like technological complexification and sociopo- litical convergence receive considerable attention, few researchers approach these issues from the vantage point of 13.8 billion years of interconnected evolution. -
Nanosystems, Edge Computing, and the Next Generation Computing Systems
sensors Review Nanosystems, Edge Computing, and the Next Generation Computing Systems Ali Passian * and Neena Imam Computing & Computational Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 30 July 2019; Accepted: 16 September 2019; Published: 19 September 2019 Abstract: It is widely recognized that nanoscience and nanotechnology and their subfields, such as nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, and nanomechanics, have had a tremendous impact on recent advances in sensing, imaging, and communication, with notable developments, including novel transistors and processor architectures. For example, in addition to being supremely fast, optical and photonic components and devices are capable of operating across multiple orders of magnitude length, power, and spectral scales, encompassing the range from macroscopic device sizes and kW energies to atomic domains and single-photon energies. The extreme versatility of the associated electromagnetic phenomena and applications, both classical and quantum, are therefore highly appealing to the rapidly evolving computing and communication realms, where innovations in both hardware and software are necessary to meet the growing speed and memory requirements. Development of all-optical components, photonic chips, interconnects, and processors will bring the speed of light, photon coherence properties, field confinement and enhancement, information-carrying capacity, and the broad spectrum of light into the high-performance computing, the internet of things, and industries related to cloud, fog, and recently edge computing. Conversely, owing to their extraordinary properties, 0D, 1D, and 2D materials are being explored as a physical basis for the next generation of logic components and processors. Carbon nanotubes, for example, have been recently used to create a new processor beyond proof of principle. -
Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy & Physics
Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy & Physics: A Topical Index Compiled by Andrew Fraknoi (U. of San Francisco, Fromm Institute) Version 7 (2019) © copyright 2019 by Andrew Fraknoi. All rights reserved. Permission to use for any non-profit educational purpose, such as distribution in a classroom, is hereby granted. For any other use, please contact the author. (e-mail: fraknoi {at} fhda {dot} edu) This is a selective list of some short stories and novels that use reasonably accurate science and can be used for teaching or reinforcing astronomy or physics concepts. The titles of short stories are given in quotation marks; only short stories that have been published in book form or are available free on the Web are included. While one book source is given for each short story, note that some of the stories can be found in other collections as well. (See the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, cited at the end, for an easy way to find all the places a particular story has been published.) The author welcomes suggestions for additions to this list, especially if your favorite story with good science is left out. Gregory Benford Octavia Butler Geoff Landis J. Craig Wheeler TOPICS COVERED: Anti-matter Light & Radiation Solar System Archaeoastronomy Mars Space Flight Asteroids Mercury Space Travel Astronomers Meteorites Star Clusters Black Holes Moon Stars Comets Neptune Sun Cosmology Neutrinos Supernovae Dark Matter Neutron Stars Telescopes Exoplanets Physics, Particle Thermodynamics Galaxies Pluto Time Galaxy, The Quantum Mechanics Uranus Gravitational Lenses Quasars Venus Impacts Relativity, Special Interstellar Matter Saturn (and its Moons) Story Collections Jupiter (and its Moons) Science (in general) Life Elsewhere SETI Useful Websites 1 Anti-matter Davies, Paul Fireball. -
CLAYTRONICS Subtitle]
[Type the document CLAYTRONICS subtitle] By- Index 1. Introduction 2 2. Major Goals 3 3. Programmable Matter 4 4. Synthetic reality 7 5. Ensemble Principle 7 6. C-Atoms 8 7. Pario 9 8. Algorithms 10 9. Scaling and Designing of C-atoms 12 10. Hardware 13 11. Software 15 12. Application of Claytronics 16 13. Summary 17 14. Bibliography 18 Page | 1 CLAYTRONICS INTRODUCTION: In the past 50 years, computers have shrunk from room-size mainframes to lightweight handhelds. This fantastic miniaturization is primarily the result of high-volume Nano scale manufacturing. While this technology has predominantly been applied to logic and memory, it’s now being used to create advanced micro-electromechanical systems using both top-down and bottom-up processes. One possible outcome of continued progress in high-volume Nano scale assembly is the ability to inexpensively produce millimeter-scale units that integrate computing, sensing, actuation, and locomotion mechanisms. A collection of such units can be viewed as a form of programmable matter. Claytronics is an abstract future concept that combines Nano scale robotics and computer science to create individual nanometer-scale computers called claytronic atoms, or catoms, which can interact with each other to form tangible 3-D objects that a user can interact with. This idea is more broadly referred to as programmable matter. Claytronics is a form a programmable matter that takes the concept of modular robots to a new extreme. The concept of modular robots has been around for some time. Previous approaches to modular robotics sought to create an ensemble of tens or even hundreds of small autonomous robots which could, through coordination, achieve a global effect not possible by any single unit. -
STONEMOUTH by David Kane EP TWO Draft 7 (Goes with Draft 11
Stonemouth, Episode Two by David Kane Based on the Novel by Iain Banks 31.07.14 STONEMOUTH By David Kane EP TWO 31.07.14 1 1 EXT. STREET - NIGHT 1 The Hummer speeds down an empty street and comes to an abrupt halt. The doors swing open and STEWART is rolled out onto the road. 2 EXT. SIDE OF ROAD - NIGHT 2 STEWART lies dazed on the tarmac. He looks up to see NORRIE glaring down at him. NORRIE Go to Calum’s funeral. Pay your respects. Then get out of Stonemouth. (kick to the groin) And stay the fuck away from our sister. NORRIE jumps in, bangs the side of the van, and it takes off at speed. STEWART, in pain, watches it disappear from view. 3 EXT. ROAD BY THE SEA - NIGHT 3 STEWART is walking home slowly, in some discomfort. STEWART (V.O.) That kind of brings things up to date. Trip home for a funeral, suspect best mate was murdered, and now I’ve got twenty four hours to get out of town. He looks towards the beach. A DISSOLVE, night into day, as he is transported back in time again. 4 EXT. FLAT BEACH (FLASHBACK, 2012) - SUNSET 4 Sunset. The sky is yellow/orange now. There are young people on the beach. A fire is lit. ELLIE is among them, sitting, drinking beer. CALUM and STEWART are sitting on a wall looking down at them, sharing a joint. STEWART It’s one of those days you don’t want to end, isn’t it? CALUM can see STEWART gazing at ELLIE..