Report by Joshua New and Daniel Castro: “Increased automation with algorithms, particularly through the use of artificial intelligence (AI), offers opportunities for the public and private sectors to complete increasingly complex tasks with a level of productivity and effec
Market analyst Sanjay Mehta (name changed) has been keeping his Amazon Echo smart speaker mostly unplugged since reports surfaced last week of the device’s voice assistant, Alexa, inadvertently recording and sending out conversations of a family in the US.
The article by Mugdha Variyar was published in the Economic Times on May 29, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
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Readings developed together with NRGI, within the context of our joint project on Blockchain technologies and the Governance of Extractives. Thanks to Joyce Zhang and Michelle Winowatan for research support.
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Dennis Di Lorenzo at Campus Technology: “Universities face many critical challenges — student retention, campus safety, curriculum development priorities, alumni engagement and fundraising, and inclusion of diverse populations.
At the philological Seminar (Philologisches Seminar) on tuesday the 29th of may, 2:30 till 6 pm, a didactical conference will take place, hosted by the philological seminar and the International Centre for Ethics in Sciences and Humanities. This workshop will be about questions about educational theory of ethics and ethics of educational theory, Speakers will be representatives of didactics, ethics and classsical philology .
Going dark with encryption: The U.S. FBI, for years now, has complained about its inability to access encrypted information held on the smartphones and other devices owned by criminal suspects. But the agency may have been overstating this so-called “going dark” problem, the Washington Post reported this week.
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Das ITM lädt alle Interessierten herzlich zu einem Vortrag unseres derzeitigen Gastwissenschaftlers aus Brasilien zum Thema Blockchain ein.
Blockchain im brasilianischen Rechtssystem
Montag, den 4. Juni 2018, um 14:30 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Marcos Wachowicz
Federal University of Paraná (Brasilien)
Ort:
Institut für Informations- Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht
Leonardo Campus 9
48149 Münster
1 & 2 juni in Varia, Rotterdam
Naar aanleiding van recente discussies en bijeenkomst in de Waag over alternatieve sociale media zou ik jullie graag willen uitnodigen voor `Welcome to the Federation`. De eerste in een reeks ontmoetingen waarbij we makers van open source gefedereerde sociale media uitnodigen in Varia in Rotterdam om te komen praten over hun project.
En una cita sostenida este martes 15 de mayo, el Rector Vivaldi junto a la directora de Igualdad de Género de la U. de Chile, Carmen Andrade, solicitaron a la autoridad acelerar la promulgación de la Ley sobre Universidades del Estado y ponerle suma urgencia al Proyecto de Ley sobre el Derecho de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia, de manera que las instituciones de Educación Superior cuenten con mejores herramientas jurídicas para abordar el acoso y violencia sexual. Junto con ello, la U.
Mientras el Ministerio de Salud evalúa el ingreso formal del PReP (profilaxis preexposición, por su sigla en inglés) como parte de las estrategias para la prevención de esta epidemia en el país, la píldora ya está siendo utilizada en Brasil y Perú, y ha dado exitosos resultados dentro de los planes que buscan disminuir los contagios en África, Australia y Estados Unidos. Tomado en forma regular, este medicamento promete reducir en más de un 90 por ciento la transmisión del virus por vía sexual.
European Commission: “The European Open Science Cloud, which will support EU science in its global leading by creating a trusted environment for hosting and processing research data, is one important step closer to becoming a reality. Meeting in Brussels today, EU research ministers endorsed the roadmap for its creation.
Article by Alison Kutler and Antonio Sweet: “Businesspeople too often assume that the relationship between government and the private sector is (and should be) adversarial. They imagine two opposing forces, each setting their bounds of control. But if you can envision government and business as platforms that interact with one other, it becomes apparent why the word code applies to both technology and law.
Paper by Gabbrielle M Johnson: “What is a bias? Standard philosophical views of both implicit and explicit bias focus this question on the representations one harbors, e.g., stereotypes or implicit attitudes, rather than the ways in which those representations (or other mental states) are manipulated. I call such views representationalism.
Viele Operationen und Therapien können nicht durchgeführt werden, wenn zu wenige Blutkonserven verfügbar sind. Rund 60.000 Blutpräparate werden am größten Düsseldorfer Krankenhaus jährlich benötigt. Aufgrund von Feiertagen, Urlaubszeit sowie Grippe- und Erkältungswellen sinkt die Tendenz zur Blutspende jedoch traditionell in den Sommermonaten. Seit Jahren sinken oder stagnieren zudem die Zahlen der Neuspender in Deutschland.
This is a beautiful essay penned by our colleague George Pór. It is well written, informative and reflects George’s life’s work.
Grassroots Innovation Movements, by Adrian Smith, Mariano Fressoli, Dinesh Abrol, Eli
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Date published: May 29, 2018FiveThirtyEight"It’s this kind of lag that worries Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington.
Dados de pesquisa realizada pela Associação Brasileira de Comércio Eletrônico mostram a importância e ascensão do e-commerce no Brasil, mesmo em tempos de instabilidade política e econômica: com relação a 2017, houve um crescimento de 12% e faturamento na ordem de 59,9 bilhões de reais dentro desta modalidade de comércio. Contudo, muitos comerciantes não disponibilizam seus produtos em loja online própria, (o tradicional e-commerce) mas optam por venderem nos Marketplaces externos.