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The SignON project will begin on January 1, 2021 with a budget of 5.6 million euros for the next 3 years of the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union to conduct state-of-the-art research and develop an open solution for to mobile for automatic translation between sign and oral languages (written and spoken).
The SignON EU consortium of 17 European partners led by Prof. Andy Way, Professor of Computing at Dublin City University, Ireland (coordinator), and Dr. Dimitar Shterionov Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University, The Netherlands (scientific lead), have received this award to conduct state of the art research and develop a mobile solution for automatic translation between sign and oral (written and spoken) languages. UPF is represented by Josep Blat and Horacio Saggion, members of the research groups in Interactive Technologies (GTI) and Natural Language Processing (TALN), of the Department of Information and Commu
End of internet anarchy
Fallout from the Capitol invasion shows that pacification of social media is well underway, says Paul Demarty
By happy coincidence, I chose the beginning of last week to start using Twitter again.
Previously in these pages I have described the modern internet as a buyer’s market for fellow feeling and, as the events of last Wednesday, January 6, unfolded, I found myself absorbed into a stream of posters who, like me, had to admit that we found the whole thing very, very funny. Last breached by a 4,000-strong corps of British soldiers in 1814, the Capitol was occupied by a few-hundred-strong rabble of neo-Nazis, Zionists, stoners, Iranian monarchists, conspiracy-addled petty bourgeois and who knows who else - some lightly armed and apparently led by a shirtless man in a comedy Viking hat.
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“On the issue of finding a safe place for sex workers, I’m a huge advocate. I always have been,” Vice President–elect Kamala Harris said in a February 2019 interview with
The Root. But if you ask sex workers, they’ll give you a different story.
“I’m thrilled that we have a black woman vice president. I wish it was anyone else but Kamala Harris,” said Alex Andrews, cofounder of Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) Behind Bars and former board member of SWOP USA. Andrews and other objected to the “torture” Harris put sex workers through when she was district attorney of San Francisco and attorney general of California. “She helped the Oakland Police Department
One nice thing about democracy is that at least in theory we don’t need permission to speak freely and privately. We don’t have to prove that our speech meets the government’s criteria, online or offline. We don’t have to “earn” our rights to free speech or privacy.
Times have changed. Today, some U.S. senators have come to the view that speech in the online world is an exceptional case, in which website owners need to “earn it” whether they intend to carefully moderate user content, or let users speak freely. In 2020, two Senators introduced a bill that would limit speech and security online, titled the EARN IT Act, which is also an acronym that stands for “Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies.”