El montaje "Por Sospecha" del dramaturgo Luis Rivano dará el vamos a esta actividad de extensión universitaria que se realizará por primera vez en la puerta norte de Chile, organizada por la Vicerrectoría de Extensión y Comunicaciones de la Casa de Bello, la U. de Tarapacá y el Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes.
"Un gran desafío para las universidades más selectivas del país es lograr compatibilizar excelencia académica con diversidad", señala en la siguiente columna de opinión el vicerrector de Asuntos Económicos de la U. de Chile, Enrique Manzur, quien analiza las profundas brechas que reveló una vez más el proceso de selección universitaria.
En el marco del compromiso de la Casa de Bello con la educación pública, la comisión encargada de estudiar una nueva carrera en el campo de la actividad física y del deporte recibió a la subsecretaria del Deporte, Nicole Sáez, quien les presentó las líneas generales de la Política Nacional de Actividad Física y Deporte 2016-2025.
Beth Snyder Bulik at FiercePharma: “It’s like Waze for the flu. A new GlaxoSmithKline-sponsored app called Flumoji uses crowdsourced data to track influenza movement in real time.
Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe, Helen Susannah Moat and Tobias Preis in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science: “For centuries, philosophers, policy-makers and urban planners have debated whether aesthetically pleasing surroundings can improve our wellbeing. To date, quantifying how scenic an area is has proved challenging, due to the difficulty of gathering large-scale measurements of scenicness.
The latest edition of encore is hot off the press. We are glad to be able to share so many exciting findings and insights with you! Immerse yourself in the day-to-day working... MORE
The collection and processing of massive amounts of data is becoming an increasingly contentious issue. In this public talk on 22 February, Arne Hintz will explore what datafication means for... MORE
Make facts relevant again. We’ll figure out whether emotions have replaced reason and how enlightened citizens can oppose populism. How can we save democracy in times of newsbots, fear and... MORE
Ekaterina Olshannikova, Thomas Olsson, Jukka Huhtamäki and Hannu Kärkkäinen in the Journal of Big Data: “The popularity of social media and computer-mediated communication has resulted in high-volume and highly semantic data about digital social interactions. This constantly accumulating data has been termed as Big Social Data or Social Big Data, and various visions about how to utilize that have been presented.
Jelizaveta Krenjova and Ringa Raudla in Urban Affairs Review: “The existing studies on participatory budgeting (PB) have paid very limited attention to how this participatory tool has spread across local governments (LGs), what kind of diffusion mechanisms have played a predominant role, and which actors and factors have influenced its adoptio
Andrew Nash for the Transportation Research Board: “Crowdsourcing is an organized way of involving people in decision-making and production. Crowdsourced products, like Wikipedia, are replacing established products. Crowdsourced services, like Uber, are replacing established services. Crowdsourced advice, like Trip Advisor, is replacing established experts. Crowdsourcing is becoming ubiquitous as people and organizations realize that it helps them make better decisions and produce better products.
Book by John Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth: “Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive?
Esse texto foi baseado na entrevista de Tim Wu ao jornal The Guardian.
“Em um mundo rico em informação essa riqueza significa escassez de outra coisa: a escassez daquilo que as informações consomem. O que a informação consome é bastante óbvio: a atenção dos destinatários. Desse modo uma riqueza de informação gera pobreza de atenção e a necessidade de se alocar eficientemente a atenção num cenário de abundância de fontes de informação que irão consumí-la.” [1]
O contencioso administrativo fiscal no Rio de Janeiro09h00 até 18h00O Evento:
Realização
Comissão Especial de Assuntos Tributários (Ceat)
Programação
9h15 - Abertura
Maurício Faro, presidente da Ceat
Marcos dos Santos Ferreira, presidente do Conselho de Contribuintes
9h30 - Primeiro painel – Decadência
Presidente de Mesa
Book edited by Rajesh Kumar Shakya: “Public procurement is vulnerable on many levels. Therefore, to increase protection and improve efficiency, governments across the globe are looking to introduce electronic-based infrastructures.
Last week, the Supreme Court admitted a petition challenging the Delhi High Court’s judgment upholding WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy. The revised policy allows it to share user data with its parent company, Facebook. While the petitioners were granted some relief, the High Court refused to consider whether the policy had violated individuals’ right to privacy. […]
Los Cursos de Verano para Educación Matemática fueron impartidos por la Unidad de Desarrollo Profesional del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático (CMM), en conjunto al Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) y la iniciativa Activando la Resolución de Problemas en el Aula (ARPA) de la Universidad de Chile.Un total de 18 cursos basados en la resolución de problemas como herramienta fundamental para el aprendizaje en Matemáticas, Geología y Escritura, se dictaron este año en el marco del proyecto de educación continu
El reconocido experto en evaluaciones estandarizadas visitó nuestro país, oportunidad en la que participó de un encuentro con federaciones de estudiantes y en un seminario académico, organizados por el DEMRE y por el Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) de la U. de Chile. En ese marco y a días de que se conocieran los resultados del proceso de admisión 2017 a las universidades, el especialista conversó con la U.
En una ceremonia encabezada por la directora del Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de Alimentos Dr. Fernando Mönckeberg Barros (INTA), Verónica Cornejo, se presentó la cuarta edición del volumen "Errores Innatos en el Metabolismo del Niño", cuyas autoras principales son -además de la Dra. Cornejo- las destacadas académicas del INTA, Marta Colombo y Erna Raimann (QEPD).“Tenemos la obligación de dar a conocer todo aquello que nosotros estudiamos y los resultados a los que llegamos. Eso es algo que ha ido ocurriendo en el tiempo.