Terry Pratchett: “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the … – Little Atoms

Terry Pratchett: “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the
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The first time I met Terry Pratchett I was in my early teens: he patiently signed every volume of my complete Discworld collection. When I met him years later in my professional capacity at the British Humanist Association, he didn’t recall that

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Global expert panel to deliver on London’s smart city challenge – Click Green


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Global expert panel to deliver on London’s smart city challenge
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Michael Batty, Chair, The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis & Professor of Planning, UCL * Patricia McCarney, CEO of World Council on City Data and Director of Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto * Rick Lisa, Director, Product

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Volunteer computing, engagement and enthusiasm

This post is about perceptions, engagement and the important of ‘participant-observation‘ approach in citizen science research. It start with a perception about volunteer computing. The act of participating in scientific project by downloading and installing software that will utilise unused processing cycles of your computer is, for me, part of citizen science. However, in different […]

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Is ‘tech transfer’ a danger to academic freedom? – Little Atoms


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Is ‘tech transfer’ a danger to academic freedom?
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Dr Leon Henderson is explaining how lorries could reduce their braking speed by 25 per cent. Amir Chaudhry encourages individuals to bypass internet giants and build their own secure space in the Cloud via Nymote. Qibin Zhao demonstrates alluring …

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Little Atoms weekly round up (the everything edition) – Little Atoms


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Little Atoms weekly round up (the everything edition)
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Dr Hannah Fry is a mathematician and complexity scientist from University College London’s Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Fry also regularly presents the Number Hub strand of BBC Worldwide’s YouTube channel, and regularly appears on radio and …

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Centre for Spatial Demographics Research, University of Liverpool: Centre Symposium and Launch Event

TweetThursday 11th and Friday 12th June 2015, University of Liverpool Research on population studies is at a major turning point. Changes not just in population dynamics (for example, in fertility and family formation and migration, and in the social, economic, demographic and ethnic characteristics of neighbourhoods), but also in the ways in which populations are […]

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Geoweb, crowdsourcing, liability and moral responsibility

Yesterday, Tenille Brown led a Twitter discussion as part of the Geothink consortium. Tenille opened with a question about liability and wrongful acts that can harm others First off we can look at the definition of “torts”- a tort refers to a wrongful act which results in injury to another person, etc #geothink — Tenille E. […]

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Ordnance Survey Open Data – The Next Level of Detail

An encouraging announcement from BIS (the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) a few days ago regarding future Open Data products from the Ordnance Survey (press release here) and the Ordnance Survey – two pieces of good news: The OS will be launching a new, detailed set of vector data as Open Data at the … Continue reading Ordnance Survey Open Data – The Next Level of Detail

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