Innovation Festival is in its fifth consecutive year at the Birmingham City University. It is an annual event to showcase of projects from the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment at the Birmingham City University. This year, IT Innovation team at the University of Birmingham were invited as judges to attend the fest. … Continue reading “Innovation Fest 2018 – Birmingham City University”
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Events Calendar
IT Innovation Centre Past Events Calendar Event Description Date ITIC Workshop Art & Technology Workshop 16 March 2018 ITIC Workshop ETech Competition Drop-In Session 7 Feb 2018 ITIC Workshop ETech Competition Drop-In Session 31 Jan 2018 ITIC Workshop ETech Ideation Workshop 22 Nov 2017 ITIC Seminar ITIC Intern Project Demos 13 Sept 2017 ITIC Seminar … Continue reading “Events Calendar”
JISC intelligent campus hackathon
Get involved with the JISC Intelligent campus hackathon As part of of the JISC edtech launchpad programme, they are looking for student teams from universities and colleges across the UK to join us in building the campus of the future. The aim of the hackathon is for student teams to design, develop and build “something” that … Continue reading “JISC intelligent campus hackathon”
Blockchain based academic certificate authentication system overview
Counterfeit academic certificates have been a longstanding issue in the academic community. Not until the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab released their project of Block-certs, a technique which is mainly implemented by conflating the hash value of local files to the blockchain but remains numerous issues, did an effective technological approach protecting authentic credential … Continue reading “Blockchain based academic certificate authentication system overview”
Biometric authentication – Overview and Experiments
From the casual users of the home computer to the business, corporations and government, there is a great concern about the security of files, systems, and the ability of technology to protect us from unauthorized access. Computer software companies have put a great effort to meet the demand for better security of sensitive, confidential, and … Continue reading “Biometric authentication – Overview and Experiments”
Live, Work & Travel Abroad – CI Summer 2018
City-Internships (CI) is a not-for-profit accelerated learning provider offering immersive, in-person programs that combine practical work experience-based training with cohort-based career workshops and seminars. This year’s CI Summer 2018 offers opportunities for students to intern, learn and grow in the global city, with 3 programs, 18 cities and 9 industries to choose from. There are limited places remaining … Continue reading “Live, Work & Travel Abroad – CI Summer 2018”
Labster Evaluation
Labster is a company which develops interactive advanced lab simulations for broad range subjects including chemistry, sciences, medicine, and biology, etc. It aims to provide the educators various laboratory simulations which can be used in teaching the STEM students. Labster launched its lab simulation software back in 2013, so far it has created about 71 … Continue reading “Labster Evaluation”
Odoo Management Software Evaluation
Odoo is an all-in-one open source management software that includes ERP, CRM, eCommerce and CMS. It offers 30 core modules with 3000+ community apps that provides various functions to customize the business needs and automate the business processes, so no more interfaces between different software are required. Open source model of Odoo has attracted thousands of developers and … Continue reading “Odoo Management Software Evaluation”
Ideation Workshop – Emerging Technology Competition 2017-2018
For the Emerging Technology Competition 2017-2018, IT Innovation Centre is organizing Ideation Workshop to spark ideas and to bring collaboration. When: Wednesday, 22nd Nov 2017, 2:00-4:00pm Where: IT Innovation Centre, Room 106, ERI Building (G3 on Campus Map), University of Birmingham To register for the event, please go to the eventbrite link.
Emerging Technology Competition 2017-2018
The Emerging Technology Competition (ETech) is an annual event organised by the IT Innovation Centre to promote innovative uses of emerging technology. The ETech Competition is free to enter and open to ALL current undergraduate and postgraduate students at the university, technical or non-technical. You can enter as an individual or as a team. To enter you need to … Continue reading “Emerging Technology Competition 2017-2018”