Université numérique du temps des explorateurs à celui de la transformation : référentiel d\u27action (version alpha)

À la suite de six mois de rencontres, lectures et repérages d’initiatives inspirantes, le CNNum propose de ré-interroger le rôle de l’université dans la métamorphose numérique de la société tout entière. Le référentiel qu’il remet aux acteurs de l’Enseignement supérieur liste les marques tangibles de transformation et les replace dans un cadre d’ensemble. Accompagné d’une note sur “L\u27Université numérique : du temps des explorateurs à la transformation” il est destiné à aider chaque établissement à construire, compléter ou guider sa propre stratégie

Université numérique du temps des explorateurs à celui de la transformation

En novembre 2015, Thierry Mandon, Secrétaire d’Etat à ’enseignement supérieur et à la recherche (ESR), a saisi le Conseil national du numérique (CNNum) pour identifier les axes de transformation numérique de l’Enseignement supérieur dans une “société apprenante”. Ce document présente l\u27avis du Conseil national du Numérique sur les directions à prendre

Invisibility in billiards

The question of invisibility for bodies with mirror surface is studied in the framework of geometrical optics. We construct bodies that are invisible/have zero resistance in two mutually orthogonal directions, and prove that there do not exist bodies which are invisible/have zero resistance in all possible directions of incidence

Adding Salt to Pepper: A Structured Security Assessment over a Humanoid Robot

The rise of connectivity, digitalization, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing our society and shaping its future development. During this technological and societal revolution, security has been persistently neglected, yet a hacked robot can act as an insider threat in organizations, industries, public spaces, and private homes. In this paper, we perform a structured security assessment of Pepper, a commercial humanoid robot. Our analysis, composed by an automated and a manual part, points out a relevant number of security flaws that can be used to take over and command the robot. Furthermore, we suggest how these issues could be fixed, thus, avoided in the future. The very final aim of this work is to push the rise of the security level of IoT products before they are sold on the public market.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, 4 table

Routine Crime in Exceptional Times: The Impact of the 2002 Winter Olympics on Citizen Demand for Police Services

Despite their rich theoretical and practical importance, criminologists have paid scant attention to the patterns of crime and the responses to crime during exceptional events. Throughout the world large-scale political, social, economic, cultural, and sporting events have become commonplace. Natural disasters such as blackouts, hurricanes, tornadoes, and tsunamis present similar opportunities. Such events often tax the capacities of jurisdictions to provide safety and security in response to the exceptional event, as well as to meet the “routine” public safety needs. This article examines “routine” crime as measured by calls for police service, official crime reports, and police arrests in Salt Lake City before, during, and after the 2002 Olympic Games. The analyses suggest that while a rather benign demographic among attendees and the presence of large numbers of social control agents might have been expected to decrease calls for police service for minor crime, it actually increased in Salt Lake during this period. The implications of these findings are considered for theories of routine activities, as well as systems capacity