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Natascha Just wird Professorin an renommiertem Institut in den USA

Natascha Just wird Professorin an renommiertem Institut in den USA

“Tool Without a Handle: Reflections on 20 years from Reno v. ACLU”

On 26 June 1997, in Reno v ACLU, the US Supreme Court decided the fate of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”), insofar as it criminalized the intentional transmission of "obscene or indecent" messages or information.  In doing so, the Court made not only a finding that this provision of the CDA violated the 1st Amendment, but applied an approach to Internet cases with clear implications for cases the Court faces today.

IEEE COMPSAC 2017 - Internet, Industry and Society

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Juan Carlos De Martin, Yochai Benkler, Luca De Biase, Maurizio Griva
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IEEE COMPSAC 2017 - Internet, Industry and Society

Page Type: Event7 luglio 2017
Juan Carlos De Martin, Yochai Benkler, Luca De Biase, Maurizio Griva
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Rawification and the careful generation of open government data

 and  in Social Studies of Science: “Drawing on a two-year ethnographic study within several French administrations involved in open data programs, this article aims to investigate the conditions of the release of government data – the rawness of which open data policies require.

Is Crowdsourcing Patient-Reported Outcomes the Future of Evidence-Based Medicine?

Paper by Mor Peleg, Tiffany I. Leung, Manisha Desai and Michel Dumontier: “Evidence is lacking for patient-reported effectiveness of treatments for most medical conditions and specifically for lower back pain. In this paper, we examined a consumer-based social network that collects patients’ treatment ratings as a potential source of evidence. Acknowledging the potential biases of this data set, we used propensity score matching and generalized linear regression to account for confounding variables.

Powerlessness and the Politics of Blame

The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities by Martha C. Nussbaum: “… I believe the Greeks and Romans are right: anger is a poison to democratic politics, and it is all the worse when fueled by a lurking fear and a sense of helplessness. As a philosopher I have been working on these ideas for some time, first in a 2016 book called Anger and Forgiveness, and now in a book in progress called The Monarchy of Fear, investigating the relationship between anger and fear.

In memoriam: Prof. Stefano Rodotà (1933-2017)

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In memoriam: Prof. Stefano Rodotà (1933-2017)

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52 Nexa Lunch Seminar - An open discussion on the data revolution

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Antonio Vetrò (Director of Research at Nexa Center)
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52 Nexa Lunch Seminar - An open discussion on the data revolution

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Antonio Vetrò (Director of Research at Nexa Center)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 28/06/2017 - 13:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

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with the author, Berkman Klein Center Faculty Associate Tressie McMillan Cottom

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A former insider discloses the story behind for-profit schools to explain the exorbitant price tags, the questionable credentials, and the lose-lose options for Americans seeking a better life.

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Global AI Dialogue Series

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A platform for researchers, officials, and executives with strategic, policy, business or technology responsibilities to share, shape, and develop insights into AI from an ethics and governance perspective.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) transforms the way we live and work, shaping our ability to understand and maximize the social and economic opportunities enabled by technology on a global scale.

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In terror fight, tech companies caught between US and European ideals

Location

United States

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Arizona getting ahead of autonomous vehicle industry by stepping aside

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United States

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Proyecto ganador de concurso MoMA se instalará en Parque Araucano

El arquitecto y docente de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU), Domingo Arancibia, junto a un equipo de arquitectos y estudiantes de la FAU, ganó el Young Architects Program YAP_Constructo 8, uno de los cuatro programas internacionales del MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) de Nueva York. El proyecto, una masa de seis metros de espesor y veinte de diámetro que dará sombra y también iluminará las superficies que teche, intervendrá temporalmente un espacio del Parque Araucano.

U. de Chile logró primer y segundo lugar en torneo de vóleibol

Mientras el equipo de mujeres logró quedarse con la medalla de oro, los hombres obtuvieron la presea de plata. Ambas finales se disputaron contra la Universidad Andrés Bello en el marco del Torneo de Apertura metropolitano de Ligas Deportivas de Educación Superior.Esta semana, ambas selecciones de vóleibol de la Universidad de Chile disputaron la final metropolitana del Torneo de Apertura de Ligas Deportivas de Educación Superior (LDES).

Public Data Is More Important Than Ever–And Now It’s Easier To Find

Meg Miller at Co.Design: “Public data, in theory, is meant to be accessible to everyone. But in practice, even finding it can be near impossible, to say nothing of figuring out what to do with it once you do. Government data websites are often clunky and outdated, and some data is still trapped on physical media–like CDs or individual hard drives.

Blockchains, personal data and the challenge of governance

Theo Bass at NESTA: “…There are a number of dominant internet platforms (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) that hoard, analyse and sell information about their users in the name of a more personalised and efficient service. This has become a problem.

The Age of Customer.gov: Can the Tech that Drives 311 Help Government Deliver an Amazon-like Experience?

Tod Newcombe  at GovTech: “The Digital Communities Special … June 2017 report explores the idea that the tech that drives 311 can help government deliver an Amazon-like experience.
PART 1: 311: FROM A HOTLINE TO A PLATFORM FOR CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT