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Space Network Scotland - Global Scale Earth Analytics
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/hdeak/2020/02/09/space-network-scotland-global-scale-earth-analytics/
Seminar This week’s EEO seminar, hosted jointly with the Hutton Club, is given by Dr. Callum Norrie of Space Network Scotland. These are exciting times for the burgeoning Scottish and UK Space sectors and this promises to be a fascinating talk looking at wider enterprise within Scotland and connections with academia, also acting as a […]
Arthur Wharton, Racism and Sport: Past and Present
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sport-matters/2017/06/11/arthur-wharton-racism-sport-past-present/
By Isabelle Boulert Key Facts Football, racism and anti-racism. Born in Jamestown, Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1865. Between 1885 and 1895 played as an amateur footballer for Darlington and Preston North End, then professionally for Rotherham Town and Sheffield United. Recorded and verified at the AAA Championship in 1886 as running 100 yards in […]
Identity bytes: regulating in response to online discoveries of donor conception
Dr Emily Postan, Deputy Director of the Mason Institute Does it matter that you know who your genetic parents are, who you are related to, and how the story of your life began? Does it matter for your emotional wellbeing, or your feelings of connectedness and belonging? Is it significant to your identity and […]
Postgraduate Bioethics Conference 2023
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/mason-institute/2024/02/15/postgraduate-bioethics-conference-2023/
The Futures of Bioethics: What Should It Look Like? By Emma Nance and Jamie Webb From the 12th to 13th of June 2023, Emma Nance and Jamie Webb welcomed over 80 people to the University of Edinburgh to the 18th Annual Postgraduate Bioethics Conference (PGBC 23) to consider the question, “The Futures of Bioethics: What […]
Sacrifice, Compassion and an Inspiration: Eric Henry Liddell - 100 Years - A Timeline and a Tribute
By Grant Jarvie, Ross Walker, Amy Woodgate, Fan Hong Eric Henry Liddell was born on the 16th January 1902. The Paris Olympics of 2024 also marks 100 years since the Olympic events of 1924, in the same city. This brief timeline serves as a tribute and reminder of some of the key moments. It […]
Hazy Days: Protecting the Health of British Columbians from Annual Wildfire Air Pollution
by Karen Winquist January 23, 2024 About the Author: Karen Winquist has been a Registered Nurse for 35 years and lives in British Columbia, Canada. She is currently a Master of Public Health student at the University of Edinburgh. Wildfires in British Columbia […]
Value(s) & Ethics
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ai-psm/values-ethics/
Data and AI are increasingly central to public service media (PSM) ambitions and strategies for the future but there are serious concerns around the development, use and societal impacts of AI. Ethical principles for AI now abound but how such ethics are enacted in practice varies widely across contexts, and PSM must align such guidance […]
As HyStorPor draws to a close, we look at its achievements and its legacy
We talk to researcher Dr Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband about some of the project highlights The HyStorPor project has shown that subsurface geological storage of hydrogen is possible – an important development for the deployment of intermittent renewable energy. “In HyStorPor, we initiated a comprehensive, worldwide research effort on hydrogen storage. We believe our initiative represents a […]
Futures and Foresight
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/education-futures-women-in-physics/futures-and-foresight/
A very brief introduction to Futures Studies The academic field of Futures Studies provides the framework and theoretical foundation for the third part of this project, Visions. Scene from WALL-E: In their futures scenario, humans live in a space ship while robot WALL-E cleans up the earth. Stanton, A. (Director). (2008). WALL-E [Film]. Walt […]
The 53rd Language Lunch
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/languagelunch/2016/06/16/the-53rd-language-lunch/
The 53rd Language Lunch Date: 2016-06-16 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Document Embeddings with Context Sampling Stefanos,Angelidis; None; None The Paragraph Vector model has been recently proposed as a method for learning low-dimensional representations of multi-sentence documents. As with most embedding models, it relies on a proximity context to associate co-occurring words, while jointly learning embeddings […]
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