Orchid Project

A new delivery concept uses the location of random strangers to TwedEx parcels directly to you – wherever you are
JANE yawns and climbs the stairs from the subway at 145th Street, New York. She’s almost home. A stranger rises from a bench as she approaches, catching her eye. “Jane Murphy?”...

A team of researchers from the University of Southampton have designed a new tool to intelligently combine nuclear radioactivity data in Japan. The technology harnesses the power of crowdsourced radiation data; an innovative resource which became available after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
During March 2011, the second-largest nuclear emergency since...

PROV, a worldwide specification for provenance of information on the Web, has reached a key milestone, with the publication of a standard thanks to the work of an international group led by a University of Southampton professor.
Professor Luc Moreau, from Web and Internet Science in Electronics and Computer Science, is...

Households are being encouraged to take part in a new project by the University of Southampton to help reduce their energy bills.
Rising energy prices combined with falling winter temperatures provide a powerful incentive for us to find ways of reducing our energy bills.
According to researchers at the University of Southampton,...

PROV a worldwide specification for provenance of information on the Web has reached a key milestone on the road to standardisation thanks to the work of an international group led by a University of Southampton professor.
Professor Luc Moreau, from Web and Internet Science in Electronics and Computer Science, is co-chair...

Article on the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nr1v1/Sunday_Politics_London_11_11_2012/ at minute 50:49 onwards.

ECS researchers are developing a smartphone app that will be able to help conservationists discover if a highly endangered insect has become extinct or not.
The New Forest cicada (Cicadetta Montana) is native to Britain but has not been spotted or heard from for more than a decade.
But Dr Alex Rogers,...

Gary in Sales is today’s worst offender, again. He’s clocked up 2.3 kilowatt hours (kWh) this time, a personal worst. He never switches off his PC before he leaves work, and keeps a personal kettle.
More surprising is that Sue in marketing is not far behind him at 2.1kWh. But then...

Researchers from Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton are designing incentives for collection and verification of information to make crowdsourcing more reliable.
Crowdsourcing is a process of outsourcing tasks to the public, rather than to employees or contractors. In recent years, crowdsourcing has provided an unprecedented ability...

Researchers from the University of Southampton are designing incentives for collection and verification of information to make crowdsourcing more reliable.
Crowdsourcing is a process of outsourcing tasks to the public, rather than to employees or contractors. In recent years, crowdsourcing has provided an unprecedented ability to accomplish tasks that require the...