Dick Sblog

I was listening to the radio this morning as I dragged myself into a new day. They were talking about developing autonomous military robots – killing machines that could be programmed to respect the Geneva Conventions.
This prompted two thoughts – firstly that computers are great at crunching numbers and making decisions based on rules. But [...]

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There’s an interesting discussion going on in ZD Net’s forum pages about the use of Google Apps in schools. For those of you not familiar with this bit of the Googlempire, it’s an online suite of applications that can be accessed on an anytime/from anywhere basis via a browser: it was one of the first [...]

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Take a look at the article ‘Grids and Kids‘ in the latest issue of the quarterly newsletter of the UK National Grid Service (NGS).
Georgina Ellis from SGI introduced Year 6 at her local primary school to the wonders of grid computing with a little help from the National Grid Service.
The NGS supports a number of [...]

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I recently applied for money to fund a project addressing the issue of work related learning. Predictably,  my approach was focused on distributed working. The growth in flexible/home based and distributed working is one of the most significant changes to working practice in recent years and with the pressure on to reduce travel costs and [...]

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