Con más de 400 asistentes diarios a los talleres, diálogos y jornadas de cine, este encuentro universitario con la comunidad, realizado entre el 7 y el 12 de enero, ha permitido el acercamiento entre vecinos de Ancud y actores locales, además del intercambio de éstos con el mundo académico.
Diez son los talleres y 14 los diálogos que forman parte del programa de la Escuela de Temporada de la U. de Chile, en su cuarta edición de su desarrollo en regiones.

En la siguiente columna de opinión, publicada el pasado 9 de enero en el periódico La Tercera, la académica Alejandra Mizala del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) y del Centro de Economía Aplicada del Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial de la Universidad de Chile, problematiza sobre las razones detrás de la brecha de género en matemáticas y ciencias entre hombres y mujeres en el contexto de la Prueba de Selección Universitaria, PSU.Una vez más la Prueba de Selección Universitaria (PSU) nos muestra una brecha de género entre hombres y mujeres en matemáti

The aim of the conference is to bring scholars and practitioners together and foster an international and interdisciplinary exchange on technology-based development initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa. With growing activity in the fields of digitalisation and ICT for development in Africa, critical questions have to be raised: What are the motivations? How are technologies used?

The aim of the conference is to bring scholars and practitioners together and foster an international and interdisciplinary exchange on technology-based development initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa. With growing activity in the fields of digitalisation and ICT for development in Africa, critical questions have to be raised: What are the motivations? How are technologies used?

Cover article by Robert Draper for Special Issue of the National Geographic: “Technology and our increasing demand for security have put us all under surveillance. Is privacy becoming just a memory?…

By Kali Akuno and Gyasi Williams, for Cooperation Jackson and the Community Production Cooperative: The Third Digital Revolution[1], a revolution in cyber-physical integration and personal fabrication, is changing the world, and changing humanity, culturally and physically, in the process.

William C. Anderson: We are indebted to the Earth. Our gracious host has provided us with more than enough resources to live, grow and prosper over time. But throughout history, and especially in the modern capitalist era, some have let their desire for more become a perilous dedication to conquest. The urge to make other humans, wildlife and all parts of nature submit to the will of markets, nations and empires is the rule of the day. Today, anything associated with nature or a true respect for it is regarded as soft.

With the fifth event taking place, the biannual workshop series “Privacy, Data Protection & Surveillance” – organized by Dr. Johannes Eichenhofer and Jörg Pohle – has established itself as an... MORE
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Uma das preocupações frequentemente alardeadas quando se estuda o estabelecimento de uma ordem técnico-científico-econômica internacional hodierna, é a possibilidade de se configurarem novas formas de dominação, por meio das tecnologias de informação e comunicação – TIC.

Stanford CISAC's Cyber Reading Group

Side-Channel Cryptanalysis and the Fourth Amendment
Paper available here. 
With Riana Pfefferkorn, Cryptography Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and SocietyJanuary 31, 2018Stanford University

As we continue to evolve our new website, I will provide more regular updates to all of you visiting our site. Today’s topics are: improved search; much faster speed; and an open issue tracker.
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The 2017 Indigenous Connectivity Summit (ICS) was the start of a critical conversation about how Indigenous communities can connect themselves to the Internet on their own terms. But it was just the beginning.

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In this guide, we'll cover the main areas of law that are implicated by protest art online. We’ll give you the background on what the law is and explain why it works the way it does. Finally, we’ll give you practical advice on how to get your work out onto the web and into the world.

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Behandelbar sind immunvermittelte entzündliche Neuropathien, besonders die chronisch entzündliche demyelinisierende Polyneuropathie (CIDP) – im Gegensatz zur diabetischen Polyneuropathie. Polyneuropathien sind eine Gruppe von Erkrankungen, die das periphere Nervensystem befallen. Symptome sind vorwiegend Sensibilitätsstörungen (Kribbelmissempfindungen, Schmerzen, herabgesetzte Sensibilität) und  Muskelschwäche. Die  häufigsten Ursachen in der westlichen Welt sind Diabetes mellitus, erhöhter Alkoholkonsum und Immunerkrankungen.

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This panel addressed the right to be forgotten (RTBF) from a global perspective, presenting points of view from relevant stakeholders and academic researchers from different regions.

Este 9 de enero se realizó la puesta en marcha del Proyecto Académico Parque Laguna Carén en Pudahuel, espacio que será una plataforma donde el conocimiento, las ciencias naturales y sociales, la tecnología y el arte, se integrarán para resolver de manera transdisciplinar, las demandas que enfrentan Chile y el mundo. La iniciativa emplazada sobre un paño de más de mil hectáreas en la salida poniente de Santiago, significa una inversión de $20 mil millones en esta primera fase, que incluye dos institutos CORFO y un edificio institucional, y estará lista en 2021.

Académicos y representantes de organizaciones ciudadanas debatieron este lunes 8 de enero sobre los conflictos socioterritoriales que han tenido en el archipiélago de Chiloé, sus oportunidades de desarrollo y sus necesidades y posibilidades de autonomía.

I had a week off, and being a security domain researcher, I started working on automating security rules in network security components. The goal was to read the existing security rules of the IPv4 protocol and deploy parallel security rules for the IPv6 protocol in the same security component for the newly configured protocol in a network. For this purpose, I started to develop an automation service. The service was intended to use the IPv4 address in a DNS query to resolve the corresponding IPv6 address.

It’s the wild west out there, folks!
Every week new ICOs are riding the wave of the crypto craze.
Billions of dollars worth of investments this year… Yet many don’t know about the darker dynamics fueling the process. Why is so much flowing into these offerings? Could it be that exchanges can’t cash out the bitcoin whales so they need to dump into new coins just to diversify holdings? And bonus for them if they can seize control of enough of a coin’s supply to manipulate its value.