A report on a peculiar philosophy of our times. It has enabled
countless high-earners and 1-percenters to justify their lifestyles, par-
ticularly in technology and financial/quantitative circles. They do so
by giving back intermittently to faraway lands, hence our choice of
title “Everywhere but at home”. We look at its foundations, its mai…[Read more]

A look at professional roles distributions, and hiring practices at a representative start-up / technology company. Based on the statistical analysis of a database with 1700 individual information.

Research into the compensation of executives of non-profit organizations (with particular attention paid to the technology sector). Collected data is presented in original form, with some analysis of the differentiated remuneration strategies.

On ensuring the integrity of research documents in the digital age, a concern of prime importance to the development of open access. New and old solutions are presented, and a utility tool (tenaciouscookie).

We correct here also many details of this literature that has purged the history
of modifiers from any political meanings or motivations. We remind of the wider
history of systems modifiers.

Original research notes on the Freedom Tower by Free Network Foundation.
Technical characteristics, as well as social, political and philosophical aspects
of a real incarnation of a mesh network. Highlights of shortcomings of the
academic literature, textbooks in particular, on mesh networks, peer-to-peer,
and related subjects.

In no-television and permanent-vacation, we explore two programs that
would fit into a wider User-Defined Web : a term chosen and adopted here in
opposition to the however well-meant, but ultimately false, established concepts
of a “user-centered” or “user-centric” Web – in so far as they are dependent on
the good will of those who have…[Read more]

Recent advances in machine learning and computer vision have resulted in the accurate and consistent identification of objects in images and videos. In this paper, a program named “Minerva and Virgil” is described whose purpose it is to counter State brutality, a term that we propose as the generalization of the already established “police…[Read more]

The Turing Award, commonly described as computer science’s highest award and equivalent of the Nobel prize in that discipline, has now been awarded for half a century. In the following, we describe the social regularities that underlie and the conditions that embed these high achievements in computer science innovation.

We find, contrary to a…[Read more]