El arquitecto y docente de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU), Domingo Arancibia, junto a un equipo de arquitectos y estudiantes de la FAU, ganó el Young Architects Program YAP_Constructo 8, uno de los cuatro programas internacionales del MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) de Nueva York. El proyecto, una masa de seis metros de espesor y veinte de diámetro que dará sombra y también iluminará las superficies que teche, intervendrá temporalmente un espacio del Parque Araucano.

Mientras el equipo de mujeres logró quedarse con la medalla de oro, los hombres obtuvieron la presea de plata. Ambas finales se disputaron contra la Universidad Andrés Bello en el marco del Torneo de Apertura metropolitano de Ligas Deportivas de Educación Superior.Esta semana, ambas selecciones de vóleibol de la Universidad de Chile disputaron la final metropolitana del Torneo de Apertura de Ligas Deportivas de Educación Superior (LDES).

Meg Miller at Co.Design: “Public data, in theory, is meant to be accessible to everyone. But in practice, even finding it can be near impossible, to say nothing of figuring out what to do with it once you do. Government data websites are often clunky and outdated, and some data is still trapped on physical media–like CDs or individual hard drives.

Theo Bass at NESTA: “…There are a number of dominant internet platforms (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) that hoard, analyse and sell information about their users in the name of a more personalised and efficient service. This has become a problem.

Tod Newcombe  at GovTech: “The Digital Communities Special … June 2017 report explores the idea that the tech that drives 311 can help government deliver an Amazon-like experience.
PART 1: 311: FROM A HOTLINE TO A PLATFORM FOR CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT

Under the aegis of the Personalized Communication Research Priority Area of the University of Amsterdam, the Institute for Information Law, and the Amsterdam School of Communication Research organized a one day symposium on the theory and practice of political micro-targeting. The occasion was the upcoming special issue of Internet Policy Review on political microtargeting, which is guest […]

Online media is in a state of flux. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, so-called fake news - these are all recent developments that have radically altered the landscape of news and information online.  We call this the "networked public sphere", and the Media Cloud project was created to track and understand it.  Come help us build data-centric tools for academic internet researchers and human rights activists that let them investigate coverage and conversations online about topics they care about.

Paper by Pompeu Casanovas, Louis de Koker, Danuta Mendelson and 

Executive Summary: “The Computational Propaganda Research Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, has researched the use of social media for public opinion manipulation. The team involved 12 researchers across nine countries who, altogether, interviewed 65 experts, analyzed tens of millions posts on seven different social media platforms during scores of elections, political crises, and national security incidents.

Jeremy de Beer, Jeremiah Baarbé, and Sarah Thuswaldner at Open AIR: “Agricultural data is a vital resource in the effort to address food insecurity. This data is used across the food-production chain.

Karuna Pande Joshi and Tim Finin in The Conversation: “We humans are swamped with text. It’s not just news and other timely information: Regular people are drowning in legal documents. The problem is so bad we mostly ignore it.

This is the third in a series of blogs on how we are using the Agile methodology at Open Knowledge International. Originating from software development, the Agile manifesto describes a set of principles that prioritise agility in work processes: for example through continuous development, self-organised teams with frequent interactions and quick responses to change (http://agilemanifesto.org). In this blogging series we go into the different ways Agile can be used to work better in teams and to create more efficiency in how to deliver projects.

Viderum spun off as a company from Open Knowledge International in 2016 with the aim to provide services and products to further expand the reach of open data around the world.

Los medios periodísticos siguen siendo los más confiables y utilizados por los internautas españoles frente a las redes sociales
El Digital News Report 2017, elaborado por investigadores de la Universidad, analiza las tendencias de consumo de información digital en España

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Author(s): Kristen E. EichensehrPublication Date: June 22, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingFormer Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson testified Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee as part of the House investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Medio centenar de funcionarios de nuestra Casa de Estudios concurrió al taller. Allí, recibieron información sobre los distintos beneficios a los que pueden acceder quienes trabajan en la Institución, y participaron en grupos de trabajo junto a sus colegas de otras unidades en una dinámica para aportar al trabajo de la Dirección de Recursos Humanos.El día 23 de mayo se reunieron en la sala Eloísa Díaz de la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile medio centenar de asistentes sociales y jefes de personal de los distintos organismos de nuestra institución.

Un discurso centrado en la defensa de la educación como un derecho dio el Rector de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Waldo Albarracín, en el marco de la ceremonia en la que asumió como nuevo Presidente de la Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo.

Matthew Hutson at Science: “The health care bill winding its way through the U.S. Senate is just one of thousands of pieces of legislation Congress will consider this year, most doomed to failure. Indeed, only about 4% of these bills become law. So which ones are worth paying attention to? A new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm could help.

The conference is organised to celebrate La Stampa’s 150th anniversary. Expected participants: Robert Allbritton, Lionel Barber, Jeff Bezos, Mario Calabresi, Carlo De Benedetti, Louis Dreyfus, Bobby Ghosh, Tsuneo Kita, Jessica Lessin, Gary Liu, John Micklethwait, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Maurizio Molinari, Lyda Polgreen, Julian Reichelt, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Massimo Russo, Mark Thompson and Robert Thomson.
 

Always Already Computational is a project bringing together a variety of different perspectives to develop “a strategic approach to developing, describing, providing access to, and encouraging reuse of collections that support computationally-driven research and teaching” in subject areas relating to library and museum collections.  This post is adapted from my Position Statement for the initial workshop.