3 papers
cs.CR2022
The Fungibility of Non-Fungible Tokens: A Quantitative Analysis of ERC-721 Metadata
Sarah Barrington, Nick Merrill
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), digital certificates of ownership for virtual art, have until recently been traded on a highly lucrative and speculative market. Yet, an emergence of mi…
cs.NI2021
From Fragmentation to Liberation
Nick Merrill
In this paper, I argue that "Internet fragmentation" as a phenomenon is only meaningful in the context of the US's hegemonic control over the Internet. I propose a broader and, I a…
cs.HC2021
Machine Learning Uncertainty as a Design Material: A Post-Phenomenological Inquiry
Jesse Josua Benjamin, Arne Berger, Nick Merrill +1
Design research is important for understanding and interrogating how emerging technologies shape human experience. However, design research with Machine Learning (ML) is relatively…