Technology is changing what it means to be creative – here’s how – Wired.co.uk
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Technology is changing what it means to be creative – here’s how – Wired.co.uk
Technology is changing what it means to be creative – here’s how Wired.co.ukInnovation is changing what it means to be creative. Here, some of the world’s top thinkers discuss how to blend technology with creativity for the benefit of …
Continue reading »Five online training modules on citizen science
At the beginning of the year, as part of my work at UCL and together with members of the Extreme Citizen Science group, I launched a new postgraduate level course “Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing“. We have opened it for distance learners on the UCL eXtend platform. As a postgraduate course, it required … Continue reading Five online training modules on citizen science
Continue reading »UCL Sustainability week – a global university that is also Sommers Town local university
UCL is marking its sustainability week between 29th October and 4th November. As part of the activities to mark the Green UCL initiative. I was interviewed to this video, together with other researchers and professional staff who are committed to integrating sustainability into their work. The video was shot around UCL and the nearby area. … Continue reading UCL Sustainability week – a global university that is also Sommers Town local university
Continue reading »Nature article on citizen science: mixing typologies
About a week ago, the journal Nature published a feature article about Citizen Science No “PhDs needed: how citizen science is transforming research“, with the subtitle: “Projects that recruit the public are getting more ambitious and diverse, but the field faces some growing pains.” The report was written by the science journalist Aisling Irwin who contacted me, among … Continue reading Nature article on citizen science: mixing typologies
Continue reading »Social Innovation and Citizen Science in Shanghai & Shenzhen
During the 22 to 29 October, I visited Shanghai & Shenzhen together with Michael Norton (CIVA), who organised the visit, and Liz Barry (Public Lab). This was a packed tour, with two all-day workshops that are dedicated to citizen science (one in Fudan University, Shanghai, and the other as part of the Asian Environmental Innovation … Continue reading Social Innovation and Citizen Science in Shanghai & Shenzhen
Continue reading »Sejong Smart City Design Competition
Urban Design Studio for postgraduate students at ERICA Campus, Hanyang University, led by Networking City, is invited for the student design competition of ‘Sejong Smart City’ by Korea Land & Housing Corporation (LH).Last January, Ministry of Land,…
Continue reading »Sejong Smart City Design Competition
Urban Design Studio for postgraduate students at ERICA Campus, Hanyang University, led by Networking City, is invited for the student design competition of ‘Sejong Smart City’ by Korea Land & Housing Corporation (LH).Last January, Ministry of Land,…
Continue reading »FindMeACoin: a Platform to Support Offline Trading of Cryptocurrencies
Trading crypto currency offline1, in person, is the quickest way of acquiring/selling crypto coins. It is also the only way of not exposing any identity information. This post presents a platform for finding buyers/sellers for crypto currencies in a certain … Continue reading →
Continue reading »FindMeACoin: a Platform to Support Offline Trading of Cryptocurrencies
Trading crypto currency offline1, in person, is the quickest way of acquiring/selling crypto coins. It is also the only way of not exposing any identity information. This post presents a platform for finding buyers/sellers for crypto currencies in a certain … Continue reading →
Continue reading »3D Map of Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution
Air pollution has long been a problem in London, and the current mayor has identified pollution as one of his major goals to highlight and tackle polluion, and improve the capital’s air quality during his time in charge. This map, of the modelled 2020 annual pollution levels of NO2, has been produced by Parallel, using […]
Continue reading »London’s 9 Million Day – Delayed
I’ve been keeping an eye on London’s population projections, and indeed have featured them in a couple of presentations recently – at a TedX event and also a CRUK data visualisation conference at The Crick. By taking the most recent mid-year population estimates for London, and the annual population change, I can simply linearly extrapolate … Continue reading London’s 9 Million Day – Delayed →
Continue reading »Urban Rambles
Urban Rambles is a new book by Nicholas Rudd-Jones, featuring walks through many of England’s cities. The book comes with a 22 route maps, drawn by illustrator Sara Mulvanny (see her portfolio page for the book), including a couple in London, which we feature here. Above is the “London Inner Circle” which stretches from Hyde […]
Continue reading »When cutting-edge technology falls into the wrong hands – gulfnews.com
When cutting-edge technology falls into the wrong hands gulfnews.com
Continue reading »When cutting-edge technology falls into the wrong hands – gulfnews.com
When cutting-edge technology falls into the wrong hands gulfnews.comTech offers gigantic upsides — diagnosing cancer, catching serial killers — but algorithms designed for one purpose can be easily used for a sinister one.
