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Twitter harvesting
by Luke Goater via Digital Economy USRG
By Amir Aryaarjmand. At the Creative DigiFest #SxSC2, Adam Field talked about a ‘Lightweight Twitter Harvester’, featuring his service. I arranged an interview with him to know more about this service and here is the summary of my interview, a tutorial on how to use the service and comments from colleagues working on related initiatives. Regarding […]
Data management
by Jeremy Frey via Computational Intensive Imaging Blog
Data management is in general a major problem in research but the joint experimental and computational aspects of CII research, and the tendency for this work to be collaborative, makes the data management a very time consuming task. Research projects in Southampton over the last 5 years have covered many aspects of good practice and […]
Mendeley Group set up
by Alison Simmance via Computational Intensive Imaging Blog
We have created a Mendeley Group for for CII USRG – “Computationally Intensive Imaging”. This is an “Open” Mendeley Group (http://www.mendeley.com/groups/2874091/computationally-intensive-imaging/) so please add references that your think would be of general interest to CII members.
Royal Society X-ray imaging Events
by William Brocklesby via Computational Intensive Imaging Blog
I’d like to draw everyone’s attention to the following Royal Society meeting and workshop on X-ray imaging, which may well, be of interest to some of the CII group: 1) Taking x-ray phase contrast imaging into mainstream applications- 9:00 am on Monday 11 February 2013 – 5:00 pm on Tuesday 12 February 2013 This meeting […]
SuperIdentity – examining identity in the real and cyber world
by Mark Nixon via Computational Intensive Imaging Blog
Academics at the University of Southampton, one of eight universities to have secured a government grant to extend its research on biometrics, have been investigating new approaches to biometrics which relate human vision to computer vision to enable recognition of people. It’s called soft biometrics and essentially concerns using human descriptions within automatic computer vision […]
Art and Archaeology at Southampton and Winchester
by Gareth Beale via Digital Humanities
My experience as a Digital Champion at Random Hacks of Kindness (#RHoKSoton)
by Luke Goater via Digital Economy USRG
Random Hacks of Kindness was a delightful experience for the Digital Champions. Before the event we met twice to learn more about #RHoK, our tasks, and technologies that we were not familiar with, and that we were supposed to use during this social hacking weekend. Ivan (@IvanMelendezCh) was responsible for managing the Digital Champions and […]
Computationally Intensive Imaging Blog
by Hembo Pagi via Computational Intensive Imaging Blog
Bringing you the very latest news and discussions on imaging activities across the University!
This monthly blog is brought to you by the chairs of the CII USRG: Jeremy Frey, Bill Brocklesby, Ian Sinclair.
Random Hacks of Kindness Event: 1st – 2nd December at University of Southampton #rhoksoton
by Lisa Harris via Digital Economy USRG
Dirk Gorissen from Engineering is running this weekend’s Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) event in the University of Southampton Mountbatten Building (53). It takes place in the Common Room on Level 3. A RHoK (founded by Google, Microsoft, Nasa, and others) is all about bringing domain experts, programmers, and makers together for a weekend in […]
Hacking the Notion of Cyber Security
by Jussi Parikka via Digital Economy USRG
Cyber security might have become a widespread term in public debate, government security arrangements as well as funding bodies’ strategical directions but it has longer historical and cultural roots. The recent organisation of security and defence around the at times ephemeral seeming threats of “the cyber” is pitched as a necessary move to combat the […]