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William Michael Carter

Assistant Professor, Creative Industries, Ryerson University

Michael Carter is Assistant Professor at Ryerson University’s School of Creative Industries and Director of Strategic Development for the Global Campus Network. He helped in the design and implementation of Ryerson's award-winning Master in Digital Media (MDM) program and Ryerson’s experiential, innovative and entrepreneurial Zone Learning ecosystem, as well as providing support and mentorship to the students, start-ups, and staff of the award-winning DMZ. He has spent his professional career immersed in the creative, technical, and business roles of software development and computer animation, maintaining a 22-year career in film and TV as an animator, studio owner, and executive producer. Michael’s research focuses on the use of anthropology and archaeology to explore the enculturation of data in Artificial Intelligence, the use of animation, VFX, AR/VR to better inform heritage and community engagement research, knowledge translation and mobilization, as well as the exploration of bootstrapping and entrepreneurial ecosystems.

How to get culture right when embedding it into AI

Jul 09, 2018 23:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

If, like Rip Van Winkle, youve been asleep for the last decade and have just woken up, that flip phone you have has become super-popular among retro technologists and survivalists alike, and, oh yeah, Artificial...

Economy

UK 10-year gilt yield slumps to 1-1/2 month low after June consumer inflation fails to meet market expectations

The United Kingdoms 10-year gilt yield slumped to 1-1/2 month low during European session Wednesday after the countrys consumer price inflation (CPI) for the month of June failed to meet market expectations. Investors will...

U.S.’ net foreign demand for long-term securities weakens in May; impact of trade rhetoric to watch out for

The United States net foreign purchases of long-term securities slowed in May, although foreign private institutions are still willing buyers of U.S. Treasury and corporate debt. Foreign official institutions remained net...

U.S. under Trump Series: U.S. services could fall victim of trade war

Despite market optimism being reflected through the stock market rise, the trade war initiated by the U.S. President Donald Trump continues under the rug. Since President Trump announced 25 percent tariffs on all steel...

New Zealand bonds gain at close despite improvement in global dairy prices at latest GDT auction

New Zealand bonds closed higher Wednesday as investors have largely shrugged-off the improvement in global dairy prices, albeit still in red, at the countrys latest GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) price auction, held...

New Zealand bonds gain at close despite improvement in global dairy prices at latest GDT auction

Politics

Poland's judicial purge another step toward authoritarian democracy

Since the elections of 2015, Poland has been ruled by the Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, or PiS), a far-right nationalist group that has transformed the country beyond recognition. Poland had once been...

Arrest and release of Somaliland poet puts spotlight on regional troubles

Poets, writers and bloggers have recently been on the receiving end of political crackdowns in the self-declared independent state of Somaliland. Surges often occur around elections, and most recently due to assertive...

The Murri Book Club and the politics of reading for Indigenous Australians

Although the 2018 Closing the Gap report on Indigenous disadvantage highlighted the importance of literacy for Indigenous Australians, progress remains slow. But, while reading is widely considered an unmitigated good and...

Brexiteers outmanoeuvred at Chequers as Theresa May corrals her cabinet to agree Brexit plan

On his first visit to the prime ministers country retreat at Chequers, the Liberal Democrat minister David Laws was reminded of the setting for an Agatha Christie film, where most of the guests would be murdered. Six years...

Is Indonesia retreating from democracy?

This is an edited extract from Tim Lindseys essay Retreat from Democracy, which appears in Australian Foreign Affairs #3, published 9 July. For much of the past 20 years, Indonesia has been held up as a model of...

Science

Long live the Europe of scientists!

This article is published as part of the EuroScience Open Festival (ESOF), of which The Conversation France is a partner. Since its inception, the European project has benefitted citizens from all walks of life in every...

Discovering dopamine's role in the brain: Arvid Carlsson's important legacy

Arvid Carlsson, the Swedish neuroscientist and Nobel laureate, died on June 29, 2018 at the age of 95. He had devoted his life to understanding how the brain works and was awarded the Nobel for his research into dopamine ...

How Novichok is different from radioactive poisons – and what this means for decontamination

A man and a woman were found unconscious in Wiltshire, England, on July, after having been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok. This is the same substance that was used to poison the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and...

We need a bank of DNA from dirt and water to protect Australia's environment

Measuring biodiversity used to mean laboriously collecting samples and manually identifying the plants, animals and fungi. This might involve careful inspection under a microscope to spot identifying features. This takes a...

Curious Kids: Where do black holes lead to?

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions theyd like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome serious, weird or wacky! You might also like...

Technology

IBM Partners with Stronghold to Deliver Stable Coin Backed by FDIC Dollars

IBM recently dived into the cryptocurrency movement as well, backing stable coin Stronghold USD, which currently holds Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-insured U.S. Dollars. IBMs partner, Stronghold, was able to...

Bitcoin’s Value Up by $600 in Just 30 Minutes; Cryptocurrency Now Trading Above $7,000

Bitcoin has now broken free of the bearish trend that kept it below $7,000 in recent weeks. The leading cryptocurrency in the world exploded today as its value shot up by $600 in just 30 minutes, Coindesk reported. This...

'PUBG' Latest News and Updates: Much-Requested Custom Matches Finally Getting an Open Beta

In an update on Steam, Player Unknowns Battlegrounds (PUBG) has released information about an upcoming feature which allows players to now create their own custom matches. As of this articles posting, the new custom...

Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 Release Date, Specs: LTE-Enabled Tablet Appears in Chinese Regulatory Filing; Other Features Leaked

More clues hint that the South Korean electronics giant is working on releasing the Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 this year. Recently, a regulatory filing supposedly for the said tablet was spotted while another report revealed...

