Springwise: “Lawyers have to maintain and recall vast amounts of information in the form of legislation, case law and secondary cases, and they spend up to a fifth of their time on legal research. But an AI app called Ross Intelligence could soon help with that. The program, which is built on IBM’s super-computer Watson, uses natural language processing to answer legal questions in a fraction of the time that it would take a legal assistant.
Con el objetivo de explorar nuevos mecanismos de colaboración e intercambio estudiantil y académico, el Rector Ennio Vivaldi se reunió con autoridades de la Universidad de Stuttgart en una sesión de trabajo.
Diez son las facultades, institutos y unidades de la Casa de Bello que tras un proceso de capacitación y evaluaciones realizadas por parte de la Asociación Chilena de Seguridad, recibieron la certificación GPS nivel 1, sistema de gestión en esta materia implementado con el objetivo de resguardar la integridad al interior de la comunidad universitaria.
El académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas Christian A.M.
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Lunes 23 de mayo de 2016
Desde las caracolas de Neruda, pasando por las obras del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, hasta los cuerpos disecados del Museo de Anatomía, podrán conocer quienes se acerquen a la nutrida agenda de actividades que la Casa de Bello tiene preparada para este domingo 29 de mayo.Nuevamente la Universidad de Chile abre sus puertas al público para celebrar el Día del Patrimonio, iniciativa mediante la que diversas instituciones vinculadas a esta a materia ponen a disposición del público los diferentes tesoros que resguardan con la idea de relevar su valor y acercarl
Gideon Mann‘s remarks on the occasion of the Robert Khan distinguished lecture at The City College of New York on 5/22/16: and opportunities about a specific aspect of this relationship, the broader need for computer science to engage with the real world.
Brad Smith at Glass Pockets (Foundation Center): “The tranquil world of America’s foundations is about to be shaken, but if you read the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s (CEP) new study — Sharing What Matters, Foundation Transparency — you would never know it.
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Curso na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, com Coordenação científica do Prof. Alexandre Sousa Pinheiro.
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18h 30/19h 20 – A circulação internacional de dados na União Europeia de acordo com o Regulamento (UE) 2016/679, de 27 de abril
Big Data and Human Development on 2 June 2016 at 17:13PM The Alan Turing Institute is now hiring 3-year fellows in social data science and the digital humanities. One of the specific areas that they are looking for is someone who does research at the intersections of big data and development studies. Check out specifics on their website (closing date July 13). [...]
Martin Yan at GovTech: Increased availability of open data in turn increases the ease with which citizens and their governments can collaborate, as well as equipping citizens to be active in identifying and addressing issues themselves. Technology developers are able to explore innovative uses of open data in combination with digital tools, new apps or other products that can tackle recognized inefficiencies.
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Launching today, the Net Data Directory is a free, publicly available, searchable database of different sources of data about the Internet. Come explore!
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Pressrelease: “The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) today released a policy brief on the Internet of Things (IoT) in state government. The paper focuses on the different ways state governments are using IoT now and in the future and the policy considerations involved.
En medio de la discusión sobre la reforma impulsada por el Ejecutivo, el Rector de la Universidad de Chile y presidente del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (Cuech), Ennio Vivaldi, ofreció una entrevista al diario electrónico El Mostrador, donde enfatizó su rechazo a la reciente propuesta de algunos parlamentarios de "legalizar el lucro" en educación superior, reflexionó sobre la falta de apoyo ciudadano y político a la reforma del gobierno y advirtió sobre la necesidad de que todas las universidades que reciben fondos estatales transparenten sus gastos.
Stephen N. Morgan, Nicole M. Mason and Robert S. Shupp at EconPapers: “Agri-environmental programs often incorporate stakeholder participation elements in an effort to increase community ownership of policies designed to protect environmental resources (Hajer 1995; Fischer 2000). Participation – acting through increased levels of ownership – is then expected to increase individual rates of compliance with regulatory policies.
Federico Guerrini in Forbes: “French people, like the citizens of many other countries, have little confidence in their government or in their members of parliament.
Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: June 2, 2016Publication Type: Other Writing"Karen Kornbluh, the former U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has a new cyber brief making the case for open cross-border data flows at the Council on Foreign Relations website (full disclosure: I authored an earlier brief in this series).
Date published: June 3, 2016"“The fact is we have made some important progress with regard to the LGBT community; what 50 years ago was a crime is now in some states protected by antidiscrimination law. They have the right to marry, that’s a lot of progress,” said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor. “But prejudices continue. The suggestion that bigotry and hate is going to somehow disappear because the law has changed is out of touch with reality, and outing someone for being LGBT can still do damage.”"
Author(s): Nabiha SyedPublication Date: June 2, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThe great 21st-century platforms — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, and the rest — have this year found themselves in the middle of the speech wars. Twitter is struggling to contain vile trolling and harassment, and Facebook has gotten scalded on the little toe it dipped into curating journalism.