4. Now is an opportune time to
tackle the engineering of
emergent order: to identify the
engineering principles and
languages that can be used to
observe, control, organize, and
exploit the behavior of
programmable multitudes.
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/amorphous/
Communications of the ACM, May 2000.
5. Real life is and must be full of all kinds of social
constraint – the very processes from which society
arises. Computers can help if we use them to create
abstract social machines on the Web: processes in
which the people do the creative work and the
machine does the administration... The stage is set
for an evolutionary growth of new social engines.
The ability to create new forms of social process
would be given to the world at large, and
development would be rapid.
Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 1999 (pp. 172–175)
Social Machines
10. The
central
goal
of
the
equator
IRC
is
to
inves6gate
the
integra6on
of
the
physical
with
the
digital
and
the
fundamental
research
needed
to
realise
systems
that
promote
this.
In
par6cular,
we
are
concerned
with
uncovering
and
suppor6ng
the
variety
of
possible
rela6onships
between
physical
and
digital
worlds.
Our
objec6ve
in
doing
this
is
to
improve
the
quality
of
everyday
life
by
building
and
adap6ng
technologies
for
a
range
of
user
groups
and
applica6on
domains.
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL LIFE
October 2000 - June 2007
18. The
Big
Picture
More
people
More
machines
Big
Data
Big
Compute
Conven6onal
Computa6on
“Big
Social”
Social
Networks
e-‐infrastructure
online
R&D
Social
Machines
deeply
about
society
The
future
20. SOCIAM:
The
Theory
and
Prac4ce
of
Social
Machines
is
funded
by
the
UK
Engineering
and
Physical
Sciences
Research
Council
(EPSRC)
under
grant
number
EPJ017728/1
and
comprises
the
Universi6es
of
Southampton,
Oxford
and
Edinburgh.
See
sociam.org
27. “Yet
Wikipedia
and
its
stated
ambi6on
to
“compile
the
sum
of
all
human
knowledge”
are
in
trouble.
The
volunteer
workforce
that
built
the
project’s
flagship,
the
English-‐language
Wikipedia—and
must
defend
it
against
vandalism,
hoaxes,
and
manipula6on—
has
shrunk
by
more
than
a
third
since
2007
and
is
s6ll
shrinking…
The
main
source
of
those
problems
is
not
mysterious.
The
loose
collec6ve
running
the
site
today,
es6mated
to
be
90
percent
male,
operates
a
crushing
bureaucracy
with
an
oden
abrasive
atmosphere
that
deters
newcomers
who
might
increase
par6cipa6on
in
Wikipedia
and
broaden
its
coverage…”
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/
29. awards me pain
of love's rite
fair beseechers kill
that thou none
sweet some vial
straight grow sad
side against myself
saw a goddess
sad slave stay
profitless usurer why
physic did except
part his function
painted beauty to
is youth some
heart from serving
for beauty's pattern
eye i eyed
doth thy beauty
compare thou thine
by spirits taught
bids my heart
beauty still three
bear all wrong
basest clouds to
their youthful sap
30. There is no such thing as the Internet of Things
There is no such thing as a closed system
Humans are creative and subversive
The Rise of the Bots A Swarm of Drones
Accidents happen (in the lab, bin)
Holding machines to account Software vulnerability
Where are the throttle points?
31. The
Big
Picture
More
people
More
machines
Big
Data
Big
Compute
Conven6onal
Computa6on
“Big
Social”
Social
Networks
Social
Machines
deeply
about
society
Automa6on
32. Big
data
elephant
versus
sense-‐making
network?
The
challenge
is
to
foster
the
co-‐cons6tuted
socio-‐technical
system
on
the
right
i.e.
a
computa6onally-‐enabled
sense-‐making
network
of
exper6se,
data,
models,
sodware,
visualisa6ons
and
narra6ves
Iain
Buchan
33. The
R
Dimensions
Research
Objects
facilitate
research
that
is
reproducible,
repeatable,
replicable,
reusable,
referenceable,
retrievable,
reviewable,
replayable,
re-‐interpretable,
reprocessable,
recomposable,
reconstructable,
repurposable,
reliable,
respeceul,
reputable,
revealable,
recoverable,
restorable,
reparable,
refreshable?”
@dder 14 April 2014
sci
method
access
understand
new
use
social
cura6on
Research
Object
Principles
34. Edwards,
P.
N.,
et
al.
(2013)
Knowledge
Infrastructures:
Intellectual
Frameworks
and
Research
Challenges.
Ann
Arbor:
Deep
Blue.
hhp://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97552
35. FUSING
AUDIO
AND
SEMANTIC
TECHNOLOGIES
for
INTELLIGENT
MUSIC
PRODUCTION
AND
CONSUMPTION
37. david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk
www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder
@dder
SOCIAM:
The
Theory
and
Prac4ce
of
Social
Machines
is
funded
by
the
UK
Engineering
and
Physical
Sciences
Research
Council
(EPSRC)
under
grant
number
EPJ017728/1
and
comprises
the
Universi6es
of
Southampton,
Oxford
and
Edinburgh.
See
sociam.org
Thanks
to:
Chris6ne
Borgman,
Iain
Buchan,
Cat
De
Roure,
Dave
Robertson,
Nigel
Shadbolt,
SégolèneTarte
and
Pip
Willcox.