Abierto, gratuito y respaldado por un trabajo científico de más de 30 años realizado por académicos de nuestro plantel, el curso de autoaprendizaje de Educación de la Sexualidad y Género coordinado por Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Comunitarios (VAEC), estará disponible online a mediados de este año para estudiantes y ciudadanos que quieran certificarse en el tema o acceder libremente a información de su interés en esta área.“Esta es la primera vez que tendrán posibilidad todos los chilenos, partiendo por los alumnos de la Universidad de Chile de conocer algo sob

Date published: April 4, 2016"Albert Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, told BuzzFeed News that if the San Bernardino method does work on the New York device, the Justice Department would withdraw its appeal — to fight Apple another day. “They don’t like leaving Judge Orenstein’s order in place, but it will not be of much precedent, and they feel confident that their legal position will prevail in a better case in the future.”"

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New eBook Release: Beyond NETmundial by William J. Drake and Monroe Price

This week in class we discussed how the telegraph started shaping communication after it was invented. My final project is about domestic surveillance, so I thought it would be interesting to look at what type of surveillance got dreamed up when we had just the telegraph.

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The 8th IBA International Conference was organized by Indus Business Academy in Bengaluru from March 24 to 26, 2016. The theme of the conference was Taking India to Greater Heights. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja gave a talk on Democratizing of Knowledge Access- Case of Regional Language Wikipedia.

Congresso Internacional de Direito Tributário: “Justiça e Eficiência da Tributação”09h00 até 17h30O Evento: A FGV Direito Rio e a Universidade Autonoma de Madrid convidam para o Congresso Internacional de Direito Tributário: “Justiça e Eficiência da Tributação”. Trata-se de evento que discutirá temas atuais de Direito Tributário sob a perspectiva brasileira e espanhola. O congresso tratará de temas como processo tributário, administração tributária, Direito Tributário Internacional e Justiça e equidade dos sistemas tributários.
 

Search engines and social networks are increasingly more important among political opinion-forming media. In a new publication by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung our researchers Kevin Dankert and Wolfgang Schulz look at the mediapolitical consequences of... MORE

A conversation between Richard Barbrook and Petar Jandrić

Holenderskie muzeum narodowe Rijksmuseum w kilka lat stało się wzorem tego, jak digitalizować i jak udostępniać w sieci ogromne zbiory muzealne. W tempie dochodzącym nawet do 80 000 obiektów rocznie, rękoma 7 fotografów i niewielkiej, ale świetnie zorganizowane grupy specjalistów Rijksmuseum zasila internet sztuką. W sposób tak przystępny, że mogłoby pozazdrościć im tego komercyjne serwisy fotograficzne, a równocześnie nigdy idąc na kompromisy w kwestii jakości swojej pracy.

How to approach algorithmic regulation? New study on governance of norms in technology
The 2015 Volkswagen emission scandal is a recent example of the power and challenges of algorithmic regulation. Volkswagen used software to manipulate the emissions of cars, and public regulators were unable to access the source code of this software.

Date published: April 4, 2016"“It being animate all of a sudden for some reason feels too invasive,” said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington. “If [Ma] were to gain commercially in almost any way from this, and even arguably the notoriety he has gained from this, Scarlett Johansson could almost certainly sue him.”Wired

Political Bots on 4 April 2016 at 04:21AM This originally appeared as “These are the Droids You’re Looking For:  Bots as a Tool For Journalism” by Samuel Woolley and Phil Howard on the National Endowment for Democracy’s Center for International Media Assistance Blog. In today’s data-saturated world journalists often struggle to report on many, if not most, of the [...]

El Rector Ennio Vivaldi recibió, en la Casa Central de nuestro plantel, al embajador de Malasia en Chile, Dr. Mohamad Rameez Yahaya.

Ser capaz de postear palabras como terremoto, temblor o sismo apenas se siente el movimiento ya no sólo servirá para demostrar aptitudes en Twitter, además desde ahora ayudará a determinar el área afectada por un sismo.

Hace 100 años, el Salón de Honor de nuestra Casa de Estudios acogió la Primera Conferencia Panamericana de la Aviación. Este miércoles 23 de marzo nuevamente recibió este encuentro en la inauguración del XVI Congreso Internacional de Historia Aeronáutica y Espacial. El ministro de Defensa, José Antonio Gómez, y el Comandante en Jefe de la Fuerza Aérea de Chile, General del Aire, Jorge Robles, encabezaron la simbólica ceremonia.

Este viernes 1 de abril se realizará en la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile el simposio "Genes, Cerebro y Conducta: Conceptos y Métodos Novedosos para la Exploración del Sistema Nervioso", evento de colaboración científica entre nuestro plantel y el Centro Rockefeller para Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Harvard.

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