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Ethical dilemmas of modern science

Submitted on 5 March 2013 - 9:51am

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This article discusses several ethical issues raised by recent science and technology advances. Some of the issues discussed are hacking into medical devices, climate change, cars that drive themselves, and more. These dilemmas were published by the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values at the University of Notre Dame. You can read that list here.

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"Hackers" get together to promote computer programming

Submitted on 5 March 2013 - 9:37am

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Students and developers who share a poassion for computer programming and coding celebrated the second Puerto Rico Hackathon last Sunday. They shared insights on how to develop web and mobile apps, software, and hardware for various applications.

Several awards were given to notable projects including

Best Hack for a college audience: EncryptedStudentID

Rafael Esparra
Roxana Gonzalez
Xiomara Figueroa

Best Hack for a Web Platform: Projected Pong

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Students and professors from Natural Sciences Department at UPR-RP participate of the project ALFALFA at the Arecibo Observatory

Submitted on 1 March 2013 - 2:24pm

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Students and professors from Natural Sciences Department at UPR-RP participate of the project ALFALFA 9 Arecibo Legacy Fast Arecibo L-band Feed Array Survey) at the Arecibo Observatory

For more info, call 787-764-0000, ext. 2311.

 

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Contribución de la academia al desarrollo científico y socioeconómico de Puerto Rico U Turabo

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El Centro de Estudios Doctorales invita a profesores y estudiantes a participar del XI Encuentro de Investigadores 5 de abril de 2013, 8:00am Biblioteca Museo Gobernador Pedró Rosselló Universidad del Turabo  El tema de la plenaria será La contribución de la academia al desarrollo científico y socioeconómico de Puerto Rico.  Favor someter sus resúmenes en o antes del 15 de marzo de 2013.  Para más información, registro y someter sus resúmenes visite

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