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Steam’s up for the Prime Minister
Well that was an interesting afternoon. We’ve been to the opening of the Emperor’s Dragons at the Otago Museum. Then, after nearly 90 minutes of speeches (being translated three ways), Phil and I dashed to the Dunedin Gas Works Museum for for another function. The reason for the busyness was the Prime Minister. […]
Dealing with the devil? Sponsorship ethics for LivingCampus
September 16, 2008
Our colleague Brian has a jacket for a favourite race-car team. It has fascinated me since he got it. What sort of negotiation went on that sees a smoking company and a quit-smoking company jostling for position on the same arm? Brian’s jacket has been on my mind the last couple of days following […]
Footprints and longfins
September 9, 2008
Last night we went to a talk by Metiria Turei about the dramatic collapse in New Zealand’s endemic eel population, the longfin in particular. Metiria showed an outstanding film by students from the Science and Natural History filmmaking programme of the the Centre for Science Communication. Lindsay Davidson and Melissa Salpietra’s Longfin (mp4 24mins) is a […]
Processes and entities for eLivingCampus
September 8, 2008
We’ve moved beyond – “we’re building a map/kiosk/database of the livingcampus” to “we’re building a system to support the management of the living campus – we’re focussing on school groups, for example a school group of thirty year 4s will be visiting the living campus to undertake activities that fit in with both what is […]
Biomimicry as a super systems metaphor for software engineering?
September 4, 2008
This post is from a paper we presented recently. It combines ideas from several earlier posts (especially this one). Mann, S. , Smith, L.G. (2008) Biomimicry as a super systems metaphor for software engineering? Supplmentary Proceedings of the 21st NACCQ. 287-296 Abstract This paper examines the use of biomimicry in software engineering. By adopting […]
Computing for Sustainability 
September 16, 2008
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