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Live reporting from the first Union Council of the academic year 2015-2016! Agenda here https://www.susu.org/meetings/1058 More info about council here https://www.susu.org/representation/2013/union-council.html
Alex Hovden
JP Rangaswami, Deutsche Bank’s Chief Data Officer, responsible for enhancing the Bank's data quality and controls., He is originally, an economist and financial journalist, JP has over 30 years of experience in information technology, primarily in the financial sector. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, JP was Chief Scientist at Salesforce.com. He was previously at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, he was named CIO innovator of the year by the European Technology Forum in 2004 and CIO of the Year by Waters magazine in 2003. JP is a fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, a Trustee of the web Science Trust and a Trustee of the Computer History Museum. He is also a venture partner for Anthemis Group and an advisory board member of Byte Night, a charity or young homeless people.
Alex Hovden
Alex Hovden
Live blog commentary of the first of 3 election debates for the Southampton area, this first one covering the Test constituency . The candidates for this region are: Adrian Ford - Liberal Democrats Alan Whitehead - Labour Angela Mawle - Greens Chris Davis MBE - Independent Jeremy Moulton - Conservatives Nick Chaffey - TUSC Pearline Hingston - UKIP The action kicks off at 18:00 BST here in Garden Court at the University of Southampton's Highfield Campus. SUSUTv are going to be providing a LIVE online stream of the events here http://www.susu.tv/live/ Get involved via social media and don't forget to use the hashtags #SouthamptonTest and #VoteSoton2015! You can get directly in touch with me using my Twitter handle, @WheelsOnFire92. PLEASE NOTE: This blog is intended as a work of political satire and may include strong language.
Alex Hovden
Dr Chris Welty will give the fifth keynote on Thursday morning in Nightingale building. He is a Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. His principal area of research is Knowledge Representation, specifically ontologies and the semantic web, and he spends most of his time applying this technology to Natural Language Question Answering as a member of the DeepQA/Watson team and, in the past, Software Engineering. The abstract for his speech is below: Watson is a computer system capable of answering rich natural language questions and estimating its confidence in those answers at a level rivalling the best humans at the task. On Feb 14-16, 2011, in an historic event, Watson triumphed, in a widely televised broadcast of the American quiz show Jeopardy!, over the best human players of all time. In this talk I will discuss how Watson works at a high level with examples from the show, and concentrate on the use of semantic technology in Watson. Blogging from WSI Intern and DigiChamp Alex Hovden.
Alex Hovden
Cory Doctorow will give the fourth keynote on Wednesday afternoon in Nightingale building. He is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. Cory is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics. Blogging from WSI Intern and DigiChamp Alex Hovden.
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Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt will give the third keynote on Tuesday afternoon in the Health Sciences building. He is a director of the Web Science Institute and also a co-founder of the Open Data Institute. He is also an advisor of HM Government. He draws together his multidisciplinary expertise to focus on understanding how the web is evolving and changing society. He is passionate about how humans and computers can solve problems together at web scale. The abstract for his speech is below: We are living in an age of superabundant information. The Internet and World Wide Web have been the agents of this revolution. This deluge of information and data has led to a range of scientific discoveries and engineering innovations. Data at Web scale has allowed us to characterise the shape and structure of the Web itself and to efficiently search its billions of items of contents. Data published on the Web has enabled the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of humans to solve problems beyond any individual or single organisation. Open government data published on the Web is improving the efficiency and accountability of our public services. Open data is giving rise to open innovation that is generating social, environmental and economic value. Data science is emerging as an area of competitive advantage for individuals, companies, public and private sector organisations and nation states. A Web of data offers new opportunities and challenges for science, government and business. This lecture will discuss these fast moving developments and how they will impact our lives. Blogging from WSI Intern and DigiChamp Alex Hovden.
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Professor Jim Hendler will give the second keynote of the week on Tuesday morning in the Health Sciences building. He is s the Director of the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications and the Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also serves as a Director of the UK’s charitable Web Science Trust. He has authored over 200 technical papers in the areas of Semantic Web, artificial intelligence, agent-based computing and high performance processing. The abstract for his speech is below: Big Data” usually refers to the very large datasets generated by scientists, to the many petabytes of data held by companies like Facebook and Google, and to analyzing real-time data assets like the stream of twitter messages emerging from events around the world. Key areas of interest include technologies to manage much larger datasets, technologies for the visualization and analysis of databases, cloud-based data management and datamining algorithms. Recently, however, we have begun to see the emergence of another, and equally compelling data challenge — that of the “Broad data” that emerges from millions and millions of raw datasets available on the World Wide Web. For broad data the new challenges that emerge include Web-scale data search and discovery, rapid and potentially ad hoc integration of datasets, visualization and analysis of only-partially modeled datasets, and issues relating to the policies for data use, reuse and combination. In this talk, we present the broad data challenge and discuss potential starting points for solutions including those arising from research in the Semantic Web area. We illustrate these approaches using data from a “meta-catalog” of over 1,000,000 open datasets that have been collected from about two hundred governments around the world. Blogging from WSI Intern and DigiChamp Alex Hovden.
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Professor Dame Wendy Hall gives the opening keynote on Monday morning in Nightingale building. She was recently named Computer Weekly’s most influential woman in UK IT, and currently serves as director of the WSI and managing director of the Web Science Trust. Her research interests cover a broad set of issues within the areas of multimedia and hypermedia. She has particular involvement in the novel challenges embedded within Digital Libraries and the Semantic web. Involvement with a platform grant (Sociam) embraces the desire to create social systems on the web – social machines – that are efficient, interrogatable, and capable of solving complex problems at a large scale. Blogging from WSI Intern and DigiChamp Alex Hovden.
Alex Hovden
Good afternoon all! We are here at the Royal Society London for the official launch of the Web Science Institute! Kick off is at 2pm with an opening speech by Professor Don Nutbeam, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Southampton, followed by the WSI Directors laying out the vision of the institute. These directors are: Professor Dame Wendy Hall Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt Professor Susan Halford Professor Les Carr Dr Lisa Harris Dr Graeme Earl The vision will be followed by keynote talks from JP Rangaswami and Professor Richard Susskind OBE. Following a short break we will return for a Panel discussion: How can Web Science help shape the web we want?? Panellists are: Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee Professor Liam Maxwell Professor Dame Wendy Hall Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt Professor Susan Halford. You can send questions to the panellists using Twitter! The # is #LaunchWSI. Also please get following @sotonWSI, @unisouthampton and many more that you can find on Twitter for a continuous stream of updates during the course of the afternoon! WHATSMORE... this event is being live-streamed online! Link is http://www.southampton.ac.uk/promotion/wsi.shtml
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