Computer Models for Social Change

Talking CitSci with Muki Haklay at LonCon, the World SF Convention in London.

Jin will present on our big data and distributed computing research at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS’14) in Quebec City, July 13-18. Come hear him speak on "sampling based image splitting in large scale distributed computing of earth observation data.

I'll be at University College London for the next 3 months going extreme on extreme citizen science. I'll be working with Muki Haklay, where I hope to further explore the role of activism in the formation and government enthusiasm about citizen science.

Genevieve presented her research during an intense 12 day colloquium at ACFAS, called Cartographier les récits : enjeux méthodologiques et technologiques

Reid, G and R. Sieber. 2014. Géoweb et les aspirations du futur du territoire. Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) 12-15 Mai, Montreal, Canada.

Le résumé below the fold

McGill's glossy magazine that gets sent out to donors, writes up the grant:

Witten, Mark. 2014. Open Door Policy. McGill Headway Magazine: Research, Discovery and Innovation at McGill University. Volume 8, Number 1 Spring 2014.