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DRM explained
Digital & Computing

DRM explained

...systems. DRM you can think of as a digital lock behind which resides the file that you want to play. Some people like to think of it as a digital fence or a digital straightjacket and the digital file, the movie or the music or the book or whatever is locked inside this. To be able to get access to it you need to have a player which contains the key to the lock which will...
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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...thinking, coupled with ecological design principles, provides us with essential tools for system observation and analysis and designing with an acceptance of change, uncertainty and the need for continuous learning with diverse knowledge holders. Resilience also invites us to design with humility and anticipation in the destabilised biosphere. References Anderies, J.M....
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Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...think we might also, more importantly have systems that we can play with, which are working models, which will help us get much deeper understanding of ourselves. For instance, I would like to see every psychology department teaching A.I. and having A.I. tool kits where the pupils can play with systems with simulated emotions and simulated perception, in order to get a...
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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...system, a subset of what we call feedbacks that we think are governing the temperature that are in the more physical ocean atmosphere parts of the climate, where our best guess might still be they could give you 3 degrees warming if you doubled the carbon level in the atmosphere, but if we think about longer-term parts of the system, the melt of ice sheets, the response...
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Markets in crisis
Society, Politics & Law

Markets in crisis

...systems. Economist and Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen along with leading experts in the field discuss re-thinking the social, economic and political systems we have in place today. This material forms part of The Open University course DD309 Doing economics: people, markets and policy... Markets in Crisis A short introduction to this album Human motivation during a global...
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IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...of data by electronic means. Let us give you some examples. In a landline telephone system, messages are conveyed as signals on wires. The message is conveyed electronically. Manipulation of data takes place when you speak into the phone – your words are transformed into electronic signals. The data is then conveyed through the phone system, stored briefly for further processing on the way, and ......
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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...system, informed by the ways of thinking and knowing (epistemologies) located at such sites, with a view to undermining the asymmetry of local- global power relationships, and effecting the decentring of Eurocentric/ Western-centric universals. However, to return to the original question, “what does it mean to decolonise computing?”, I think there is also a need to...
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Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth
Education & Development

Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth

...thinking more expansively about sources, look in more detail at sources in todays’ digital environment. To conclude, I will share one of my favourite books with you, favourite in part due to its readability, combined with extensive use of referencing. Sources can be many and varied Typically for assignment writing you will expect and be expected to provide appropriate...
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