RICardo (Research on International Commerce) is a project dedicated to trade between nations over a period spanning the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the eve of the Second World War. It combines a historical trade database covering all of the world’s countries and a website which invites to an exploration of the history of international trade through data visualizations. The project has recently released a web application and accompanying dataset, which is freely available under the Open Database License.

In welchem Umfang der Staat Ungleichheit in Einkommen oder Vermögen durch Umverteilung reduzieren soll, ist nicht nur unter Ökonomen ein strittiges Thema. Im Gegensatz dazu gibt es breiten Konsens, dass Chancengleichheit eine zentrale Voraussetzung für einen fairen Wettbewerb der Talente darstellt. Dennoch hängen die Startbedingungen von Kindern in Deutschland stark vom sozioökonomischen Status ihrer Familie ab.

The Internet Society was recently approved as a Liaison Member of TF-CSIRT, the European Forum for Computer Security Incident Response Teams, and therefore took the opportunity to participate in the FIRST/TF-CSIRT Symposium that was held 5-7 February 2018 in Hamburg, Germany.

Für eine Karriere in der Wissenschaft ist die Einwerbung von Forschungsgeldern von großer Bedeutung. Der Forschungsfördertag 2018 versammelt alle relevanten Institutionen und Organisationen zu diesem Thema an der HHU. Sie stellen hier ihre Programme für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs vor und beantworten alle Fragen zum Thema.
Forschungsfördertag 2018 Mittwoch, 07.03.2018, 09:30 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr Hörsaal 3D, Gebäude 23.01

Gabriella A. B. Barros et al at arXiv: “This paper presents a framework for generating adventure games from open data. Focusing on the murder mystery type of adventure games, the generator is able to transform open data from Wikipedia articles, OpenStreetMap and images from Wikimedia Commons into WikiMysteries. Every WikiMystery game revolves around the murder of a person with a Wikipedia article, and populates the game with suspects who must be arrested by the player if guilty of the murder or absolved if innocent.

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Antonio Langiu (Politecnico di Torino)
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Most bankers, economists and investors after a couple of drinks, will admit that money is not wealth. Money is a metric, like inches and centimeters, for tracking real wealth: human ingenuity and technological productivity interacting with natural resources and biodiversity undergirding all human societies along with the daily free photons from our Sun, as described in “Valuing Today’s Circular Services Information Economies”.

In the spring of 2016, Elon Musk and his company Tesla stopped enforcing their patents, and Google, Facebook, Microsoft and IBM are all going open source with various robotics, artificial intelligence and phone projects. A trend is emerging: Is future manufacturing open source?

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In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]

NDSS 2018 is in full swing in San Diego this week and a couple of papers that really grabbed my attention were both in the same session on Network Security and Cellular Networks yesterday.

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African experts are gathered for two days (19-20 February 2018) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to contribute to the development of the African Privacy and Personal Data Protection Guidelines. The meeting, facilitated by the African Union Commission (AUC) and supported by Internet Society, explored the future of privacy and data protection and provided some practical suggestions that African states can consider in implementing the Malabo convention provisions related to online privacy.

James Shulman at the Mellon Foundation: “In 2001, when hundreds of individual colleges and universities were scrambling to scan their slide libraries, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation created a new organization, Artstor, to assemble a massive library of digital images from disparate sources to support teaching and research in the arts and humanities.

Brexit : à faire ou à défaire ?
Perspectives comparée, européenne et internationale

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que le mercredi 28 février aura lieu la soutenance de thèse de doctorat en droit de Mme Paulette Flore Dongmo Kahou, qui fut dirigée par le professeur Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens.
Sa thèse s’intitule : « Contribution à l’éradication des problèmes liés à la polygamie au Canada, au Cameroun et en Côte d’Ivoire : essai féministe de théorie interdisciplinaire critique des différentes politiques de gouvernance ».

Les membres du jury sont :

OLEDs finden in Bildschirmen von Smartphones und Fernsehern immer breitere Anwendung. Sie sind außerdem eine sehr vielversprechende Alternative in der Beleuchtungstechnik. Mit ihnen können unter anderem flächige Strahler gebaut werden, deren Farbe variabel ist.

Michael Walzer at Foreign Affairs: “All governments, all political parties, and all politicians keep secrets and tell lies. Some lie more than others, and those differences are important, but the practice is general.