A paper by Ramine Tinati, Paul Gaskell, Thanassis Tiropanis, Olivier Phillipe and Wendy Hall which presents a
framework for addressing cultural and language barriers when studying human activity on a global scale.
A video of Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt’s talk at Wikimania 2014 in which he discusses the Social Machines project SOCIAM and explains why Wikipedia is a Social Machine.
An article by by Wendy Hall, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ramine Tinati, Xin Wang, Markus Luczak-Rösch and Elena Simperl on a research project called the Web Observatory which seeks to address the challenges of analytics on distributed Linked Data infrastructures.
A paper by Jonathon S. Hare, David P. Dupplaw, Paul H. Lewis, Wendy Hall and Kirk Martinez, presenting new techniques to allow multimedia web content to be leveraged during the archiving process.
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt will take up the post on the 1st of August 2015.
In addition to his role at Jesus College, Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt will be appointed to a professorship at the University of Oxford Department of Computer Science.
A paper by Max Van Kleek, Daniel Alexander Smith, Ramine Tinati, Kieron O’Hara, Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt on methods to overcome privacy issues by keeping data under individuals’ control and enabling them to participate in Web-Observatory style analysis in situ.
The prize has a £10m fund to be awarded for solutions to one of the most important problems of our time.
The public will choose the issue they would most like to be solved from a choice of 6:
1) How can we ensure everyone can have access to safe and clean water?
2) How can we ensure everyone has nutritious, sustainable food?
3) How can we restore movement to those with paralysis?
4) How can we prevent the rise of resistance to antibiotics?
5) How can we fly without damaging the environment?
6) How can we help people with dementia live independently for longer?
Vote here
The original Board of Longitude was a committee set up in the 18th century to judge ideas for measuring longitude to enable navigation. The new committee for the 2014 Longitude Prize will judge ideas for solutions for the problem chosen by the public. The committee is chaired by Lord Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal. Other members include Dr Philip Campbell, Editor in Chief of Nature, Iain Gray, Chief Executive of the Technology Strategy Board, Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer and Sir Mark Walport, the Chief Scientific Advisor.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall’s blog for the British Computer Society, which is part of its campaign to encourage women to consider a career in I.T. She discusses her career history, how she came to be passionate about Computer Science and the reasons for women being better represented in the new discipline of Web Science than in other areas of I.T.
A paper by Wendy Hall, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ramine Tinati, Xin Wang, Markus Luczak-Rösch and Elena Simperl on Web Observatories. The opportunities for Big Data analytics are discussed, as well as the challenges, including the balance between fewer machines and data sets giving high performance on the one hand and a large number of distributed, diverse data sets potentially giving lower performance on the other hand.
A “Smart City” uses technology to enhance its physical infrastructure, with the aim of improving services, increasing revenues and making efficiency savings.
Seme4 will provide the semantic web and linked data expertise while Ethos Smart will provide the systems integration & service provision.
Tim Organ, Chief Executive Officer of Seme4, said:
“We welcome the opportunity to work with Ethos Smart in developing solutions to meet the vision of Smart City initiatives in the UK.” Adrian Ulisse, Managing Director of Ethos Smart, said: “I am excited about partnering with Seme4, which will support our strategy of creating, aggregating and publishing new data sets using globally scalable city digital platforms that are purposed to make real differences to citizens’ lives.”