Jospeh Lichterman at NiemanLab: “It’s a common lament: Though the Internet provides us access to a nearly unlimited number of sources for news, most of us rarely venture beyond the same few sources or topics.
Heather Ford on 21 March 2016 at 22:24PM Authority and authoritative sources, critical data studies, digital methods, the travel of facts online, bot politics and social media and politics. These are some of the things I’m talking about in the first six months of 2016. (Just in case you thought the #sunselfies only indicated fun and aimless loafing). 15 January Fact factories: How [...]
Date published: March 21, 2016"Paradoxically, the human factor is also cited by those in favor of the development of lethal autonomous weapons. "Robots aren't scared," Steve Groves, from the conservative U.S. think tank Heritage Foundation, told CBS last May. "They don't have fits of madness. They don't react to rage."World Crunch
Acompañados de autoridades universitarias, familiares, amigos y académicos de la Facultad de Medicina, los nuevos profesionales recibieron su título de médicos cirujanos e hicieron su juramento hipocrático, comprometiéndose a aportar a una mejor salud para el país. “Tenemos que trabajar para que estar aquí no sea más un privilegio sino únicamente la consecuencia del mérito que surge del talento y el esfuerzo, y que el acceso a la salud de calidad no sea un privilegio que se base fundamentalmente en las posibilidades económicas”.
Autores románticos alemanes marcarán el programa del primer concierto de la temporada oficial de La Sinfónica, que será dirigida por el maestro austriaco Martin Sieghart, y que contará con la destacada participación del pianista serbio Aleksandar Serdar.Con el Concierto para piano N°3 de Beethoven y la Sinfonía N°1 de Brahms, la Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile inicia su temporada 2016 el viernes 11 y sábado 12 de marzo a las 19:40 horas en el Teatro de la Universidad de Chile.
Igualdad jurídica, autonomía y diversidad son tres de los principios que una nueva Carta Fundamental debe consagrar, según destacó la directora del Instituto Nacional de Derechos Humanos, Lorena Fríes, en la ceremonia organizada por la Universidad de Chile y presidida por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi, donde los tres estamentos de la Casa de Bello dialogaron en torno a los principales desafíos para avanzar hacia una igualdad de género al interior del plantel y en el país.Bajo el lema
El próximo 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. La actividad reunirá a destacados investigadores de ambas universidades en el área de la neurociencia.
Author(s): Beth Van SchaackPublication Date: March 21, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThis post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous week or looks ahead to key developments on the horizon.
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O Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio) convida suas ex-alunas e ex-alunos de cursos online a se candidatarem a uma vaga para participar de seu projeto sobre ensino online em colaboração com MobGeek e MIT Media Lab.
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Date published: March 21, 2016"Key principles include keeping customer data on their devices - rather than in the cloud, on Apple servers - and isolating various types of data so they cannot be united to form profiles of customers.
Such privacy guidelines can cut against engineers' instincts to "collect all the data, because sometime down the road it may be useful," said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society."
This blog post was written by Filip Rodik from Code4Crotaia.
Close to 100 guests, speakers, teachers and journalists gathered in a conference room on March 3rd to hear the recent news about the ongoing Croatian curricular reform and the development of the Open Data program. The event was hosted by one of our sponsors – Algebra University College.
Bourree Lam in The Atlantic: “…As more and more people are shopping online, calculating this index has gotten more difficult, because there haven’t been any great ways of recording prices from the sites disparate retailers.Data shared by retailer
Alunos elaboram estatuto social do Projeto RuasO Núcleo de Prática Jurídica (NPJ) da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio) atende, desde janeiro deste ano, a organização Projeto Ruas (Ronda Urbana de Amigos Solidários). Por meio da Clínica Laboratório de Assessoria Jurídica a Organizações Sociais (LAJES), alunos da graduação têm a oportunidade de pôr em prática o que foi aprendido em sala de aula auxiliando na elaboração do Estatuto Social do Projeto.
Date published: March 20, 2016“It is up to Congress to legislate this issue,” added Albert Gidari, privacy director at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. “I expect we will see proposals soon enough.”
Prof. Jorge Contreras presented a paper co-authored by Rohini Lakshané on the patent landscape conducted for the Pervasive Technologies project at WPIP. The event was held in Washington D.C. on February 19 and 20, 2016. It was organized by School of Law, University of Washington.
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ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸಂತ ಅಲೋಷಿಯಸ್ ಕಾಲೇಜಿನ ಎರಿಕ್ ಮೆಥಾಯಿಸ್ ಸಭಾಂಗಣದಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ೧೩ನೇ ವರ್ಷಾಚರಣೆಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಒಂದು ವರದಿ
The blog post was published in Prashasti Prashantavanam on February 21, 2016.
Stakeholders from North African countries met in Marrakech, Morocco on March 10th on the sideline of the ICANN 55th meeting to discuss ways forward to revive the North Africa Internet Governance Forum(IGF). The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Mr. Ridha Guellouz, the interim forum coordinator, in the presence of Mr Chengetai Masango, Programme and Technology Manager at the […]
Stakeholders from North African countries met in Marrakech, Morocco on March 10th on the sideline of the ICANN 55th meeting to discuss ways forward to revive the North Africa Internet Governance Forum(IGF). The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Mr. Ridha Guellouz, the interim forum coordinator, in the presence of Mr Chengetai Masango, Programme and Technology Manager at the […]
