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An der Grenze von flüssig und fest

Manche Materialien verhalten sich wie Flüssigkeiten – sie fließen, wenn eine Kraft auf sie einwirkt –, andere hingegen wie Festkörper, die ihre Form behalten, selbst wenn eine äußere Kraft auf sie einwirkt. Es gibt aber auch Materialien, die je nach Situation die Eigenschaften eines Festkörpers oder einer Flüssigkeit zeigen.

Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What’s Next?

Coronavirus is a political crucible, melting down and reshaping current norms. Will the new era be a “Fortress Earth” or a harbinger of a transformed society based on a new set of values?

Think Bigger

Whatever you might be thinking about the long-term impacts of the coronavirus epidemic, you’re probably not thinking big enough.

Jessica Heesen at the ORF dialogue forum "New technology, new ethics?

On 13 May 2020, Jessica Heesen will participate online with a keynote lecture and panel discussion in the conference "Disruptive Technologies @ the c-tv Conference 2020. Artificially intelligent, traceable secure, high-resolution mobile and ethically responsible" in St. Pölten; the event can be followed at https://ctvkonferenz.fhstp.ac.at/

Let the Institutional Innovation Begin! (Part I)

In covid-19, neoliberal capitalism has met a formidable foe. The pandemic has shown just how fragile and dysfunctional the market/state order — as a production apparatus, ideology, and culture — truly is. Countless market sectors are now more or less collapsing with a highly uncertain future ahead. With a few notable exceptions, government responses to the virus range from ineffectual to self-serving to clownish.

A review: Easter in times of COVID-19

This year's Easter presented us with special challenges regarding COVID-19. We were and are perhaps confronted very directly with illness, death and suffering in our immediate surroundings, or we experienced and still experience rather indirectly, be it through the media and/or through the restrictions of our everyday life, what a pandemic can mean. This raises the question of the manageability, meaning and coherence of what we are experiencing.

Estudian vínculo entre el coronavirus y la pérdida de olfato

Como parte de un amplio esfuerzo internacional en el que participan científicos de más de 50 países, un grupo de investigadores de nuestro país está participando de un estudio que busca verificar si existe relación entre la enfermedad COVID-19 y la pérdida de olfato. La encuesta, traducida a más de 20 idiomas, es impulsada por el Consorcio Global para la Investigación Quimicosensorial, del que forma parte la Dra. Alexia Núñez, de la Facultad de Ciencias de la U.

Enfermera del HCUCH creó canción para motivar al personal de salud

"¿Quién lo iba a decir?" es el nombre del tema compuesto por Patricia Bisbal, enfermera de la Unidad de Pacientes Críticos del hospital universitario, el cual se ha viralizado en redes sociales, y que trae un mensaje de apoyo y optimismo a las y los trabajadores de la salud y a la sociedad. Esta iniciativa forma parte de la campaña #ChileCuentaConSuUniversidad, la cual busca visibilizar los diferentes frentes de acción de las y los integrantes de la comunidad universitaria frente a la pandemia.

Casa de Bello convoca a difundir iniciativas contra el COVID-19

La U. de Chile busca identificar diversos proyectos y acciones de estudiantes, funcionarios y funcionarias, académicos y académicas, y egresados y egresadas, dedicados a aportar, desde distintos frentes, a responder al impacto de la pandemia en nuestro país, desde el rol público del plantel y sus integrantes.

Comunidad universitaria busca reunir fondos para adquirir equipos

Académicos, funcionarios, estudiantes y egresados de la Universidad de Chile están llamados a esta campaña de recolección de fondos para adquirir equipos -computadores o tablets- que puedan ser prestados a estudiantes con dificultades para participar de las clases a distancia en el contexto de la pandemia mundial.

On This 50th Earth Day, We Are Using the Internet to Change the World

50 years ago when the first Earth Day happened, the networks that would later form the Internet were only beginning.

20 years later, when Earth Day 1990 turned the celebration into a global event, the World-Wide Web existed only as a single website in Switzerland.

Leveraging your users’ data? Think twice

This article appeared first on MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab Region . “It was my mistake and I am sorry.” This is what Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg told the US Congress back in 2018 when asked about the data misuse by Cambridge Analytica to publish targeted political ads to Facebook users[...]

Analysing open budget data in Indonesia: Open Data Day 2020 report

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

Latin America Hopes Big Data Can Beat the Virus. But There Are Risks.

How human-centered tech can beat COVID-19 through contact tracing

Opening up data to counter climate change in Kenya: Open Data Day 2020 report

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data.

Mapping surveillance cameras in Beirut on OpenStreetMap

Surveillance cameras are spread in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, with unparalleled chaos. While the responsibility of who manages the data produced by those cameras is unclear, an even bigger question is, what purpose do they serve? The Municipality of Beirut operates more than two thousand public cameras, which record videos[...]

Seeing Without Being Seen: The Map as a Medium for Simulated Surveillance

An illuminated, 170 square meter satellite photograph of Berlin covers floor and walls of the exhibition space of the former Stasi-prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen – it visualises the surveillance network of the Ministry of State Security (MfS) which reached out across Eastern and Western Germany until 1989. The map turns into a multimedia projection that locates…

From Idea to Reality: Why We Need an Open Data Policy Lab

The belief that we are living in a data age—one characterized by unprecedented amounts of data, with unprecedented potential—has  become mainstream.

Erfolgreiches Abschlusssymposium der Manchot-Graduiertenschule

Die Promovenden stellten ihre fast fertigen Dissertationsprojekte nicht nur ihren Kolleginnen und Kollegen sowie den Projektleiterinnen und Projektleitern vor, sondern auch den vier Gastsprechern des Symposiums. Die Doktoranden hatten mit Dr. Maike Hofmann (University Medical Center, Freiburg), Dr. Lena Pernas (Max-Planck-Institut, Köln), Dr. Kai Heimel (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen) und Dr.

​NTU Singapore unveils Relief Package to help students cope with impact of COVID-19

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