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LILAC 2023: Conference report from CityLIS attendee Sumedhaa Hariram

This conference report is from Sumedhaa Hariram, who is studying MSc Information Science with CityLIS during the academic year 22/23. Sumedhaa won a CityLIS sponsored place to attend LILAC 2023, 19th-21st April at the University of Cambridge, and we are … Continue reading

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I don’t think we’re amphibians…

The Student Perspectives category collects posts written by current CityLIS students. Liberty Alleston considers Floridi’s paper A Proxy Culture (2015), and discusses whether we are amphibians, or something altogether different: Tiktaaliks. In Floridi’s A Proxy Culture (2015), he ends his paper with “we … Continue reading

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Data and Booth’s London Poverty Maps

The Student Perspectives category collects posts written by current CityLIS students. Cat O’Carroll looks at processes of large data collecting, prior to the digital era, specifically to the work of Charles Booth and his descriptive maps of London Poverty in … Continue reading

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The Romantic Computer

The Student Perspectives category collects posts written by current CityLIS students. Simon Gardner discusses Romanticism, Ada Lovelace, and her influence in the birth of computer programming. *** Having focused on Romanticism in my previous Masters dissertation in English Literature, I … Continue reading

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Antikythera mechanism: The first analog computer

The Student Perspectives category collects posts written by current CityLIS students. Carlos Woodcock investigates one of the oldest known analog computers, believed to have been created sometime around 200 BCE – 150 BCE. *** As we study the men and … Continue reading

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