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Vodafone Imperial Challenge
Developers' workshop
4pm, Wednesday, 3 March, 311 Huxley.

Developers from Vodafone are offering a workshop for anyone intending to enter a widget in the Vodafone Imperial Challenge competition.

Competition website at Vodafone
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Vodafone Imperial Challenge
Enter the Imperial Challenge competition to be in with a chance to win one of two paid summer internships at Vodafone in London!
Presentation: 4pm, Wednesday, 24 February, 311 Huxley.

Pieter Knook, Director of Internet Services at Vodafone, will give a presentation on Vodafone 360 and  Mobile Application Development at Vodafone to introduce the Vodafone Imperial Challenge.

The talk offers an opportunity to hear from  a senior executive of one of the world’s largest mobile network operators about where application development is headed in the mobile world.

Competition website at Vodafone
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Vodafone Imperial Challenge
Enter the Imperial Challenge competition to be in with a chance to win one of two paid summer internships at Vodafone in London!
Kick-off meeting: 4pm, Wednesday, 13 Jan, 311 Huxley.

Vodafone is sponsoring a Mobile Applications Competition this term for Imperial College students.
The Imperial Challenge is a competition designed to get your creative juices flowing in the world of mobile apps and get some valuable work experience at the end of it. All you need to do is to create a mobile application using simple technologies and demonstrate its quality, innovation and value to a panel of Vodafone experts--Dragon's Den style.



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"Social concerns - designing technology around people"



Rama Gheerawo (Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art) will talk about people-centred design and look at how this approach has helped technology companies to innovate and think in new ways.





Centring design around people can significantly increase corporate competitiveness and value, whilst acting as an trigger for designers to innovate. This is a central premise of Inclusive Design, but whilst there is obvious social, moral and philosophical benefit, what are the creative, financial and business implications of this?

Rama will showcase pathfinding work done by the Royal College of Art with companies such as BT, BlackBerry and Nokia.

Rama Gheerawo is an Innovation Manager and Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre, joining at its inception in 1999. He leads a team of researchers on the Centre’s Research Associates Programme working closely with business partners on applied people-centred design projects. Partners include Toyota, GlaxoSmithKline, IDEO and Nokia. Rama’s experience in the creative industries ranges from automotive, product design and multimedia design to design engineering. He writes, publishes, lectures and curates exhibitions on design for audiences that include students, academics, designers, industry and government. Rama specialises in people-centred design practice, the development of core methodology and knowledge transfer to business. His areas of interest include transport, technology and independent living - giving marginalised groups greater choice and sustained independence in their daily lives. Rama's first degree was in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College.]]> http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events?id=27 http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events?id=27 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:45:25 +0100

Help shape the Next-generation Internet!

Register (it's free)!

The EPSRC-funded Digital Economies Research Cluster, "Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Economy: an Agenda for the Next-Generation Internet" announces an open forum to shape the direction of research into the digital economy in the UK. This will be a national event which will bring together experts from across the UK in conversation with the general public. We welcome a broad range of views from everyone interested in the future of the Internet and the digital economy.

The forum is a follow-on to the first Wealth of Networks forum in July 2008. The purpose of the forum is to discuss the recommendations about the direction of research in the Next-generation Internet which the research cluster will present to funding councils in April.

The forum will feature open panel discussions with cluster researchers and industry leaders.

Topics will include:

* Next-generation Healthcare
* e-Government
* Digital Entrepreneurship
* The Mobile Economy
* Trust, Data and Security
* e-Society and the future of social networks

These discussions will contribute to setting the national funding council priorities for future research.

For more information, visit the website http://wealthofnetworks.wordpress.com

Attendance is free, but pre-registration is required. Register at http://wealthofnetworks2.eventbrite.com]]> http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events?id=26 http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events?id=26 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:55:23 +0000
"Encouraging contribution in P2P communities"



Miranda Mowbray (HP Labs) will talk about her work on resource-sharing in P2P communities.





P2P resource-sharing communities depend on members' willingness to contribute their resources. Dr. Mowbray will present some data from BitTorrent communities which identify factors associated with high contribution, and use this to suggest general ways of encouraging contributions in P2P communities.

One suggestion is that in order to encourage high contribution levels, designers should try to harness both economic/reciprocation motivations for contribution, and altruistic/social motivations for contribution, within the same P2P community.

