Category: conferences
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Report: XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Budapest Hungary
(image of statues from ‘Memento Park’; the Communist statue park). I recently attended the XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Budapest Hungary. http://www.conferences.hu/ichs09/index.htm The conference was a large and truly international event with 1400 delegates from 60 countries. Set in the Budapest University of Technology and Economics; the university is one
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OpenTech ’09
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2009/ I attended the OpenTech ’09 forum on Saturday; organised by the UK Unix Users Group and friends at the University of London Union (ULU). For those interested in the social and political aspects of computing; this is an excellent forum to discuss new modes of political communication, privacy, advocacy and other issues that arise
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Leaping Hurdles: Planning IT Provision for Researchers
I recently attended a workshop sponsored by the Joint information Systems Committee (JISC) that presented some of the findings from the JISC funded community engagement and virtual research environments (VRE) projects. The three community engagement projects presented were the engage project (engaging researchers with e-infrastructure), the e-uptake project (enabling uptake of e-Infrastructure Services), and the
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The Internet as Playground and Factory
(This conference about Labour online may be of interest. From my rudimentary understanding ‘free’ labour online is a fairly contentious issue as online labour may be pooled by large commercial interests and used to accumulate profit without distributing the fruits of this labour to users). Dear all, You can now join the discussion about topics
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Digital resources in the Arts and Humanities, Dartington College UK, 9-11 September
A brief reminder that this year’s conference on Digital resources in the Arts and Humanities will be held at Dartington College of Arts, 9 – 11 September inclusive. Visit the conference website at http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07 now to see the draft programme and register for this unique and extraordinary event. * Plenary speakers (in alphabetical order) *Paul
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Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007
Friday 3rd August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Melissa Terras (University College London) ‘Can computers ever read ancient texts?’ Researchers in the Centre of the Study of Ancient Documents, and the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford (and now UCL SLAIS), have been attempting to build a system to