I’m writing an app at the moment for the Defibrillator Challenge held in Philadelphia this month, which will award $10,000 for members of the public to locate defibrillators (see here for more info). Defibrillators or AEDs are medical devices that are used to start the heart again after a heart attack. [...]
For several years it has been possible to automatically identify the author of a given text. Some universities use it to detect plagiarism. It has been applied to discover whether Alexander Hamilton or James Madison actually wrote the twelve contested essays in the Federalist Papers (answer: Madison wrote most of them). A typical scenario might be [...]
I have been reading New Scientist ever since I was about eleven years old. It’s been a huge influence on my thinking, which I would like to think has turned out to be evidence and reason-based. Every year they hold a flash fiction competition.This year’s topic is about ‘forgotten futures’. The idea was to imagine how [...]
This time last year I really got my teeth into the lecture scene. I loved attending events, conferences and evenings based on subjects such as clean technology, entrepreneurship and other technology-related topics. The best part about it were the people you would meet at random. People of all ages and occupations- you could be sitting [...]
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