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Hazeltine, Barrett
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
 
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Barrett Hazeltine is Professor of Engineering at Brown University. In 1991-1992 he held the Robert Foster Cherry Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Baylor University. From 1972 to 1992 he was also Associate Dean of the College at Brown. His teaching and research interests are in technology planning especially in developing countries, computer applications, engineering management, and teaching of technology for Liberal Arts students.

He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Michigan - Ph.D. - 1962. At Michigan he was in the research group headed by Arthur Burks, who had worked with John Von Neumann at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Institute for Advanced Studies

He has taught computing, engineering, and management at the University of Zambia in 1970 and 1976, at the University of Malawi in 1980-81, 1983-84, and 1988-89, at the University of Botswana in 1993, and Africa University in Zimbabwe in 1996-97 and 2000. He received awards for teaching from thirteen senior classes at Brown, 1972 to 1984, and 1990. In 1985 the award was named after him. He has written papers on digital logic, technology transfer, and engineering education, a textbook on electronic circuit design and a textbook on small-scale technologies.

 
 
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  AI and neurotechnology: learning from AI ethics to address an expanded ethics landscape
Berger S., Rossi F. Communications of the ACM 6658-68, 2023.  Type: Article, Reviews: (2 of 2)

Strategies developed by the artificial intelligence (AI) community for dealing with ethical issues should be useful in dealing with neurotechnology. Some ethical issues associated with both AI and neurotech are illustrated by an application: <...

Jul 19 2023  
  AI and neurotechnology: learning from AI ethics to address an expanded ethics landscape
Berger S., Rossi F. Communications of the ACM 6658-68, 2023.  Type: Article, Reviews: (1 of 2)

Strategies developed by the artificial intelligence (AI) community for dealing with ethical issues should be useful in dealing with neurotechnology (neurotech). Some ethical issues associated with both AI and neurotechnology are illustrated by an ...

Apr 27 2023  
  Effects of organizational controls on employees’ cyber-loafing: the moderating effects of trait mindfulness
Luo X., Xu F., Zhang J., Xiao S., Xue B. ACM SIGMIS Database 5361-79, 2022.  Type: Article

The problem addressed here is reducing cyper-loafing via organizational controls. The two controls considered are computer monitoring and Internet usage policy. The general conclusion is that the effectiveness of these controls depends highly on t...

Mar 15 2023  
   My robot gets me: how social design can make new products more human
Diana C., Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, MA, 2021. 304 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-633694-42-2)

The subtitle--how social design can make new products more human--is accurate. Most running exemplars are robots, but Alexa and the Roomba robot vacuum and others also show up. We are living in a time when tech...

Nov 23 2021  
  Defining through expansion: conducting asynchronous remote communities (ARC) research with stigmatized groups
Maestre J., MacLeod H., Connelly C., Dunbar J., Beck J., Siek K., Shih P.  CHI 2018 (Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal QC, Canada, Apr 21-26, 2018) 1-13, 2018.  Type: Proceedings

An asynchronous remote community is basically a web-based focus group. The research reported here confirms the expectation that it is especially effective in research with stigmatized groups--in this case, people living with h...

Aug 26 2021  
   The agile leader: leveraging the power of influence
Šochová Z., Pearson, Boston, MA, 2020. 368 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-366604-28-6)

The author states that The agile leader allows the reader to “sample the various concepts and principles of agile leadership.” Some familiarity with Scrum and agility would be helpful beforehand. Agility basi...

May 21 2021  
   Kings of crypto: one startup’s quest to take cryptocurrency out of Silicon Valley and onto Wall Street
Roberts J., Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, MA, 2021. 236 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-633698-70-3)

Kings of crypto is a fun read about a Bitcoin exchange startup. It begins with a readable exposition of blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Blockchains are basically distributed ledgers that show every pertinent transaction. The l...

Apr 1 2021  
  Adaptive architecture and personal data
Schnädelbach H., Jäger N., Urquhart L. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 26(2): 1-31, 2019.  Type: Article

This paper focuses on the implications of sensors embedded in buildings to make the buildings responsive to people. An important issue is privacy. One reason these privacy issues are important is the European Union’s General ...

Nov 20 2020  
  Applying cross project defect prediction approaches to cross-company effort estimation
Amasaki S., Yokogawa T., Aman H.  PROMISE 2019 (Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering, Recife, Brazil, Sep 18, 2019) 76-79, 2019.  Type: Proceedings

The problem is estimating the effort required to complete a software project. The problem is difficult because of the shortage of data within the project, so a promising strategy is to use data from other projects. Work has been done o...

Jun 30 2020  
   Multiplatform MOOC analytics: comparing global and regional patterns in edX and Edraak
Ruipérez-Valiente J., Halawa S., Reich J.  L@S 2019 (Proceedings of the Sixth (2019) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, Chicago, IL, Jun 24-25, 2019) 1-9, 2019.  Type: Proceedings

Outcomes from a regional massive open online course (MOOC) are better than those from a global MOOC. The best-known MOOCs are global, such as edX, Coursera, and FutureLearn, but regional MOOCs exist. The paper compares the effectivenes...

May 19 2020  
 
 
 
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