Digit: “The Data Lab is teaming up with UNICEF in a bid to encourage data sharing in public and private organisations to help solve pressing public problems. The first collaborative project aims to tackle the issue of childhood obesity in Scotland, with between 29% and 33% of children aged 2-15 at risk of serious obesity-related health complications.
Law enforcement sometimes argue that they need backdoors to encryption in order to carry out their mission, while cryptographers like Bruce Schneier describe the public cybersecurity risk from backdoors and say that the "technology just doesn't work that way."
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featuring Monika Bickert, Facebook’s Head of Global Policy Management in conversation with Professor Jonathan Zittrain
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As society figures out what is acceptable and what is harmful, can technology play a role in improving online debate?
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II Seminário de Integração FGV Direito Rio e Faculdade de Direito da UERJ09h00 até 18h00O Evento: Como no ano passado, professores dos programas de pós-graduação da FGV Direito Rio e da UERJ se reunirão no “II Seminário de integração FGV Direito Rio e Faculdade de Direito da UERJ”. Neste ano, o tema central será “Transformações do Direito Administrativo: Novas Tecnologias e Alternativas Regulatórias”.
HIIG organises Game Jam – Unveil the privacy threat, an innovative workshop to sensitise citizens and companies for privacy and security risks through serious games. HIIG-project lead Max von Grafenstein:... MORE
Dr. Nils Hansson, Schwede und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU), erforscht seit vielen Jahren die Geschichte des Nobelpreises für Physiologie oder Medizin. Am 2. Oktober lädt das Institut zusammen mit der HHU und der Charité zu einem Symposium mit dem Titel „It’s Dynamite! Der Nobelpreis im Wandel der Zeit“ im Medizinhistorischen Museum der Charité in Berlin ein.
Zum Schutz der Patienten hat der Vorstand des UKD verdi bereits vor einer Woche den Entwurf einer gemeinsamen Notdienstvereinbarung vorgelegt. Diese wurde aber von verdi abgelehnt. „Dringende Operationen konnten trotzdem durchgeführt werden. Eingriffe, die aus medizinischer Sicht verlegt werden konnten (sog. Elektive Operationen), wurden hingegen verschoben“, erklärt Prof. Dr. Klaus Höffken, Ärztlicher Direktor des Universitätsklinikums Düsseldorf.Die Streikleitung hatte sich geweigert, streikendes Personal für die medizinisch dringliche Patientenversorgung zurückzuschicken.
Is it possible to peer produce spiritual experience and insight, just as knowledge, software and code for computers are peer produced by communities of self-organizing individuals? If so, does this matter?
Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk: These are fast-changing times. Old certainties are collapsing around us and people are scrambling for new ways of being in the world. As we pointed out in a recent article, 51% of young people in the United States no longer support the system of capitalism. And a solid 55% of Americans of all ages believe that capitalism is fundamentally unfair.
Neste mês de setembro, uma pesquisa publicada pelo professor de psicologia de Stanford Michal Kosinski, e pelo pesquisador Yilun Wang, alegou ter identificado a orientação sexual de pessoas por meio da análise de fotos de rostos, realizada por um algoritmo de inteligência artifical (deep neural networks). A pesquisa tem gerado calorosos debates nos meios de comunicação estadunidenses e europeus, e tem sido também noticiada em alguns jornais brasileiros.
Springwise: “ZSL (Zoological Society of London), one of the most famous zoos in Europe, has teamed up with non-profit technology company Digital Catapult to support the development of anti-poaching technology.
In diesem Jahr entschied sich die Jury unter den insgesamt 98 eingereichten Arbeiten für sechs Schülerinnen und acht Schüler, die mit ihren wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten überzeugten.
Prof. Dr. Lutz Schmitt, Sprecher des SFB 1208, begrüßte am 13. September 2017 Forscherinnen und Forscher aus aller Welt zur 1. internationalen Konferenz des Sonderforschungsbereichs in Düsseldorf. Auf dem Programm standen Vorträge international renommierter Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler sowie insbesondere der jungen SFB-Beteiligten.
Book by Melanie Swan: “Bitcoin is starting to come into its own as a digital currency, but the blockchain technology behind it could prove to be much more significant. This book takes you beyond the currency (“Blockchain 1.0”) and smart contracts (“Blockchain 2.0”) to demonstrate how the blockchain is in position to become the fifth disruptive computing paradigm after mainframes, PCs, the Internet, and mobile/social networking.
MIT Sloan School Press Release: “One company helps undocumented people create a digital identity. Another uses artificial intelligence to help students transition to college. Yet another provides free training to budding tech pros.
In summer 2017, the German legislature has fully implemented the European Directive on Network and Information Security. In addition to transposing the European minimal standards, the German lawmaker adopted new... MORE
Joshua J. Yates at The Hedgehog Review: “…We, too, stand on the cusp of a revolutionary new urban form: “the smart city.” That form emerges from a new wave of intensive urbanization and the proliferating uses of information technology to “optimize” the city’s functioning. It takes shape not uniformly or seamlessly but in fits and starts—in a handful of places all at once, incrementally in others.
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Date published: September 17, 2017The New York Times"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, told me that the electronic communications privacy law did not extend protections to advertisements or posted messages that were readily accessible to the public."