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Evaluating Interdisciplinary Research: A Practical Guide
Professor Veronica Strang and Professor Tom McLeish FRS
Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, July 2015

Introduction
Section 1. Overview
Section 2. Foundational Principles for Interdisciplinary Research and Evaluation
Section 3. Assessing Interdisciplinary Funding Proposals
Section 4. Assessing Interdisciplinary Outputs
Section 5. Assisting Interdisciplinary Careers
Section 6. Asessing Interdisciplinary Institutes and Centres
Section 7. Assessing IDR in National Performance Exercises
Conclusion
References and Related Literature

2016/03/162016/03/15

Robert James Beckett: John Stanton on Data Imperialism & Digital Slavery

Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency

Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics.

Imperialism via Data: The Digitization of Human Behavior, “Social Radar”, Sensors and Neuroscience

John Stanton, Global Research, 13 March 2016

In 2007 I wrote and presented a conceptual paper to an international studies group in Portugal. The subject matter was, generally, the use of Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience (ECN) to manage humanity. That paper would eventually finds its way, remarkably, into Rebecca Costa’s seminal The Watchman’s Rattle. . . . In just under ten years, the topics alluded to in my 2007 paper have taken the form of four converging and accelerating movements that seem likely to usher in drastic change in the human condition: The digitization of human behavior; cracking open the brain through neuroscience; the engineering and manipulation of human and non-human genomes; and the proliferation of the Internet of Things, which is code for the sensorization of the human/non-human, home, work, school, automobile, street, global commons, etc. Read more.

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2016/03/142016/03/13

Berto Jongman: Computer Programmer Testifies He Was Hired to Rig Elections

11 Society, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency

Computer Programmer Testifies He Was Hired To Rig Elections

A video has been released of computer programmer Clinton Eugene Curtis testifying under oath in front of the U.S. House Judiciary claiming that he was hired by authorities to help rig the outcome of U.S. elections.

Curtis told the court in 2000 that he was hired by Congressman Tom Freeny to build prototype software that would allow authorities to push the results to a 51/49 outcome if needed.

2016/03/142016/03/13

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Slammed by Dutch for Fake Reviews (Fake Humans and Fake Automated Review-Writing Programs)

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency

Google: The Dutch Do Not Think Much of Fake Reviews

I read “Google Ordered to Hand Over Names of Fake Reviewers in Dutch Court Case.” Let’s assume that the story is accurate. For me, the notion of Google providing the names of individuals who created “fake” reviews is interesting. For the affected small business, the victory is not likely to generate a jump to the top 25 sites in traffic. For the Google, the court decision is another indication of the legal hurdles Google may face in the present day European community.

2016/03/132016/03/12

Ty Simpson: Crytosecession & Taxation

Advanced Cyber/IO, Money

Cryptosecession and the limits of taxation

Cryptosecession is the use of cryptographic and blockchain-based technologies (e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitnation) to economically secede from incumbent institutions—namely, the state. Jason is at the 2016 Public Choice Society conference at the moment, where he’ll be presenting a paper in which we show that the threat of cryptosecession exerts an even greater limitation on government over-taxation than fiscal federalism and political secession. Things aren’t altogether rosy, though, because this elicits a sort of ‘arms race’ between secessionists and the state. All depends on the ability to secede to the ‘crypto economy’, which in turn depends on the relative development of crypto technologies of opacity (or resistance) versus state technologies of legibility (or control). The paper can be viewed here and slides for the talk are here. Below is the abstract, and a couple of slides that sum up the argument: Read more.

2016/03/122016/03/11

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Destroys Search

IO Impotency

Google and a New Approach to Search Relevance

We know one cannot search for a topic if the words are not in the index. Should we forget about it? Sure, why not? Quite a few folks perceive Google search results as the equivalent of an overnight visit to the oracle of Delphi. “Google Experimenting with Social Search to Let Businesses and Celebrities Post Straight to Search Results” reports: Read more.

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2016/03/112016/03/10

Farhad Manjoo: Amazon’s Personal Home Assistant The Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise

Advanced Cyber/IO

The Echo From Amazon Brims With Groundbreaking Promise

What is most interesting about the Echo is that it came out of nowhere. It isn’t much to look at, and even describing its utility is difficult. Here is a small, stationary machine that you set somewhere in your house, which you address as Alexa, which performs a variety of tasks — playing music, reading the news and weather, keeping a shopping list — that you can already do on your phone.

But the Echo has a way of sneaking into your routines. When Alexa reorders popcorn for you, or calls an Uber car for you, when your children start asking Alexa to add Popsicles to the grocery list, you start to want pretty much everything else in life to be Alexa-enabled, too. Read more.