Open Unwrapped Dec 3rd – Garden of Ada
‘Garden of Ada’ is an adult colouring-in illustration of Ada Lovelace, based on the nineteenth century A. E. Chalon portrait […]
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things can only get beta
Back in the days of Web 2.0 we used to describe things as ‘perpetualy beta‘. For me this perfectly describes Wikipedia. It’ll never be finished: we must add to, and improve it, early and often. Users are co-developers and it’s developed under open source principles of collective intelligence. Wikipedia/Wikimedia are Thing 10 in our ‘23 …
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Sonic Pi music compositions, a Sonic Pi workshop handbook, a LEGO Raspberry Pi enclosure workshop handbook, and more! All created […]
Read moreall in the name of Lovelace
Ada Lovelace Day at University of Edinburgh was a great success this year. The LTW, USD and L&UC teams outdid themselves. We had a lifesize Lego Ada in the Main Library, and the complete Ada and Baggage Lego set in Hugh Robson Building. We taught students and colleagues how to code music, edit wikipedia, build …
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The University of Edinburgh will be hosting Ada Lovelace Day on Tuesday 13th October 2015 – an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). You are all welcome, please join us. Our provisional schedule includes: composing music with algorithms building Raspberry Pi enclosures with LEGO metadata games in University …
Read moreSet in Stone
Two weeks ago I presented the story of our Women in Science and Scottish History editathon at the Wikipedia Science conference in London at the Wellcome Trust*. This week Surgeon’s Hall unveiled a plaque to commemorate the Edinburgh Seven and the Surgeon’s Hall riot. I am very pleased to be able to draw a direct …
Read moreIt’s not ok
Baroness Martha Lane-Fox delivered the 39th annual Dimbleby Lecture from London’s Science Museum on March 30, 2015. I delivered a short welcome speech at Elearing@ed forum at Edinburgh University on April 23. I took the opportunity to quote her. In her lecture she said “It’s not ok not to understand the Internet anymore.”* I talked …
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