Book Launch – Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
In the seminar, Ben Collier will introduce the new book, Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (MIT Press, 2024).
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Project Deep Dive: David Williamson Shaffer
Digital Scholarship Centre Main Library, University of Edinburgh, EdinburghChatGPT and the other new advances in artificial intelligence have the potential to change work, education, and even what it means to “think” in the first place. In this talk, Professor David Williamson Shaffer looks at what AI is (and isn’t), its impact on what and how we learn, and how AI can change what ... Read more
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Creative Feedback: The Feats and Failures of Technology
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomTo what extent can human creators exercise control on the technological tools they are using? And how does the control that technology exerts on them influence the creative process?
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Liquidity and execution: The resiliency effect on institutional trading costs
Room 1.60, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom +1 moreDr Petko Kalev discusses why resiliency is an important dimension of market liquidity. For University staff and students only.
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Imagining AI: computing stories in a museum context
Research Suite – 6th Floor, University of Edinburgh Main Library 30 George Square, EdinburghHear a project deep dive from Ursula Martin on Imagining AI: computing stories in a museum context.
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Where are AI’s publics?
Inspace 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomWhat role should the public have in shaping Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Should the public have a voice in how AI is being developed and used, and how it’s governed and regulated? And how might a diverse cross section of the public be involved in the decisions made by big tech, regulatory bodies, and local and national government?
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How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of AI
Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh 2 Blenheim Place, EdinburghJoin us to celebrate publication of Shannon Vallor's latest work The AI Mirror, one of the most important books we can read right now to find our way through the AI-hype headlines and harness its power to reinvigorate our sense of human agency and possibility.
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Digital Cultural Heritage at Edinburgh Futures Institute: Research Exchange
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomHear about some of the latest research and engagement projects led by the Digital Cultural Heritage Cluster members, make new connections and get inspired.
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Ethical responsibilities in displaying provocative AI artistic experiences
Bayes Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Room G.03 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United KingdomOur panel of artists, curators, and researchers explores how data-driven art raises new ethical provocations for curation and exhibition.
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Margaret Atwood: Practical Utopias – An Exploration of the Possible
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, this Future Tense event features Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.
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Madhumita Murgia & Georgina Voss: The Systems Which Govern Us
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, two fascinating technology writers reveal the disorientating extent to which we are already governed by AI and complex systems.
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James Crawford: Traces of the Past
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, join Shetland-born author James Crawford as he talks about his latest work, Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland.
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Words from the Wards: Jennifer Williams
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, hear stories capturing the memories and experiences of the Edinburgh Futures Institute building in its previous life as a hospital.
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A Conversation about the Edinburgh Conversations
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomFrom their personal knowledge, our conversationalists will discuss the success of the original Edinburgh Conversations in the 1980s, and how in the context of the current global situation, the approach might be replicated.
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Speculative Futures Meet-Up #3: Futures Boardgames
South Block 60-64 Osborne Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomSpeculative Futures Central Scotland is delighted to invite you to an in-person evening event about Futures Boardgames.
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FinTech Scotland Festival
Fintech Scotland Festival will take place between 25 September 2024 and 04 October 2024 across Scotland.
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Tech Tuesdays #3: Automation – Your New Business Partner
Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomExplore how automation and artificial intelligence could run the back office of your tourism or hospitality business.
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Open Methods for Digital Conservation of Historic Musical Instruments
Room 2.35, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghThis talk discusses work carried out at the NEMUS project on the topic of digital conservation of historic stringed instruments.
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Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Ameca
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomA panel event featuring author Jeanette Winterson, robotics expert Ingo Keller, and advanced humanoid robot Ameca.
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Wikidata, biographical lives, and linked infrastructures of women’s work 1870-1950
Room 0.10, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, EdinburghA project deep dive by James Baker, Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton.
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Literature is not a Luxury with Bernardine Evaristo
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomA conversation with award-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo about arts provision in the education system, the importance of creativity in young people, and how creativity positively impacts society as a whole.
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Rooting Decolonial Education: Routes for Repair and Liberation
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomAs part of Black History Month, this event will engage with Black presence and Black Studies in relation to education.
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The Future of Education: Crisis
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomThe intersecting, planetary-scale crises we face bring new urgency to the debate about the purpose of education. Climate catastrophe, widening inequalities, conflict, pathogen spillovers, new diseases, failures of governance and technology acceleration all challenge us to ask again what education might be, and what we need it to do.
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The Future of Education: Utopia
Edinburgh Futures Institute, Level 0 Event Space 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomPart of the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Futures Conversations series.
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