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Civic tech: Where is the impact?

Ramy Ghorayeb: “When it comes to civic tech, there is a clear opposition between the fans, who view the young sector as a key foundation that will change democracy for good, and the haters, who think it is simply a gadget that doesn’t have any weight on political decisions considering its position towards the existing powers/counter-powers.

Big data and food retail: Nudging out citizens by creating dependent consumers

Michael Carolan at GeoForum: “The paper takes a critical look at how food retail firms use big data, looking specifically at how these techniques and technologies govern our ability to imagine food worlds.

The future of statistics and data science

Paper by Sofia C. Olhede and Patrick J. Wolfe in Statistics & Probability Letters: “The Danish physicist Niels Bohr is said to have remarked: “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”. Predicting the future of statistics in the era of big data is not so very different from prediction about anything else.

Le privacywashing

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences Jeunes chercheurs, la Chaire LexUM en information juridique accueille Émilie Mouchard qui présentera une conférence qui s’intitule « Le privacywashing ».
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5@7 de la santé – Réguler des ressources limitées en santé : nouvelles perspectives

The Democratic Surround: Media and the Dream of a Liberal Commons in Cold War America

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New Wine And New Bottles: The Promise Of Research In The Age Of Big Data

Originally published in Forbes on February 20, 2018. Read the article here.
A review of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, Matthew J. Salganik, Princeton University Press, 2017. 445 pp.
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age (2017).
The Promise of Research for Business

Iran's National Information Network: Faster Speeds, but at What Cost?

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In this Internet Monitor research bulletin, Berkman Klein Center Affiliate Simin Kargar analyzes the effectiveness of the Iranian government’s campaign to encourage domestic content consumption and hosting through its National Information Network.

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In Search of Benevolent Capital: Part II

This two-part, semi-gothic literary essay seeks a provisional definition of “benevolent capital” and a working description of types of artistic and scholarly work that have no value for Capital as such. The paradox observed is that such works may actually appeal to a certain aspect of Capital, insofar as present-day capitalism has within it forms of pre-modern political economy that may actually save Capital from its mad rush toward self-immolation.
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Zahlen, Quanten, Moleküle – MINT-Lehrerfortbildung an der HHU

Bereits seit 2013 lädt die HHU zusammen mit der Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf und der Industrie- und Handelskammer zu Düsseldorf Lehrerinnen und Lehrer an die Universität ein. Im Mittelpunkt der jährlichen Lehrerfortbildung stehen die Fächer Biologie, Chemie, Informatik, Mathematik und Physik. Die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer erfahren aus erster Hand, wie sich die Wissenschaft in ihren Fächern weiterentwickelt.

What if technology could help improve conversations online?

Introduction to “Perspective”: “Discussing things you care about can be difficult. The threat of abuse and harassment online means that many people stop expressing themselves and give up on seeking different opinions….Perspective is an API that makes it easier to host better conversations. The API uses machine learning models to score the perceived impact a comment might have on a conversation.

What does the history of global trade look like? The collaborative database RICardo opens up trade data to shed light on this question

RICardo (Research on International Commerce) is a project dedicated to trade between nations over a period spanning the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the eve of the Second World War. It combines a historical trade database covering all of the world’s countries and a website which invites to an exploration of the history of international trade through data visualizations. The project has recently released a web application and accompanying dataset, which is freely available under the Open Database License.

Kinder, Kinder – Chancen(un)gleichheit in Deutschland

In welchem Umfang der Staat Ungleichheit in Einkommen oder Vermögen durch Umverteilung reduzieren soll, ist nicht nur unter Ökonomen ein strittiges Thema. Im Gegensatz dazu gibt es breiten Konsens, dass Chancengleichheit eine zentrale Voraussetzung für einen fairen Wettbewerb der Talente darstellt. Dennoch hängen die Startbedingungen von Kindern in Deutschland stark vom sozioökonomischen Status ihrer Familie ab.

FIRST/TF-CSIRT: The Changing Face of Cybersecurity

The Internet Society was recently approved as a Liaison Member of TF-CSIRT, the European Forum for Computer Security Incident Response Teams, and therefore took the opportunity to participate in the FIRST/TF-CSIRT Symposium that was held 5-7 February 2018 in Hamburg, Germany.

7. März 2018: HHU-Forschungsfördertag

Für eine Karriere in der Wissenschaft ist die Einwerbung von Forschungsgeldern von großer Bedeutung. Der Forschungsfördertag 2018 versammelt alle relevanten Institutionen und Organisationen zu diesem Thema an der HHU. Sie stellen hier ihre Programme für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs vor und beantworten alle Fragen zum Thema.
Forschungsfördertag 2018 Mittwoch, 07.03.2018, 09:30 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr Hörsaal 3D, Gebäude 23.01

Who Killed Albert Einstein? From Open Data to Murder Mystery Games

Gabriella A. B. Barros et al at arXiv: “This paper presents a framework for generating adventure games from open data. Focusing on the murder mystery type of adventure games, the generator is able to transform open data from Wikipedia articles, OpenStreetMap and images from Wikimedia Commons into WikiMysteries. Every WikiMystery game revolves around the murder of a person with a Wikipedia article, and populates the game with suspects who must be arrested by the player if guilty of the murder or absolved if innocent.

2018 B.A. Admission: Writing Test

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59° Nexa Lunch Seminar - Libpull: aggiornamenti sicuri per dispositivi IoT

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Antonio Langiu (Politecnico di Torino)
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Money Is Not Wealth: Cryptos v. Fiats!

Most bankers, economists and investors after a couple of drinks, will admit that money is not wealth. Money is a metric, like inches and centimeters, for tracking real wealth: human ingenuity and technological productivity interacting with natural resources and biodiversity undergirding all human societies along with the daily free photons from our Sun, as described in “Valuing Today’s Circular Services Information Economies”.

Is manufacturing of the future OPEN SOURCE?

In the spring of 2016, Elon Musk and his company Tesla stopped enforcing their patents, and Google, Facebook, Microsoft and IBM are all going open source with various robotics, artificial intelligence and phone projects. A trend is emerging: Is future manufacturing open source?