Personal Website http://www.beetzsee.de Rethinking Information and Communication Technologies in the Anthropocene: Towards a Post-Growth World? - In late August 2022 we organised #SICT2022, the 3rd doctoral school on Sustainable ICT, at Université Grenoble Alpes. With the objective to critically look at the current state of ICT, challenge mainstream research agendas and underlying assumptions, and discuss the role(s) ICT researchers can play to build a sustainable and... Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2022/09/21/sict2022.html http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2022/09/21/sict2022.html How the EU's AI Act can better protect people on the move and why border tech is maladaptation to the climate emergency. - As the European Union amends the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) exploring the impact of AI systems on marginalised communities is vital. AI systems are increasingly developed, tested and deployed to judge and control migrants and people on the move in harmful ways. How can the AI Act prevent this?... Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2022/05/09/migration-ai.html http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2022/05/09/migration-ai.html Exiting topics for your final-year project. - This is the 2022-2023 list of topics for master’s theses (partly) under my supervision at DistriNet/Computer Science, KU Leuven. I’m of course open for individual proposals in embedded security and sustainable ICT. Some of these topics might be a good fit for summer internships with us. I’m also open for... Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2022/04/25/thesis-topics.html http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2022/04/25/thesis-topics.html A Quest for Terminology, Objectives, and Limits - In this post I dissect the idea of sustainable safety and security, starting from the questions of what we want to sustain, and for whom we want to sustain it. I believe that a general "people and planet" answer is inadequate here because this form of sustainability cannot be the... Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2022/04/05/sustaining-security.html http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2022/04/05/sustaining-security.html Who is marginalised, is "privacy" the right focus, and where do privacy tools clash with platform governance - We discussed issues and ideas for internet platforms that protect and serve marginalised groups in a panel at PrivacyCamp22. Panel Summary Panel Idea Speakers Moderator Panel Summary Our own take-away points: We discussed how privacy and data protection interact with concepts such as personal safety or freedom from exploitation and... Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2022/01/25/privacycamp22.html http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2022/01/25/privacycamp22.html An Open Letter to KU Leuven regarding the Arenbergsymposium on 2021-11-24: Why top universities must not give climate change denial a platform. - Under the title “CO2 is in the air,” KU Leuven’s Faculty of Engineering Science together with the Alumni Ingenieurs organised the “Van Cauteren – Dutré Arenbergsymposium 2021.” The agenda of the symposium made it clear that the event was set up to give two corporations, ExxonMobil and ArcelorMittal, a platform... Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2021/10/28/open-letter-exxon-arcelor-at-kuleuven.html http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2021/10/28/open-letter-exxon-arcelor-at-kuleuven.html A non-dystopic climate future. - Maybe 200 years in the future, a young woman endeavours to find her place in a world marked by two centuries of ecological collapse and mass migration. Things may have stabilised, but society has changed for good, striving to save all that can be saved. There is a buzzing in... Thu, 16 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2021/09/16/lizards.html http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2021/09/16/lizards.html Exiting topics for your final-year project. - This is the 2021-2022 list of topics for master’s theses (partly) under my supervision at DistriNet/Computer Science, KU Leuven. I’m of course open for individual proposals in embedded security and sustainable ICT. Some of these topics might be a good fit for summer internships with us. I’m also open for... Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2021/04/26/thesis-topics.html http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2021/04/26/thesis-topics.html Migration Management Experiments in the Age of COVID-19 - Talk at the 10th annual Symposium on Ethics in the Age of Smart Systems 2021-04-19. Speakers Petra Molnar, Refugee Law Lab, York University, Canada, and Migration and Technology Monitor Jan Tobias Muehlberg, imec-DistriNet, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Belgium Abstract Talk Recording Experiments with new technologies in migration management... Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2021/04/19/ai4s-tech-testing-grounds.html http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2021/04/19/ai4s-tech-testing-grounds.html On Assessing Privacy Risks in Online Games for Children - Talk at the 10th annual Symposium on Ethics in the Age of Smart Systems on 2021-04-20. Speakers Tommaso Crepax, CiTiP, Department of Law, KU Leuven, Belgium Jan Tobias Muehlberg, imec-DistriNet, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Belgium Abstract Talk Recording Many free-to-download mobile games are designed to nudge players to... Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2021/04/19/ai4s-privacy-in-games.html http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2021/04/19/ai4s-privacy-in-games.html An Introduction and Reading List. - A brief introduction to what (un-)sustainability could be in the context of ICT infrastructures, followed by a list of selected reading materials on the many aspects of sustainability in computing. I have good intentions to keep this updated. Sustainable … what? How I got there Key Publications Start Here Impact... Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2020/11/24/sustainable-ict-literature.html http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2020/11/24/sustainable-ict-literature.html Short Bio for Conferences, Invited Talks, etc. - Lazy me can’t be bothered sending short bios and pictures for invited talks and lectures per mail. Here you have all you need. 3rd person: Jan Tobias Muehlberg Jan Tobias Muehlberg Jan Tobias Muehlberg works as a professor at Université libre de Bruxelles, École polytechnique (BE). He researches topics involving... Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2020/10/01/jtm-short-bio.html http://www.beetzsee.de/posts/2020/10/01/jtm-short-bio.html