The spread of a cascading failure through a network is an issue that comes up in many domains: in the contagious failures that spread among financial institutions during a financial crisis, through nodes of a…
Speaker: Par Strand, Chalmers University eScience and activities that build on e-infrastructure continue to grow rapidly and increasingly affect science and society. Vital to this growth are the availability and robustness of the underlying infrastructures…
With an increasing amount of social interaction taking place in the digital domain, and often in public on-line settings, we are accumulating enormous amounts of data about phenomena that were once essentially invisible to us:…
Intrinsic motivation via gameful education Just Press Play is a collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to wrap gameful and ludic experiences around the traditional pedagogical processes of a modern university. Starting in October…
The Future of Writing was a design project commisioned by Microsoft Research Cambridge and the Microsoft Office team, in the summer of 2011, from the Royal College of Art in London. In this project five…
This project explores the use of new touchless technology in medical practice. With advances in medical imaging over the years, surgical procedures have become increasingly reliant on a range of digital imaging systems for navigation,…
The dimension of location brings social networks back to reality, bridging the gap between the physical world and online social networking services. In this project, we introduce and define the meaning of location-based social network…
