La reflexión sobre el concepto de universidad, su vigencia y los desafíos que deben enfrentar estas instituciones en el siglo XXI, son el tema del nuevo tomo de la Revista Anales de la Universidad de Chile, titulado "Pensar Universidad".
Una aleación de caucho con cobre es la clave de Pezanbac, la primera pezonera antibacteriana para vacas, elaborada por un equipo de cinco jóvenes profesionales entre los que se incluye Andrés Vargas Fernández, veterinario y magíster en Ciencias Animales y Veterinarias de nuestro plantel.
Em parceria com o Grupo de Estudos sobre Justiça e Direito Eletrônicos (GEDEL), o nosso diretor Professor Fabricio B. Pasquot Polido participou do evento no Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 3ª Região, sobre democracia e direito no contexto do big data, da inteligência artificial e da linguagem maquinal. Aqui você confere a fala dele no evento.
The UCLA’s Garrick Institute held its first colloquium on Catastrophic And Existential Risk from March 27-29, with the opening keynote being delivered by CSER’s Executive Director Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, and a lecture being given by CSER’s Catherine Rhodes. Ó hÉigeartaigh gave an overview of recent global progress in the field of existential risk, and presented some of the challenges for traditional risk analysis posed by risks of global catastrophic magnitude.
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network: “…partnering with Tomnod to improve population information in five South Sudanese counties by using crowdsourcing to gather evidence-based food security analysis.
Through Tomnod, volunteers from around the world identify different elements such as buildings, tents, and livestock in satellite images that are hosted on Tomnod’s website. This approach creates data sets that can more accurately assess the level of food insecurity in South Sudan. …
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Arturo J. Carrillo is Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
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An exploration of issues related to digital incivility with an emphasis on cyber-violence. When digital turns incivil, how does the law respond?
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For 15 years there's been a heated battle over your right to privacy online -- from the Patriot Act to the Snowden revelations to the recent repeal of Internet privacy protections. What can we expect in the Trump Era? What's at stake? Who's at risk? And, most of all, what can you do to protect yourself and defend democracy in a digital world?May 9, 2017Oakland Library
Brian Forde at Harvard Business Review: “…Data is under attack. And it is the leaders of our government and economy who are waging this war.
Uma das tecnologias mais promissoras e potencialmente disruptivas desta década é a dos carros autônomos, ou carros auto-dirigíveis. Notícias a respeito de inovações, dilemas éticos ou mesmo dos primeiros acidentes envolvendo carros autônomos permeiam a mídia especializada. A Gartner Inc., empresa de consultoria em tecnologia da informação que desenvolve relatórios anuais sobre tendências e novas tecnologias, atualmente situa os carros autônomos na crista de seu gráfico de hype para inovações emergentes.
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This study, conducted by the Internet Monitor project, analyzes the scope of government-sponsored censorship of Wikimedia sites around the world. The study finds that, as of June 2016, China was likely censoring the Chinese language Wikipedia project, and Thailand and Uzbekistan were likely interfering intermittently with specific language projects of Wikipedia as well. The report features insights into the state of access to Wikipedia content in 15 select countries.
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Introduction The Law Commission has recently released a report on hate speech laws in India. The Supreme Court in Pravasi Bhalai vs. Union of India asked the Law Commission to recommend changes to existing hate speech laws, and to “define the term hate speech”. The report discusses the history of hate speech jurisprudence in India […]
"¿Es relevante que el segundo país que más contamina hoy en día decida dar un pie atrás en los esfuerzos globales por mitigar el cambio climático?", se pregunta Maisa Rojas, investigadora del Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia (CR)2, quien en esta columna -publicada en cooperativa.cl- ahonda en las consecuencias del decreto del actual presidente norteamericano que pone pie atrás a las medidas del mandato anterior en materia medioambiental.El presidente de los Estados Unidos ha firmado esta semana un decreto ejecutivo para deshacer medidas de mitigación al cambio c
El pasado martes 28 de marzo de 2017, el Consejo Universitario aprobó de forma unánime la creación de dicho Centro, encargado de desarrollar las plataformas de apoyo a la gestión de información curricular U-Cursos y Ucampus en nuestro plantel.
Actualmente U-Cursos y Ucampus están presentes en más de 34 unidades, con más de 36 mil usuarios en la Universidad de Chile.
This spring, 30 Open Government Partnership (OGP) member countries will develop National Action Plans. With international momentum growing and new rules on parliamentary participation in place, this cycle presents an opportunity to advance the legislative openness agenda by developing meaningful commitments and deepening the participation of parliaments in OGP.