1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910703664103321

Autore

Wilson Jacqueline H.

Titolo

Local peace processes in Sudan and South Sudan / / Jacqueline Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : United States Institute of Peace, , 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (36 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Peaceworks ; ; no. 97

Soggetti

Peace-building - Sudan

Peace-building - South Sudan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"May 2014"--Page [1].

Title from title screen (viewed May 14, 2014).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-36).

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Case study : the western corridor -- Improving the impact of local peace processes -- Policy recommendations.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910861976003321

Autore

Longo Bernadette

Titolo

Edmund Berkeley and the Social Responsibility of Computer Professionals

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Rafael : , : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-970001-37-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 pages)

Collana

ACM Bks.

Disciplina

004.092

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first full-length biography of Edmund Berkeley, a computer pioneer and social activist who has been called "the conscience of the computer industry." Through his work with other early computer developers, he became aware of the potential dangers of these machines to society at large. He believed that computer developers had an obligation to address the complex social problems facing a Cold War world; the threat of suicidal nuclear war and the ethics of computer professionals using their expertise to build self-guided weapons systems. This is an historical narrative of a man ultimately in favor of engineering peace, instead of war, and how his career was ultimately damaged by politicians determined to portray him as a Communist sympathizer. Berkeley's life work provides a lens to understand social and political issues surrounding the early development of electronic computers which ties directly to current debates about the use of autonomous intelligent systems.