Orchid Project

Geomob is a series of monthly talks organised in London about crowd sourcing and location based mobile technologies. It involves Google, OpenSignal and OpenCage data among others. If you are working in this field, this is a great venue to advertise your work and discover new crowd sourcing projects. http://geomobldn.org/

ICWSM is the main AAAI conference on web and social media. This year, they’ve decided to release some of the datasets which were used by some of the authors. This could be really useful for some of us: http://icwsm.org/2013/datasets/datasets/ Gopal

MSR develop an agent to answer questions posted on twitter. The agent uses crowdsourcing – very much a HAC! http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/merrie/papers/crowdsourced_qna_icwsm2013.pdf Dr. Sarvapali D. Ramchurn Lecturer (Roberts Fellow), Agents, Interaction, and Complexity Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ t: +44 (0) 2380599309 w: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/sdr

http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1370

Interesting analysis of the energy bill going to the house of lords:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/10107478/MPs-want-to-turn-your-lights-off.-A-shame-no-one-told-you.html Sent from my iPhone

Getting closer to smart homes… http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/04/wi-fi-signals-enable-gesture-recognition-throughout-entire-home/ Sent from my iPad

A short blog post on our awarded CHI paper ‘At Home with Agents: Exploring Attitudes towards Future Smart Energy Infrastructures’ is at http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~jef/?p=57. Visit the post to view the video and download the full paper.

“Two new features for the Nest thermostat could help customers and utilities reduce energy consumption. At the Bloomberg Energy Finance conference held on Earth Day 2013 in New York City, Nest Labs introduced a set of energy services that will allow electric utilities across the country to manage electricity demand. This concept, known as demand […]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22214511 Gopal

The 28 of February saw students fromSouthampton, Nottingham and Oxford gathering in the heights (8thfloor) of Oxford’s Engineering Department to attend the first in asequence of student-led events to come. The idea of theseevents is to have a sequence of seminar-type days that bring togetherall students involved in Orchid. With contents being decided upon bythe […]