Dina Bass at BloombergTech: “Microsoft Corp. researchers want to give patients and doctors a new tool in the quest to find cancers earlier: web searches.

Foi lançado hoje o relatório Freedom on the Net 2016, a respeito da liberdade de usuários online ao redor do globo.

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Mark Kinver at BBC News: “Rothamsted Research, a leading agricultural research institution, is attempting to make data from long-term experiments available to all.
In partnership with a data consultancy, is it developing a method to make complex results accessible and useable.
The institution is a member of the Godan Initiative that aims to make data available to the scientific community.
In September, Godan called on the public to sign its global petition to open agricultural research data.

Bjarne Corydon, Vidhya Ganesan, and Martin Lundqvist at McKinsey: “By digitizing processes and making organizational changes, governments can enhance services, save money, and improve citizens’ quality of life.

Arend Hintze at The Conversation: “…We need to overcome the boundaries that define the four different types of artificial intelligence, the barriers that separate machines from us – and us from them.
Type I AI: Reactive machines

El Archivo Central Andrés Bello de la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones fue parte del programa cultural de la FILSA 2016 con un taller abierto al público dedicado a las técnicas de restauración, el que realizaron también a estudiantes del Instituto Nacional en el marco del II Congreso Nacional de Educación y Patrimonio.Poniéndose el guante de látex fue que los cerca de 20 asistentes a la “Clínica del Libro” iniciaron este taller que se realizó este jueves 27 de octubre a las 12:30 hrs. en la Feria Internacional del Libro de Santiago.

Que existan al menos dos vías de ingreso especial para personas en situación de discapacidad, que las facultades tengan sistemas de apoyo pertinentes y efectivos y que se adapten los sistemas de comunicación para un acceso universal, son parte de los resultados del informe "Inclusión de Estudiantes en Situación de Discapacidad en la U. de Chile: un compromiso con la equidad".

El doctor Guillermo Zepeda, pediatra, magíster en Educación en Ciencias de la Salud y profesor asistente del Departamento de Pediatría y Cirugía Infantil Norte de la Facultad de Medicina, viajó en septiembre pasado a Londres para asistir al congreso anual de esta sociedad y rendir el examen especial para la certificación.Junto a médicos provenientes de muchos países del mundo, el doctor Zepeda rindió la prueba de esta asociación, cuyo objetivo es certificar las competencias indispensables en la disciplina para poder ejercer en ese continente, ya sea en el c

Entre el 7 y 11 de noviembre se realizará la segunda versión de este cónclave científico en el que se abordarán ámbitos del quehacer científico que van desde la astronomía, biología, matemáticas aplicadas, ecología, ciencias sociales, acuicultura, minería y metalurgia, sismología y desastres naturales, entre otros.Más de 200 científicos de las principales universidades de Chile y Japón participarán en el encuentro Chile-Japan Academic Forum 2016, segunda versión de este encuentro bianual organizado por la Universidad de Chile, la Universida

El pilotaje de nuevos ítemes de evaluación en las pruebas y las asesorías de expertos de diferentes partes del mundo, son parte de las novedades que abordó el DEMRE en su seminario "Nuevos desafíos en la admisión a la Educación Superior".Más de 280 asistentes convocó el seminario organizado por el Departamento de Evaluación, Medición y Registro Educacional (DEMRE) en el marco de su vigésimo aniversario.

An Edge Conversation With David Rand: “…If you think about the puzzle of cooperation being “why should I incur a personal cost of time or money or effort in order to do something that’s going to benefit other people and not me?” the general answer is that if you can create future consequences for present behavior, that can create an incentive to cooperate.

Atividade integra disciplina History of Law and Society in Lat.AmericaUma aula de história política e social do Rio de Janeiro a céu aberto. O professor da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio), Pedro Jimenez Cantisano, levou os alunos do curso History of Law and Society in Latin America para um tour histórico no centro do Rio.

On September 29, 2016, Law No. 27,275 was published in the Official Bulletin of Argentina to regulate the right of access to public information. Thus, Argentina is no longer in the list of countries without this right protected.This law is supported across the political spectrum and is the result of significant work across civil society. In addition, this law is in line with the requirements of the model proposed by the OAS.  

Last month, around thirty two lakh debit cards of various banks in India were compromised through a large scale cyber malware attack. As the biggest security breach ever experienced by the financial sector in India, this attack has also been described as the “first major successful attack on a critical information infrastructure in India”. It […]

Essay by Lidia Gryszkiewicz, Tuukka Toivonen, & Ioanna Lykourentzou: “Innovation labs, with their aspirations to foster systemic change, have become a mainstay of the social innovation scene. Used by city administrations, NGOs, think tanks, and multinational corporations, labs are becoming an almost default framework for collaborative innovation.

Election parties that turned into funerals. Sleep-deprived humans floating through the street, numb after a weeknight of crying, alcohol, or both. Silence: the morning of November 9, 2016, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was frighteningly silent. For all the rationality, all the number-crunching, all the exploration of electoral scenarios, dealing with elections remains a deeply emotional task.

Chris Stein for Quartz: “In map after map after

Report by sparks & honey: “Through our interaction with machines, we develop emotional, human expectations of them. Alexa, for example, comes alive when we speak with it. AI is and will be a representation of its cultural context, the values and ethics we apply to one another as humans.

We are happy to announce that The Global Open Data Index (GODI) 2016 is officially live!
After months of hard work, taking the community feedback and building it into the new methodology, and redesigning the whole survey from the questions to interface and how you interact with it.