84 fueron los integrantes de la comunidad universitaria reconocidos este miércoles 16 de noviembre en el marco de las celebraciones del aniversario 174 de la U. de Chile, por el aporte que desde sus diferentes tareas han realizado desde hace cuatro décadas a la institución.

"Lo que ustedes recibieron es lo mejor que la Universidad podía ofrecerles sin lugar a duda", les dijo el Rector Ennio Vivaldi a los nuevos doctores y doctoras de la Casa de Bello, a quienes este martes 15 de noviembre se les otorgó el grado académico más alto que entrega nuestro plantel. “La de hoy es solo una despedida provisoria, pues desde ya los invitamos y las invitamos a seguir colaborando con la Universidad de Chile", les dijo la directora de Postgrado y Postítulo, Alicia Salomone, a los nuevos doctores y doctoras.

Este 16 de noviembre se realizó el cierre de este proyecto implementado por el Programa de Acompañamiento y Acceso Efectivo a la Educación Superior de la Universidad de Chile (PACE UCH).

El doctor en aeronáutica y especialista en astronáutica de la Universidad de Tokio, Shinichi Nakasuka, fue uno de los 200 investigadores que participaron en el encuentro internacional Chile-Japan Academic Forum 2016, celebrado la semana pasada en la Patagonia.

The Internet of Senses: Watching. Listening. Tasting? How does the virtual reality of the future look like? How will algorithms influence our senses? How can we be part of those developments? And... MORE

Aplikacje, kursy e-lerningowe, gry edukacyjne online, tablice multimedialne, drukarki 3D – rozwój technologii dał nauczycielom nowe możliwości nauczania, zmienił też oczekiwania uczniów wobec szkoły i sposób prowadzenia zajęć. Dziś uczniowie nie chcą jedynie siedzieć w ławkach, czytać z książki i pisać w zeszycie. Chcą uczestniczyć, widzieć, słyszeć, dotknąć. Jednak z przeprowadzonych dotychczas badań wynika, że barierą dla nowoczesnej edukacji jest zbyt restrykcyjne wobec nauczycieli prawo autorskie.

Aplikacje, kursy e-lerningowe, gry edukacyjne online, tablice multimedialne, drukarki 3D – rozwój technologii dał nauczycielom nowe możliwości nauczania, zmienił też oczekiwania uczniów wobec szkoły i sposób prowadzenia zajęć. Dziś uczniowie nie chcą jedynie siedzieć w ławkach, czytać z książki i pisać w zeszycie. Chcą uczestniczyć, widzieć, słyszeć, dotknąć. Jednak z przeprowadzonych dotychczas badań wynika, że barierą dla nowoczesnej edukacji jest zbyt restrykcyjne wobec nauczycieli prawo autorskie.

Press Release: “The Mo Ibrahim Foundation launched today the new IIAG Data Portal, which provides unprecedented access to 15 years of data, crucial to assessing the quality of governance in African countries. The Data Portal is freely available online. It will serve as an interactive platform for in-depth analysis and review of governance performance across Africa….

Farhad Manjoo in the New York Times: “…Over much of the last decade, we have seen progressive social movementspowered by the web spring up across the world. There was the Green Revolution in Iran and the Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa. In the United States, we saw the Occupy Wall Street movement andthe #BlackLivesMatter protests.

Kevin Munger in Political Behavior: “I conduct an experiment which examines the impact of group norm promotion and social sanctioning on racist online harassment. Racist online harassment de-mobilizes the minorities it targets, and the open, unopposed expression of racism in a public forum can legitimize racist viewpoints and prime ethnocentrism. I employ an intervention designed to reduce the use of anti-black racist slurs by white men on Twitter.

“…The Journal of Interrupted Studies is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the work of academics whose work has been interrupted by forced migration. Publishing both complete and incomplete articles the Journal is currently accepting submissions in the sciences and humanities….

Essay by Luis Muñoz in the Special Issue of “Sensors” on Smart City: Vision and Reality : “In recent years, the evolution of urban environments, jointly with the progress of the Information and Communication sector, have enabled the rapid adoption of new solutions that contribute to the growth in popularity of Smart Cities.

Clare Birchall in Big Data and Society: “This article attempts to question modes of sharing and watching to rethink political subjectivity beyond that which is enabled and enforced by the current data regime. It identifies and examines a ‘shareveillant’ subjectivity: a form configured by the sharing and watching that subjects have to withstand and enact in the contemporary data assemblage.

Introduction to the special issue in Economia Politica by Francesco Bogliacino, Cristiano Codagnone and Giuseppe A. Veltri: “Since the publication of the best seller Nudge (Thaler and Sunstein 2008), the growth in the relevance of ‘Behavioural Economics’ (BE) and ‘Nudging’ has been exponential, both in ter

Review by Lucy Bernholz  in the Stanford Social Innovation Review:  “Information is power.” This truism pervades Missed Information, an effort by two scientists to examine the role that information now plays as the raw material of modern scholarship, public policy, and institutional behavior.

Timothy Boucher at CoolGreenScience: “We’ve all used Google Earth — to explore remote destinations around the world or to check out our house from above. But Google Earth Engine is a valuable tool for conservationists and geographers like myself that allows us to tackle some tricky remote-sensing analysis.

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2014 (the HIV Bill) is likely to be tabled in the Rajya Sabha in the current winter session. The HIV Bill is aimed at preventing and controlling the spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and protecting […]

“The Data Visualisation Catalogue is an on-going project developed by Severino Ribecca.
Originally, this project was a way for me to develop my own knowledge of data visualisation and create a reference tool for me to use in the future for my own work. However, I felt it would also be useful to both designers and also anyone in a field that requires the use of data visualisation regularly.

Após uma disputa jurídica que durou três anos, o Google ganhou uma ação contra o Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição (Ecad) e a União Brasileira de Editoras de Música (Ubem), definindo pagamentos relativos à execução de vídeos com músicas protegidas por direitos autorais.

Personalised Communication: A joint Communication and Information Law Initiative The term personalized communication captures the fundamental change in, and challenges of, communication today: On the one hand, profiling and targeting users with customized messages can offer a solution to “digital” challenges, such as information overload, the resulting attention scarcity, and the fierce competition for users’ […]