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Trust: The Feature That Vending Machines And Atms Share, But Simplygo Lacks, Sun Sun Lim Jan 2024

Trust: The Feature That Vending Machines And Atms Share, But Simplygo Lacks, Sun Sun Lim

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

The article discussed the intricacies of trust in the SimplyGo debacle and highlighted how the design of physical interfaces like vending machines and ATMs and digital interfaces from apps like Grab, Parking.sg and ShopBack have critical features to instil trust. People need to be reassured that their transactions have proceeded as they should, and thay have not been short-changed.


Re-Evaluating Natural Intelligence In The Face Of Chatgpt, Elvin T. Lim, Tze K Koh May 2023

Re-Evaluating Natural Intelligence In The Face Of Chatgpt, Elvin T. Lim, Tze K Koh

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

How will new technologies impact the nature of higher education? Before ChatGPT, the world witnessed major shifts led by innovations in information storage and transmission. Papyrus in ancient Egypt, the Gutenberg press in 15th-century Europe, and the internet in the 20th century were all milestones in the mass dissemination of knowledge.


Why We Should Remember The Soviet Information Age?, Ksenia Tatarchenko Oct 2022

Why We Should Remember The Soviet Information Age?, Ksenia Tatarchenko

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

How to navigate the rapidly changing digital geopolitics of the world today? How do we make sense of digital transformation and its many social, political, cultural, and environmental implications at different locations around the world?


Communicative Strategies For Building Public Confidence In Data Governance: Analyzing Singapore's Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Initiatives, Gordon Kuo Siong Tan, Sun Sun Lim Jun 2022

Communicative Strategies For Building Public Confidence In Data Governance: Analyzing Singapore's Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Initiatives, Gordon Kuo Siong Tan, Sun Sun Lim

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Effective social data governance rests on a bedrock of social support. Without securing trust from the populace whose information is being collected, analyzed, and deployed, policies on which such data are based will be undermined by a lack of public confidence. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalization and datafication by governments for the purposes of contact tracing and epidemiological investigation. However, concerns about surveillance and data privacy have stunted the adoption of such contact-tracing initiatives. This commentary analyzes Singapore's contact-tracing initiative to uncover the reasons for public resistance and efforts by the state to address them. The government's contact-tracing program …


Russian Logics And The Culture Of Impossible: Part 1. Recovering Intelligentsia Logics, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Anya Yermakova, Liesbeth De Mol Dec 2021

Russian Logics And The Culture Of Impossible: Part 1. Recovering Intelligentsia Logics, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Anya Yermakova, Liesbeth De Mol

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

This article reinterprets algorithmic rationality by looking at the interaction between mathematical logic, mechanized reasoning, and, later, computing in the Russian Imperial and Soviet contexts to offer a history of the algorithm as a mathematical object bridging the inner and outer worlds, a humanistic vision that we, following logician Vladimir Uspensky, call the “culture of the impossible.” We unfold the deep roots of this vision as embodied in scientific intelligentsia. In Part I, we examine continuities between the turn-of-the-twentieth-century discussions of poznaniye—an epistemic orientation towards the process of knowledge acquisition—and the postwar rise of the Soviet school of mathematical logic. …


Cold War Origins Of The International Federation For Information Processing, Ksenia Tatarchenko Apr 2010

Cold War Origins Of The International Federation For Information Processing, Ksenia Tatarchenko

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) was born as a nongovernmental federation with the main goal of bringing together computer professionals from countries in the East and West. This article examines the Cold War context of the IFIP's origins and the mechanisms its founders used to reconcile computing and politics and to construct computing as an international discipline.