Das High-Performance Computing ist eine Schlüsseltechnologie und ein Standortfaktor für wissenschaftliche Forschung aus allen Fakultäten. In Nordrhein-Westfalen gibt es hierzu bereits eine gut ausgebaute Infrastruktur und große wissenschaftliche und technische Expertise, so etwa das Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) am Forschungszentrum Jülich, eines der drei leistungsfähigsten Höchstleistungszentren Deutschlands. Auch die HHU ist – in einem kleineren Maßstab – mit seinem HPC-Rechnercluster „HILBERT“ am Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnik (ZIM) gut aufgestellt.

Googling for anything might seem like a good idea, but searching for contacts of businesses and customer care numbers is landing people in the hands of conmen.
The article by Tushar Kaushik was published in Economic Times on January 30, 2019.

India’s largest bank has secured an unprotected server that allowed anyone to access financial information on millions of its customers, like bank balances and recent transactions.
The blog post by Zack Whittaker was published Tech Crunch on January 30, 2019. Karan Saini was quoted.

India is the world’s biggest emerging digital economy, and Silicon Valley’s top companies have invested huge sums to cash in on it. Now new regulations are threatening their business.
The blog post was published in Q13 Fox on January 31, 2019. Gurshabad Grover was quoted.

By Digital Empowerment Foundation
In the last 25 years, half the world has been connected to the Internet and the almost infinite opportunities it has to offer. Most of these, among the 3.5 billion connected individuals of the world, are people who are largely economically empowered, literate, and reside in urban or accessible areas. However, there is also half the world that is yet to get online and access what the Internet has to offer them.

Dr. Stephan Plugge interessiert sich für besonders exotische Materialien – sogenannte topologische Quantenmaterialien – und wie man diese nutzen kann. Er arbeitet damit in einem aktuellen Feld der Physik, in dem im Jahr 2016 auch der Physiknobelpreis vergeben wurde. Diese exotischen Materialien sind vielversprechende Kandidaten für das ebenfalls stark beforschte Feld der Quanteninformationsverarbeitung, wozu unter anderem auch die Entwicklung von Quantencomputern gehört.

Fundação sobe uma posição no rankingA Fundação Getulio Vargas é o 6º melhor think tank do mundo, de acordo com o 2018 Global Go To Think Tanks Index, divulgado hoje, 31 de janeiro, pela Universidade da Pensilvânia. A FGV, pelo terceiro ano consecutivo, é eleita o think tank melhor administrado do planeta e completou uma década na primeira colocação entre seus pares na América Latina.

Michel Bauwens: At the P2P Foundation, we do not favour technological determinism (technology determines societal outcomes), nor the ‘technology is neutral, it depends what you do with it’, but rather, we believe that technological infrastructures are in fact socio-technical systems, whose design and deployment, and potentially subversive use, are the reflection of the values and material interests of the social groups and individuals involved. Our most famous quadrant outines four such competing systems, which are all in phase of deployment today.

On May 8 and 9 2019, the fourth version of csv,conf is set to take place at Eliot Center in Portland, Oregon, United States. csv,conf is a community conference bringing together diverse groups to discuss data topics, and features stories about data sharing and data analysis from science, journalism, government, and open source. Over two days, attendees will have the opportunity to hear about ongoing work, share skills, exchange ideas (and stickers!) and kickstart collaborations.

International
Conference: “Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons: Contributions to the Deepening
of Democracy”

Venue: Instituto
Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal

Date: 6 – 8th November 2019

Organiser: Centre for International Studies
(CEI-IUL)

SMEX will host a workshop about Social Media Solutions Training in Masaha. This one-day workshop is led by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in partnership with the Facebook Journalism Project.

December 2018 saw the passing of the First Step Act, a bipartisan-supported criminal justice reform bill. Some of its provisions included: easing up mandatory minimum sentences, relaxing the “three strikes” rule to 25 years instead of life imprisonment, enabling inmates to earn “good time credits” and “earned time credits” that can be counted towards early release or transition to halfway houses/home confinement.[1] Though it represents a hopeful shift in criminal justice reform in the US, […]

The present submission has the object of providing comments and recommendations regarding a very specific provision included in the document mentioned in the title, that is the specific proposed duty for intermediaries to:
“deploy technology based automated tools or appropriate mechanisms, with appropriate controls, for proactively identifying and removing or disabling public access to unlawful information or content.”
Location

United States

Lisa Lewin, Managing Partner at Ethical Ventures, a New York City based management consulting firm, will be the newest member of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation and its work, and serves as the organization’s ultimate corporate authority. As an incoming trustee, Lisa will serve a two year term effective immediately.

Cerimônia de entrega foi realizada nesta quarta-feira em BrasíliaNesta quarta-feira, dia 30, o Diretor da FGV Direito Rio, Sérgio Guerra, acompanhado do Coordenador do Núcleo de Prática Jurídica da Escola, André Mendes, participaram da cerimônia de entrega do Selo OAB Recomenda na sede da entidade em Brasília.

Eisen ist ein lebenswichtiger Nährstoff für Pflanzen, Tiere und auch den Menschen. Es wird für vielfältige Stoffwechselvorgänge benötigt, zum Beispiel für die Photosynthese und die Atmung. Fehlt dem Menschen Eisen, führt dies zu erheblichen gesundheitlichen Einschränkungen, die weltweit Jahr für Jahr Millionen von Menschen betreffen. Eisen gelangt durch Pflanzen direkt oder indirekt in die Nahrungskette von Menschen. Auch wenn Eisen im Boden grundsätzlich in großer Menge vorhanden ist, kann es aufgrund der konkreten Bodenbeschaffenheit zu Eisenmangel bei Pflanzen kommen.

Sebastian Fraune wurde im Jahr 1978 in Münster geboren. Er studierte Biologie an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Diplom 2005). Am dortigen Zoologischen Institut promovierte er im Jahr 2009 zum Thema Wirt-Bakterien Interaktionen. Nach einer Postdoc-Zeit übernahm er in Kiel eine unabhängige Nachwuchsforschungsgruppe. Am 31. Januar 2019 ernannte ihn die HHU zum Professor für Zoologie mit dem Schwerpunkt „Organismische Interaktionen“.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is upon us. The exponential advancements are fast becoming a reality and Africa is a part of the current wave.

Im Rahmen eines von Dr. Stefan Thierse geleiteten Seminars hatten die Master-Studierenden gemeinsam mit ihren Kommilitoninnen und Kommilitonen über mehrere Monate das Debattieren als rhetorische Form der akademischen Auseinandersetzung praktisch erprobt und sich intensiv auf den Wettbewerb vorbereitet. Finanziell und ideell gefördert durch die Staatskanzlei des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen und unterstützt durch eine europapolitische Expertenjury aus Politik, Verwaltung und Zivilgesellschaft, hat sich das Event in Duisburg zu einer festen Größe entwickelt.

 
On Tuesday, many people noticed the official website of Rafic Hariri Airport had a different landing page. A group calling themselves the Syrian Revolution Soldiers (SRS) defaced the main page of the website to display a political message.