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Transparent calculator, or socially aware computing?

October 12, 2007

The Design Museum has Jonathon Barnbrook’s Friendly Fire exhibition. Other than the iconic images and great fonts (and the wonderful Olympukes), two things stood out for me. First, argument about the notion of the “transparent communicator”: The idea of the designer ‘transparent communicator’ is redundant. It was formulated before the rise of corporate power, globilisation, […]

Computing Ethics meet Computing Sustainability

October 2, 2007

Computing ethics met computing sustainability at the weekend when we had lunch with Don Gotterbarn and Sylvia Nagl. Don was the lead author on most of what we recognise as computing’s codes of ethics (see my notes) while Sylvia’s work in complex systems is pushing the limits of computing. Don was in London on ACM/IFIP […]

No power recharges the batteries

September 28, 2007

I’ve been on holiday with the kids and my father around the Southern Scenic Route, ending with a few days in Hollyford. Hollyford is about as remote as you can get but is wonderful. We went there a lot in the eighties but for some reason I hadn’t been back. One of the attractions of […]

SHaC09 spawns green challenge for computing students

September 12, 2007

I’ve previously posted about the Sustainable Habitat Challenge. This is the New Zealand sustainable building challenge to be held over the next couple of years. I’m on the SHaC steering committee. This gave us the opportunity to volunteer to develop the computer system to support the teams and administration of ShaC. This work is being […]

ElectroCity – fears confirmed

September 11, 2007

I’ve spent two days playing ElectroCity. Engaging? Yes. Balanced? No. Green? Not even nearly. Prompted by TreeHugger’s praise then questioning of ElectroCity, I posted a review of the instructions to the game. Today, let’s play the game with green glasses. The starting point for the game is a low population in a rural area, serviced […]