taking it for granted - david de roure
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IT as a Utility Network+ community conference 19-20 June 2014, Southampton (ITaaU Network+)TRANSCRIPT
David De Roure
Taking IT for granted: a long view from the future
1990s
The co-creation of the largest scale most programmable and most useable distributed system, ever
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3357073.stm
Now is an opportune time to tackle the engineering of emergent order: to identify the engineering principles and languages that can be used to observe, control, organize, and exploit the behavior of programmable multitudes. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/amorphous/
Communications of the ACM, May 2000.
Real life is and must be full of all kinds of social constraint – the very processes from which society arises. Computers can help if we use them to create abstract social machines on the Web: processes in which the people do the creative work and the machine does the administration... The stage is set for an evolutionary growth of new social engines. The ability to create new forms of social process would be given to the world at large, and development would be rapid.
Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 1999 (pp. 172–175)
Social Machines
2000s
Data data everywhere
The Grid versus Science 2.0
F i r s t
The central goal of the equator IRC is to inves6gate the integra6on of the physical with the digital and the fundamental research needed to realise systems that promote this. In par6cular, we are concerned with uncovering and suppor6ng the variety of possible rela6onships between physical and digital worlds. Our objec6ve in doing this is to improve the quality of everyday life by building and adap6ng technologies for a range of user groups and applica6on domains.
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL LIFE
October 2000 - June 2007
A revolu6onary idea… Open Science! rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org
2010s
The Rise of the Social
Shifts in Scholarship
Chr
istin
e B
orgm
an
Pip Willcox
@marstonbikepath
Datasets or dataflows?
Interdisciplinary and “in the wild”
In it not on it Pull not Push
The Big Picture
More people
More machine
s
Big Data Big Compute Conven6onal Computa6on
“Big Social” Social Networks
e-‐infrastructure
online R&D
Social Machines
deeply about society
The future
Nigel Shadbolt et al
SOCIAM: The Theory and Prac4ce of Social Machines is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under grant number EPJ017728/1 and comprises the Universi6es of Southampton, Oxford and Edinburgh. See sociam.org
www.zooniverse.org
Scientists
Talk Forum
Image Classification
data reduction
Citizen Scientists
Cat De Roure
The Befriending of Raspberry Tree
RichardO’Bierne
2020s
Ludere Humanum Est
Social Machines as���disruptive technology
“Yet Wikipedia and its stated ambi6on to “compile the sum of all human knowledge” are in trouble. The volunteer workforce that built the project’s flagship, the English-‐language Wikipedia—and must defend it against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipula6on—has shrunk by more than a third since 2007 and is s6ll shrinking… The main source of those problems is not mysterious. The loose collec6ve running the site today, es6mated to be 90 percent male, operates a crushing bureaucracy with an oden abrasive atmosphere that deters newcomers who might increase par6cipa6on in Wikipedia and broaden its coverage…” http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/
Stories within���Social Machines
Stories about Social Machines
Social Machines for stories
SOCIAL MACHINES AS STORIES
awards me pain of love's rite fair beseechers kill that thou none sweet some vial straight grow sad side against myself saw a goddess sad slave stay profitless usurer why physic did except part his function painted beauty to is youth some heart from serving for beauty's pattern eye i eyed doth thy beauty compare thou thine by spirits taught bids my heart beauty still three bear all wrong basest clouds to their youthful sap
There is no such thing as the Internet of Things
There is no such thing as a closed system
Humans are creative and subversive
The Rise of the Bots A Swarm of Drones
Accidents happen (in the lab, bin)
Holding machines to account Software vulnerability
Where are the throttle points?
The Big Picture
More people
More machine
s
Big Data Big Compute Conven6onal Computa6on
“Big Social” Social Networks
Social Machines
deeply about society
Automa6on
Big data elephant versus sense-‐making network?
The challenge is to foster the co-‐cons6tuted socio-‐technical system on the right i.e. a computa6onally-‐enabled sense-‐making network of exper6se, data, models, sodware, visualisa6ons and narra6ves
Iain Buchan
The R Dimensions
Research Objects facilitate research that is reproducible, repeatable, replicable, reusable, referenceable, retrievable, reviewable, replayable, re-‐interpretable, reprocessable, recomposable, reconstructable, repurposable, reliable, respeceul, reputable, revealable, recoverable, restorable, reparable, refreshable?”
@dder 14 April 2014
sci method
access
understand
new use
social
cura6on
Research Object
Principles
Edwards, P. N., et al. (2013) Knowledge Infrastructures: Intellectual Frameworks and Research Challenges. Ann Arbor: Deep Blue. hhp://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97552
FUSING AUDIO AND SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES for INTELLIGENT MUSIC PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
2030
Where am I?
[email protected] www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder @dder
SOCIAM: The Theory and Prac4ce of Social Machines is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under grant number EPJ017728/1 and comprises the Universi6es of Southampton, Oxford and Edinburgh. See sociam.org
Thanks to: Chris6ne Borgman, Iain Buchan, Cat De Roure, Dave Robertson, Nigel Shadbolt, SégolèneTarte and Pip Willcox.
www.oerc.ox.ac.uk
[email protected] @dder