In April 2021, Microsoft Research hosted a two-day workshop introducing their platform for situated intelligence (PSI). The workshop was recorded and videos are available online at YouTube, also embedded here with notes.
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Talk delivered at The Things Conference. Discussing the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful ways in which data traces from digitised physical interactions can be converted into actionable insights…
As governments and city administrations grant permission to test automated and connected vehicles on urban roads, a future of self-driving cars looks increasingly likely. What impact might it have on human behaviour? Read More
In the coming years most of us will be carrying or wearing smart technology. How to manage the digital trails we emit in everyday interactions? We need solutions that can protect both our identity and our right to anonymity Read More
Satellite Applications Catapult organised a weekend to build a nano-satellite using Arduino and friends, equipped with radio transmitter, camera and sensors, and launched on a weather balloon… Read More
The drive for artificial intelligence needs to consider the purpose for having intelligence. Being clever for clever’s sake has limited practical applications.
On reversing the Turing Test: If you believe you are communicating with a conscious being and then discover it is a robot, do you stop believing?
A short presentation looking at the impact mobile devices are having on learning, knowledge sharing and organisation structures
Can we (yet) rely on computer algorithms and machine-learning to make sense of that most unpredictable substance in the universe – human behaviour?
Whilst wearables and watches continue to be hyped in the news but have yet to enthral in reality, a wearable with far more value has been field tested – using sound to help the visually-impaired to navigate cities
