En el marco de la actividad "La Universidad de Chile piensa la nueva Constitución", académicos, estudiantes y funcionarios se reunieron en las facultades e institutos de la Casa de Bello en una jornada simultánea de debate para intercambiar visiones sobre los contenidos que debería incluir el futuro texto constitucional.Al mediodía del 13 de junio los tres estamentos de la comunidad universitaria se reunieron simultáneamente en todo Santiago en una serie de charlas realizadas por expertos del departamento de Derecho

El director del Centro para el Desarrollo de la Telemedicina en Asia (TEMDEC, por su sigla en inglés), especialista en cáncer gástrico, pionero en el conocimiento de la telemedicina y hoy líder mundial en este ámbito, Dr. Shuji Shimizu, visitó este martes 14 de junio el Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile (HCUCH) y la Facultad de Medicina. Una conferencia y un recorrido que le permitió conocer en qué avanza la U.

El pasado viernes 10 de junio las autoridades encabezadas por el Rector Ennio Vivaldi pusieron la "primera piedra" del nuevo complejo polideportivo que representa la segunda parte del campo deportivo en JGM, la cual terminará su construcción en 18 meses e incluirá una piscina temperada, un gimnasio con dos canchas con medidas reglamentarias para práctica de básquetbol y vóleibol, y mucho más.Este viernes 10 de junio se realizó el Encuentro de la Comunidad Deportiva 2016, donde también se efectuó la ceremonia que marcó el inicio de la segunda fase del Campo Deportivo Juan Gó

Ethan Zuckerman in The Atlantic: “I found Shane Snow’s essay on prison reform — “How Soylent and Oculus Could Fix the Prison System” — through hate-linking….

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Urs Gasser, Harvard Law School professor and executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, delivered a presentation last month on “The Future of Cybersecurity” at the Asian Leadership Conference, an annual event bringing together leaders across the globe to discuss and provide solutions to Asia’s most pressing challenges.

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Urs Gasser, Harvard Law School professor and executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, delivered a presentation last month on “The Future of Cybersecurity” at the Asian Leadership Conference, an annual event bringing together leaders across the globe to discuss and provide solutions to Asia’s most pressing challenges.

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Directory by Donelle McKinley: “…Here is just a selection of websites for crowdsourcing cultural heritage. Websites are actively crowdsourcing unless indicated with an asterisk…The directory is organized by the type of crowdsourcing process involved, using the typology for crowdsourcing in the humanities developed by Dunn & Hedges (2012).

Simon Parkin at the New Yorker:”… it occurred to Szantner and Revaz that the tremendous amount of time and energy that people put into games could be co-opted in the name of human progress. That year, they founded Massively Multiplayer Online Science, a company that pairs game makers with scientists.

Guide edited by Alain Samson: “Since the publication of last year’s edition of the Behavioral Economics (BE) Guide, behavioral science has continued to exert its influence in various domains of scholarship and practical applications. The Guide’s host, behavioraleconomics.com, has grown to become a popular online hub for behavioral science ideas and resources.

Clinton Nguyen for TechInsider: “When counselors are helping someone in the midst of an emotional crisis, they must not only know how to talk – they also must be willing to text.

Stephen Goldsmith  and Jane Wiseman in Governing: “By using data analytics to make decisions about pretrial detention, local governments could find substantial savings while making their communities safer….

Los usuarios de noticias se informan cada vez más en móviles y redes sociales y rechazan los anuncios y el pago
Investigadores del Center for Internet Studies and Digital Life de la Facultad de Comunicación publican un informe sobre la audiencia española de noticias digitales

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In: Handboek consumentenrecht: een overzicht van de rechtspositie van de consument, E.H. Hondius & G.J. Rijken (red.), Zutphen: Paris 2015, p. 483-497.

Date published: June 23, 2016"Patrick Lin, the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, says we humans are a fickle lot, and that we don’t always know what we want or what we can live with.
“What we intellectually believe is true and what we in fact do may be two very different things,” he told Gizmodo. “Humans are often selfish even as they profess altruism. Car manufacturers, then, might not fully appreciate this human paradox as they offer up AI and robots to replace us behind the wheel.”"

Date published: June 23, 2016""Focusing the public's attention on these hypotheticals also distracts from far more pressing ethical issues," Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina and an expert on the law of self-driving vehicles, told Live Science."
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Date published: June 23, 2016"While the proposition was informal, the Department of Transportation, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina who specializes in legal aspects of autonomous driving, "should absolutely jump at Tesla's offer."

A few weeks ago, after I published a blog post raising the question of what might happen to CDA 230 when internet intermediaries like Facebook invoke First Amendment protections – which civil liberties lawyers’ were calling on Facebook to do in the wake of the controversy over its trending newsfeed – I was fortunate enough to have a sustained email exchange with UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh.

Phil Howard on 23 June 2016 at 01:12AM Our paper on Brexit Bots was featured in “These ‘bots’ could sway the Brexit vote” on CNBC: Automated social media accounts are being used by both sides in the Brexit debate, a new report shows, with some experts fearing that a sudden surge in activity by the “bots” could influence the […] [...]

Political Bots on 23 June 2016 at 01:12AM Our paper on Brexit Bots was featured in “These ‘bots’ could sway the Brexit vote” on CNBC: Automated social media accounts are being used by both sides in the Brexit debate, a new report shows, with some experts fearing that a sudden surge in activity by the “bots” could influence the referendum vote. [...]

The 2016 Milton Wolf Seminar, titled “The Paris Effect: Journalism, Diplomacy, and Information Controls” focused largely on the effects of terrorist activities, such as the November 2015 Paris attacks, on “countering violent extremism” (CVE) efforts and state attempts to control...