Category Archives: Information

Deep Sea Mining – Resources

Polymetallic Nodules on Ocean Bed – Image from https://only.one I am concerned that beginning larger scale deep sea mining with current knowledge of the deep ocean and with current extractive technologies will be damaging to the health of the oceans … Continue reading

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Law on NFTs

On 17-Mar-2022, the Law School at the University of Edinburgh ran an online Zoom workshop and panel discussion on NFTs and the law, to accompany an exhibition event at Edinburgh InSpace entitled “A Token Gesture“. Chair: Smita Kheria, University of … Continue reading

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Rainbow Warrior

The iconic campaigning Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior ship sailed into the River Clyde in Scotland on 1st November to join other climate crisis activists encouraging world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) to commit to changes … Continue reading

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BBC Academy – Trust in News

Trust in News Conference: The View from the Frontline Fighting Disinformation Online event – 24th March 2021 – https://www.bbc.co.uk/beyondfakenews/trustinnews Hosted by Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC Technology Correspondent, speaking to representatives of the social media platforms about their part in turning the … Continue reading

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Edinburgh Futures Conversations – Health

The Future of Health – 2 March 2021 – the first event in the Edinburgh Futures Conversations series involved experts from around the world sharing their perspectives of the Covid-19 pandemic and explored how to change and reshape public health … Continue reading

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Git for Ruth2 and Roth2 Development

Git is a source code version control supporting contributions from a number of developers. Git tutorial and reference material is available via including a complete online “Pro Git” book. This post is a record of some helpful advice given by … Continue reading

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I-X – Intelligent Technology

This blog post is intended to provide a quick overview of our work on I-X – “Intelligent Technology”, its underlying <I-N-C-A> ontology, and especially its application to intelligent planning systems and intelligent collaborative spaces using I-Plan and I-Rooms. Austin Tate … Continue reading

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Helpful Environment

“The Helpful Environment” vision is of a future in which ubiquitous computing, sensor grids and networked systems combine to help the individuals, families, businesses, organizations, the public at large, regions and countries to be self supportive and mutually helpful with … Continue reading

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