During the talk I will introduce the work carried out by the FCF and engage in some of the debates that have taken place in this arena. I will focus on the idea of cultural commons and how the creative industries have tended to use this pool of common knowledge as a resource that doesnt need to be cared off or looked after. I will look into business and social forms of organization aimed at pro...

We develop a novel approach for estimating spatially dispersed community-level participation in mass protest. This methodology is used to investigate factors associated with the ‘March Save America’ event Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. study combines granular location data from more than 40 million mobile devices measures of voting patterns, organized hate groups, and entire georeferenced...

In the inverse problem en electrocardiology, the goal is to recover electrophysiological activity in the heart without measuring directly on its surface (without using catheter interventions). Note that today the inverse computation is frequently used by solving the quasi-static model. This model doesnt take into account the heart dynamic in time and may result in considerable errors in the rec...

Why is security so bad? With many more people online than just a few years ago, there are more attackers -and theyre truly motivated. Attacks are sophisticated, subtle, and harder to detect than ever. But, as Viega notes, few people take the time to understand the situation and protect themselves accordingly. This book tells you: Why its easier for bad guys to own your computer than you think W...

Most research on the Poggendorff illusion has focused on explaining the effect. Poggendorff illusion, it doesnt naturally predict the reduction in the illusion.dicted the perceived angle in a modified Poggendorff illusion task with an extra thick bar. The concept of disinhibition employed in the model is general enough. A new explanation for the Poggendorff illusion. The application of this exp...