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Agile as a Vehicle for Values: A Value Sensitive Design Toolkit
No full textThe ethics of technology has primarily focused on what values are and how they can be embedded in technologies through design. In this context, some work has been done to show the efficacy of several design approaches. However, existing studies have not clearly pointed out the ways which design team managers can use design-for-values approaches to organise and use technologies in practice properly. This chapter attempts to fill this gap by discussing the value sensitive design (VSD) approach as a valuable means of co-designing technologies as a toolkit for existing workflow management, in this case, Agile. It will be demonstrated that VSD shows promise as a way of democratically designing technologies as well as fostering democratic technology policy innovation.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Ethics & Philosophy of Technolog
Albrecht Fitness Studio Business Plan
No full textThis business outlines what it would take to develop a designer fitness studio in Charlotte, NC. The plan contains all key aspects of a business plan, from an executive summary to a cash flow statement. The author is also the acting CEO of the company Albrecht Fitness and plans to follow through with the plan in the next 5 years. This business plan proposes an $80,000 loan needed from potential investors. The components of this business plan outline the company's potential profitability, key strategies, and overall business model
AI, Control and Unintended Consequences: The Need for Meta-Values
No full textDue to their self-learning and evolutionary character, AI (Artificial Intelligence) systems are more prone to unintended consequences and more difficult to control than traditional sociotechnical systems. To deal with this, machine ethicists have proposed to build moral (reasoning) capacities into AI systems by designing artificial moral agents. I argue that this may well lead to more, rather than less, unintended consequences and may decrease, rather than increase, human control over such systems. Instead, I suggest, we should bring AI systems under meaningful human control by formulating a number of meta-values for their evolution. Amongst others, this requires responsible experimentation with AI systems, which may neither guarantee full control nor the prevention of all undesirable consequences, but nevertheless ensures that AI systems, and their evolution, do not get out of control.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Ethics & Philosophy of Technolog
PISM glacial cycle sensitivity experiments of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
No full textThis dataset contains PISM simulation results (http://www.pism-docs.org) of the Antarctic Ice Sheet based on code release v1.0-paleo-ensemble (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3574033). PISM is the open-source Parallel Ice Sheet Model developed mainly at UAF, USA and PIK, Germany.
With the help of added python scripts, all figures can be reproduced as in the journal publication:
- Albrecht et al., 2020, doi:10.5194/tc-14-599-2020.
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Data:
Find PISM results as netCDF data. See 'README.md' for a list of all performed experiment.
All forcing input data for the experiments and plots can be downloaded and remapped via https://github.com/pism/pism-ais. Some of the original input data files are freely available, for others please contact the author or the corresponding data publisher.
Figure plotting scripts (jupyter notebook based on python, see https://jupyter.org) in 'plot_scripts' access the uploaded PISM results in 'model_data' and save the plots to 'final_figures'. Jupyter notebook can be run in the browser and shared, see https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/www.pik-potsdam.de/~albrecht/notebooks/paleo_paper/paleo_paper_final.ipynb.
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Contact:
Albrecht, Torsten ([email protected]) ; Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, German
pism/pik/paleo_07dev: PISM version as used in Kingslake, Scherer, Albrecht et al. Nature publication
No full text<p>This is a code release of the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) used for paleo simulations of the Antarctic Ice Sheet as discussed in</p>
<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0208-x">Kingslake, J., Scherer, R.P., Albrecht, T., Coenen, J., Powell, R.D., Reese, R., Stansell, N.D., Tulaczyk, S., Wearing, M.G. and Whitehouse, P.L., 2018. Extensive retreat and re-advance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Holocene. <em>Nature</em>, <em>558</em>(7710), p.430</a>.</p>
<p>For input data and plotting scripts please contact the author ([email protected]).</p>
Una nota su Albrecht Dürer e Vitruvio = A Note on Albrecht Dürer and Vitruvius
No full textIn questo saggio l’autore propone una riconsiderazione globale del rapporto di Albrecht Dürer con il De Architectura di Vitruvio, prestando costante attenzione alle fonti rimaste. Inoltre, l’autore indaga anche un aspetto trascurato di questo rapporto, che riguarda la significativa accoglienza dei trattati di Dürer tra i traduttori e i commentatori di Vitruvio tra il XVI e il XVII secolo.AbstractIn this essay the author proposes an overall reconsideration of Albrecht Dürer’s relationship with Vitruvius’ De Architectura, paying constant attention to the surviving sources. Furthermore, the author also investigates an overlooked aspect of this relationship that concerns the significant reception of Dürer’s treatises among Vitruvius’ translators and commentators between the XVIth and the XVIIth centuries
Unlocking unique value through co-creation in open laboratories
No full textCompanies increasingly reach outside their own organizational boundaries to engage with customers to jointly de-velop new products and services (Brunswicker and Chesbrough, 2018). Companies turn towards customers for inspira-tion to develop innovative products and services that better align with customers’ expectations (Gutu, Manuwa and Mbuya, 2018). Indeed, across all industries, firms agree that involving users in the innovation process – to learn from them and work with them – is vital (Westerlund and Leminen, 2011). By allowing customers to become idea generators and co-creators, it is possible to comprehend their latent or unvoiced needs (Kristensson, Matthing and Johansson, 2008). One prominent approach to foster co-creation with customers, that is becoming increasingly popular, are open laboratories (Fritzsche, 2018). These laboratories are closely related to the notion of open innovation, which purposively makes use of knowledge flows across organizational boundaries (Chesbrough, 2003), and user innovation, which turns the focus to the people who engage in the innovation process (von Hippel, 2009). Indeed, companies increasingly inte-grate their customers in the innovation process by means of open laboratories. For example, companies such as the German software company SAP, establish their own open labs and leverage the power of customer co-creation. In 2007, SAP set-up their own Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) with the mission to provide partners a structured and guided global approach to producing innovative solutions that have a shorter time to market, with reduced risk (Innovation Leader, 2016). Instead, Lego, German Telekom, and other businesses, establish interactive spaces in their store settings to achieve customers engagement in the exploration of new products and services (Roth et al., 2015). While there are significant differences across a range of open laboratories such as FabLabs, TechShops, and Living Labs (Fritzsche, 2018), they can be defined by the physical environment in which peoplecan create, validate or test products, services or processes through the direct or indirect engagement with an organization. Some open laboratories involve facilitators and therefore can be seen as intermediaries (Almirall and Wareham, 2008) supporting the innovation process between companies and co-creators. The expression ‘co-creator’ is used when referring to co-creation with customers and users (Leminen, Nyström and Westerlund, 2015). By offering an environment that closely resembles the context of the prod-uct or service in real-life, open labs can provide as authentic a use situation as possible. Often these labs offer a more reliable market evaluation than test markets and empower users to contribute to the innovation processes (Salter and White, 2013). While companies increasingly utilize open laboratories for innovation purposes (Leminen and Westerlund, 2016), the different types of project objectives, outcomes and the unique benefits associated with such labs have not been extensively discussed thus far. This chapter presents examples of four co-creation projects that have been conduct-ed in an open lab called JOSEPHS® and exemplifies the benefits of such an open approach to innovation
