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The Emergence of Data Collaboratives…in Numbers

Data Collaboratives are a new form of collaboration, beyond the public-private partnership model, in which participants from different sectors — including private companies, research institutions, and government agencies — can exchange data to help solve public problems.

NTU Singapore develops new learning tools for medical students

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Juan Bru, director de RR. HH. de Huawei: “Las empresas necesitan acercarse a los universitarios de forma más activa, atractiva e innovadora”

Juan Bru, director de RR. HH. de Huawei: “Las empresas necesitan acercarse a los universitarios de forma más activa, atractiva e innovadora”
El directivo participó en la presentación de la alianza entre la Universidad de Navarra y beWanted, una plataforma que conecta intereses de candidatos y empresas en unos minutos

De izquierda a derecha, Roberto Cabezas, Ignacio Lucea y Juan Bru, durante la presentación de la plataforma.
FOTO: Manuel Castells

Another Use for A.I.: Finding Millions of Unregistered Voters

Steve Lohr at The New York Times: “The mechanics of elections that attract the most attention are casting and counting, snafus with voting machines and ballots and allegations of hacking and fraud. But Jeff Jonas, a prominent data scientist, is focused on something else: the integrity, updating and expansion of voter rolls.
“As I dove into the subject, it grew on me, the complexity and relevance of the problem,” he said.

Internationale Ehrungen für zwei Pharmazeuten der HHU

Die „Particulate Preparations and Design“ (PPD) Gruppe der Japanischen Gesellschaft für Pulvertechnologie vergab anlässlich des 35. PPD-Symposiums in Otsu, Japan, ihren Preis an Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Kleinebudde für seine bedeutenden Forschungsleistungen im Bereich der Feststoffzubereitungen von Arzneimitteln und deren Design. Er ist erst der vierte Europäer in 30 Jahren Verleihungsgeschichte, der diesen Preis erhielt. Nach der Verleihungszeremonie hielt Prof. Kleinebudde einen Festvortrag zum Thema „Trends in der kontinuierlichen Herstellung von pharmazeutischen Produkten“.

Theater und Technik

Die Geschichte, Theorie und Ästhetik des Theaters sind eng mit der Frage der Technik und mit (medien-)technologischen Entwicklungen verwoben, jedoch zeigt sich diese Verbindung als Unschärferelation: Die technische Bedingtheit von Theater tritt häufig hinter Fragen der künstlerischen Gestaltung zurück. Der Kongress widmet sich dem Verhältnis von Theater und Technik – der Wirkkraft und Kontinuität von Techniken, Praktiken und Dingen – unter dem Vorzeichen der technologischen Bedingung.

Project of the Day: Southern Connected Communities

The following texts are extracted from Southern Connected Communities Website.
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OPEN 2018 – The Capital Conundrum

Dominant platforms, like Uber and AirBnb were able to use millions of dollars to get to scale. But, without venture capital, what can platform co-ops do to match their growth? In this session, Vivian Woodell, ex CEO of The Phone Co-op and now head of The Foundation for Co-operative Innovation, leads an open discussion to find answers to help tackle “The capital conundrum”.

Privacy Group Asks European Regulators To Test GDPR Against Seven Tech Companies

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A Smart City Is an Accessible City

Timi Hamraie at The Atlantic: “A new breed of accessibility apps can make life easier for people with disabilities. They can also make it harder….

People data: The risks, rewards and opportunities

Andrea Fouche in Silicon Republic: “The people data revolution has finally arrived. 69pc of organisations are building integrated systems to analyse worker-related data.

Data Craft: The Manipulation of Social Media Metadata

Report by Amelia Acker: “…analyzes how bad actors manipulate metadata to create effective disinformation campaigns and provides tips for researchers and technology companies trying to spot this “data craft.”

Facultad de Economía y Negocios destaca en ranking internacional

El decano José De Gregorio y los profesores de esta unidad académica Eduardo Engel, Ramón López y Alejandro Micco, se ubicaron entre los economistas más citados del mundo en el ranking 2018 del Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) de IDEAS, la base de datos bibliográfica en economía más grande del mundo.Cuatro de los diez economistas chilenos que figuran dentro del 5 por ciento de los autores más citados del mundo en esta disciplina son académicos de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN) de la Universidad de Chile.

Cuech llama al Mineduc a cumplir fortalecimiento para ues estatales

Las reasignaciones presupuestarias en materia educativa, expresadas particularmente en el programa 29 y 30, alertaron desde los planteles estatales, dejan sin efecto lo comprometido respecto a un fortalecimiento real de las universidades del Estado. Particularmente, no asignan recursos adicionales para las Universidades de Aysén y O'Higgins y rebaja los montos a los nuevos CFT regionales.

IETF 103, Day 4: Trusted Systems, IoT & IPv6

This week is IETF 103 in Bangkok, Thailand, and we’re bringing you daily blog posts highlighting the topics of interest to us in the ISOC Internet Technology Team. Thursday actually represents the last day of the meeting this time, although there’s still several sessions to draw attention to.

Beyond democracy: could seasteads and cryptocurrencies replace the nation state?

Patri Friedman in The Spectator: “For the past 20 years I’ve been working to enable start-up societies: permanent autonomous zones on land or at sea intended to accelerate economic development and to serve as laboratories for voluntary political experiments.

Machine-learned epidemiology: real-time detection of foodborne illness at scale

Paper by Ashish Jha et al: “Machine learning has become an increasingly powerful tool for solving complex problems, and its application in public health has been underutilized. The objective of this study is to test the efficacy of a machine-learned model of foodborne illness detection in a real-world setting. To this end, we built FINDER, a machine-learned model for real-time detection of foodborne illness using anonymous and aggregated web search and location data.

HHU-Nostalgia - Queen Elizabeth II. von England bei ihrem Besuch an der Uni Düsseldorf, 2004

Die Bildergalerie "HHU-Nostalgia" stellt interessante Archiv-Motive vor und wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut und ergänzt: Viel Spaß! 
Hier geht es zur kompletten Galerie (Übersichtsseite).
Haben Sie vielleicht auch noch ein interessantes "historisches" Foto der HHU? Die HHU-Bildredaktion freut sich über jede Einsendung: Dieter Joswig, Tel. +49 211 81-14861E-Mail senden

Barriers to Using Government Data: Extended Analysis of the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking’s Survey of Federal Agencies and Offices

Report from the Bipartisan Policy Center: “Policymakers face many demands from constituents, budgetary processes, and their commitment to providing good services for the American people. This last concern is made easier when policymakers have access to reliable information to guide their decisions.

An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations

Article by Luciano Floridi et al: “…reports the findings of AI4People, a year-long initiative designed to lay the foundations for a “Good AI Society”. We introduce the core opportunities and risks of AI for society; present a synthesis of five ethical principles that should undergird its development and adoption; and offer 20 concrete recommendations – to assess, to develop, to incentivise, and to support good AI – which in some cases may be undertake