Information Pioneers is a new series developed by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, where five figures central to computing as we know it today are documented with a high energy host and cute graphics. Here is an excerpt from the Ada Lovelace video. On the BCS website you can watch all five videos and [...]

I usually write about events I am attending that I think students or fellow educators would want to see. This time, I am both attending and presenting a short talk at the event. Even if I were not presenting, I would still be interested in attending because the line-up of speakers is excellent. Hence this [...]

If the past 10 years have been about discovering post-institutional social models on the Web, then the next 10 years will be about applying them to the real world.
–Chris Andersen, “Atoms are the New Bits” in the February issue of Wired Magazine