Una nota su Albrecht Dürer e Vitruvio
No full textIn this essay the author proposes an overall reconsideration of Albrecht Dürer’s relationship with Vitruvius’ De Architectura, paying constant attention to the surviving sources. Furthermore, the author also investigates an overlooked aspect of this relationship that concerns the significant reception of Dürer’s treatises among Vitruvius’ translators and commentators between the XVIth and the XVIIth centuries. In questo saggio l'autore propone una riconsiderazione globale del rapporto di Albrecht Dürer con il De Architectura di Vitruvio, prestando costante attenzione alle fonti rimaste. Inoltre, l'autore indaga anche un aspetto trascurato di questo rapporto, che riguarda la significativa accoglienza dei trattati di Dürer tra i traduttori e i commentatori di Vitruvio tra il XVI e il XVII secolo
Albrecht Dürer’s and Cranach’s art at the artistic court of Albrecht Hohenzollern in the capital Königsberg
No full textArtykuł prezentuje wpływy sztuki Albrechta Dürera i warsztatu Cranachów na sztukę Prus Książęcych oraz szczególnie na ich udział w tworzeniu artystycznego oblicza dworu Albrechta Hohenzollerna. Początkowo autor omawia przykłady oddziaływania grafik Martina Schongauera oraz Albrechta Dürera na malarstwo w Prusach Królewskich w okresie przedreformacyjnym. Przywołano tu przykłady z Fromborka i Elbląga oraz jeden z Prus Książęcych, czyli z kościoła w Rychnowie. Następnie przedstawiono kolejne przykłady obecności dzieł sztuki obydwu artystów na dworze Albrechta Hohenzollerna, oddziaływania Wittenbergi i Norymbergi na tworzony przez księcia nowożytny dwór w Królewcu. Tu przedstawiono zarówno działania w zakresie kształcenia miejscowych artystów, jak i pracy wielu wykwalifikowanych rzemieślników na rzecz Albrechta. Wszystkie te działania, jak wykazano, pozwoliły stworzyć bogaty w dzieła sztuki nowożytny dwór renesansowego władcy.This article presents the influence of Albrecht Dürer’s art and the Cranach’s workshop on the art of Ducal Prussia and particularly on their participation in the creation of objects of art on the court of Albrecht Hohenzollern. Initially, the author discusses the impact of Martin Schongauer’s and Albrecht Dürer’s graphic art on the paintings in the Royal Prussia during before Reformation. The two examples comes from Frombork and Elbląg (Royal Prussia)
and one of one from the church in Rychnowo (Ducal Prussia). Next the paper shows other examples of the presence of works of art by both artists at the court of Albrecht Hohenzollern, the influence of Wittenberg and Nuremberg on the early modern royal court created by Prince Albrecht. The paper presents the artistic education of local artists and objects of art made by many skilled craftsmen for Albrecht. All these activities, as shown, have created a modern manor house/court of renaissance ruler
PISM parameter ensemble analysis of Antarctic Ice Sheet glacial cycle simulations
No full textThis dataset contains PISM simulation results of the Antarctic Ice Sheet based on code release v1.0-paleo-ensemble (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3574033). PISM is the open-source Parallel Ice Sheet Model developed mainly at UAF, USA and PIK, Germany. See documentation in http://www.pism-docs.org.
With the help of the added jupyter notebook (Python 2.7.3), all figures can be reproduced as published in the article:
- Albrecht et al., 2020, doi:10.5194/tc-14-633-2020.
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Data:
Find PISM results as netCDF data. See 'README.md' for a list of all performed experiment.
All forcing input data for the experiments and plots can be downloaded and remapped via https://github.com/pism/pism-ais. Some of the original input data files are freely available, for others please contact the author or the corresponding data publisher.
The jupyter notebook (https://jupyter.org) paleo_paper2_final.ipynb (based on python) in 'plot_scripts' accesses the uploaded PISM results in 'model_data' or 'supplement' and saves the plots as vector and pixel graphics to 'final_figures'. Edit header for changing work paths. Jupyter notebook can be run in the browser and shared, see
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/www.pik-potsdam.de/~albrecht/notebooks/paleo_paper/paleo_paper2_final.ipynb.
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Methods:
The scoring scheme with respect to modern and paleo data based on Python 2.7.3 can be downloaded from (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3585118). The ensemble analysis calculates misfits to the paleo constraint database AntICEdat (Briggs & Tarasov, 2013) and to RAISED Consortium (2014) as well as to modern ice geometry from Bedmap2 (Fretwell et al., 2013), ice speed (Rignot et al., 2011) an GPS (Whitehouse et al., 2011). The analysis is based on Pollard et al., (2016) and Briggs et al., (2014).
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Contact :
Albrecht, Torsten ([email protected]) ; Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, German
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