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If My AI Wrote this Post, Could I Own the Copyright?

Todd Carpenter reports on a forum hosted by WIPO and the Copyright Office that focused on whether copyright can apply to the works created by artificial intelligence systems.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Feb 12, 2020
  • 9 Comments

Keeping It Real — Are Our Technology Expectations Out of Whack?

While we fuss over our interfaces and capabilities, we often forget how difficult software is to create and sustain, how easy it is to imagine otherwise, and how scarce engineering and programming resources are across the board.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 14, 2014
  • 16 Comments

Dancing with Myself — The Principal Impediment to Change and Innovation

The principal impediment to changing or developing an organization is the view of the management that they already are doing a good job. Thus all new initiatives are measured in terms of past successes.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jan 2, 2013
  • 15 Comments

IT Arrogance vs. Academic Culture — Why the Outcome Is Virtually Certain

Claims that technological innovations can smash cultures and revolutionize the fundamentals of scientific communication mistake superficial changes for deep changes. Technology alone isn’t enough. In fact, it seems that publishing changes technology.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 30, 2012
  • 30 Comments

“You Are Not a Gadget” — Why Open Culture and Technocentric Philosophies Are Ruining Our Lives

Jason Lanier’s manifesto about the open culture exposes its lack of ingenuity, its commercial depredations, its amoral world view, and its elitist predilections. It’s worth reading in full.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 22, 2010
  • 42 Comments

How Libraries Can Find Money in Clouds

With an outdated view of information technology, institutional repositories are missing an opportunity to cut costs while they fulfill their missions.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jun 22, 2009
  • 12 Comments

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