Excellence and innovation; last chance to nominate for Scottish housing awards
Scotland’s housing sector is gearing up for this year’s Excellence Awards; 17 categories celebrating the best and most innovative projects. Closing date for nominations is tomorrow (8 September, 4pm). The...
Hey you! Digital leaders; it’s time to take a fresh look at libraries
Next week, I am hosting three seminars in London, Glasgow and Cardiff – the Library Global Excellence Tour – on the subject of regional and national digital library transformation. The...
Helping to deliver the next generation of mobile
Ordnance Survey is working with partners to build a ‘digital twin’ of the real worldThe next generation 5G network will provide the extra bandwidth needed to connect thousands of sensors...
The highlights from Barcelona
Showcasing the latest digital products and services emerging from Scotland’s tech sectorThe technology industry held its annual conference at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona earlier this month. Showcasing, celebrating...
Are we human? Or are we robots; one day you may not know the difference
As experts from across the world gather in Edinburgh the spotlight is on our expertise in roboticsResearchers in Scotland have developed expertise in robotics that positions the country as a...
Making a point, 15bn times
A huge cloud of data is generating a 3D world of Charles Rennie MackintoshOn the morning of Saturday 24 May 2014, as firemen watched over the smouldering remains of The...
The real deal in virtual expertise
Scotland is nurturing global players in virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligenceMartin McDonnell remembers being lifted as a child so that he could reach to play on Atari’s arcade...
Phew, we can all rest easily. Quadrature amplitude modulation means we can carry on uploading cat videos for the next decade.
University of Glasgow working with Chinese counterparts to speed up the webIn a 21st century dominated by digital communications, it seems rather counterintuitive to imagine that the internet we all...
Need to know when the kids are almost home from school? There’ll be an app for that soon
First Group is trialling new software that will send bus notification alerts to parentsFrom a fairly ordinary local bus company bought out by managers when the market was deregulated in...
An app to predict earthquakes
Geosciences and informatics combineA smartphone app could allow people living in some of the world’s worst earthquake hotspots to know whether their homes are at risk of collapse. The digital...
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