Samantha Collins

Today’s WSI Distinguished lecture with Professor Richard Rogers focuses on the pervasive view of social media being a tool from which to gleam ‘vanity metrics’, and how these metrics may be reworked for social research purposes. Continue reading →

One October afternoon I received an email to ‘Save the date’ for a Terrarium-building workshop. The email stated that members of the CDT would have the opportunity to meet and mingle with each other, but also to create an individual mini-ecosystem. The penny dropped and I remembered that a Terrarium is a small-enclosed container in which plants are grown. Continue reading →

Wuxi After a 12 hour flight from London to Shanghai, and a terrifying two hour taxi ride, we finally arrived in Wuxi.  We were visiting Wuxi to attend the NEXT++ Workshop, a gathering of academics and students from around the globe to discuss "Artificial Intelligent Solutions to Information Rich Open Problems". The title of the workshop didn't give much away, and we awaited to find out what the objectives of us being there were. Continue reading →