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SEAT member Ray Corrigan took part in a panel on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill at Cambridge University in February. Follow the link below for more information and to view the presentations. Oversight or Theatre? Surveillance and Democratic Accountability – … Continue reading

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OU represented at JSEET 2015

In sunny Florence last May, ICSE 2015 saw the birth of JSEET 2015 (http://2015.icse-conferences.org/call-dates/call-for-contributions/jseet), a new Joint Program merging the ICSE Software Engineering Education and Training Track (SEET) and the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T) communities. The … Continue reading

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CfP: The Difference That Makes a Difference 2015, Vienna

Members of the group (David Chapman, Magnus Ramage and Mustafa Ali, along with colleagues from Engineering & Innovation and Religious Studies) are organising an international conference in June 2015. The conference, The Difference That Makes a Difference 2015, is the third … Continue reading

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Interpreting the Information Age Report

A report of the Science Museum’s Interpreting the Information Age conference, where Chris Bissell and Allan Jones, presented papers can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/kpge34k

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Interpreting the Information Age, Science Museum, 3-5 Nov. 2014

Allan Jones and Chris Bissell, of SEAT, will be talking at the Interpreting the Information Age conference at the Science Museum, London, 3-5 November 2014. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/new_research_folder/information_age_conference Allan’s presentation is ‘”A robot caught in the act of performing a goose-step”: early … Continue reading

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Engaging Research seminar: Allan Jones’s presentation

I was flattered a couple of months ago to be invited by Richard Holliman to speak in the ‘Engaging Research’ seminar series, hosted in the Science Faculty of the Open University. My presentation, on 8 September 2014, was recorded and can be … Continue reading

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Sixth Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS), Lisbon, 4-6 September 2014

Allan Jones writes: I was fortunate to be able to attend and present a paper at the Sixth Conference of the ESHS in Lisbon (4-6 September 2014), where the conference theme was ‘Communicating Science, Technology and Medicine’. Academic work on … Continue reading

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