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#ProveMeWrong "Smart 3D" brings Perspective to Excel Chart Styles

#ProveMeWrong “Smart 3D” brings Perspective to Excel Chart Styles

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After 4 years Offline

After 4 years Offline

It was anything but easy to put my online life on hold! BUT ‘thinking slowly’, with coloured pens and graph paper, resulted in #PrimeNumbers in #AmazingColourPatterns. And thus a new era is beginning. In German it’s called #LebensAufgabe, my ‘task of life’. And being in Germany means more respect for women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). So we’ll see what Life has up…

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Humans set Limits, Machines Crunch Numbers. From #AI to #SmartKnowledge? @turinginst @DameWendyDBE

This was another superb Turing Lecture: AI through the Looking Glass by Dame Wendy Hall DBE at the Knowledge Centre of the British Library, where the Alan Turing Institute is situated.

That’s where American Professor Lenore Blum said that girls only need more support to get into science and technology and she proved this at Carnegie Mellon University where she achieved a 50/50 balance. Women do…

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#3DMetrics for #SmartKnowledge from #Images and Multi-Dimensional Data

Our Software as a Service is not open for business yet. But we do invite people to share our excitement, especially potential technology and training partners who can see the value immediately.

For we now have:

Smart Knowledge dot Space to describe our Smart Knowledge Engine and its implications with articles and screenshots;

Smart Knowledge Portals as a landing page for our three new…

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Does Agile deliver the Promised Solutions? #agile @DigiLeaders

Does Agile deliver the Promised Solutions? #agile @DigiLeaders

Yesterday’s Digital Leaders‘ Salon was one of those exquisite events again I LOVE to attend: superb venues, an excellent format with great rules of communication and a great opportunity for networking individually.

Two lead discussionists from the Cabinet Office and AXELOS– promoting global best practice – set the scene in rather a provocative fashion which I can accentuate, due to my own…

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Algorithms with Societal Impact and Data Analytics for Human Health @RoyalSociety

Algorithms with Societal Impact and Data Analytics for Human Health @RoyalSociety

The morning’s session began with Professor Karen Yeung from King’s College chairing. She is co-author of Law, Regulation and Technology: the Field, Frame and Focal Questions. Isn’t that interesting for us in the Law Special Interest Group at the British Computer Society?

John Quinn spoke about Machine learning and the humanitarian information gap. He works for UN Global Pulseand thus I learned…

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The Growing Ubiquity of Algorithms in Society: Implications, Impacts and Innovations @RoyalSociety

The Growing Ubiquity of Algorithms in Society: Implications, Impacts and Innovations @RoyalSociety

This event at the Royal Society made me really feel at home!

The first session covered Machine Learning and The Law.

It started with an introduction by Professor Sofia Olhede, one of the organisers, and a presentation by Christina Blacklaws from the Law Society who sits also on the Family Justice Council, on Transparency and Accountability.

Her presentation was followed by Marion Oswaldwho…

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Fifty Years of Learning from #Data Prof. Robert Calderbank #TuringLecture @TuringInst

Fifty Years of Learning from #Data Prof. Robert Calderbank #TuringLecture @TuringInst

Professor Robert Calderbank came from Duke University in North Carolina to deliver this superb overview over the past 50 years and how data science is the result of that development.

Having created the Information Initiative @ Duke, he presented the Data+ program that attracts undergraduates in an interdisciplinary way and prepares them for their careers. 

He ‘sells’ them as teams of three rather…

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From Computing to Visualising or from Numbers to Pixels @AlanTuringInst

From Computing to Visualising or from Numbers to Pixels @AlanTuringInst

Recently I had the great pleasure of listening to Prof. Lenore Blum‘s talk about Alan Turing and the Other Theory of Computation at the Knowledge Centre of the British Library.

For me, this talk was particularly significant, because it juxtaposed:-

Turing with Newton;

Logic / Computer Science with Numerical Analysis / Scientific Computing;

computable numbers with the intrinsic size of an input…

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Time for Change: A New Vision for the British Economy #EconomicJustice @IPPR

This event was organised at Church House in Westminster to launch the Interim Report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice.

The conference room is decorated by a plaque to commemorate the war years when Churchill appealed to the “proudest assertion of British freedom and the expression of an unquestionable national will.” – Is that alive in today’s globalised world?

Tom Kibasi, the IPPR…

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Mona Lisa re-visualised as a movable object in ‘True Colour 3D’ opens her eyes when tilted

“Your images are stunningly good” wrote Dr Martin Kemp – Chair of the Institute of Materials.

“Very promising technology” came from an associate of the National Institute for Health Research.

Maybe science needs art to allow for conceptual quantum leaps rather than incremental step changes for innovation?

Or do men need reminding of Faust’s: The eternal Feminine draws us upward so that STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths] can embrace the Arts and become STEAM? This Guardian article says: Innovation is born when Arts meets Science or as Matt Ridley suggests in this TED talk, when ideas have sex.

Here are links to the paintings re-visualised by our Smart Knowledge Engine – a work in progress – in our unique True Colour 3D – with a few samples from Tate Britain:

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Mona Lisa

Marilyn Monroe.

Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroes seem to stick their tongues out when they are being tilted and shown in different angles and perspectives.

Here I present the engine on video as I am thinking of a Digital Renaissance.

And here are the latest microscopic images to help the diagnosis of asthma as the most common childhood disease:

a flue virus

and trachea cells.

In the spirit of a ‘digital renaissance’, here are some images of touch tables in galleries that would make our re-visualisations very exciting as movable 3D objects:

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And here are paintings from the Tate website – as original and re-visualised:

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Girl in a Meadow 1880 William Stott of Oldham 1857-1900 Presented by R. Temperley through the Art Fund 1939 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05031

Re-visualised on http://www.smart-knowledge-portals.uk/projects/423

Ophelia 1851-2 Sir John Everett Millais, Bt 1829-1896 Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N01506

Re-visualised on http://www.smart-knowledge-portals.uk/projects/424

The Shipwreck exhibited 1805 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N00476

Re-visualised on http://www.smart-knowledge-portals.uk/projects/425

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@DigiLeaders #CityHall Working better together to deliver #PublicSector #DigitalTransformation across #London

@DigiLeaders #CityHall Working better together to deliver #PublicSector #DigitalTransformation across #London

I had no idea who the speakers would be at this Grand Salon. But, once again, Digital Leaders put an excellent event together, with respect to:

choice of venue: City Hall – slightly too strongly air conditioned on this hot day;

choice of Chair: Charlotte Holloway whom I had met at techUK meetings and who’s now joined Public.io;

choice of speakers:

Andrew Collinge– setting up the London Office for…

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DIGITAL TOWN HALL: Co-Creating #SmartLondon - @SmartCitizenKit in @Digi_Town and #SmartCity

DIGITAL TOWN HALL: Co-Creating #SmartLondon – @SmartCitizenKit in @Digi_Town and #SmartCity

Digital Town Hall: Co-Creating a Smart London took place on Tuesday, 13 June 2017, in the historic Town Hall of Bethnal Green that has become a hotel and event venue.

The meeting was organised by Robert Monster, CEO of Digital Town who calls himself an ‘enlightened capitalist’ and introduced IoP as the Internet of … PEOPLE!

To my delight, I also saw a slide on Public Private PEOPLE Partnerships!

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