Automated decision-making (ADM) involves the use of data, machines and algorithms to make decisions in a range of contexts, including public administration, business, health, education, law, employment, transport, media and entertainment, with varying degrees of human oversight or intervention. ADM involves large-scale data from a range of sources, such as databases, text, social media, sensors, images or speech, that is processed using various technologies including computer software, algorithms, machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, augmented intelligence and robotics.
Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index. Most of the literature on affordable housing refers to mortgages and a number of forms that exist along a continuum – from emergency homeless shelters, to transitional housing, to non-market rental (also known as social or subsidized housing), to formal and informal rental, indigenous housing, and ending with affordable home ownership.
Les études des sciences et des techniques, mieux connues dans le monde anglo-saxon sous le nom de Science and technology studies (STS ou S&TS) sont un domaine de recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences sociales qui s'est développé durant les années 1960-1970. Les STS étudient la manière dont les facteurs sociaux, politiques ou culturels interviennent dans les recherches scientifiques ou les innovations technologiques et, comment, en retour, ces dernières modifient la société, le politique ou la culture.