…Number of poems about Hacking in The New Yorker in 1991: Number of times the word “hacker” was used in The New Yorker before 2008: fewer than 10 Number of…

…need across the disciplines for new tools—new conceptual “equipment” for rerouting entrenched conceptual flows. Here the distinction between first and second order observation (drawn primarily from Luhmann) is frequently invoked….

…to fully exploit the opportunity that was presented by September 11 in terms of creating new companies, creating new entities, and going after capital” (Representative Miller, California, Congressional Record, November29,…

…federal charges for this mission on behalf of what came to be known as “fake news.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has emerged with a seven-point plan to tame “fake news”…

…a scenario-based exercise. Science journalist Laurie Garrett, who attended the meeting, later described Legters’ exercise—and participants’ experience of it—in a Newsday article: In the spring of 1991, as tensions escalated…

…Frustrated, Noah coded a script that automatically scanned for cancellations in the city hall’s appointment schedule. “So, Paula, in this moment I realized that we are sort of a new…

…a direct mailing to promote the new slot shelter. Previous profit levels not only returned but were quickly surpassed. The casino’s data cloud, when animated and queried, had rendered visible…

…models, pamphlets, and posters of Excrementa Estates. Also included were images taken from recent promotional material from a new class of upscale planned communities in Ghana. In these neoliberal “New…

…systems, reduce costs for access to health care, and thus contribute to health equity. Connectivity promises to bring new bodies and populations into sight, alleviating suffering and saving lives; any…

…the effects of one “variable” upon another. But, by focusing on distributions rather than on averages, these new tools introduced the idea of “variation” and eventually “explained variation,” and in…

…serves the poor in Bangladesh (Grameen Bank, the 2006 Nobel co-winner), he also crafted a global vision for funding entrepreneurs and tirelessly promoted it for three decades. Muhammad Yunus at…

…Guinea and Liberia (including an large team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control [CDC] Epidemiological Intelligence Service). But, experts argued, the international response did not adequately escalate in proportion…

…philosophically insurmountable for AI. In recent years, however, technologists have found a new workaround to the limits of AI. The “human computation” movement in computer science has advocated for “leveraging…

…and voluntary web-based participation was not enough, and Santos’ campaign knew it. On May 30th after the first round presidential election, the polling results showed that the enthusiasm for Mockus…

…timestamp of its creation, output frequency, a status code, and—most significant, for the question of archivesthe value of the previous output, the most recent random broadcast. This collection of data…

…the carnage beyond its borders is as diverse as the continent itself: as an ironic contrast to the newly built barbed-wire fences protecting the borders of Fortress Europe from Middle…

…explain what that really means. People don’t experience the climate system, people experience weather events. So it was perhaps inevitable that a day or two after “Super­storm” Sandy hit New…

…innovations undertaken by Plumrose at its own manufacturing facility, the hotspot for energy use. Viewers learn that the company’s new trucks are up to 30 percent more efficient than their…

…next pandemic before it starts” (see Lachenal forthcoming). Another is “syndromic disease surveillance,” which aims to detect signals of a new epidemic even before doctors have made any diagnoses, for…

…for both domestic and international regulatory authorities. In the international arena the gradual replacement of the Basel II regulatory requirements by a new Basel III system represents the leading edge…