Rob Kitchin presented a Bellwether Lecture at the Oxford Institute Institute on February 28th entitled ‘The Real Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism’. OII have just uploaded the webcast of the full lecture. The written version of the paper was recently published in Geojournal (visit GeoJournal website or Download). Kitchin, R. (2014) The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism. GeoJournal 79(1): 1-14.
Talk presented by Aphra Kerr (Sociology, NUI Maynooth) at the second Programmable City Seminar.
Coding Play / Crafting Code in the City
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 16:00 – 18:00
Aphra Kerr is senior Lecturer and researcher in social studies of technology and media. She also teaches courses on games and play, and culture and everyday life. She has extensive research experience on the production, use and regulation of digital media, especially digital games, SNS (social networking sites) and animation, as well as the changing nature of broadcasting in the digital age. Her current research projects include ‘Cultural Production in the Digital Age’ (NSF funded network) and she is currently writing ‘Global games and transnational work’ (book under contract). For the past ten years she has been involved in running gamedevelopers.ie, a community voluntary website for the games industry in Ireland.
Talk presented by Andrea Magnorsky (Organiser and Co-founder of GameCraft and BatCat Games) at the second Programmable City Seminar.
Coding Play / Crafting Code in the City
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 16:00 – 18:00
Andrea Magnorsky is Senior software developer with many years of experience building a variety of products, including CRM, eCommerce, Financial, and Video Games. She is an advocate of test-driven development, and object-oriented design principles, as well as a part time lecturer on Games Programming. She is organisor and Co-founder of GameCraft Foundation which organises weekend game jams both in Ireland and internationally and co-founder of BatCat Games. BatCat Games are currently working on Honorbound, a 2D, side-scrolling beat ‘em up game focused on combat in a feudal Japanese setting. Their first game P-3 Biotic is a space shooter available on PC from GetIrishGames.ie.
Talk presented by Dr Peter Mooney (Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, NUIM) at the first Programmable City Seminar.
Open data and evidence informed decision making
Wednesday, November 13, 16:00-18:00
Speakers discuss making data accessible to the public and the challenges they face in their multiple roles as citizens, public servants and researchers.
Topics include: Citizen science, civic engagement, open data portals, Apps, hackathons, & crowdsourcing vs authoritative processes
Talk presented by Dominic Byrne (Head of Information Technology with Fingal County Council) at the first Programmable City Seminar.
Open data and evidence informed decision making
Wednesday, November 13, 16:00-18:00
Speakers discuss making data accessible to the public and the challenges they face in their multiple roles as citizens, public servants and researchers.
Topics include: Citizen science, civic engagement, open data portals, Apps, hackathons, & crowdsourcing vs authoritative processes
Talk presented by Dr Tracey P. Lauriault (Programmable City Project, NUIM) at the first Programmable City Seminar.
Open data and evidence informed decision making
Wednesday, November 13, 16:00-18:00
Speakers discuss making data accessible to the public and the challenges they face in their multiple roles as citizens, public servants and researchers.
Topics include: Citizen science, civic engagement, open data portals, Apps, hackathons, & crowdsourcing vs authoritative processes