Los paralelos entre los fenómenos ocurridos en sistemas ópticos con los oceánicos y las telecomunicaciones, motivaron a un equipo de investigadores donde participó el director del Departamento de Física de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (DFI FCFM), Marcel Clerc, y que ahondó en los fenómenos extremos como las "freak wave" y las "rough wave", para derivar conclusiones aplicables a la fibra óptica, entre otras extensiones de estos principios científicos.El artículo titulado, “Spatiotemporal chaos induces extreme events in an extended microcavity laser”<

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Z internetem i nowymi technologiami często jest tak, że gdy naruszane są prawa ich użytkowników w jednym obszarze – na przykład ochrony tajemnicy korespondencji – naruszenia te mogą zostać bardzo łatwo przeniesione na inną naszą aktywność w Sieci. Dlatego też zajmując się prawem autorskim i otwartością nie możemy być obojętni na pomysły betonujące inwigilację w internecie.

Page Type: Eventmercoledi13 gennaio 2016Fabio Chiusi (Giornalista e Fellow del Centro Nexa)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 13/01/2016 - 18:00 to 20:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

In a significant development, Google announced yesterday that it has launched a localized version of its immensely popular video-sharing website YouTube in Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. With this launch, users in these countries will access country-specific homepages. Moreover the architecture of the site’s pages (and videos) will be tailored such that the YouTube experience […]

Date published: January 13, 2016"Some argue the agency has the legal authority to address the privacy issues raised by drones.

(My thanks to Mr. Apar Gupta for providing this lead through his Twitter feed.) Amidst the noise of the winter session of Parliament last month, a new proposal to regulate online communications was made. On December 7th, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs presented a status report (“Action Taken Report”) to the Rajya Sabha. […]

On December 1, 2015, BNU-UNCITRAL Joint Certificate Program on International E-Commerce Law (JCP) successfully organized the UNCITRAL Asia Pacific Day Lecture in the Law School Auditorium of BNU. The Co-Directors of JCP, Prof. Hong Xue, Director BNU IIPL, and Dr. Luca Castellani, UNCITRAL Legal Officer, gave the lectures respectively.

Keith D. Shepherd at Project Syndicate: “Rapid advances in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of gathering data. Sensors in space, the sky, the lab, and the field, along with newfound opportunities for crowdsourcing and widespread adoption of the Internet and mobile telephones, are making large amounts of information available to those for whom it was previously out of reach.

Beth Simone Noveck and Andrew Young (TheGovLab) at Governing: “Although traditional grants provide greater flexibility than a contract for the recipient to decide how, precisely, to use the funds to advance a particular goal, prize-backed challenges like those on Challenge.gov have the potential to reach more diverse experts. Challenges are just one example of innovations in the grantmaking process being tested in government, philanthropy and the private sector.

“HereHere NYC generates weekly cartoons for NYC neighborhoods based on public data. We sum up how your neighborhood, or other NYC neighborhoods you care about, are doing via weekly email digest, neighborhood-specific Twitter & Instagram feeds, and with deeper data and context.
HereHere is a research project from FUSE Labs, Microsoft Research that explores:

Joint OECD – PARIS21 Workshop – “Access to New Data Sources for Statistics: Business Models for Private-Public Partnerships”

Paper by Tanja Aitamurto: “…shows how the two virtues of collective intelligence – cognitive diversity and large crowds –turn into perils in crowdsourced policymaking. That is because of a conflict between the logic of the crowds and the logic of policymaking. The crowd’s logic differs from that of traditional policymaking in several aspects.

Smart Cities on 12 January 2016 at 18:15PM One of the key aims of the NEXUS project is to explore the extent to which human mobility patterns (e.g. commuting, tourism, migration) can be effectively mapped using social media data. Effective information on mobility is of vital importance to policy makers, yet is often in short supply or is expensive and difficult to collect (take… Read More [...]

Cass R. Sunstein in BloombergView: “Why does misinformation spread so quickly on the social media? Why doesn’t it get corrected? When the truth is so easy to find, why do people accept falsehoods?

We're pleased to announce the launch of DataBasic.io - a suite of simple web-based tools and hands-on activities that help you get started learning to work with data. The tools are geared towards journalists, non-profits, activist groups and students. Rather than just building data tools to make a pretty charts, we've designed these with learners in mind and we made them fun!

Vanya Rakesh participated in the event held in Bangalore on December 16, 2015.

By Beth Simone Noveck and Andrew Young
Cross-posted from Governing
The way governments give out money to solve problems is stuck in the past.

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with California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

Teaser

Come hear California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar reflect on his years working at Treasury in the late 1990s and discuss enduring dilemmas in governance, law, and technology.

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Berkman Luncheon Series

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Jan
12
2016
12:30pm

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Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Albert Gidari as director of privacy at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS).