Science Magazine: “For years, researchers at the MIT Media Lab have been developing a database of images captured at regular distances around several major cities.

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Shorenstein Center Speaker Series

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Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School, and director of the Poliak Center for the study of First Amendment Issues at Columbia Journalism School. Wu’s best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His book The Master Switch has won wide recognition and various awards.

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Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

Germany’s first Legal Hackathon &raquoBuilding Standards of Privacy- and Security-by-Design for the IoT” took place in Berlin at the AoIR 2016: Internet Rules!, the annual conference of the worldwide biggest... MORE

On Friday 28 October 2016 Robert Spano, judge at the European Court of Human Rights, gave a presentation at IViR. He spoke about intermediary liability for online user comments – the Delfi jurisprudence. The Delfi case raised a lot of discussion and is one of the first on the role of intermediaries in today’s information society. Robert […]
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Introduction Online extremism and hate speech on the internet are growing global concerns. In 2015, the EU signed a code of conduct with social media companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter to effectively regulate hate speech on the internet. The code, amongst other measures, discussed stricter sanctions on intermediaries (social media companies) in the form […]

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Internews Report: “Data has the potential to help communities understand their biggest challenges – why people become sick or well, why development initiatives succeed or fail, how government actions align with citizens’ priorities. However, most people do not have the skills or inclination to engage with data directly. That’s where data journalists and the open data community come in.

Identidades sexuales, transexualismo y biopolítica fueron parte de los temas tratados durante las cuatro jornadas que se extendió el II Seminario Internacional de Psicoanálisis y Género, que convocó a destacadas especialistas latinoamericanas y que contó con una audiencia de cerca de 200 personas vinculadas a esta corriente terapéutica.La relevancia del género en la perspectiva psicoanalítica fue el eje del diálogo de la segunda versión de este Seminario Internacional, organizado por Vanesa East y Pilar Errázuriz del Centro de Estudios de Género y C

En el foro "Si nadie vota, ¿Cómo cambiamos las cosas?", organizado por la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones y la Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente, participarán los diputados Camila Vallejo y Jaime Bellolio y los académicos de nuestra universidad, Fernando Atria y Claudia Heiss, quienes abordarán la importancia del voto informado, estrategias para la construcción de una ciudadanía más crítica y cómo incidir en cambios sociales profundos.

Este martes 18 de octubre comienza el Congreso Mundial del Color, realizado por primera vez en nuestro país y en el que la U. de Chile es parte de su organización.

Este 15 de octubre se cumple un nuevo aniversario del fallecimiento del primer rector de la U. de Chile, figura que la directora del Archivo Central Andrés Bello, Alejandra Araya, releva en esta columna de opinión publicada en El Mercurio. Desde 1832 don Andrés Bello gozó de la nacionalidad chilena otorgada por gracia por el gobierno. Fue senador de la República por 27 años, pero su salud le impidió seguir prestando sus servicios a lo público. Murió un 15 de octubre de 1865, a los 84 años, ejerciendo el cargo de rector de la U. de Chile, de la cual fuera su fundador.

Given the complicated issues around net neutrality, an open house discussion was held in Hyderabad on October 24, 2016 on Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s consultation paper on free data. The event was organized by TRAI. Udbhav Tiwari attended the open house discussion.

From success to status, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these excerpts and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the previous post here). Share these 25 gems and insights from the week of October 16-22 with your colleagues and networks, and check back to the original articles for more insights!

Evento será realizado nesta terça, 25 de outubroO Brasil vive um momento de transição na indústria de óleo e gás, decorrente de mudanças na orientação política para o setor e do preço internacional do petróleo, dentre inúmeros fatores. Após quase uma década de crescimento contínuo impulsionado pelas descobertas de óleo do pré-sal e vultosos investimentos, a indústria passou a conviver com uma queda expressiva de receitas, de geração de empregos e de confiança.

Max Opray in The Guardian: “The first two user tutorials are pretty stock standard but, from there, things escalate dramatically. After mastering How to Sign Up and How to RecoverYour Password, users are apparently ready to advance to lesson number three: How to Create a Democracy.

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Prof. Zhou Lin