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Professor Tom Butler
Professor Tom Butler, University of Cork (An extended working paper) AbstractDigital wireless technologies increasingly employ radiofrequency non-ionizing radiation (NIR/RFR) for wireless communication. Early wireless technology innovation focused on military, aviation, and telecommunication applications, such as radar and microwave communications. However, the 1980s saw the rollout of commercial consumer-oriented wireless cellular telecommunications systems. While concerns on...
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Sunday February 16 2020 Source: Eithne Dodd, The Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/prof-tom-butler-s-complaint-upheld-over-wi-fi-article-in-irish-times-x9fn0gjdh?fbclid=IwAR2wSYZ4rkjFdI4NfXCzI6lHtSbXsdIuBNZL0lf14UpBpwOT-kL4ZS8DHw8 The press ombudsman has upheld a complaint in relation to a New York Times article that was republished by The Irish Times last September, writes Eithne Dodd. Headlined “Are there any real links between wireless technology and health?”, it was written by William Broad,...
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Tom Butler is Professor in Information Systems and Regulatory Technologies at University College Cork. A former IRCHSS Government of Ireland Research Fellow, he is Principal Investigator of Ireland’s Governance Risk and Compliance Competence Centre at UCC (www.gr3c.com), which focuses on developing artificial intelligence applications for risk and compliance. Tom has 225 publications and 11 inventions....
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Credit for post: Professor Tom Butler and The EM Radiation Research Trust PDF https://www.radiationresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Digital-Technology-in-Education-Working-Paper-2019.pdf “Digital Technology is hardly the benign, neutral presence in education that we are often assured it to be” Selwyn (2015, p. 247) Abstract There is a dearth of scientific evidence and evidence-based practice to justify current levels of digital technology use for...
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