Calling all engineering students! Digital prodigy? Mechanically minded? Team up with multi-talented engineers and explore your potential. Siemens, the world-leading engineering brand, is inviting you to join MindSphere Live!, a powerful experience and the premise of the annual Sir William Siemens Challenge – the student engineering event of the year. Date: 16 – 18 November, 2018 … Continue reading “Sir William Siemens Challenge”
Author: Li Zhao
Social Media Aggregator Evaluation
Social media touches nearly every aspect of our personal and business lives. It is changing the ways of how people communicate and how information is flowing. Organizations are using social media networks more and more as their communication channels and public engagement tools. It becomes more urgent for organizations to effectively manage and use the … Continue reading “Social Media Aggregator Evaluation”
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platform
What are Content Collaboration Platforms? As defined by Gartner, the content collaboration platform (CCP) market covers a range of products and services that enable content productivity and collaboration. CCPs are aimed at individuals and teams, inside or outside an organization. Additionally, CCPs increasingly support lightweight content management and workflow use cases. Core user functionalities include: … Continue reading “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platform”
JISC Hackathon – building a chatbot in further and higher education
Chatbots are already employed by lots of companies to front conversations on smartphones and other computing devices. Live chat options are emerging on many websites, including at universities, and some have reported that a significant number of clearing enquiries came through live chat rather than telephone calls during August. A recent survey conducted by Jisc … Continue reading “JISC Hackathon – building a chatbot in further and higher education”
How will universities be digitally transforming?
Digital Transformation is the application of digital technology across the University and is critical to our future success as an institution. Digital Transformation at the University is about more than just technology. The goal is to adopt new ways of working in order to continue delivering our mission in the face of changing technology, competition, audience … Continue reading “How will universities be digitally transforming?”
Future Trends in Technology and Education
Future Trends in Technology and Education is a monthly report. It surveys recent developments in how education is changing, primarily under the impact of digital technologies. Its purpose is to help educators, policy-makers, and the public think about the future of teaching, learning, research, and institutions. You can find its website here: https://ftte.us/ . Read … Continue reading “Future Trends in Technology and Education”
How we use Slack
Recently, Slack won the office messaging wars. Slack will pay an undisclosed amount over the next three years to acquire Atlassian’s HipChat and Stride assets, Atlassian said it will discontinue the two products by Feb. 15, 2019, and exit the communications business. Have you ever heard of Slack? Slack is a collaboration hub that connects … Continue reading “How we use Slack”
Innovation Centre: An audience with Dr Umar Daraz – a talk on innovation from Birmingham City University
You’re invited! Join us for an informal talk about innovation and the commercialisation of prototypes The IT Innovation Centre would like to invite all staff across IT Services to attend an informal talk delivered by Dr Umar Daraz, Director of the Institute of Sustainable Futures at Birmingham City University (BCU). Dr Daraz will be speaking … Continue reading “Innovation Centre: An audience with Dr Umar Daraz – a talk on innovation from Birmingham City University”
Serverless Computing
Serverless architectures are internet based systems where the application development does not use the usual server process. Instead they rely solely on a combination of third-party services, client-side logic, and service hosted remote procedure calls (FaaS). Serverless applications often make extensive use of third party services to accomplish tasks that are traditionally taken care of by servers. … Continue reading “Serverless Computing”
AI learns the art of debate
AI learns the art of debate with IBM project debater. An AI system that can engage in debate with humans, Project Debater moves us closer to one of the great boundaries in AI: mastering language. An artificial intelligence (AI) system engaged in the first ever live, public debates with humans. At an event held at IBM’s Watson … Continue reading “AI learns the art of debate”