Berlin, 06.10.2016 | 19:00 - 20:30, Doors open 6:30 Uhr, public panel discussion at AoIR2016 "Internet Rules!", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Auditorium Maximum, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin, with Kate Crawford, Fieke Jansen und Christian Sandvig
The NCPEDP-Mphasis Universal Design Awards were given away in the capital on August 14, 2016. Nirmita got the award in the "Persons with Disabilities" category.
See the press release published by India PR Wire. This was also mirrored in Hans India on August 17, 2016.
Date published: August 18, 2016"“Uber is doing the same thing many companies have been doing,” Bryant Walker Smith, an engineering professor at the University of South Carolina, told the NewsHour. But the big news is Uber inviting the general public into its self-driving cars, he said.
Walker Smith said that consumers should expect to see more changes in transportation in the next couple of years.PBS Newshour
Date published: August 18, 2016""Pittsburgh is going to have some self-driving car tourism. That's exciting for them," says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina who monitors law and policy developments in autonomous technology.
Date published: August 18, 2016"By using human backup drivers, Uber is basically testing the technology and taking people along for the ride, said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina professor who studies self-driving technology.
"Part of this is marketing in the sense that they're going to be doing continued research and development of these systems," he said."
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Date published: August 18, 2016"Net neutrality advocates criticized the feature on a number of fronts, including that the company's technical requirements excluded some video distributors at launch. In January, Stanford professor Barbara van Schewick said in a report that Binge On undermined net neutrality by giving people incentives to watch videos from a select group of companies. "A core principle of net neutrality is that ISPs should not pick winners and losers online by favoring some applications over others," she writes.
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of India dismissed a public interest litigation petition calling for the ban of messenger apps like Whatsapp, Telegram etc for their adoption of end-to-end encryption. In the months since, service providers and companies across the world are increasingly choosing to adopt higher and more secure standards of encryption for […]
What kind of surveillance assistance can the U.S. government force companies to provide? This issue has entered the public consciousness due to the FBI's demand in February that Apple write software to help it access the San Bernardino shooter's encrypted iPhone. Technical assistance orders can go beyond the usual government requests for user data, requiring a company to actively participate in the government's monitoring of the targeted user(s).
What kind of surveillance assistance can the U.S. government force companies to provide? This issue has entered the public consciousness due to the FBI's demand in February that Apple write software to help it access the San Bernardino shooter's encrypted iPhone. Technical assistance orders can go beyond the usual government requests for user data, requiring a company to actively participate in the government's monitoring of the targeted user(s).August 4, 2016BlackHat 2016
Hasta La Moneda llegaron los representantes de la Coordinadora de Académicos por la Universidad Pública (CAUP), liderados por profesores de la U. de Chile, para entregar una misiva en la que expresan su rechazo a la solicitud del Ministerio de Educación de pedir la renuncia de Roxana Pey, primera rectora mujer de una universidad estatal, además de plantear que este tipo de medidas afecta la autonomía y el fortalecimiento de dichos planteles.
Como parte de la estrategia de vinculación entre las comunidades educativas con las cuales están trabajando, el Programa de Acompañamiento y Acceso Efectivo a la Educación Superior (PACE) de la Universidad de Chile busca acercar a los niños y jóvenes al mundo de las ciencias de manera didáctica, a través del "Domo Cerebro".
According to the World Health Organization, vectors, those living organisms that transmit diseases between humans or from animals to humans, such as mosquitos, account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases, causing more than 1 million deaths annually.
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On October 5th, researchers from around the world will gather in Madrid, Spain for the 2nd annual Open Data Research Symposium (ODRS). Registration for this year’s ODRS is now open.
The following essay by Harsh Ghildiyal won third place in our student writing competition, held as part of our call for essays for our recently published essay collection, “The Good Life in Asia’s Digital 21st Century.”
The following essay by Colin Agur won second place in our student writing competition, held as part of our call for essays for our recently published essay collection, “The Good Life in Asia’s Digital 21st Century.”
In the past decade, in Asian countries rich and poor, mobile networks have transformed individuals’ relationship with information near and far, and allowed for a complex new series of interactions. In India and many
The following essay by Renyi Hong won first place in our student writing competition, held as part of our call for essays for our recently published essay collection, “The Good Life in Asia’s Digital 21st Century.”
A few weeks ago I sat down for a virtual interview with Molly Schwartz from Open Knowledge Finland about my thoughts on open data and mydata and why I am so excited about the MyData 2016 conference. The three-day conference is taking place from August 31 to September 2 in Helsinki and is being organized by Open Knowledge Finland in partnership with Aalto University and Fing.
Date published: August 17, 2016"“Wikileaks does not appear to operate within any particular principles with regard to information dumps. The ad hoc nature of their leaks means that they are often acting irresponsibly and amorally, within an ethic that simply declares that secrets are, by definition, suspicious.SC Magazine
Trai has announced that it will come up with a final consultation paper on ‘Free Data’, and also a pre-consultation paper on Net Neutrality by the end of this month.
The blog post by Asheeta Regidi was published by FirstPost's Tech 2 on August 15, 2016.