Other News from Participating Centers

Columna de F. Salazar: "Más coherencia en las políticas científicas"

En columna publicada en La Tercera, la autoridad comenta que en Chile, "la posibilidad de expansión económica, basada solamente en las exportaciones de los commodities y en la utilización de mano de obra no calificada, está llegando a su máximo límite", y que sin una economía basada en la innovación, el panorama es poco auspicioso para nuestro país.

Columna del Rector Vivaldi: "Universidades y valores"

"Ha resultado imposible conversar sobre universidades prescindiendo del posicionamiento que cada una hoy tiene y defiende. Hay temor de otorgar ventajas en lo que se percibe como fiera competencia económica. Todo se entraba para que nada cambie...".Los juicios que hoy se emiten sobre cambios en educación superior solo pueden comprenderse si se les refiere a un conjunto de valores y un modelo que, después de años de monótona hegemonía, suelen ser aceptados como incuestionables. Hay alarma ante cualquier amenaza de mínimo alejamiento de esa supuesta normalidad.

U. de Chile participó en definición de carreras de la U. de Aysén

Académicos e investigadores de ambas instituciones participaron de un encuentro donde en un proceso de reflexión y análisis en conjunto a representantes de la comunidad local, del Ministerio de Educación y del Consejo de Rectores, abordaron las áreas del Programa Académico 2017 - 2019 de la Universidad de Aysén, que son recursos naturales, ingeniería, educación, salud y ciencias sociales. Las carreras que impartirá esta institución en una primera etapa serán anunciadas el próximo 5 de mayo. Pertinencia, vinculación con la realidad regional y desarrollo local.

The Berkman Center and MIT Welcome European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli

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Appointed as EDPS in 2014, Mr. Buttarelli has become an influential voice in the digital privacy space. 

The Berkman Center co-hosted European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli for a day-long program on Tuesday, April 19 in collaboration with the Internet Policy Research Initiative at MIT and the MIT Media Lab. 

 

The Effects of Surveillance and Copyright Law on Speech: Jon Penney at Berkman

What effects do laws and surveillance have on the exercise of freedoms online?
Today, the Berkman Center welcomed Jon Penney (@jon_penney), who is finishing his D.Phil at the University of Oxford, to talk about his dissertation research on chilling effects. Jon is a lawyer, Oxford researcher, and a research fellow at the the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab.

"Chilling Effects": Insights on how laws and surveillance impact people online

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with Jon Penney

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In this talk, Jon will draw on his doctoral research at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, to fill in some of the gaps in our understanding of chilling effects online.

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From User to Citizen - Erhardt Graeff at TICTec 2016

This is a live-blog of Erhardt Graeff's talk at the TICTeC 2016 conference. Any errors or omissions are the fault of the author, Rahul Bhargava, due to trying to type as quickly as Erhardt speaks!
Erhardt is evaluating online learning engagement as civic learning. He works a lot on case-studies for civic impact - to inform how we design these tools. Instead of focusing on specific problems, he is interested in growth of individuals to be able to effectively participate in democracy.

Open Data Supply: Enriching the usability of information

Report by Phoensight: “With the emergence of increasing computational power, high cloud storage capacity and big data comes an eager anticipation of one of the biggest IT transformations of our society today.

The Evolution of Wikipedia’s Norm Network

Bradi Heaberlin and Simon DeDeo at Future Internet: “Social norms have traditionally been difficult to quantify. In any particular society, their sheer number and complex interdependencies often limit a system-level analysis. One exception is that of the network of norms that sustain the online Wikipedia community. We study the fifteen-year evolution of this network using the interconnected set of pages that establish, describe, and interpret the community’s norms.

40° Nexa Lunch Seminar - OER, MOOCs e oltre: una panoramica del movimento Open Education

Page Type: Eventlunch27 aprile 2016Fabio Nascimbeni (Universidad Internacional de la Rioja - Spagna)
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Wed, 27/04/2016 - 13:00 to 14:00luogo: Via Boggio 65/a | Torino (primo piano)

Radio and New Media Technologies: An Asian Perspective

Hamburg, 07.06.2016. Lecture by K. Padmakumar, Head of the Department of Corporate Communication at the University of Manipal, Indien, about the Future of Radio, at the Universität Hamburg, Senatssitzungssaal, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 2. OG, 6-8 pm. Participation free, registration requiredThe major traditional radio broadcast systems in the recent times have comfortably in one way or another embraced the new media technologies.

