January 2023: SSILA Presentations

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/amaliaskilton/2023/01/20/january-2023-ssila-presentations/

As part of a team with Claire Bowern (Yale) and students Sunny Ananthanarayan (Yale) and Sophie Pierson (UT Austin), I’m authoring two talks at the 2023 online meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas this Jan. 20-22. On Jan. 20, Sophie will present our first talk, “Where FLEx falls […]

Potential objections and response strategies

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2493629_knowledge-integration-and-project-planning-data-and-artificial-intelligence-ethics-202/2024/04/28/potential-objections-and-response-strategies/

I have chosen a literature review method to achieve the objectives of this research. This method enables us to systematically collect, organize, and analyze existing literature on the application of AI tax algorithms in China. Through comprehensive analysis of the literature, we can gain insights into the ethical considerations associated with the implementation of AI […]

Introductions to the Collections

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/digitalislameurope/research-findings/archiving/about-the-collections-2/

This archive is part of the Digital Islam Across Europe project’s collection. One of the DigitIslam project outputs focuses on website data and collection analysis. The objective is to identify, catalogue and analyse Muslim organisations’ and actors’ websites (Online Islamic Environments or OIEs) from these different countries 1. In order to have a better sense […]

Personalised Information Portal – Top Level Design

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/timc/2019/03/04/personalised-information-portal-top-level-design/

Introduction Top level design for the Personalised Information Portal, Computing Project #470. The Personalised Information Portal (PIP) hosts web pages with an individualised cut of data that is appropriate to the teaching and administrative duties currently held by the particular member of staff viewing those pages. For example: a member of staff that is a […]

Seventy Years of Not Forgetting the Imjin Fallen

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghforumonkorea/2021/04/08/seventy-years-of-not-forgetting-the-imjin-fallen/

Dr. Guy Puzey (University of Edinburgh) Twenty-two countries contributed military and humanitarian forces to the United Nations Command (UNC) during the Korean War. In practically all of those countries except South Korea itself, however, this is largely a forgotten conflict, to the extent that ‘the term “forgotten war” is synonymous with Korea in Anglophone culture’ […]

The Caravan: health challenges, forced displacement and humanitarian responses in Central America

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/global-health-academy/2018/12/03/the-caravan-health-challenges-forced-displacement-and-humanitarian-responses-in-central-america/

Since the middle of October 2018, over 7,000 Central Americans have been making their way by foot and overcrowded cars to reach the United States border. They have travelled together in the so-called “migrants’” caravan from the so-called Northern Triangle (Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador). We use the word “migrant” once and very reluctantly. Words […]

Addressing environmental challenges through sport

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sport-matters/2015/09/22/addressing-environmental-challenges-through-sport/

This blog highlights and recognises some of the work that is already being done to utilise the unique power of sport to address environmental challenges. By Michael Pedersen, Founder of M INC. > change the game http://minc.ch. The evidence provided within this text reflects information as at 22 September 2015. Sport is uniquely placed to address […]

Turbulence as a quantum field theory: 2

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/physics-of-turbulence/2020/05/07/turbulence-as-a-quantum-field-theory-2/

Turbulence as a quantum field theory: 2 In the previous post, we specified the problem of stationary, isotropic turbulence, and discussed the nature of turbulence phenomenology, insofar as it is relevant to taking our first steps in a field-theoretic approach. Now we will extend that specification in order to allow us to concentrate on renormalization […]

‘The Man Became Useless’: Idiocy, Psychiatry, and Empire-building

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2021-22/welcome/text-analysis/iosif/

By Iosif Pryor NB: MHBI = Medical History of British India corpus. I. Introduction The term ‘idiocy’ is one of such colloquial familiarity that to see it used in common speech raises few, if any, powerful connotations in terms of mental health as we understand it today. However, the term itself has a complex history, […]

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/neil-mulholland-edx/417-2/

Mash-ups have been common in turntable culture since the early days of hip-hop in the 1970s. Peer-to-peer filesharing combined with open source audio and video mixing software accelerated rise of mash-up culture from the late ‘ 90s, spawning a whole new generation of DJs and VJs. In computing, mashware can combine code from open source […]