Date published: January 21, 2016"“At some point, the government investigation becomes indistinguishable from the crime, and we should ask whether that’s OK,” said Elizabeth Joh, a University of California Davis law professor who has studied undercover investigations. “What’s crazy about it is who’s making the cost/benefit analysis on this?
Date published: January 21, 2016"“It’s a game of Whac-A-Mole,” said Beth Van Schaack, who served as senior adviser in the State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice and is a visiting scholar at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.
Date published: January 21, 2016"University of South Carolina law professor Bryant Walker Smith, who wrote a book-length paper on the legality of autonomous vehicles, calls this the “mushy middle” of autonomy. " Read more » about Human Driver, Taking Over From Computer, Crashes Autonomous Car
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Date published: January 21, 2016""The FTC just doesn't have time -- it's fabulous, but they have so many things on their plate," said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor currently serving as a senior fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum. Read more » about The case for looking to the states, not the federal government, to protect your privacy
Pietro Michelucci and Janis L. Dickinson in Science: “Human computation, a term introduced by Luis von Ahn, refers to distributed systems that combine the strengths of humans and computers to accomplish tasks that neither can do alone. The seminal example is reCAPTCHA, a Web widget used by 100 million people a day when they transcribe distorted text into a box to prove they are human.
Christopher Kullenberg and Dick Kasperowski at PLOS One: “The concept of citizen science (CS) is currently referred to by many actors inside and outside science and research.
Ed Parkes at NESTA: “More NGOs, Government Departments and city governments are using challenge prizes to help develop new products and services which ‘solve’ a problem they have identified.
Updated book by Dennis W. Johnson: “In view of the 2016 US election season, the second edition of this book analyzes the way political campaigns have been traditionally run and the extraordinary changes that have occurred since 2012. Dennis W.
Political Turbulence Book on 21 January 2016 at 15:28PM Ivor Gaber reviewed Political Turbulence on 21 January in Times Higher Education (THE). “Chaotic pluralism…a new kind of pluralism, highly decentred and chaotic” is what we’re living through, if we are to believe the authors of Political Turbulence. The authors, whose disciplinary backgrounds range across political science, [...]
Am 19.01.2016 trafen Herr Dr. Andreas Christians, Ministerialdirigent und Leiter der Abteilung Öffentliches Recht und Privatrecht (vorne, 5. v. links) zusammen mit den weiteren Vertretern des Justizministeriums NRW, Herrn RiOLG Dr. Götz (vorne, 4. v. links), Herrn RiLG Liepin (vorne, 6. v. links) sowie Frau Schmitz (vorne, 3. v. rechts) am ITM ein.
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Date: Thu, 01/21/2016Fellowship program aimed at increasing participation of women in the operation of African Internet networks [Addis Ababa, Ethiopia] In an agreement signed with the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG), the Internet Society has announced today that it will contribute USD 150,000 to support an improved offering of network technology training programs in Africa.
Stworzenie w pełni zintegrowanego Jednolitego Rynku Cyfrowego (Digital Single Market – DSM) jest jednym z głównych priorytetów obecnej Komisji Europejskiej. W odpowiedzi na Strategię przedstawioną przez Komisję, Parlament Europejski przegłosował 19 stycznia rezolucję „W kierunku aktu o jednolitym rynku cyfrowym”.
The 2nd World Internet Conference (WIC) was held in the town of Wuzhen in China from 16th-18th December, 2015. Organized by the Chinese government since 2014, the WIC is China’s attempt to present an alternate vision of internet governance, with its pitch for increased ‘cyber-sovereignty’. This is in contrast to the prevailing notion across the […]
W 2015 roku w Centrum Cyfrowym podsumowywaliśmy dotychczasowe działania i otwieraliśmy nowe rozdziały. Obchodziliśmy Dziesięciolecie Creative Commons w Polsce wraz z przyjaciółmi i partnerami, którzy korzystają z licencji CC i wspierają ich wykorzystanie. Podczas konferencji Bits&Commons rozmawialiśmy o relacjach między systemem licencji i domeną publiczną, o roli otwartych rozwiązań w innowacyjności i o osobistych motywacjach “otwartych” twórców. W 2015 r.
Una delegación de académicos y estudiantes de la Universidad de Harvard se reunieron con pares del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la U. de Chile. En la ocasión dieron inicio a un taller de trabajo que se extenderá hasta el 23 de enero y que incluirá una visita al Observatorio Interamericano de Cerro Tololo, y al Observatorio Gemini.La investigación astronómica en Chile genera grandes cantidades de información cada noche, lo que supone un desafío mayor en materia de análisis para los científicos dedicadas al área.
Mesas de discusión, una exposición y un taller de serigrafía instantánea forman parte del proyecto "Sistema educativo: procesos de legitimación y deslegitimación de la sociedad de mercado en Chile".
Punta Arenas, Puerto Natales y Porvenir serán las tres sedes donde hoy parte esta actividad que se desarrollará de manera abierta y gratuita. Diversos talleres, diálogos y jornadas de perfeccionamiento sobre las temáticas de Territorios, Ciudadanía y Derechos Humanos se celebrarán en una nueva versión de este evento universitario de vinculación con el medio que Amanda Labarca inició en 1936.
What role can field experiments and other causal research play in efforts toward social justice in social computing? Aren't experiments tools for reductionistic, top-down paternalism? How could causal inference ever support grassroots approaches to social justice?
