The Normative Order of the Internet: A Theory of Rule and Regulation Online

There is order on the internet, but how has this order emerged and what challenges will threaten and shape its future? This study shows how a legitimate order of norms has emerged online, through both national and international legal systems. It establishes the emergence of a normative order of the internet, an order which explains and justifies processes of online rule and regulation. This order integrates norms at three different levels (regional, national, international), of two types (privately and publicly authored), and of different character (from ius cogens to technical standards). The author assesses their internal coherence, their consonance with other order norms and their consistency with the order's finality. The normative order of the internet is based on and produces a liquefied system characterized by self-learning normativity. In light of the importance of the socio-communicative online space, this is a book for anyone interested in understanding the contemporary development of the internet.

INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology 2

The subject of machine learning and creativity, as well as its appropriation in arts is the focus of this issue with our Main theme of – Artificial Intelligence in Music, Arts, and Theory. In our invitation to collaborators, we discussed our standing preoccupation with the exploration of technology in contemporary theory and artistic practice. The invitation also noted that this time we are encouraged and inspired by Catherine Malabou’s new observations regarding brain plasticity and the metamorphosis of (natural and artificial) intelligence. Revising her previous stance that the difference between brain plasticity and computational architecture is not authentic and grounded, Malabou admits in her new book, Métamorphoses de l'intelligence: Que faire de leur cerveau bleu? (2017), that plasticity – the potential of neuron architecture to be shaped by environment, habits, and education – can also be a feature of artificial intelligence. “The future of artificial intelligence,” she writes, “is biological.” We wanted to provoke a debate about what machines can learn and what we can learn from them, especially regarding contemporary art practices. On this note, I am happy to see that our proposition has provoked intriguing and unique responses from various different disciplines including: theory of art, aesthetics of music, musicology, and media studies. The pieces in the (Inter)view section deal with machine and computational creativity, as well as the some of the principles of contemporary art. Reviews give us an insight into a couple of relevant reading points for this discussion and a retrospective of one engaging festival that also fits this theme

Intelligent Circuits and Systems

ICICS-2020 is the third conference initiated by the School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Lovely Professional University that explored recent innovations of researchers working for the development of smart and green technologies in the fields of Energy, Electronics, Communications, Computers, and Control. ICICS provides innovators to identify new opportunities for the social and economic benefits of society.　 This conference bridges the gap between academics and R&D institutions, social visionaries, and experts from all strata of society to present their ongoing research activities and foster research relations between them. It provides opportunities for the exchange of new ideas, applications, and experiences in the field of smart technologies and finding global partners for future collaboration. The ICICS-2020 was conducted in two broad categories, Intelligent Circuits & Intelligent Systems and Emerging Technologies in Electrical Engineering

A critical examination of incitement to terrorism laws and speech regulatory practices in the post-9/11-7/7 continuum

PhD ThesisThe preponderance of thinking in UK counterterrorism circles is that speech that incites terrorism (at least online) is not only a contributor to terrorism but it is also a form of terrorism/radicalisation/extremism in and of itself. Thus, there is a perceived need to preemptively suppress such speech. Accordingly, counterterrorism laws and regimes in the post 9/11-7/7 era are marked with a distinct urgency or vigilance that seeks to pre-empt speech that incites terrorism. However, inasmuch as these incitement to terrorism legal and regulatory regimes (e.g., the incitement to terrorism provisions under the Terrorism Act 2000, the Terrorism Act 2006 and the Public Order Act 1986) appear to be stable, they are still marked with traces of indeterminability or undecidability that not only expand law’s exclusionary violence but also makes law self-inadequating. Such traces of undecidability are reflected in the opacity of the law and its overlaps with other criminal laws such as soliciting murder, malicious communications and incitement to racial hatred. Another key trace of undecidability is evident in the arena of online regulation, which seems to flounder in the sense that it struggles to contain the cross-territorial ephemerality and polyphony of online speech. Consequently, this thesis seeks to examine and verify two hypothetical claims, that: 1) speech that incites terrorism cannot be contained because speech is inherently divergent and iterable. In this sense, regulating speech is thus inescapably confusing, mistake-laden (e.g. with false positives online) and inoperable at times; and 2) incitement to terrorism legal provisions and policies as well as the fair balancing principles of human rights law are undecidable and self-inadequating because they are irretrievably troubled by aporetic conceptual operations. In an attempt to destabilise the calculability and stability that pervades much of contemporary thinking on incitement to terrorism regulation enforcement and criminalisation in the UK. These claims are critically unpacked through the concept of hauntology, a deconstructive concept derived from critically engaging with Jacques Derrida’s scholarship on spectres, différance, dissemination, autoimmunity and undecidability. By showing that incitement to terrorism laws and practices bear the deep imprint of a pervasive lack of definitive determinability, this thesis allows for the tentative ethical possibility of reconfiguring what calculable absolutist frames of “incitement to terrorism”, law enforcement, and regulation currently disavow

Nuclear Power - Control, Reliability and Human Factors

Advances in reactor designs, materials and human-machine interfaces guarantee safety and reliability of emerging reactor technologies, eliminating possibilities for high-consequence human errors as those which have occurred in the past. New instrumentation and control technologies based in digital systems, novel sensors and measurement approaches facilitate safety, reliability and economic competitiveness of nuclear power options. Autonomous operation scenarios are becoming increasingly popular to consider for small modular systems. This book belongs to a series of books on nuclear power published by InTech. It consists of four major sections and contains twenty-one chapters on topics from key subject areas pertinent to instrumentation and control, operation reliability, system aging and human-machine interfaces. The book targets a broad potential readership group - students, researchers and specialists in the field - who are interested in learning about nuclear power

Tematski zbornik radova međunarodnog značaja. Tom 3 / Međunarodni naučni skup "Dani Arčibalda Rajsa", Beograd, 1-2. mart 2013

The Thematic Conference Proceedings contains 138 papers written by eminent scholars in the field of law, security, criminalistics, police studies, forensics, medicine, as well as members of national security system participating in education of the police, army and other security services from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, China, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska and Serbia. Each paper has been reviewed by two competent international reviewers, and the Thematic Conference Proceedings in whole has been reviewed by five international reviewers. The papers published in the Thematic Conference Proceedings contain the overview of con-temporary trends in the development of police educational system, development of the police and contemporary security, criminalistics and forensics, as well as with the analysis of the rule of law activities in crime suppression, situation and trends in the above-mentioned fields, and suggestions on how to systematically deal with these issues. The Thematic Conference Proceedings represents a significant contribution to the existing fund of scientific and expert knowledge in the field of criminalistic, security, penal and legal theory and practice. Publication of this Conference Proceedings contributes to improving of mutual cooperation between educational, scientific and expert institutions at national, regional and international level

Bibliography of Lewis Research Center Technical Publications announced in 1991

This compilation of abstracts describes and indexes the technical reporting that resulted from the scientific engineering work performed and managed by the Lewis Research Center in 1991. All the publications were announced in the 1991 issues of STAR (Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports) and/or IAA (International Aerospace Abstracts). Included are research reports, journal articles, conference presentations, patents and patent applications, and theses

Proceedings of the 2018 Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) International Congress

Published proceedings of the 2018 Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) International Congress, hosted by York University, 27-30 May 2018