Networked AI Agents in Decentralized Architecture Pioneering the Future of Agentic Web Imagine billions of specialized AI agents collaborating across a decentralized architecture. Each performs discrete functions while communicating seamlessly, navigating autonomously, socializing, learning, earning and transacting on our behalf.

PhenoRob invites applications for a permanent position W3 “Professorship for Functional and 3D Modeling of Plants” to be appointed at the earliest possible date.  The new professorship will strengthen the DFG Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob (www.phenorob.de)  with a focus on developing models of individual plants explicitly linking their 3D geometry, processes, and functions. The candidate’s research…

Through unified efforts, we are paving the way for a more equitable, decentralized, and freedom-respecting digital commons. The Challenge: Equal Empowerment of Privacy In a world where connected humans are unknowingly commodified and surveilled, urgent change is needed. The Web3 stack promotes data, privacy, and security awareness, acting as a lifelong educational partner for everyone.…

“2025 reality: We don’t need another superglued digital twin. We need to smash the glued model apart, find the studs, and rebuild the building out of open, writable LEGO bricks with one independent brain on top.” This week’s MondayLive! Discussion delved into a fundamental challenge in smart buildings: the “superglued” digital twin. Many buildings today are collections…

The government of India has ordered that all new smartphones sold in the country must come pre-installed with Sanchar Saathi, a state-run “cyber safety” app that lets users track or block lost or stolen phones (via IMEI number) and check how many mobile connections are registered under their name.  While officials present it as a tool…

​By YİĞİT SÜMBÜL 2014, Journal of Language and Literature Education Published in 1976 as the author’s fourth novel, Marge Piercy’s Women on the Edge of Time is a utopian novel elaborating on the controversial issues within the feminist circles of the seventies such as women’s rights and social status in society, gender-related violence, sexism and patriarchal…

​By Sandra Wachter In the Internet of Things (IoT), identification and access control technologies provide essential infrastructure to link data between a user’s devices with unique identities, and provide seamless and linked up services. At the same time, profiling methods based on linked records can reveal unexpected details about users’ identity and private life, which can…

​ 2014, The Onlife Manifesto By Nicole Dewandre Mary Midgley sees philosophy as plumbing, something that nobody notices until it goes wrong: ‘Then suddenly we become aware of some bad smells, and we have to take up the floorboards and look at the concepts of even the most ordinary piece of thinking. The great philosophers … noticed…

“Gothenburg, Sweden – November 21, 2025: According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of active consumer asset tracking devices in Europe and North America reached 15.0 million at the end of 2024. Growing at a CAGR of 15.4 percent, the number of units in active use is…

by wenhong chen 陈文泓 2020, IJOC Abstract: This study empirically investigates the institutionalization process of burgeoning global Internet of things (IoT) governance from a network perspective. Previous work privileges nation-states as the dominant agents shaping global ICT governance organizations at the expense of the growing presence of private sector actors. Meanwhile, despite its growing usefulness, past governance…