In the midst of a systemic crisis, it is imperative to create evidence-based awareness of new capitalist and post-capitalist futures. COSMOLOCALISM will advance our understanding of how to create a sustainable economy through the commons.
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Bis zum Jahr 2050 kann die Weltbevölkerung auf 9,7 Milliarden Menschen ansteigen. Um die wachsende Menschheit ernähren und mit lebensnotwendigen Nährstoffen versorgen zu können und gleichzeitig die Bedarfe der immer wichtiger werdenden Bioökonomie zu decken, muss die Pflanzenproduktion in den kommenden Jahrzehnten verdoppelt werden. Dem gegenüber stellt der Klimawandel die Landwirtschaft vor vielfältige Bedrohungen: höhere Durchschnittstemperaturen, Dürren, Überschwemmungen, Extremwetter, Bodenerosion und -versalzung.
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Hahn forscht und lehrt zu zentralen Fragen des nachhaltigen Wirtschaftens an der Schnittstelle zu klassischen betriebswirtschaftlichen Disziplinen. „Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement hat sich in den letzten Jahren zu einem festen Bestandteil der Betriebswirtschaftslehre entwickelt. Wir wollen uns am neuen Stiftungslehrstuhl insbesondere dem Verhalten verschiedener Wirtschaftsakteure widmen. Schließlich kann Nachhaltigkeit nur erfolgreich sein, wenn es im täglichen Handeln umgesetzt wird“, so Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Hahn bei seiner Ernennung im September.
There hardly exists a buzzword today that fires everybody‘s imagination in the tech world like “artificial intelligence” (AI). But not only giants like Google, Facebook, Baidu or Alibaba are trying to overbid each other with new applications – also states around the globe have proclaimed to partake in a global AI race. Germany was rather…
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Lamentando la ausencia de la ministra de Educación Marcela Cubillos en la cita mensual del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (Cuech), el presidente de la instancia y Rector de la U.
Promover el desarrollo de habilidades y saberes en las y los doctores de la Casa de Bello para su inserción inicial en la docencia de pregrado. Ese es el objetivo del curso "Docencia Universitaria", impartido por el Departamento de Postgrado y Postítulo de la Vicerrectoría de Asuntos Académicos, instancia que en esta versión contó con la realización de un módulo especial dedicado a la incorporación de la perspectiva de género en el rol docente.
De visita en nuestro país, el especialista, que participa como investigador senior del nuevo Núcleo Milenio para Mejorar la Salud Mental de Adolescentes y Jóvenes (Imhay), conversó respecto a la importancia de visibilizar las enfermedades mentales para disminuir el estigma, y para detectar y tratar los trastornos tempranamente.Durante este año, la Organización Mundial de la Salud ha centrado sus mensajes y esfuerzos en la salud mental de los adolescentes con el objetivo de prevenir la aparición de trastornos y evitar que estos se extiendan a la edad adulta y así mermen la c
Today, I joined the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern California, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in moving to unseal a sealed case in federal district court in the Eastern District of California.
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Encryption helps human rights workers, activists, journalists, financial institutions, innovative businesses, and governments protect the confidentiality, integrity, and economic value of their activities. However, strong encryption may mean that governments cannot make sense of data they would otherwise be able to lawfully access in a criminal or intelligence investigation.
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Author(s): Riana PfefferkornPublication Date: November 28, 2018Publication Type: Litigation BriefMotion to unseal the docket and court's legal reasoning in a sealed case wherein the Department of Justice allegedly sought to compel Facebook to comply with a wiretap order for Facebook's end-to-end encrypted voice calling app, Messenger.
A galloping overview
As we have done before, let’s get a bird’s-eye view of the parts of the search process: text comes in and gets processed and stored in a database (called an index); a user submits a query; documents that match the query are retrieved from the index, ranked based on how well they match the query, and presented to the user. That sounds easy enough, but each step hides a wealth of detail. Today we’ll focus on the last part of the step where “text gets processed”—and look at stemming, stop words, and thesauri.
RSVP is required for this free event. December 6, 2018Stanford Law School
You’re invited to hear noted researcher Marion Nestle discuss the intersection of marketing and science in the food industry as she discusses her new book, “Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat.”
With Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor and Professor Emerita, NFS, NYU Steinhardt.
The Future of Democracy Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and the GovLab at NYU invite you to a conversation between César A. Hidalgo and José L. Martí.
The Future of Democracy Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and the GovLab at NYU invite you to join a conversation and lunch with Geoff Mulgan.
The Future of Democracy Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and the GovLab at NYU invite you to a conversation between Audrey Tang and Beth Simone Noveck.
Today, the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance released its fifth annual Email Marketing & Unsubscribe Audit. OTA researchers analyzed the email marketing practices of 200 of North America’s top online retailers and, based on this analysis, offered prescriptive advice to help marketers provide consumers with choice and control over when and what messages they receive.
“The long-held idea of images as proof of reality vanished. Washed away by manipulative practices of image production our hyper-visual media streams have become highly subjective and emotional. Authenticity claims to be the new challenge while power structures shift and users become creators.”