Unimagined Futures ¿ ICT Opportunities and Challenges

Herausgegeben:Strous, Leon; Johnson, Roger; Grier, David Alan; Swade, Doron

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Festschrift, Unimagined Futures - ICT Opportunities and Challenges, is the first Festschrift in the IFIP AICT series. It examines key challenges facing the ICT community today. While addressing the contemporary challenges, the book provides the opportunity to look back to help understand the contemporary scene and identify appropriate future responses to them. Experts in different areas of the ICT scene have contributed to this IFIP 60th anniversary book, which will be a key input to the ICT community worldwide on setting policy priorities and agendas for the coming decade. In addition, a number of contributions look specifically at the role of professionals and of national, regional, and global organizations in disseminating the benefits of ICT to humanity worldwide.

Produktdetails

• IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 555
• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-64245-7
• 1st ed. 2020
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9783030642457
• ISBN-10: 3030642453
• Artikelnr.: 60421727

Inhaltsangabe

Challenge for society of scale and speed of technological change.- The Data Science Revolution - How learning machines changed the way we work and do business.- The Future of AI or AI for the Future.- The Law and Regulation of AI and autonomous systems.- The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.- Imagining the Future of Quantum Computing.- The Internet of Things: Opportunities, Challenges, and Social Implications of an Emerging Paradigm.- Software engineering, across two centuries.- To centralize or decentralize: what is the question? An application to digital payments.- Social Media - A systemic change perspective.- A resource perspective on E-waste: A global problem with local solutions?.- On Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Computing: Finding Allies in Overrepresented Populations.- Preserving the legacy of IT innovation.- Founding IFIP as an International Computing Organization.- The role of national, regional and international professional ICT bodies.- Professionalism in IT.- Digital equity, sustainable development and the ICT professional.