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Not Surprised by Indian govt's data localisation directives: Michael Dell

The Indian government's attempts to ensure that companies adhere to data localisation norms will spawn similar requests from other countries, Michael Dell, the founder and chief executive of Dell Technologies, said.
The blog post by Anand J. was published in VCCircle on October 17, 2018.

Spending too much time on social media? Tech abuse may lead to mental health issues

Technology is a boon, no doubt. But where can we, in ourdigital lives, draw the line between convenience and addiction? ET’s Divya J Shekhar finds out how the IT city is dealing with internet addiction and how collective social effort might help find the sweet spot.

"El reposo en la medida que sea más prolongado, más daño causa"

A nivel global las patologías mentales son la primera causa de discapacidad tanto transitoria como permanente. Y Chile es un buen ejemplo de esta tendencia: entre 2004 y 2015, estas enfermedades alcanzaron el primer lugar del total de licencias indicadas, llegando al 27 por ciento del gasto total del país destinado a reposo médico. Sobre el aumento de licencias médicas asociadas a salud mental, su efectividad y los efectos negativos que tendría en los pacientes, habla en la siguiente entrevista el académico de la Facultad de Medicina, Juan Almonte.

U. de Chile llevó CSN móvil a Plaza Italia por Día de la Ciencia

"Si no se invierte en ciencia y tecnología, estamos condenados a una estructura social que va a continuar siendo desigual y que no va a poder ofrecer oportunidades de realización plena para su población", destacó este domingo el Rector de la U. de Chile y presidente del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (Cuech), Ennio Vivaldi, en lo que fue la primera celebración de esta fecha mediante la cual la Casa de Bello llevó hasta Plaza Italia parte de la infraestructura del organismo público encargado de medir e informar la actividad sísmica del país.

Enfermedades bucales en adultos mayores y propuesta para enfrentarlas

Ante un escenario tan complejo en donde "la mitad de la población del mundo sufre consecuencias de problemas dentales no tratados", los profesores de la Facultad de Odontología Iris Espinoza y Jorge Gamonal, relevan que "las consecuencias de perder los dientes representan marcadas inequidades sociales en salud, debido a que las limitaciones para masticar, hablar y socializar impactan especialmente a las personas mayores y de una posición socioeconómica baja" ¿Qué hacer al respecto?

HHU-Nostalgia - Hans-Dietrich Genscher eröffnete am 19. Oktober die Ringvorlesung "Staat und Recht in Teilung und Einheit", 2010

Die Bildergalerie "HHU-Nostalgia" stellt interessante Archiv-Motive vor und wird kontinuierlich ausgebaut und ergänzt: Viel Spaß! 
Hier geht es zur kompletten Galerie (Übersichtsseite).
Haben Sie vielleicht auch noch ein interessantes "historisches" Foto der HHU? Die HHU-Bildredaktion freut sich über jede Einsendung: Dieter Joswig, Tel. +49 211 81-14861E-Mail senden

​NTU Singapore launches campus art trail

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​NTU Singapore to develop vehicular communications for multi-modal mobility solutions

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Global Trends in Democracy: Background, U.S. Policy, and Issues for Congress

Report by Michael A. Weber for the Congressional Research Service: “Widespread concerns exist among analysts and policymakers over the current trajectory of democracy around the world. Congress has often played an important role in supporting and institutionalizing U.S. democracy promotion, and current developments may have implications for U.S. policy, which for decades has broadly reflected the view that the spread of democracy around the world is favorable to U.S. interests.

GLIF 2018 Held at the Home of Hamlet

The 18th Annual Global LambaGrid Workshop (GLIF 2018) was held on 18-21 September 2018 at the Kulturværftet in Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark. Kronberg Castle, located next to the venue, was immortalised as Elsinore in the William Shakespeare play Hamlet, but there proved to be nothing rotten with the state of high-bandwidth networking as 50 participants from 19 countries came to hear how these networks are facilitating exascale computing in support of biological, medical, physics, energy production and environmental research, and to discuss the latest infrastructure developments.

Wissenschaft trifft Kunst

In zwölf Bildern versuchen die prämierten Nachwuchswissenschaftler, ihre Forschungsthemen visuell wiederzugeben. Bei der offiziellen Präsentation am 8. Oktober erzählten die Prämierten auch die Hintergründe und Geschichten hinter den Bildern.

HHU-Physiker an Exzellenzcluster zur Quanteninformationsverarbeitung beteiligt

Computer und Netzwerke haben das Leben grundlegend verändert. Doch nach Jahrzehnten rasanter Entwicklung sind die Grenzen dieser Technologie, die bisher mit immer weitergehender Verdichtung von Schaltungen durch immer kleinere Strukturen erfolgreich war, erkennbar. Daher arbeiten Forscherinnen und Forscher verschiedener Fachrichtungen an neuen Ansätzen. Einer davon ist der „Quantencomputer“.

Political Lawyering for the 21st Century

Paper by Deborah N. Archer: “Legal education purports to prepare the next generation of lawyers capable of tackling the urgent and complex social justice challenges of our time. But law schools are failing in that public promise. Clinical education offers the best opportunity to overcome those failings by teaching the skills lawyers need to tackle systemic and interlocking legal and social problems.

‘Do Not Track,’ the Privacy Tool Used by Millions of People, Doesn’t Do Anything

Kashmir Hill at Gizmodo: “When you go into the privacy settings on your browser, there’s a little option there to turn on the “Do Not Track” function, which will send an invisible request on your behalf to all the websites you visit telling them not to track you.

Getting the Work Done: What Government Innovation Really Looks Like

Report by Hana Schank and Sara Hudson: “…In 2017 and 2018, we interviewed problem-solvers working across federal, state, and local government in the United States on improving the state of government services. This movement is small compared to the number of government agencies running business as usual, but it is growing.

DNA databases are too white. This man aims to fix that.

Interview of Carlos D. Bustamante by David Rotman: “In the 15 years since the Human Genome Project first exposed our DNA blueprint, vast amounts of genetic data have been collected from millions of people in many different parts of the world. Carlos D. Bustamante’s job is to search that genetic data for clues to everything from ancient history and human migration patterns to the reasons people with different ancestries are so varied in their response to common diseases.

DAAD-Preis für Herrn Toshihiro Wada

Herrn Toshihiro Wada, Doktorand und wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am ITM, wurde am vergangenen Freitag, den 12.10.2018, der DAAD-Preis für herausragende Leistungen und bemerkenswertes gesellschaftliches Engagement als ausländischer Studierender verliehen. Herr Wada wurde insbesondere für sein Engagement in der Kirchengemeinde Heilig Kreuz in Münster und als ehrenamtlicher Schiedsrichter im Sportverein Blau-Weiß Aasee e.V. ausgezeichnet. Sein Spezialgebiet am ITM ist das Datenschutzrecht in Japan. Die Verleihung erfolgte durch Prof. Dr.

Punk Elegance: How Guerrilla Translation reimagined itself for Open Cooperativism

Who we’ve been, who we are becoming

Social Media Decentralized: Spotlight on the Commons Platform

This post by Mozilla was originally published on Medium.com

We Need To Work Harder To Make Software Engineering More Ethical

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