Miranda Mowbray is a Technical Contributor at HP Labs, where she researches P2P technologies. She co-founded e-mint, the association of online community professionals. Her PhD is in Algebra, from Queen Mary College London.]]> http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events?id=25 http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events?id=25 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:11:16 +0000
"Wombile: Overlapping Games"

Gareth Smith (ICL), Alia Sheikh, Matt Hammond and Steve Jolly (BBC) will talk about their work with Wombile, a framework for developing and deploying interactive experiences on location aware mobile platforms. The talk will present the wombile framework, and in particular will show how it is possible to allow players in one game universe to interact with players in other, very different, game universes. The wombile team will discuss the implications of a connected "multiverse" of game universes, and will demonstrate their ideas with some games currently under development.

Attendance is free, but, due to limited seating, you are encouraged to pre-register to assure a place. To register, please go to http://icicwombile.eventbrite.com/.

Gareth Smith is a PhD student in Theory group, who used to work at BBC R&D. This is what he does in his spare time. Alia Sheikh, Matt Hammond and Steve Jolly are Research Engineers currently working at the BBC.

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Dave Taylor, Programme Lead for Virtual Worlds and Medical Media at Imperial College (St Mary's Hospital), will give a talk on Serious Applications for Virtual Worlds
The talk will include a live tour of the SciLands (Science and Technology Continent) and Imperial College's new Medical School in Second Life. Dave will also give details of a virtual worlds competition that is planned for later this year.

Attendance is free, but, due to limited seating, you are encouraged to pre-register to assure a place. To register, please go to http://icicvirtualworlds.eventbrite.com/.

The Medical Media and Design Laboratory is a new research group headed by Professor Ara Darzi within the Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology. This group have already explored ground-breaking applications for virtual worlds with a focus on innovative and efficient means for communicating complex health messages, the visualisation of future health care delivery models, medical device development, professional networking and educational tools for patients and staff.

MMDL have a number of work streams underway and can suggest project work for suitable computer science students. If interested please attend this presentation or contact dave.taylor@imperial.ac.uk.

Second Health is an immersive hospital environment that can be visited in Second Life. Full details at http://www.secondhealth.org.uk.

Dave Taylor is Programme Lead for Virtual Worlds and Medical Media at Imperial College (St Mary's Hospital). He previously initiated and ran the UK National Physical Laboratory's Virtual Worlds business, and is a founder of the SciLands, a Second Life continent for Science and Technology. He is a member of the Government's 'Serious Games' Group helping to advise the Internet Governance Forum on Virtual Worlds for Delivering Public Service & Innovation. In previous lives Dave has been Vice President of Global Web for a leading multinational and managed Letraset's European Software business, working with Adobe Systems, Pixar and Apple Computer in the 80's and 90's. Dave has a BSc in Mathematics and an MSc in Experimental Psychology.]]> http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events?id=23 http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events?id=23 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:26:09 +0100

Help shape the Next-generation Internet!

Register (it's free)!

The EPSRC-funded Digital Economies Research Cluster, "Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Economy: an Agenda for the Next-Generation Internet" announces an open forum to shape the direction of research into the digital economy in the UK. This will be a national event which will bring together experts from across the UK in conversation with the general public. We welcome a broad range of views from everyone interested in the future of the Internet and the digital economy.

The forum will feature an open panel discussion with cluster researchers and industry leaders, moderated by Gareth Mitchell (Digital Planet-BBC World Service).

Topics will include:

* Next-generation Healthcare
* e-Government
* Digital Entrepreneurship
* The Mobile Economy
* Trust, Data and Security
* e-Society and the future of social networks

These discussions will contribute to setting the national funding council priorities for future research.

For more information, visit the website http://wealthofnetworks.wordpress.com

Attendance is free, but pre-registration is required. To register, http://wealthofnetworks.eventbrite.com]]> http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events?id=22 http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events?id=22 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:12:23 +0100 This event has been cancelled!

Dr. Jennifer Schopf, Systems Architect for the Encyclopedia of Life, will give a talk on The Encyclopedia of Life: Managing Distributed Biodiversity Data

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project (http://www.eol.org) aims to create Web pages for each of the 1.8 million known species. We acquire data objects about organisms from an array of Content Providers, index those objects in a biologically meaningful fashion using a names-based cyberinfrastructure, and make them available through a variety of means including species Web pages and application programming interfaces (APIs).
This talk will give an overview of the material we used for the release of EOL v1.0 in February 2008, for which we worked with a dozen formal data providers and hundreds of additional institutions and individuals to serve over 30,000 species pages and 24 fully developed exemplar pages. Our approach has three main facets: the use of scientific and vernacular names to index and connect data objects; a set of interfaces to Content Providers with internet-accessible data; and a flexible content management system for other content.]]> http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events?id=21 http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events?id=21 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:54:47 +0100