Innovative Learning Week 2016
The University’s programme for Innovative Learning Week, 15-19 February 2016, includes a series of exciting events from Informatics.
Innovative Learning Week aims to inspire, support and celebrate creative learning at the University of Edinburgh. The theme for 2016 is Ideas in Play.
Events organised by Informatics include:
- Smart Data Hack
- School of HeatHack
- Learn to Code
- Artificial Intelligence in the Cinema
- Configuring & managing the Informatics computing systems
- Scottish dancing as computation / process (workshop).
Smart Data Hack
Up for a challenge? Work in a team throughout Innovative Learning Week to create innovative responses to real-world challenges, drawing on your combined skills in digital technology, business analysis, ethnography and design.
This event runs for all five days of Innovative Learning Week, so if you book please expect to be involved for the whole week.
Date: Monday-Friday, 15-19 February 2016
Start 9am. Finish 5pm
Venue: Forrest Hill
Eligibility: Academic staff, all students
Contact: Professor Ewan Klein.
More information on the Smart Data Hack website
School of HeatHack
Want to practice your soldering skills, learn about how to monitor thermal comfort in a building, and help the local community? In this event, we'll be using temperature and humidity sensors, microcontrollers, radios and Raspberry Pis to build a monitoring network in a day. You can then follow our progress in using it to help community buildings solve their heating problems! Please note: attendees need to have used a soldering iron before.
Date: Monday 15 February 2016
Start 10am. Finish 4pm
Venue: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh
Eligibility: All – but please note: attendees need to have used a soldering iron before.
Contact: Dr Jean Carletta.
More information on the School of HeatHack website
Learn to Code
Are you curious about coding but never had the opportunity to try it out? This hands-on workshop will introduce you to the basics of computer programming in Scratch, a fun and easy to use programming platform.
Date: Monday 15 February 2016
Start 11am. Finish 2pm.
Venue: CodeBase, Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh EH3 9DR
Eligibility: All
Contact: Dr Areti Manataki.
Artificial Intelligence in the Cinema
Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly affects us, often without us knowing it. Cinema has been using AI to explore ideas of what it means to be human since the early movies. This event will show some fun movies that have AI at their core, raising questions and making important points, but in an interesting and entertaining manner. AI beyond Terminator.
This full-day event will consist of 6-8 movies (based partly on student nominations), plus 2 short talks and a short panel discussion responding to questions from the audience.
Date: Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Start: 10am. Finish: 11pm
Venue: Informatics Forum, G.07
Eligibility: All staff, all students
Contact: Bob Fisher.
More information for University staff/students (accessible only inside ed.ac.uk domain)
Configuring & managing the Informatics computing systems
This is a hands-on workshop session with the ‘LCFG’ tool which is used to configure and manage our Informatics computing systems (as well as others in the University).
Date: Wednesday 17 February 2016
Start 10am. Finish 1pm
Venue: to be confirmed
Eligibility: All Informatics students
Contact: Paul Anderson.
Scottish dancing as computation / process (workshop)
Scottish dances (ceilidh and similar) can be thought of as a biological, chemical or computational process: the position of the Dancers is the state, and the figures change this state.
Date: Wednesday, 17 February, 2016
Start 1pm. Finish 3pm
Venue: to be confirmed
Eligibility: All
Contact: Daniel Franzen.
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