Binance Successfully Compensates Users After Syscoin Incident

Binance, the largest crypto exchange firm in the world by trading volume, announced that it has now successfully transferred the rebates that it promised its users, Etherum World News reported. The compensation was due to...

Digital Currency

Siemens-backed blockchain startup LO3 Energy’s Exergy joins Energy Web Foundation

After English Premier League club Arsenal and Lionel Messi, another footballer Drogba to promote crypto-space and blockchain

Crypto startup Coinbase receives regulatory approval to acquire securities firms

Law

South Korean lawmakers to propose bills on cryptocurrency, ICO and blockchain regulation: Report

Restructuring alone won't clean up the banks' act

Rethinking the penalties for rape

Life

'Ideological masculinity' that drives violence against women is a form of violent extremism

The 100-year-old rallying cry of ‘white genocide’

Why couples sleep better in more gender-equal societies

Nature

Not all marine fish eat plastics

Coldplay conundrum: how to reduce the risk of failure for environmental projects

Why the 2018 heatwave will not be as bad as 1976 for your fruit and vegetables

Sports

Michael Schumacher News and Updates: F1 Star's Family Requests for Privacy; Can Schumi's Record Be Beaten?

Kawhi Leonard, Kevin Durant News and Updates: Leonard’s Lakers Ambition and Durant’s Free Agency Rumors

LA Lakers, Mitchell Robinson News: 7-Foot-1 Center Might've Been a Laker Had He Not Missed NBA Draft 2018's Combine

Technical Analysis

FxWirePro: GBP/USD trades lower on weaker than expected UK CPI data, good to sell on rallies

FxWirePro: British Pound under selling pressure post UK CPI data, stay short GBP/CHF

FxWirePro: GBP/JPY forms shooting star on daily chart and minor trend line breakout, dip till 146 likely

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RUSSIAN FINANCE MINISTRY SELLS 20 BLN RBLS IN 2021 OFZ BONDS AT CUT-OFF PRICE OF 99.2 PCT

TRUMP SAYS ON TWITTER: "RUSSIA HAS AGREED TO HELP WITH NORTH KOREA, WHERE RELATIONSHIPS WITH US ARE VERY GOOD AND THE PROCESS IS MOVING ALONG"

RBI SAYS MAKES PARTIAL ALLOTMENT OF 75.19 PCT ON 5 BIDS AT 364-DAY TBILL AUCTION

RBI SAYS MAKES PARTIAL ALLOTMENT OF 45.96 PCT ON 9 BIDS AT 182-DAY TBILL AUCTION

RBI SAYS MAKES PARTIAL ALLOTMENT OF 53.87 PCT ON 17 BIDS AT 91-DAY TBILL AUCTION

RUSSIA SUPPLIES NORTH KOREA WITH UP TO 400 TONNES OF OIL PRODUCTS A MONTH - RIA CITES RUSSIAN ENVOY

TRUMP SAYS ON TWITTER: "SO MANY PEOPLE AT THE HIGHER ENDS OF INTELLIGENCE LOVED MY PRESS CONFERENCE PERFORMANCE IN HELSINKI"

TRUMP SAYS ON TWITTER "PUTIN AND I DISCUSSED MANY IMPORTANT SUBJECTS AT OUR EARLIER MEETING. WE GOT ALONG WELL WHICH TRULY BOTHERED MANY HATERS WHO WANTED TO SEE A BOXING MATCH. BIG RESULTS WILL COME!"

INDIA CENBANK: ALLOTS 108.75 BLN RUPEES AT 7-DAY VARIABLE RATE REVERSE REPO AUCTION; GETS BIDS WORTH 108.75 BLN RUPEES

INDIA CENBANK: WEIGHTED AVERAGE RATE AT 6.24 PCT AT 7-DAY VARIABLE RATE REVERSE REPO AUCTION

INDIA CENTRAL BANK SETS CUT-OFF RATE OF 6.24 PCT AT 7-DAY VARIABLE RATE REVERSE REPO AUCTION

RESERVE BANK OF INDIA: RESULT OF THE 7-DAY VARIABLE RATE REVERSE REPO AUCTION HELD ON JULY 18, 2018

RBI SAYS ACCEPTS ALL 6 BIDS FOR 38.73 BLN RUPEES AT 1-DAY REPO AUCTION

NASDAQ FUTURES ABOUT FLAT, DOW FUTURES AND S&P FUTURES UP ABOUT 0.1 PCT

PORTUGAL 12-MONTH AVG YIELD -0.280 PCT IN AUCTION (PVS -0.29 PCT) - IGCP

PORTUGAL 12-MONTH T-BILLS BID-COVER 2.00 (PVS 2.1) - IGCP

PORTUGAL SELLS 1.350 BLN EUROS OF 12-MONTH T-BILLS IN AUCTION - IGCP

In Trump's America, immigrants are modern-day 'savage Indians'

FxWirePro: GBP/JPY Trade Idea

Why Kenyan students are cheating in their exams and what can be done

Can democracy vote itself out of existence?

Is CFA institute bullish on cryptocurrencies? Cryptographic forms of money and blockchain to include part of its curriculum for 2019 exams

FxWirePro: USD/CHF takes support near 50 day MA, good to buy on dips

FxWirePro: AUD/NZD slumps over 0.75 pct, intraday bias turns bearish, stay short on break below 200-DMA

U.S. 2-year Treasury yield trades at decade high on rising Fed rate hike expectations; markets eye Chair Powell’s testimony

A brief history of briefs – and how technology is transforming underpants

Economics Monitor

July 18 08:30 UTC Released

GBX (Retail Prices) MM

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0.3 %

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0.4 %

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GBRPI YY

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3.4 %

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3.5 %

3.3 %

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