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The Smart Mandate: A Brief History of Ubiquitous Computing and Responsive Environments

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From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops
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Talk delivered at 2015 Cyberselves Symposium, with contributions from technologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and cultural theorists looking at the future societal and ethical impacts of virtual reality and immersive technologies.
Dr Halpern is an assistant professor at the New School for Social Research/Eugene Lang College in History and an affiliate in the Culture and Media Studies Department and in the Design Studies MA program at Parsons the New School of Design. In her work, she studies the histories of digital technologies, cybernetics, the human and cognitive sciences, and design. She especially focuses on histories of big data, interactivity, and ubiquitous computing.

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From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops
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Orit Halpern
Keywords
virtual reality; cyberselves; ethics
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 16/11/2015
Duration: 01:01:40

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Virtually anything goes: what, if any, are the ethical limits on behaviour in virtual worlds?

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From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops
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Talk delivered at 2015 Cyberselves Symposium, with contributions from technologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and cultural theorists looking at the future societal and ethical impacts of virtual reality and immersive technologies.
Dr Whitby is a philosopher and ethicist at the University of Sussex, working on the social impact of new and emerging technologies. He is a leading researcher in the field and the author of many books, chapters and papers on the subject including “On Computable Morality”, “Reflections on Artificial Intelligence: The Legal, Moral and Ethical Dimensions and “Artificial Intelligence, A Beginner’s Guide”. Dr Whitby is a member of the Strategic Ethics Committee of BCS The Chartered Institute of IT and ethical advisor to the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops
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Blay Whitby
Keywords
virtual reality; ethics;
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 16/11/2015
Duration: 00:23:37

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The Heart and the Head, the full evening of science, storytelling, and music

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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
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An evening of storytelling and music where researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, the Jenner Institute, and Cancer Research UK came together to tell stories about their lives as scientists, with live musical accompaniment.
On the 10th of October 2015, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, with support from Cancer Research UK and The Wellcome Trust, put on an evening of storytelling and music where researchers from the Centre, the Jenner Institute, and Cancer Research UK came together to tell stories about their lives as scientists, with live musical accompaniment from Oxford-based folk band “James Bell and the Half Moon All Stars”. It took place under the dinosaurs at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and our speakers were Irina Pulyakhina (WTCHG), Anna Fowler (WTCHG), Erwan Atcheson (Jenner), Portia Westall (WTCHG), and Daniel Bulte (CRUK). This track contains the entire evening, but you can listen to specific sections of it in the other tracks in this series.
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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
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Erwan Atcheson
Daniel Bulte
Anna Fowler
Brian Mackenwells
Irina Pulyakhina
Portia Westall
James Bell and the Half Moon All Stars
Keywords
genetics
scientists
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 16/11/2015
Duration: 00:56:15

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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
In the first decades of the 21st century, researchers are beginning to understand in detail how our genetic inheritance makes us who we are. At the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, our aim is to extend that understanding in order to gain a clearer insight into mechanisms of health and disease. Looking across all three billion letters of the human genetic code, we aim to pinpoint variant spellings and discover how they increase or decrease an individual’s risk of falling ill.

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Is there a ‘right’ approach to family philanthropy?

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Philanthropy
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A talk by Dr Ineke Koele at the Oxford Centre for the Study of Philanthropy, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.
Dr Ineke Koele talks about family philanthropy at the Oxford Centre for the Study of Philanthropy Seminars 2015/16

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Philanthropy
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David Gann
Ineke Koele
Keywords
philanthropy
family
wealth
foundation
succession
Department: Green Templeton College
Date Added: 16/11/2015
Duration: 00:43:17

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Putting the Higgs Boson in its Place

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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Professor Melissa Franklin talks about her experiences working towards the discovery of the Higgs Boson and her work today at the Large Hadron Collider

This entertaining lecture by experimental particle physicist, Professor Melissa Franklin (the first woman to achieve tenure in the Harvard Physics Department), is the latest in the Charles Simonyi annual lecture series. This series was set up in 1999 in order to promote the public understanding of Science

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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Melissa Franklin
Marcus du Sautoy
Keywords
Higgs Boson
simonyi
oxford playhouse
Department: Mathematical Institute
Date Added: 16/11/2015
Duration:

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What is e-Research? Introducing the Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster

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Wolfson College Podcasts
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Introducing a new strategic collaboration between Wolfson College and the Oxford e-Research Centre.
A series of short informal talks to introduce members of the College to the range of work across the disciplines at the OeRC, with Acting President of Wolfson College, Christina Redfield
The Wolfson Digital Research Cluster (Donna Kurtz, Director, Digital Research Cluster)
The Oxford e-Research Centre (David De Roure, Director of the OeRC)
Signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Collaboration by the Acting President and David De Roure
Self-Introductions: three OeRC Associate Directors who have recently joined the College will talk briefly about their work
Andrew Richards: e-Infrastruture, High Performance Computing, Supercomputing for Research
Wesley Armour: Novel Architectures, Scientific Computing, Models and Simulation
Susanna-Assunta Sansone: Data Curation, Management and Publication More current research at the OeRC
Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller: Linked Data for Musicology
Sarah Sparrow: Volunteer Computing to Simulate Climate and Extreme Weather

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Wolfson College Podcasts
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Christina Redfield
David De Roure
Andrew Richards
Wesley Armour
Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller
Sarah Sparrow
Keywords
computing
research
internet
crowd sourcing
Department: Wolfson College
Date Added: 16/11/2015
Duration: 00:43:56

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'Clues' part 2 - Watching penguins

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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How do you understand how large populations of penguins on Antarctica change? And how can you use this information to protect penguins?
Dr Tom Hart runs the 'Penguin Watch' project that gives people from all over the world the chance to help researchers keep tabs on what penguins on Antarctica are up to. This gives researchers a good understanding of how well penguins are doing. They can also use other techniques to fully understand what sorts of things affect penguin populations. In this podcast Tom Hart discusses how all this information can be pieced together, and ultimately might help inform policies to help protect penguin populations.

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Tom Hart
Keywords
biology
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 16/11/2015
Duration: 00:10:45

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A Fascination with Vision: What nature can teach us

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St Hugh's College
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Professor Anthony Watts, C W Maplethorpe Fellow in Biological Sciences delivers a very interesting lecture entitled 'A Fascination with Vision: What nature can teach us'.
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St Hugh's College
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Anthony Watts
Keywords
vision
optics
lenses
biology
biochemistry
Department: St Hugh's College
Date Added: 12/11/2015
Duration: 00:50:14

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How well are children in Sudan taught to read compared to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Results of a National Learning Assessment.

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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Seminar looking at education in Sudan and other North African countries.
This seminar examines the development of a National Learning Assessment in Sudan and reports on the findings of its first study. We know that National Learning Assessments can play an important role in demonstrating the efficiency of investments in education, help governments to monitor the effectiveness of educational interventions and policies, and address issues related to equity and to provision. It is largely through frequently repeated assessments of learning achievement that policy makers can tell the extent to which investments in education do in fact result in educational progress. Without such repeated measures there can be little understanding of trends in student learning outcomes and as such, robust evidence to guide policy and investment in education will remain elusive.
The first study sought to establish how well students had been taught to read and to carry out basic mathematical operations in the early years of schooling in Sudan. The achievements of Grade 3 students in Sudan are compared with children of a similar age and stage of schooling in 5 other Arabic speaking countries. The findings point to deep and worrying learning deficits across the region.

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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David Johnson
Keywords
education
Africa
Sudan
politics
Department: Department of Education
Date Added: 12/11/2015
Duration: 00:44:44

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