The late Christopher Alexander’s groundbreaking work on patterns has informed the development of technology for decades, but it’s the architect’s later work that holds the key to a healthier digital life.
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Precocious social media users want to use technology to change the world.
Past upgrades to the state’s medical record system have cost tremendous amounts of money, and on at least one occasion, forced clinicians to revert to paper-based methods.
Google DeepMind software can diagnose eye conditions as well as human doctors – and the medical profession should welcome this.
A branch of AI research promises to deliver computers that evolve their own software but the tech industry has yet to catch on.
Stand by for drones, robots and sensors to the rescue.
Underlying online harassment is the false idea that events that happen on internet aren’t real. But whenever people are interacting, it’s all real.
Software is eating everything in this online, digital world. We need to design code that uses as little energy as possible.
It’s likely that many people knew Volkswagen was cheating on emissions tests, including the engineers who built the ‘defeat device’. But why did no-one at the car maker blow the whistle?
There is enormous potential for long term and genuine change if universities change their approach to dissent – and reinvent themselves as more agile institutions.
Malcolm Turnbull has drawn on his experience in the IT industry to create a new vision of ‘agile’ government.
Google has become a technology giant, but it’s trying to keep its small-company ethos alive.
Machines are not very good at writing software from scratch, but they’re getting pretty good at improving on human efforts.
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Rhodes University
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Lecturer in Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London
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Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Evolution, Search and Testing, UCL
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Principal Research Associate, UCL
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Reader in Sustainability and Computer Systems, University of Bristol
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Professor, Building innovative digital applications, Activism, University of Leeds
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Ph.D. Student in Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
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Lecturer in Intelligent Systems, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Information Science, Drexel University
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Professor of Intelligent and Self-Organising Systems, Imperial College London
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Chair in Natural Computation, Edinburgh Napier University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, (currently CEO and Senior Vice President of the PETRA Group), University of Nottingham
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Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Leicester
