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May 2017
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May 31, 2017Among the 21 winning projects, the Fibra armchair and the Bezel tables stand out.
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May 31, 2017On May 31, 2017, the winning entries of Salão Design 2017, a Latin American product design competition, were announced.
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May 31, 2017In May 2017, the Energy Sector Fund approved projects submitted by Dr. Lorena Betancor, a research professor of biotechnology in the School of Engineering, and Dr. Fernando Paganini, a professor of telecommunications theory.
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May 30, 2017More than 2.5 trillion bytes of data are generated every day. And this figure is growing at an ever-increasing rate. Big Data allows us to analyze the data we generate minute by minute.
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May 30, 2017In May 2017, Sudamericana published the book *La revolución Ceibal: el sueño que cumplió 10 años* by Ana Solari, a professor of Creative Writing and Oral and Written Expression in the School of Communication and Design.
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May 30, 2017The articles “Distribution network management based on optimal power flow: integration of discrete decision variables” and “A feedback control approach to dynamic speed scaling in computing systems,” co-authored by faculty members from the School of Engineering, were published in May 2017 in the Proceedings of the 51st Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2017). This peer-reviewed conference, which took place from March 22 to 24, 2017, in Baltimore, United States, was organized by the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Information Theory Society.
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May 30, 2017The article “Test case design for context-aware applications: Are we there yet?”, co-authored by Dr. Santiago Matalonga, a research professor in Software Engineering at the School of Engineering, was published in May 2017 in the peer-reviewed journal *Information and Software Technology* (Volume 88), published by Elsevier.
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May 29, 2017Dr. Gambetta received the “COALAR Australia Latin America Young Entrepreneur Award.”
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May 29, 2017The article “Characterizing testing methods for context-aware software systems: Results from a quasi-systematic literature review,” co-authored by Dr. Santiago Matalonga, a research professor in Software Engineering at the School of Engineering, was published in May 2017 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Systems and Software(Volume 131), published by Elsevier.
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May 29, 2017The article “Deploying team-based learning in undergraduate software engineering courses,” co-authored by faculty members from the School of Engineering, was presented at the “International Workshop on Software Engineering Curricula for Millennials.” This peer-reviewed conference, organized by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), took place on May 27, 2017, in Buenos Aires.
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May 26, 2017More than 160 students attended the ORT event—an open house at the university’s Pocitos Campus—on Friday, May 26, 2017.
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May 26, 2017Doctoral dissertation on the learning styles of psychology students at the University of the Republic.
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May 26, 2017Four papers co-authored by faculty members from the School of Architecture were presented at the 2nd Latin American Congress on Wood Structures and the 2nd Ibero-Latin American Congress on Wood in Construction (CLEM+CIMAD 2017). This peer-reviewed conference, organized by the National University of the Northwest of Buenos Aires, took place from May 17 to 19, 2017, in that city. The articles were published in the conference proceedings.
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May 26, 2017Pedro Isern, a professor in the Bachelor's Program in International Studies, participated in the panel discussion titled "Better after Brexit: Is There a Silver Lining for Europe's Supporters?" at the 15th conference of the European Union Studies Association, held May 4–6, 2017, in Miami.
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May 25, 2017The papers “A controlled experiment on productivity of pair programming gender combinations: Preliminary results” and “Systematic review of software architectures for big data,” co-authored by faculty members from the School of Engineering, were presented at the “XX Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIBSE 2017).” This peer-reviewed conference took place on May 22 and 23, 2017, in Buenos Aires. It was organized by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Computer Society, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Argentine Society of Informatics.
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May 24, 2017María Eugenia Pérez Burger had an experience that changed her life forever: living in South Korea.
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May 23, 2017The article “24 hours of innovation - A report on students and teachers' perspectives as a way to foster entrepreneurship competencies in Engineering,” authored by faculty members from the School of Engineering, was published in May 2017 in the proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) World Engineering Education Conference – Edunine 2017. This peer-reviewed conference, organized by the IEEE, took place from March 19 to 22, 2017, in São Paulo, Brazil.
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May 23, 2017On May 26, 2017, the “Open House – A Morning to Help You Choose Your Career” event was held at the Centro and Pocitos campuses, where a large number of high school students had the opportunity to learn about all the degree programs and facilities at Universidad ORT Uruguay.
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May 23, 2017Four university faculty members will serve as speakers on May 23 and 25, 2017, at the course “Support for Employment or Entrepreneurship,” which will be held at the headquarters of the Association of Professional Interior Designers (Addip).
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May 22, 2017On May 18, 2017, the course “50 Lessons in Real Estate Development” was held at the School of Architecture, led by guest lecturer Carlos Muñoz, director of Grupo 4S in Mexico. It was a theoretical and practical course designed for developers seeking to bring about change in the real estate industry. The event, organized by Grupo 4S, also featured the participation of architect Fernando Sciarrotta, a partner at the firm and professor in the Graduate Program in Real Estate Business at the University of Buenos Aires.