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Yes, this can be a scary topic: machines designed to influence human beliefs and behaviors. But there’s good news. We believe that much like human persuaders, persuasive technologies can bring about positive changes in many domains, including health, business, safety, and education.
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Many are pessimistic about peace, but our Stanford team sees a different trend. Today many good things are happening. To highlight work that increases peace, we organized "Peace Dot" and invited some partners to join us for the alpha launch in October 2009. The Peace Dot idea is simple: Orgs set up a subdomain at http://peace.[DomainName].com. At that page orgs share their work.
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Peace Innovation Lab
The Stanford Peace Innovation Lab , in partnership with jovoto is launching the first of a series of competitions centered around visualizing peace metrics. jovoto is a unique online platform that delivers creative intelligence through the power of collaboration with the global community. Together, our goal is to inspire creatives (creative people around the world) to help us name, brand and provide visualization tools for this new effort. Our kickoff competitions are In the Name of Peace and Peace 2.0 the Icon .Stanford on iTunes U
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Supreme Court GPS Ruling CIS Non-Residential Fellow Catherine Crump interviewed in this NPR story about the FBI struggling with Supreme Court's GPS ruling. Read more »
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The Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford The Symbolic Systems Program (SSP) is an undergraduate and master's degree interdisciplinary major at Stanford, bringing together students and faculty interested in the relationships between computation and the human mind through the study of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. The program's goal is to prepare students with the vocabulary, theoretical background, and technical skills to understand and participate in interdisciplinary research into questions about language, information, and intelligence in people, machines, and human-machine systems. More
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Brains in Silicon
Welcome to Brains in Silicon. Learn about the lab, get to know the brains that work here, and find out about new projects that you could join. We have crafted two complementary objectives: To use existing knowledge of brain function in designing an affordable supercomputer —one that can itself serve as a tool to investigate brain function—feeding back and contributing to a fundamental, biological understanding of how the brain works.
First published Fri Jul 18, 2003; substantive revision Thu Mar 8, 2012 Virtue ethics is currently one of three major approaches in normative ethics. It may, initially, be identified as the one that emphasizes the virtues, or moral character, in contrast to the approach which emphasizes duties or rules (deontology) or that which emphasizes the consequences of actions (consequentialism). Suppose it is obvious that someone in need should be helped. A utilitarian will point to the fact that the consequences of doing so will maximize well-being, a deontologist to the fact that, in doing so the agent will be acting in accordance with a moral rule such as “Do unto others as you would be done by” and a virtue ethicist to the fact that helping the person would be charitable or benevolent. Three of virtue ethics' central concepts, virtue, practical wisdom and eudaimonia are often misunderstood.
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Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI), one of three National Poverty Centers, is a nonpartisan research center dedicated to monitoring trends in poverty and inequality, explaining what's driving those trends, and developing science-based policy on poverty and inequality. CPI supports research by new and established scholars, trains the next generation of scholars and policy analysts, and disseminates the very best research on poverty and inequality. The current economic climate makes CPI activities and research especially important. The following are a few critical poverty and inequality facts: Poverty: The U.S. poverty rate, according to the new Supplemental Poverty Measure, is estimated at 16.0 percent. The official poverty rate stands at 15.1 percent.The King Papers Project produces a comprehensive multi-volume collection of King’s most important correspondence, sermons, publications, speeches, unpublished manuscripts, and other material and makes its significant research efforts available online and in popular books and audios. The Liberation Curriculum (LC) initiative provides document-based lesson plans and resources and professional development workshops to inform teachers about global efforts to achieve social justice, human rights and liberation through nonviolent means, with special emphasis on the modern African American freedom struggle. (Photo by Matt Herron)