Panel session on open knowledge and energy data - http://okfestival.org/open-knowledge-and-sustainability/. It’s’ in Helsinki but will be webcast. Looks likely to focus on ways to open up energy data to consumers along the lines of midata (http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/consumer-issues/consumer-empowerment/personal-data) and the US Green Button initiative (http://www.greenbuttondata.org).
Technology and society: To what extent can social networking make it easier to find people and solve real-world problems? http://www.economist.com/node/21560977
http://www.templar.co.uk/downloads/Powerful_Targets.pdf discusses the cost of energy generation (per kWh) in future with decarbonisation and/or renewable targets. The future cost of energy is important to motivate our load deferral and other money savings recommendation in the agentswitch.
Just off the press: http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/26/drone-maker-parrot-invests-7-5-million-in-two-epfl-spin-offs-s/ The co-founder of Pix4D, Olivier Küng, is a friend former student and collaborator on d-touch.org from EPFL. For more information on the Parrot Drone see the Parrot website
BBC video on ORCHID research - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18581884
Nest Happy Homes Video – http://youtu.be/vLmFSloPmk8
IS YOUR Euro 2012 fantasy football team sliding down the league at an alarming rate? If you thought Chris from the office was hard to beat, watch out – soon you might be competing against a computer. Sarvapali Ramchurn, a computer scientist at the University of Southampton, UK, and colleagues have developed an artificial football […]
A smartphone application, enabling people in the middle of riots to find safety, has been shown off at the TEDGlobal event in Edinburgh. The app has been developed by Salvatore Iaconesi, a newly created TED Fellow. The software, not yet publicly released, takes data from a range of social networks and uses it to let […]
This report by the Energy Saving Trust came out today on UK domestic electricity usage. It has quite a few statistics on household-level electricity consumption, and also lots of information on individual appliance energy consumption and usage frequency. http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/Publications2/Corporate/Research-and-insights/Powering-the-nation-household-electricity-using-habits-revealed Oli Parson
Nick Jennings on agents and humans in ZDnet – Turing’s thinking machines http://m.zdnet.com/blog/btl/what-happened-to-turings-thinking-machines/80639
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