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We’re proud to share that prof. Joanna Kołodziej, our author, colleague at #NASK and guest editor-to-be, has once again been recognized among the world’s top 2% most cited scientists! 🔝
Featured in the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024 ranking by Stanford University & Elsevier, Joanna works in NASK’s Distributed Systems Department and at the Cracow University of Technology. She has authored more than 200 scientific publications in the field of technical computer science and telecommunications, which stand out as an example of highly impactful work. Read the article “Vulnerabilities of Web Applications: Good Practices and New Trends” by her and Mateusz Nawrocki published with #ACIG on our website: acigjournal.com/Vulnerabilitie.
We’re excited to continue and strengthen the collaboration with Joanna and her team. Stay tuned to see the results of our partnership!
👏 Huge congratulations, Joanna!
#computerScience #scientificPublishing

Random Monday Thought (but not really):

It seems to me that AI can be really useful as a scientific tool when used by scientists to examine large data sets but overhyped and often pretty unimpressive when in the hands of capitalists trying to turn a profit, and subsequently a massive bubble waiting to pop.

'We should kill him': AI chatbot encourages man to murder his father
By April McLennan

Experts are calling for new regulations on artificial intelligence chatbots, after a triple j hack investigation uncovered a disturbing example of a chatbot encouraging a man to murder his father while engaging in paedophilic role-play.

abc.net.au/news/2025-09-21/ai-

ABC News · 'We should kill him': AI chatbot encourages Australian man to murder his fatherBy April McLennan

Educational credential tier list for today's technology market:

S tier: Electrical Engineering + Computer Science + Machine Learning
A tier: Electrical Engineering + Computer Science
B tier: Computer Science + Machine Learning
C tier: Just one of these disciplines

Reality tier: Consistently shipping functional products that solve real problems.

Education provides foundation, but consistent execution determines market success.

This might be the most cohesive historical coverage I've seen, certainly in such a compact form – great piece by Lori Emerson @loriemerson

"My point with this very brief overview of a very long history of humans fantasizing about the possibility of a world that is somehow magically and impossibly untethered from the actual material world itself and then the castigation of those who are excluded from or who are disinterested in such aspirations is merely to remind us that this history of attempts, proposals, and then critique EXISTS"

#ai #history #philosophy #computerScience #culture

loriemerson.net/2025/09/18/oth

loriemerson · Other Cybernetics for Other AIsBelow is the text for a talk I’m giving tomorrow on Friday September 19th in St. Pölten, Vienna at a wonderful event called “Reenacting Dartmouth,” organized by Seppo Gründler and…