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Más de 4 mil personas participaron de la Corrida Deporte Azul 2016

Por primera vez este evento deportivo abierto y gratuito para toda la comunidad universitaria y la ciudadanía, tuvo su punto de partida y de llegada en el frontis de la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile, cerrando así las actividades de Aniversario 174 de la Casa de Bello.

HCUCH se acreditó un con destacada aprobación

Tras enfrentar un proceso enfocado en evaluar los estándares de calidad con el fin de garantizar la seguridad de los servicios médicos, el recinto hospitalario y principal centro formador de especialistas del país, obtuvo la acreditación institucional, que otorga la Superintendencia de Salud por un plazo único de tres años.

Professora da Direito Rio participa de projeto de pesquisa no Instituto Max Planck de Luxemburgo

Projeto estuda história da solução de controvérsias internacionalA professora Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida participou, entre os dias 24 e 25 de novembro, de conferência de pesquisa no Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. O evento reuniu pesquisadores e professores integrantes do projeto DEBACLES – Illusions and Failures in the History of International Adjudication, encabeçado pela diretora do Instituto, a professora Hélène Ruiz-Fabri.

Nobody wants to become an activist!

Hacking the Entry Point to Digital Participation

Algorithmic News in the 2016 US Election

Hamburg, 19.12.2016. How algorithms may have influenced the US election will be discussed ath the Bucerius Lab Lunch Session #3 in Betahaus Hamburg. Nick Diakopoulos, Fellow at the Hans-Bredow-Institut, has studied the Coverage of the two candidates done by google. He will discuss the role of the big internet platforms with Matthias Spielkamp, Bucerius Lab Fellow and Co-Funder of AlgorithmWatch. Entrance free, Registration required

Nick Diakopoulos Fellow at the Postdoc Kolleg "Algorithmed Public Spheres"

Nick Diakopoulos, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, is guest researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institut in December. In its Postdoc Kolleg Algorithmed Public Spheres, that is organized by Cornelius Puschmann, Nick will do research with an emphasis on algorithmic accountability. Furthermore, Nick will give two public lectures and join discussion rounds

Uber self-driving cars hit the streets of San Francisco

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Self-driving Ubers arrive in San Francisco

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State regulators demand Uber halt self-driving car program, threaten legal action

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United States

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Power To The People! (And Settings for Using It Wisely?)

Public Agenda: “From its inception in Brazil in 1989, participatory budgeting (PB) has incorporated, to varying degrees, both direct and deliberative democracy.

2016 Cato Surveillance Conference

Eight years ago, Barack Obama arrived in Washington pledging to reverse the dramatic expansion of state surveillance his predecessor had presided over in the name of fighting terrorism. Instead, the Obama administration saw the Bush era’s “collect it all” approach to surveillance become still more firmly entrenched. Meanwhile, the advanced spying technologies once limited to intelligence agencies have been gradually trickling down to local police departments.December 14, 2016Washington, DC

The blame-game in a post-Trump world

Donald Trump’s victory came as a surprise and/or shock to most pollsters, journalists, scientists, and citizens all over the world. And ever since Trump became the president-elect one question seems... MORE

Revista INVI enriquecerá la manera de comunicar el conocimiento

Gracias al Fondo de Publicación de Revistas Científicas Chilenas de Conicyt, el Instituto de la Vivienda de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo abre la posibilidad de que los investigadores incluyan videos, audios, animaciones y otros recursos en los artículos publicados en la revista, tanto en digital como en papel -a partir de códigos QR-, transformando la experiencia de la lectura, pero también de la investigación en el ámbito del territorio.Cuál es el rol del sonido en un determinado territorio es el tema central del artículo

Se inauguró nuevo espacio para campus Andrés Bello y barrio San Borja

Como parte de un esfuerzo para habilitar espacios sin uso para que sean aprovechados por estudiantes, académicos, funcionarios y vecinos del Campus Andrés Bello, la Universidad de Chile habilitó una nueva Plaza de Bolsillo, espacio que ofrece alternativas de comida sana y variada en dos "foodtrucks" y un servicio de café y pastelería.La nueva Plaza de Bolsillo Campus Andrés Bello, impulsada a un costado de la sala de exposiciones de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU) y frente a la Torre de Servicios Administrativos de la Universidad, busca ser un espacio de encue

Four steps to precision public health

How The Tech Community Mobilized To Help Refugees

Steven Melendez at FastCompany: “Thousands of techies the world over have banded together to help refugees flooding Europe to stay connected.
The needs of the waves of migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, and other points—more than a million in 2015—go beyond just shelter, safety, and sustenance.

neveragain.tech

neveragain.tech: “We, the undersigned, are employees of tech organizations and companies based in the United States. We are engineers, designers, business executives, and others whose jobs include managing or processing data about people. We are choosing to stand in solidarity with Muslim Americans, immigrants, and all people whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by the incoming administration’s proposed data collection policies. We refuse to build a database of people based on their Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs.

21st Century Enlightenment Revisited

Matthew Taylor at the RSA: “The French historian Tzvetan Todorov describes the three essential ideas of the Enlightenment as ‘autonomy’, ‘universalism’ and ‘humanism’. The ideal of autonomy speaks to every individual’s right to self-determination.

Open brief aan Tweede Kamer: Onvoldoende waarborgen in nieuwe nationale veiligheidswet

Two books about government surveillance win 2016 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize

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