A Hunger for Books (Not Blogs)
I was recently reading Dorris Lessing’s Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech (full text here). It’s an excellent read, a story of storytelling, that recalls her experiences in Africa and the...
View ArticlePhD Course on Social Network Analysis
There is a course that is being run at the University of Kentucky on social network analysis. Other than having the course content online, including slides, it also has lots of pointers books,...
View ArticleThe Culture of the Amateur
If you are running particularly long experiments like me, or are looking for something to watch for 45 minutes, then I suggest this video on youtube: a documentary about truth and wikipedia. It...
View ArticleUCL – Launch of iTunes U
Partnership with Apple to make UCL the first UK university to offer users downloads of lectures, interviews, seminars and news, and play audio and video materials on their iPod or computer.
View ArticleTrusted Computing: Sounds Great, Doesn’t it?
There is an interesting short video here about trusted computing. Consider it an amateur introduction to what a lot of recent research has been discussing, and perhaps a useful video to spark some...
View ArticleTutorials at RecSys 2008
Yesterday was the first day of RecSys 2008, and was dedicated to three very interesting tutorials: 1. Robust Recommender Systems. Robin Burke introduced the wide range of attacks that typical...
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Social Computing @ UCL-CS
Today was the long-awaited follow up to the first introductory mobisys seminar. The theme today was on the social computing research going on in the group, or, more specifically, the overlap between...
View ArticleQuestion/Answers @ RecSys Doctoral Symposium 2008
I came across an interesting blog post by @HDrachsler, who I started following on twitter after this year’s RecSys conference. The post contains a recording of the question/answer time at the RecSys...
View ArticleResearch is the New Music
I’ve started trying out a new service, called Mendeley. The quickest way to describe it is a “last.fm for research;” they have a desktop client that can monitor the pdf files that you are reading, and...
View ArticleThe importance of *being stupid*
Some nice thoughts about scientific research: The importance of stupidity in scientific research Enjoy!
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