Other News from Participating Centers

What is machine learning?

Chris Meserole at Brookings: “In the summer of 1955, while planning a now famous workshop at Dartmouth College, John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence” to describe a new field of computer science. Rather than writing programs that tell a computer how to carry out a specific task, McCarthy pledged that he and his colleagues would instead pursue algorithms that could teach themselves how to do so.

​MIT, SMART and NTU Singapore scientists have discovered a potential treatment for severe malaria

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Orquesta Sinfónica y Camerata Vocal interpretarán a Haydn

"Las siete últimas palabras de Cristo en la cruz", obra religiosa escrita por Joseph Haydn será dirigida este fin de semana por el titular de la orquesta, maestro Leonid Grin, y en ella participarán como solistas Claudia Pereira, Ana Navarro, Felipe Catalán, y David Gáez, todos miembros de la Camerata Vocal.

UAbierta ofrecerá curso online gratuito sobre arte y paisaje sonoro

Financiado por el Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, el curso en línea "Paisaje Sonoro: escucha, experiencia y cotidianidad" busca despertar nuevas formas de comprender y apreciar su entorno sonoro.

Plan Impulso Araucanía: académicos evalúan la propuesta del Ejecutivo

Reconocer constitucionalmente a los pueblos indígenas, establecer una ley de cuotas de participación política y mejorar las condiciones de vida en la región, son algunos de los anuncios realizados este lunes como parte de este plan. Pero, ¿cuál será la bajada de dichas propuestas y cómo quedarán plasmadas en la institucionalidad?

Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?

David Gal at the New York Times: “Behavioral economics seems to have captured the popular imagination.

The law and ethics of big data analytics: A new role for international human rights in the search for global standards

David Nersessian at Business Horizons: “The Economist recently declared that digital information has overtaken oil as the world’s most valuable commodity. Big data technology is inherently global and borderless, yet little international consensus exists over what standards should govern its use. One source of global standards benefitting from considerable international consensus might be used to fill the gap: international human rights law.

Nervous States

Book by William Davies: “Why do we no longer trust experts, facts and statistics? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What caused the populist political upheavals of recent years?How can the history of ideas help us understand our present?

LIDC: Neue Resolution zum Markenrecht – vom ITM vorbereitet

Die Internationale Liga für Wettbewerbsrecht (LIDC) hat bei ihrer Jahrestagung in Budapest am 6. Oktober 2018 eine umfangreiche Resolution verabschiedet, nach Vorstudien von Prof. Dr. Nikolas Guggenberger (Münster) und  20 nationalen Berichten aus der EU, der Schweiz, Ukraine oder Hongkong. Die von den über 100 Delegierten aus mehr als 25 Staaten mehrheitlich verabschiedete Resolution wendet sich an die EU und nationale Gesetzgeber.

Co-operating out of Crisis

Translating science into business innovation: The case of open food and nutrition data hackathons

Paper by Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi and Heidi Gautschi: “In this article, we explore the use of hackathons and open data in corporations’ open innovation portfolios, addressing a new way for companies to tap into the creativity and innovation of early-stage startup culture, in this case applied to the food and nutrition sector. We study the first Open Food Data Hackdays, held on 10-11 February 2017 in Lausanne and Zurich.

Transformative Cities: Crisis and Opportunity in Amsterdam

“Cities accumulate capital, people, aspirations, and power. But, whose power? Whose aspirations? How can we find in the city a place of possibility?”
These are the questions from Laura Flanders’ opening statements at the Transnational Institute’s convening on Transformative Cities in Amsterdam during July 2018.
 

FGV Direito Rio reúne especialistas no primeiro dia do evento “30 Anos de Constituição: Democracia, Instituições e Realidade”

Ao longo desta quinta-feira, dia 04 de outubro, especialistas se reuniram para debater os 30 anos da Constituição Federal brasileira no Centro Cultural da Fundação Getulio Vargas. O evento “30 Anos de Constituição: Democracia, Instituições e Realidade” foi organizado pela FGV Direito Rio e contou com abertura do diretor da Escola, Sérgio Guerra.

The Presence of Community Networks in Latin America and the Caribbean

The community of Latin America and the Caribbean has maintained an incessant activity in community networks topics, particularly during September. This work has been reflected in various spaces, highlighting the Latin American Summit of Community Networks that took place in Argentina.
A Work with History

Project of the Day: Refugee Phrasebook

Refugee Phrasebook provides useful phrases and information for newcomers

Jerry Michalski on Design from Trust

Jerry Michalski: “Trust” is one of those words we think we understand, but mostly we don’t. In particular, we don’t understand the role of trust in designing our institutions. Worse, few of us question how our institutions are designed. We humans are so adorably adaptable, no?

Ausstellung in Schloss Benrath und Theatervorführung

Über das Papiertheater „Der Mikado“: Im 19. Jahrhundert kamen in Europa Papiertheater als neue Unterhaltungsform auf. Sie boten die Möglichkeit, sich die große Welt des Theaters in kleinem Format ins Haus zu holen, waren damit lehrreich und forderten zudem einiges an handwerklichem Geschick – schließlich musste das Theater zunächst einmal selbst aus Papierbögen zusammengebaut werden.

You Can Now Read Mark Judge’s Book Without Paying Almost $2,000. But Is the Online Copy Legal?

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Meyer-Struckmann-Preis 2018 an Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

Mit Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger wird in diesem Jahr der Meyer-Struckmann-Preis einer international herausragenden Historikerin im Bereich der Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit zuerkannt. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, die seit 1997 den Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit an der Universität Münster innehatte und seit September 2018 Präsidentin des Berliner Wissenschaftskollegs ist, hat zu zahlreichen Themengebieten wegweisende Forschungsarbeiten vorgelegt.

A Landscape of Cyber Norms

Less than a year ago, the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (the ‘UN GGE’, for short) famously came to a deadlock in its determination of how international law applies to cyberspace. Comprising 25 states, the GGE was formed to […]