Muhamad Bill Robby, PUSKAPA; Chaula Rininta Anindya, Ritsumeikan University, dan Putri K. Amanda, PUSKAPA Dalam menangani kasus terorisme, pemerintah Indonesia seringkali mengandalkan pendekatan keamanan, misalnya dengan banyak melakukan penangkapan terhadap terduga kelompok terorisme. Meski penangkapan telah banyak dilakukan, insiden seperti bom bunuh diri masih terus terjadi. Bahkan, beberapa di antaranya dilatarbelakangi keinginan balas dendam pelaku atas penangkapan yang dilakukan terhadap anggota kelompok mereka. Ini dapat mengindikasikan bahwa pendekatan keamanan hanya efektif untuk merespons insiden terkini, namun tidak efektif sebagai solusi jangka panjang. Sementara itu, strategi penanggulangan terorisme secara global telah berkembang sehingga tidak terbatas pada pendekatan keamanan saja, tapi juga … Continue reading Tiga cara sistem pendidikan Indonesia bisa berperan mencegah radikalisme dan ideologi kekerasan

Google and Microsoft are creating a monopoly on coding in plain language David Murakami Wood, Queen’s University, Ontario and David Eliot, Queen’s University, Ontario Sometimes major shifts happen virtually unnoticed. On May 5, IBM announced Project CodeNet to very little media or academic attention. CodeNet is a follow-up to ImageNet, a large-scale dataset of images and their descriptions; the images are free for non-commercial uses. ImageNet is now central to the progress of deep learning computer vision. CodeNet is an attempt to do for Artifical Intelligence (AI) coding what ImageNet did for computer vision: it is a dataset of over 14 … Continue reading Do you know what Google and Microsoft are doing quietly under everyone’s nose?

What does the Taliban’s choice of interim prime minister mean for Afghanistan? Ali A. Olomi, Penn State The Taliban announced on Sept. 7, 2021, that Mullah Hasan Akhund has been appointed interim prime minister of Afghanistan. The decision comes more than two weeks after the militant Islamist group seized control of much of the country, including the capital, Kabul. The Conversation asked Ali A. Olomi, a historian of the Middle East and Islam at Penn State University, to explain who Mullah Akhund is, and what his appointment may portend for Afghanistan amid concern over human rights in the war-ravaged nation. Who … Continue reading Who is Mullah Hasan Akhund?

Loneliness, loss and regret: what getting old really feels like – new study Sam Carr, University of Bath and Chao Fang, University of Bath Paula* had not been living in her retirement apartment for very long when I arrived for our interview. She welcomed me into a modern, comfortable home. We sat in the living room, taking in the impressive view from her balcony and our conversation unfolded. Paula, 72, told me how four years ago she’d lost her husband. She had been his carer for over ten years, as he slowly declined from a degenerative condition. She was his nurse, … Continue reading So what does getting old really feel like?