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An autopilot for online marketing

Online marketing is an important sales channel for many companies. But to make campaigns efficient, you often need to analyse large amounts of data. AI-based solutions such as the Adspert software of Bidmanagement GmbH in Berlin have been using statistical models for many years to solve this problem and thus offer “AI as a Service”…
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Quo vadis – what types of AI are produced in Germany?

AI startups in Germany are an important driver to fully exploiting the economic potential of AI through innovative products, services and business models. In this blog post, Jessica Schmeiss and Nicolas Friederici analyse the German AI startup scene and conclude that currently about two thirds of German AI startups focus on “AI as a service”,…

Heteromation as the New Division of Labor Between Machines and Humans

Book: Heteromation, and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism. By Hamid R. Ekbia and Bonnie A. Nardi. MIT Press, 2017

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Estatales firmaron convenio para fortalecimiento de la calidad

Como parte del nuevo Sistema de Aseguramiento de calidad que contempla la Ley 21.091 sobre Educación Superior, las universidades agrupadas en el Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (CUECH), firmaron en su reunión mensual desarrollada en Talca este miércoles 24 de abril un Convenio de Colaboración para la promoción del Fortalecimiento de la calidad de los planteles estatales, y abordar así de manera coordinada, colaborativa y con los más altos estándares de calidad, el nuevo marco de acreditación integral obligatoria que se establecerá a partir de 2020.En

Chile será sede de encuentro sobre cambio climático y educación

"Educación en Cambio Climático: Hacia la formación de una ciudadanía activa", es el título de la Conferencia Internacional que se realizará por primera vez en América Latina el próximo 6 y 7 de mayo. El encuentro -que reunirá a más de 30 ponentes de distintos países- tiene por objetivo concertar acciones a nivel latinoamericano para trabajar sistémicamente por la inclusión de las temáticas del cambio climático en la educación, en concertación con una iniciativa global impulsada por la Office in Climate Education (OCE) en Paris.

Bacterias multirresistentes y carencia de nuevos antibióticos

El Dr. Andrés Marcoleta, integrante del Grupo de Microbiología Integrativa del Departamento de Biología de la Facultad de Ciencias de la U.

12 Experts on the Uber IPO and the Ridesharing Company’s Future

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Date published: May 7, 2019New York Magazine"Ryan Calo, University of Washington law professor

Google Assistant is 10x faster and knows where your mom lives

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United States

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Criminalização e internet: suas condutas online são alvo do Congresso Nacional?

A regulamentação de condutas sociais por meio do Direito e aplicação de sanções à violações de regras não é prática recente. Este modelo também é aplicado no caso de condutas praticadas por meio da internet, uma vez que este espaço é atualmente considerado ambiente de práticas comum à vida social, como organização de reuniões, encontrar amigos, evoluir profissionalmente.

What Online Content Are We Regulating? Illegal Speech, Offensive Speech, and Platform Value

This discussion, excerpted from my Who Do You Sue article, very briefly reviews the implications of what I call “must-carry” arguments – claims that operators of major Internet platforms should be held to the same First Amendment standards as the government, and prevented from using their Terms of Service or Community Guidelines to prohibit lawful speech.
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United States

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What Platform Operations Are We Regulating? Platform Product Features, Content Removal, and Content Amplification

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United States

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Talking Internet of Things in Canada at IoT613 This Week

This week, 8-9 May, we’ll be at IoT613 in Ottawa, Canada, talking about our work on “Trust by Design” – the idea that privacy and security should be built into Internet-connected products, and not just an afterthought.

Platform Content Regulation – Some Models and Their Problems

Lawmakers today are increasingly focused on their options for regulating the content we see on online platforms. I described several ambitious regulatory models for doing that in my recent paper, Who Do You Sue? State and Platform Hybrid Power Over Online Speech. This blog post excerpts that discussion, and sketches out potential legal regimes to address major platforms’ function as de facto gatekeepers of online speech and information.
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United States

Seminário: O Direito e a Revolução Digital no Sistema Financeiro

Seminário: O Direito e a Revolução Digital no Sistema Financeiro13h00 até 18h30O Evento: O seminário O Direito e a Revolução Digital no Sistema Financeiro tem como objetivo discutir o impacto das inovações tecnológicas nos serviços financeiros, analisando as oportunidades e os desafios que as novas tecnologias trazem para o setor, tanto sob a ótica econômica como jurídica.

The Week in Internet News: Unencrypted USB Drives Pose Security Risk

No encryption for U(SB): About 55 percent of U.K. businesses don’t encrypt information on USB drives, according to the result of a survey published at Information Age. Also, 62 percent of executives surveyed admit to seeing USB devices in unsecured locations such as desks, drawers, and exposed office spaces.

Cochabamba, Bolivia: Confronting speculators and financing community infrastructure

The informal settlement of Las Peñas, on the outskirts of Cochabamba, has been refused the right to become part of the city, leaving it with no public investment for basic infrastructure and services. Las Peñas neighbourhood forced the re-sale of unoccupied plots of land at original price plus a small amount (owned by speculators taking advantage of rising property prices) for financing or co-financing community infrastructure including roads, houses and local sports and cultural amenities.

Informatierecht alumnus Jan van Vegchel genomineerd voor UvA-scriptieprijs 2019

The Future of Computing and Why You Should Care

The future of computing and why you should care

Todd Weaver

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Let me set the tone by using a quote from a great person of history:

“The
ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people,
but the silence over that by the good people.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Investigadores U. de Chile participan en publicación internacional

Los investigadores del Centro de Investigación Avanzado en Educación (CIAE), Cristián Bellei y Liliana Morawietz, prepararon un capítulo dedicado al programa "Educación en Ciencia Basada en la Indagación" para el libro "Preparing Teachers to Educate Whole Students: An International Comparative Study", editado por Fernando Reimers y Connie Chung, del Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Creador de marca Google Play dictará charla en la U. de Chile

Patrick Mork participará en "The World is Mine: el futuro de la innovación y emprendimiento para la internacionalización", evento que espera reunir a más de 600 personas el próximo 8 y 9 de mayo en la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM), y que contará también con la visita del fundador de Indiegogo, la plataforma global de crowfunding más grande del mundo.