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September 2014
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Sept. 30, 2014An informational session on international education in Canada will be held on Monday, October 6, at 12:30 p.m. in the auditorium at ORT Pocitos University.
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Sept. 30, 2014As part of her visit to Uruguay, Dr. Julie Mostov, Director of International Affairs at Drexel University in Philadelphia (United States), visited the university on September 29, 2014, to explore potential cooperation initiatives between the two institutions.
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Sept. 30, 2014On September 8, 2014, the university signed a Specific Collaboration Agreement with the EOI Foundation in Madrid, with the aim of including the Executive Master’s in Telecommunications and Information Technology Management and the Executive Master’s in Renewable Energy as international exchange options for the MBA program at Universidad ORT Uruguay.
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Sept. 30, 2014The papers “Case of (quite) painless dependently typed programming: fully certified merge sort in Agda” and “Model-Driven Engineering in the Heterogeneous Tool Set,” authored by faculty members of the School of Engineering, were presented at “CBSoft, the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice: Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages.” The event, organized by the Brazilian Computer Society, took place from September 28 to October 3, 2014, in Maceió, Brazil.
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Sept. 30, 2014The article "Knowledge Management Steps, Tools, Techniques, and Influencing Factors in SMEs: A Systematic Literature Review," authored by Dr. Helena Garbarino, academic coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Systems, and Sebastián Ayala, lecturer in Fundamentals of Information Systems, IT-Based Service Management, and Models and Simulation at the School of Engineering, was published in September 2014 in the proceedings of the Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI 2014), edited by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Sept. 30, 2014Since September 2014, Dr. Fernando Paganini, professor of Telecommunications Theory in the School of Engineering, has served as an editor at largefor the journal *IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering*(TNSE), published by the IEEE Computer Society.
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Sept. 30, 2014The article “Collaborative Group Intelligence: The Case of a PC Peripheral Failure,” by Prof. Agustín Courtoisie, professor of Journalistic Product Analysis and Ethics and Freedom of Expression in the School of Communication and Design, was published in September 2014 in the proceedings of the “12th Latin American Congress of Communication Researchers,” which took place from August 6 to 8, 2014, in Lima.
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Sept. 30, 2014The article "Formalisation in Constructive Type Theory of Stoughton's Substitution for the Lambda Calculus," by faculty members from the School of Engineering, was published in the proceedings of the 9th Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications (LSFA 2014), available in *Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science*. The event, organized by the University of Brasília, took place on September 8 and 9, 2014, in Brasília.
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Sept. 29, 2014Dr. Ángela Cabezas, a faculty member in the Biotechnology Department of the School of Engineering, received the “Professor Carlos Casas-Campillo” Award for Best Oral Presentation.
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Sept. 29, 2014In a place where most people speak an unfamiliar language, with letters that look like scribbles, where she eats food she’s never heard of before, using utensils she’s never held before, and moves at a different pace, with a rhythm that feels strange, María Eugenia Pérez, a graphic design graduate, had to get used to the fact that at first her name was no longer her name, but a combination of foreign symbols, until, after discovering her new city, Seoul, she embraced a new sensibility and was able to begin introducing herself with confidence to others.
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Sept. 29, 2014“Uruguay’s River, Maritime, and Port Interests,” by Dr. Edison González Lapeyre.
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Sept. 29, 2014From September 15 to 19, 2014, the “40th Latin American Conference on Computer Science” took place in Montevideo, organized annually by the Latin American Center for Computer Science Studies (CLEI). The event, held at the “José Luis Massera” Multipurpose Building of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of the Republic, was jointly organized by the five universities offering computer science programs in Uruguay: the Catholic University of Uruguay, the University of the Enterprise, the University of Montevideo, Universidad ORT Uruguay the University of the Republic.
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Sept. 24, 2014.NET Conf UY and the professional development Center professional development the School of Engineering at Universidad ORT Uruguay are pleased to invite you to the conference "Getting Ahead of Delivery Issues with Deep SDLC Analysis"
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Sept. 24, 2014On September 10, Universidad ORT Uruguay 9th annual Job Fair was held at the Faculty of Engineering of Universidad ORT Uruguay . This major event connects students and graduates with the technology job market.
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Sept. 24, 2014In September 2014, the University Press of Buenos Aires (Eudeba) published the book *Tribute to Edith Litwin*, co-edited by Dr. Carina Lion, professor of Innovation and Educational Change and Final Thesis Presentation at the Institute of Education, and general director of the Center for Innovation in Technology and Pedagogy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Dr. Litwin served as academic coordinator of Educational Sciences at the Institute of Education from 2002 to 2010.
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Sept. 19, 2014Architecture students are participating in volunteer activities with community organizations in the “Tres Ombúes” neighborhood. As part of this initiative, they are carrying out construction projects this semester in conjunction with the course “Construction Methods 4/Architectural Practice.”
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Sept. 18, 2014As part of the “17th Student Conference of the School of Engineering (JEFI),” held on September 10, 2014, the ORT Programming Contest was held for students in the school. Nineteen teams, each with three members, participated.
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Sept. 18, 2014On September 16, 2014, the Faculty of Communication and Design hosted the lecture “BasketDudes: The Creation and Evolution of an F2P Game,” presented by Fernando Piquer, CEO and founder of Bitoon Games, a Spanish company specializing in the development of Free-to-Play online video games. The event took place as part of the “9th National Video Game Competition” organized by Antel, Ingenio, and Universidad ORT Uruguay.
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Sept. 18, 2014The paper “Formalisation of Stoughton’s Substitution for Lambda Calculus in Constructive Type Theory,” authored by faculty members from the School of Engineering, was presented at the “9th Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications (LSFA 2014).” The event, organized by the University of Brasília, took place on September 8 and 9, 2014, in Brasília.
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Sept. 18, 2014Dr. Ángela Cabezas, Coordinator of the Energy Sector Fund (FSE) Project and Researcher for the Lage Project (ANII’s “Alliances for Innovation” Program in collaboration with Lage y Cía) at the School of Engineering, presented two papers at the “4th International Symposium on Environmental Biotechnology and Engineering,” of which she is a co-author. The event took place from September 9 to 12, 2014, in Zacatenco, Mexico City.