Events

Saturday, November 2, 2024 -
13:00 - 16:00


Book now: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/iaa1/1381273

Our everyday life is filled with technologies targeting our bodies and capturing our data, often without us considering the consequences. Our laptops demand our fingerprints, our smartphones unlock by scanning our faces and our wearable devices constantly track our heart rates.

Biometric technologies can be used...

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 - 14:00

Dr Tyne Sumner will deliver the seventh CRISP online seminar on Wednesday 6th November from 14.00 - 15.30 GMT. The seminar is entitled 'Gimmick Surveillance: Espionage, Exposure, Entertainment'. To join the seminar, just click on the 'Join the Seminar' button below from 15 minutes before the start time. See you there! 

Abstract

The term ‘gimmick’ has been invoked a great deal...

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 -
16:00 - 18:00

Our futures are entangled with data and AI. But considering these automated futures goes beyond what technologies can do; it invites workers, policymakers, and leaders to reflect on how we want to live, learn, and work with AI and data systems. This two-hour interactive event is a creative space to inform and critically explore issues and opportunities arising from digitally-mediated...

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 14:00

Dr. Roger Andre Søraa will deliver the eighth CRISP online seminar on the 11th December 2024 at 14.00 GMT. The seminar is entitled 'AI and diversity – how to mitigate exclusion in sociotechnical practices'. To join the seminar, just click on the 'Join the Seminar' button below from 15 minutes before the start time. See you there!

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly...

Past Events

Monday, September 16, 2024 -
13:00 - 15:00

Monday 16th September 2024 at University of Stirling.  

To attend please contact Vassilis Galanos

Emerging technologies come with the promise of disrupting the world as we know it while at the same time lacking the proof of their actual impact. Except for a few prototypes in R&D departments or research institutes, they exist primarily in the shared expectations and their...

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - 14:00

In this talk Dr Amy Stevens will present research from her forthcoming book, Resisting State Surveillance in the Digital Age. The book is part of the Routledge Studies in Surveillance Series and will be available to buy on 9th August 2024. To join the seminar, all you need to do is click the 'join the seminar' link below. The link will become live 15 minutes before the start time of 2pm/1400...

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 -
16:00 - 17:30

Professor David Robertson will deliver the fifth CRISP online seminar on Wednesday 13th May 2024 starting at 4pm/1600 hrs UK time on MS Teams. The seminar is entitled 'Requirements Specifications for AI Systems'.  To join the seminar, all you need to do is click the 'join the seminar' link below. The link will become live 15 minutes before the start time of 4pm/1600 hrs. 

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Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 07:00

Join the UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and the IEEE Society for Social Implications in Technology (Australia Chapter) (IEEE SSIT) for the seventh session in the Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World online seminar series: ‘Clever Computing through Accountable Design: Cybersecurity in Smart Homes’ with Dr Lachlan Urquhart from the University of Edinburgh.

This talk...

Thursday, November 9, 2023 -
16:00 - 17:30

Join us on Zoom, by clicking on the link below (link will be live 10 minutes before the seminar):

https://coventry-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85458130779?pwd=ZndWWnN5RnVwdTBRTlUvV2hpVkFnUT09

Meeting ID: 854 5813 0779

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023 -
00:00 - 23:45

CRISP Directors, Professor Charles Raab, and Professor William Webster will both be presenting at this year's FUTURESCOT Conference.

Conference Agenda:

Digital and data are transforming the way we deliver justice services in Scotland, from an enhanced user experience for victims and witnesses, to better coordination of evidence between policing and the courts. Digital Justice...

Monday, October 2, 2023 -
18:00 - 21:00

*** CANCELLED *** Due to unforseen circumstances this event is now cancelled

This public debate will explore issues associated with the recent rise in the use of ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) systems in public places across the UK. Initially ANPR systems were deployed in the 1990s to help identify and track criminals, but over time these systems have evolved to assist with...

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 - 14:00

On Wednesday September 13th at 2pm UK Professor Ariane Ollier Malaterre will present research from her forthcoming book 'Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens' Narratives on Technology, Privacy and Governance'. The book is the latest release in the Routledge Studies in Surveillance book series and will be avaiable to buy on October 6th 2023

The book explores how Chinese...

Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 09:00

CRISP St Andrews member Dr Aisling Crean and colleague Dr Shiona Chillas will be holding an informal roundtable discussion on Trustworthy AI next week at the Management and Organizational Behaviour Teaching Society meeting. The session will take place on July 25th from 9-10am in Lecture Theatre 4 in the Gateway Building, University of St Andrews. The overall meeting will be held from July 23...