Wouter Tebbens, Co-Founder and President of the Free Knowledge Institute; Chris Croome from UK co-op Webarchitects; Alexandre Bourlier and Sophie Rocher from happy-dev.fr discuss their work developing a suite of cooperatively
What happened at OPEN 2018?
Nathan Schneider kicked things off with an excellent introduction explaining some of the history of cooperative ownership. Nathan also questioned where our movement sits relative to the mainstream, for-profit startup world, and in what way the development of platform co-ops and member owned businesses are disruptive …
„Das Ziel sind Glasfaser-Netzwerke, die physikalisch abhörsicher sind“, sagt Q.Link.X-Sprecher Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede von der Universität Bonn. Dieser Paradigmenwechsel in der Nachrichtenverschlüsselung weg von konventionellen Verfahren und hin zur Quantentechnologie stößt jedoch auf eine technologische Herausforderung: Bei der Übertragung der Quanteninformation mit Lichtteilchen (Photonen) kommt es zu unvermeidbaren Leitungsverlusten, wodurch die Übertragungsstrecken bisher auf unter 100 Kilometer begrenzt sind.
Interested in working in public interest technology law and policy? Want to find out what you can do now to build a career in this growing area? Join the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and the Levin Center to discuss the broad range of available options and how to identify and evaluate prospective employers, plus how to make the most of your time at SLS to position yourself for the future.
November 1, 2018Stanford Law School
New software tools use artificial intelligence to create realistic-looking but fake videos of real people seeming to say and do things they never did. These so-called "deepfakes" will soon cause a number of problems for the courts, particularly when it comes to authenticating evidence in litigation. They may even undermine the justice system by eroding juries' belief in the knowability of what is real. Come discuss the implications of deepfakes for trial practice with CIS Cryptography Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn.
October 30, 2018Stanford Law School
La App puede reconocer a más de 200 especies que habitan o transitan por nuestro país. Esta aplicación móvil puede ser usada sin internet y, a través de una serie de preguntas sobre el ave avistada, la plataforma digital concluye rápidamente de cuál se trata.
Un conjunto de jóvenes ingenieros de la Universidad de Chile fueron los principales artífices de este sistema que involucró a decenas de miles de voluntarios y que permitió confrontar el conteo oficial.
El 1 de octubre es el día elegido por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) para celebrar el Día Internacional de las Personas de Edad, tema de interés para Chile considerando su nueva realidad demográfica, la que, según plantean los académicos de la Red Transdisciplinaria sobre Envejecimiento de la U. de Chile Mario O.
Conversatorios, actividades culturales, exhibiciones de películas, debates académicos, coloquios y talleres de cine para profesores son parte de las actividades que se realizarán entre el 1 y el 12 de octubre en la U.
"El Verano del León Eléctrico", cortometraje realizado por el egresado del Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen (ICEI), Diego Céspedes -que ya había sido destacado con el primer premio de la Cinéfondation en el Festival de Cannes-, sumó un nuevo triunfo al ganar la competencia internacional de Escuelas de Cine de este certamen de cine español.Este viernes 28 de septiembre el cortometraje “El verano del León Eléctrico”, realizado por el egresado de la carrera de Cine y Televisión del ICEI de la Universidad de Chile, Diego Céspedes, ganó el primer lu
No último dia 05/10, dia em que a Constituição Federal completou 30 anos, a FGV Direito Rio realizou o segundo dia do evento “30 Anos de Constituição: Democracia, Instituições e Realidade”, que contou com a participação de Ministros, docentes e especialistas no assunto.
Scientific policy advice is also becoming increasingly important in Germany. What is important here? Rebecca Winkels talked to Christian Kobsda, associate researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, about this. At the “Impact School: Science Transfer in the 21st Century” he spoke with young researchers about the topic. Herr Kobsda, wieso…
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon attended a panel discussion organized by Bangalore International Centre (TERI) and Azim Premji University, on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 in Bengaluru. A report titled 'State of Working India' by the Centre for Sustainable Employment was released on the occasion.
The report can be accessed here
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P. Richard Hahn at The Conversation: “Data science” is hot right now. The number of undergraduate degrees in statistics has tripled in the past decade, and as a statistics professor, I can tell you that it isn’t because freshmen love statistics.
Interview by Art Kleiner: “In 2015, Robert Wachter published The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, a skeptical account of digitization in hospitals.
Darunter wird die gutartige Wucherung von „versprengtem“ Gebärmuttergewebe außerhalb der Gebärmutter meist im kleinen Becken bezeichnet. Experten schätzen, dass jedes Jahr ca. 40.000 Frauen neu an Endometriose erkranken. Obwohl damit Endometriose zu einer der häufigsten gynäkologischen Erkrankungen zählt, dauert es vom Auftreten der ersten Symptome bis zur Diagnose nach wie vor durchschnittlich sechs Jahre. Aufklärung tut Not!
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Dick Bryan, Benjamin Lee, Robert Wosnitzer, Akseli Virtanen*
The mounting literature on cryptoeconomics shows an interesting but also alarming characteristic: its underlying economics is remarkably conventional and conservative.
We, the CMPF are appalled to learn of yet another shocking and brutal murder of 30 year old European journalist Viktoria Marinova in Bulgaria on Saturday 6 October. Viktoria was working for the Bulgarian TV station TVN.