CIHR talks at re:publica TEN

CIHR talks at re:publica TEN
The re:publica conference brings together activists, scientists, hackers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, journalists, social media and marketing experts, and many others to discuss the future of information society. It is one of the largest conferences about digital culture in the world. The conference aims to foster innovation and create synergies between digital politics, online marketing, network technology, digital society, and (pop) culture.
Check out the talks by CIHR’s staff and fellows at re:publica 2016:

U. de Chile retoma clases en todas sus unidades este martes 19-abril

Todas las facultades, institutos y unidades académicas de la Casa de Bello volverán a sus actividades normales este martes, tras la suspensión de las clases provocada por las complicaciones generadas por las precipitaciones caídas sobre la capital durante la semana, decisión tomada en pos de la seguridad y bienestar de la comunidad universitaria.La Universidad de Chile retomará a sus actividades normales este martes 19 de abril, tanto en clases de pregrado y postgrado, así como en actividades de carácter administrativo.

Experta en inversión pública e innovación visitará nuestro país

La economista Mariana Mazzucato abrirá la versión 2016 de estos encuentros con académicos extranjeros, organizados por la Comisión Desafíos del Futuro del Senado y la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe de Naciones Unidas (CEPAL), con la colaboración de la Universidad de Chile y otras instituciones de Educación Superior.

¿Cómo se forman los minerales? Video educativo responde esta pregunta

El Núcleo Milenio Trazadores de Metales de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) estrenó el video "La fábrica de metales", que explica de forma simple e ilustrativa cómo y por qué se forman los yacimientos minerales en nuestro país, elementos fundamentales de la economía, cultura y sociedad chilena.Que Chile es un país minero es un hecho de conocimiento general, así como la enorme importancia económica que estos yacimientos representan para el país. Pero, ¿cómo se forman estos?

Driverless cars could save lives, kill businesses

Date published: April 26, 2016""A greater share of crashes could be attributed to a product defect," Bryant Walker Smith, assistant law professor at the University of South Carolina, said at the Michigan conference. In other words, when cars drive themselves, manufacturers - as opposed to human drivers - would be liable."
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The Burr-Feinstein Crypto Bill Would Gut Our Cybersecurity

Author(s): Riana PfefferkornPublication Date: April 26, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingIn the name of saving cybersecurity, a new bill before Congress would kill cybersecurity. On April 13, Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) released an official draft of their long-awaited anti-encryption bill. The sponsors of the “Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016” (CCOA) call it an innocuous law-and-order measure to ensure that American companies comply with court orders. In truth, it is a technologically tone-deaf and downright dangerous piece of legislation.

When a Robot Kills, Is It Murder or Product Liability?

Author(s): Ryan CaloPublication Date: April 26, 2016Publication Type: Other Writing
I am a law professor who writes about robotics. I’m also a big Paolo Bacigalupi fan, particularly his breakout novel The Windup Girl involving an artificial girl. So for me, “Mika Model” was not entirely new territory. For all my familiarity with its themes, however, Bacigalupi’s story revealed an important connection in robotics law that had never before occurred to me.

How Big Data Creates False Confidence

Jesse Dunietz at Nautilus: “…A feverish push for “big data” analysis has swept through biology, linguistics, finance, and every field in between. Although no one can quite agree how to define it, the general idea is to find datasets so enormous that they can reveal patterns invisible to conventional inquiry.

Why the Right Digital Decisions Will Make America Strong

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with Susan Crawford, the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a co-director of the Berkman Center

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A conversation on high speed internet, infrastructure, and the future of innovation and competitiveness, with Susan Crawford, the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a co-director of the Berkman Center.

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Berkman Luncheon Series

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