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Given the rapid and ongoing advances in biomedicine and biometric identification as well as in information technologies, personal medical and biometric data are used more than ever for a wide variety of purposes and increasingly also across organisational and state boundaries. Thus the crucial isssue of protecting personal data becomes more complex. Consequently, the ETHICAL project has launched a vivid international expert dialogue on key issues of ethical data handling in medical and biometric applications.
A panel on tuning the spectrum for health and productivity was moderated by Naomi Miller of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Observing that LEDs offer an opportunity to customize the spectrum, she noted the proliferation of color-tunable luminaires that are being marketed as enhancing health, mood, productivity, and enjoyment and bring with them such claims as increased alertness, improved sleep, and slowing of dementia symptoms.
Michael Royer of PNNL discussed the recently released IES TM-30-15, which details new metrics and tools for evaluating the color rendering characteristics of light sources. Royer, who is chair of the IES task group that developed TM-30, explained that it provides an improved color fidelity metric, based on a much more comprehensive set of 99 color samples compared to the eight on which CRI is based. He also discussed the color gamut metric, which is introduced in TM-30 and addresses the relative color saturation provided by a light source, and he gave a vivid on-stage demonstration to show how differences in color saturation affect the appearance of objects.
At an evening reception sponsored by the Next Generation Lighting Industry Alliance, attendees had an opportunity to network and to interact with hands-on exhibits of indoor and outdoor winners from the Next Generation LuminairesTM design competition. In addition, the reception featured a number of informative posters, videos, and demonstrations that were related to the workshop discussion topics, and that were presented by Philips, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Portland, Navigant, the University of California at Berkeley, OLEDWorks, Acuity Brands, and EMD Performance Materials Corp.
Chips Chipalkatti of Dr. Chips Consulting built on the presentations of Dillon and Dzombak to discuss the creation of a model for sustainability beyond energy savings. He pointed out that there are millions of traditional lighting fixtures installed, with substantial embodied energy vested in them, and millions of SSL units have been installed over the last decade, some with early failures and others still working but already obsolete or at least no longer state-of-the-art. Chipalkatti proposed that the best way of conserving this embodied energy is remanufacturing, which is widely used in the home appliance industry. He defined remanufacturing as not just repair or refurbishing, but a systematic and large-scale process that can be repeated across the industry, and which saves energy while upgrading the product.
The Algorithms and Publics project at Data & Society maps how the public sphere is currently understood, controlled, and manipulated in order to spark a richer conversation about what interventions should be considered to support the ideal of an informed and engaged citizenry.
Now closed as an active research track, the Algorithms and Publics body of work remains as a vivid map of existing concerns and research already underway in this field, as enriched by the advice and aid of external scholars.
On February 26, 2016, Data & Society held a workshop, Who Controls the Public Sphere in an Era of Algorithms? to drill into the assumptions, values, and tensions at the core of growing concerns about the control and shaping of the public sphere in an era of algorithms.
Algorithms and Publics began with a set of case studies that explored how algorithmic media is shaping the public sphere across a variety of dimensions, including the changing role of the journalism industry, the use of algorithms for censorship or international compliance, how algorithms are functioning within foreign policy aims, digital gerrymandering, the spread of misinformation, and more.
Finally, two white papers were published online as part of this project. The first is an historical take on the role media has played within democracy. The second white paper presents issues emerging in the era of algorithms, and highlights existing concerns and tensions about the changing media ecosystem and its effect on democratic and public life.
How can humanists successfully compete for NIH funding? What roles can the humanities play in the public sphere? How can we influence public policy around issues ranging from genomics and neuroscience to AI and the environment? Drawing on his experience as site-PI on two collaborative NIH grants totaling more than $8 million, as former director of a center focused on the role of the arts in shaping public policy, as a participant in projects with the National Academy of Medicine, Personal Genome Project, and Broad Institute, and author of Literature, Science, and Public Policy: From Darwin to Genomics (Cambridge, 2023), Jay Clayton will outline answers that have worked at his institution and other universities.
This workshop explores new models of humanities research focused on transdisciplinary collaboration. Over the last five years, Jay Clayton and his team of undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities and social sciences have published 24 articles in peer-reviewed publications on topics ranging from literature to television medical dramas to science fiction films. Clayton will describe the process involved, discussing methods that foster vertical integration of research and mentorship.
Jay Clayton is a professor of cinema and media arts, and communication of science, engineering, and technology at Vanderbilt, and the director of the Vanderbilt Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy.
His most recent book with Cambridge UP, Literature, Science, and Public Policy: From Darwin to Genomics, "shows how literature can influence public policy concerning scientific controversies in genetics and other areas. Literature brings unique insights to issues involving cloning, GMOs, gene editing, and more by dramatizing their full human complexity. Literature's value for public policy is demonstrated by striking examples that range from the literary response to evolution in the Victorian era through the modern synthesis of evolution and genetics in the mid-twentieth century to present-day genomics. Outlining practical steps for humanists who want to help shape public policy, this book offers vivid readings of novels by H. G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Aldous Huxley, Robert Heinlein, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Gary Shteyngart, and others that illustrate the important insights that literary studies can bring to debates about science and society.
EarthInquiry is a series of web-based investigations where students work with real geoscience data to explore real-world geological phenomena. The activities are targeted for the introductory college student. Each EarthInquiry activity is anchored with a printed booklet. When a student is ready to access on-line data, he/she uses a unique web access code, located on the booklet's inside back cover, to gain entry to the EarthInquiry web site. The web site leads students through each investigation with detailed instructions for accessing and processing the data they collect on-line, providing supplementary information, glossary terms, and references as needed.
The American Geological Institute (AGI) and W.H. Freeman and Company Publishers currently offer seven full-length activities; covering the topics of floods, mineral resources, earthquakes and plate boundaries, long-term climate change, coastal hazards, volcanic hazards, and drinking water contamination. These activities use real-time data from the USGS, NOAA, and PSMSL, as well as other data sources.
The purpose of EarthInquiry is to not only connect students with real-time, real-world data, but to make teaching with on-line data more accessible to classroom instructors. To this end, the EarthInquiry web site is updated continually to reflect changes in the available on-line data sources. Stored copies of each data set are also available at all times.
The WV GLOBE Program is an initiative of the NASA IV&V Facility Educator Resource Center (ERC) in Fairmont, West Virginia. The program is supported by a consortium of academic, state, and federal partners with an interest in advancing K-12 Earth science education throughout the state. In partnership with West Virginia View ( ), the ERC has provided GLOBE Program teacher and trainer workshops on the inclusion of GIS in K-12 classrooms to promote the geospatial relevance of student collected environmental data points. With the support of ESRI, the ERC maintains a state-of-the-art GIS lab and is also the state-wide cache for classroom kits of scientific monitoring equipment available on loan to all GLOBE teachers.
Today, evolutionary new computer tools and networks allow NASA to process, visualize, project, analyze, and share widely its remote-sensing data sets in a timely manner. This poster will provide an overview & demonstration of a new data resource provided by NASA, called NEO (neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov). This new site is particularly useful for communicators & educators who wish to design their own communication/education products.
With support from DLESE, the authors developed and field tested a manual designed to help educators with little or no technical expertise to quickly and efficently develop lessons using google earth. The manual contains information on downloading, installing, and navigating GE, as well as step by step illustrated instructions on how to create placemarks with embedded images and html, how to drape maps over the landscape, hints on how to store digital images, and links to free software that can make your work easier. The manual also includes lesson ideas and a lesson planning tool developed with GE in mind.
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