Continue reading »New Paper: Scalability in the MASON Multi-agent Simulation System
Previously we posted about our work on advancing MASON, part of which we briefly discussed making it distributed in order to run large scale models including geographical explicit ones along for optimization and validation purposes. To this end w…
Continue reading »New Paper: Scalability in the MASON Multi-agent Simulation System
Previously we posted about our work on advancing MASON, part of which we briefly discussed making it distributed in order to run large scale models including geographical explicit ones along for optimization and validation purposes. To this end w…
Continue reading »Bikeshare in London – The Last 12 Months
I recently presented at the CoMoUK Good Mobility Conference in East London, looking at the story of bikeshare in London over the last 12 months ago, touching a little on other systems in the UK. Here are my slides, slightly updated from the conference itself: While the core of the presentation was a timeline, numbers … Continue reading Bikeshare in London – The Last 12 Months →
Continue reading »Is Dr. Hannah Fry Related To Stephen Fry? The Rising Star Is The New Face Of ‘Magic Numbers’ – Bustle
Is Dr. Hannah Fry Related To Stephen Fry? The Rising Star Is The New Face Of ‘Magic Numbers’ BustleCos, tan, sin, and all that jazz. Now, maybe not the most grabbing start to an article I understand. But oi mate, there is actually a buttload…
Continue reading »Can algorithms create true art, or do they only imitate? – aeon.co
Can algorithms create true art, or do they only imitate? aeon.co
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Continue reading »‘Get machines to do development management processes’, conference told – PlanningResource
‘Get machines to do development management processes’, conference told PlanningResourceDevelopment management processes such as application validation and fee calculation should be done by computers to help speed the planning process and …
Continue reading »The Progress 1000: London’s most influential people 2018 – SciTech … – Evening Standard
The Progress 1000: London’s most influential people 2018 – SciTech … Evening Standard
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The Progress 1000: London’s most influential people 2018 – SciTech: Science & Technology Evening Standard
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The Progress 1000: London’s most influential people 2018 – SciTech: Science & Technology Evening Standard
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Continue reading »The economics of incubators and accelerators
WeWork.I’ve written a new CEP Discussion Paper on co-working, incubators, accelerators and what they mean for local economic development policy (co-authored with Margarida Madaleno, Henry Overman and Sevrin Waights). It builds on two toolkits for the W…
Continue reading »Layers of London
Layers of London, which has just launched, aims to be a platform for geolocating and documenting the local history of the capital. It works by allowing historical facts, comments and memories to be attached to pins on a map. The pins are grouped together as projects, or collections. The map itself can be adjusted, from […]
Continue reading »Trustees Appointed to the Science Museum Group – GOV.UK
Trustees Appointed to the Science Museum Group GOV.UKThe Prime Minister has appointed Sarah Staniforth, Steven Underwood, Iain McIntosh, Judith Donovan, Professor Ajit Lalvani, Sir Peter Hendy, Jo Foster and Dr …
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3D Printing a Radiation Shield for the Weather Flow Air
The Weather Flow ‘Smart Weather Station‘ is arguably one of the most innovative weather sensors on the market. Launched via a kickstater campaign in 2017,…
Continue reading »Exodus 2.0: Crowdsourcing Geographical and Social Trails of Mass Migration
Readers of the blog might know we have an interest in volunteered geographic information, social media and Web 2.0 technologies and how they can be used to explore urban systems. Recently however, we turned our focus on how such information and technol…
Continue reading »Exodus 2.0: Crowdsourcing Geographical and Social Trails of Mass Migration
Readers of the blog might know we have an interest in volunteered geographic information, social media and Web 2.0 technologies and how they can be used to explore urban systems. Recently however, we turned our focus on how such information and technol…
Continue reading »An Agent-Based Model of Rural Household Adaptation to Climate Change
Geographical location of the South Omo Zone of EthiopiaWhile many of the recent posts on the site have focused on social media, social networks and volunteered geographical information, we have not forgotten or moved away from agent-based modeling (as …
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An Agent-Based Model of Rural Household Adaptation to Climate Change
Geographical location of the South Omo Zone of EthiopiaWhile many of the recent posts on the site have focused on social media, social networks and volunteered geographical information, we have not forgotten or moved away from agent-based modeling (as …
Continue reading »Circle Line Food Crawl!
You’ve done the Circle Line Pub Crawl. Now try the Circle Line Food Crawl. Or use this special “Food Tube Map”, produced by Wren Kitchens (they write about it here), to visit unusual gastronomic experiences anywhere inside the Zone 1 area marked out by the Circle Line. The 25 restaurants and eateries included in this […]
Continue reading »Citizens Disrupt podcast on Extreme Citizen Science
Around July, Linda Doyle got in touch with me, with a request for an interview for a mini-series of podcasts on citizen science as part of the Science Disrupt podcasts. The Science Disrupt series got plenty of interesting episodes – a mini-series on Responsible Science, DIY Bio, Crowdfunding research, and many other topics. The specific … Continue reading Citizens Disrupt podcast on Extreme Citizen Science
Continue reading »How Did Deep Blue Beat Garry Kasparov? – Science Friday
How Did Deep Blue Beat Garry Kasparov? Science Friday
Continue reading »The Algorithms Around Us – Science Friday
The Algorithms Around Us Science FridayLast month, California passed a bill ending the use of cash bail. Instead of waiting in jail or putting down a cash deposit to await trial at home, defendants are …
Continue reading »Papers from PPGIS 2017 meeting: state of the art and examples from Poland and the Czech Republic
About a year ago, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, hosted the PPGIS 2017 workshop (here are my notes from the first day and the second day). Today, four papers from the workshop were published in the journal Quaestiones Geographicae which was established in 1974 as an annual journal of the Faculty of Geographical and Geological … Continue reading Papers from PPGIS 2017 meeting: state of the art and examples from Poland and the Czech Republic
Continue reading »Bikeshare Snapshot – Milan and Singapore
Having travelled to both Milan and Singapore in the last few weeks, it’s worth a note on the bikeshare provisions there. Milan has BikeMi, a long-serving dock-based bikeshare system, which is one of the nearly 400 city systems that I have mapped in Bike Share map. It covers a big part of the city. There … Continue reading Bikeshare Snapshot – Milan and Singapore →
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