"Revolutions in Sound": Keynote Duet

Keynote: Sounding Public Space: Sound Artists in the Public Domain

The right to quiet has been defined as a public commons (Franklin, 1993). Public space in Australia is becoming increasingly sound designed. This presentation investigates the variety of approaches by sound artists who have installed public space drawing on the three year ARC Australian Sound Design Project's research, website, http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au and public outreach Hearing P...

Technological Revolutions

In skill-biased (de-skilling) technological revolutions learning investments required by new machines are greater (smaller) than those required by preexisting machines. Skill-biased (de-skilling) revolutions trigger reallocations of capital from slow(fast-) to fast(slow-) learning workers, thereby reducing the relative and absolute wages of the former. The model of skill-biased (de-skilling) re...

Philosophical Revolutions

Keynote

Search performance evaluation can be performed using metrics based on result relevance or alternative measures based on users’ search experience. Recent studies indicate that relevance-based evaluation metrics, such as MAP and nDCG, may not be perfectly correlated with users’ search experience (usually considered as the gold standard). Therefore, search satisfaction has become one of the prime ...

Penetration Testing: A Duet

Penetration testing is the art of finding an open door. It is not a science as science depends on falsifiable hypotheses. The most penetration testing can hope for is to be the science of insecurity not the science of security inasmuch as penetration testing can at most prove insecurity by falsifying the hypothesis that any system, network, or application is secure. To be a science of security ...