IOP talk on Geoengineering

The next talk in this session of IOP lectures at the Royal Society of Edinburgh will be on TUESDAY 8th March at 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh.

Prof. Andy Ridgwell (University of Bristol) will present a talk titled: Geoengineering: Experiment Earth

View the talk abstract: http://www.eps.hw.ac.uk/~phydtr/IOPinEdinburgh2010.pdf

As usual, the talk is open to non-members of the Institute of Physics and all attendees are invited to a pre-lecture reception with sherry / soft drinks at 7pm and the talk will begin at 7.30pm.

Finally, if you don't know how to get there, please visit the following Royal Society of Edinburgh web page for directions: http://www.rse.org.uk/map/index.htm

26 April 2011 – Prof. Yvonne Rogers (The Open University)
Ubiquitous Computing: Being Human when Computers are Everywhere
Ubiquitous computing has arrived. The world we live in has become suffused with computers,
some visible, others hidden; from smartphones that enable you to track your friends and
family, to digital billboards that can sense the make-up of the crowd walking by, and target
ads specifically at them. Huge changes are afoot in how we access and interact with
information, and in how we learn, socialize and work. So much so that our lifestyles are
radically changing, raising the question of what it means to be human when everything we do
is supported or augmented by technology. In my talk, I will give an overview of the field,
contrasting the highly influential vision of Ubiquitous Computing set in the 90s by Weiser and
the stark realities and challenges we face today.