Founding the Foundry. What Computers Can Do - a Sceptical, Unreasonable and Creative Approach

College of Science

Speaker

Professor Tim Kindberg

Speaker's Biography

Tim is a computer scientist (a researcher rather than designer or developer) come digital technologist. He founded matter II media which produces Vorb, Nth Screen and other technologies for people to act collectively and creatively, based on his work on {urban, nomadic, ubiquitous, distributed, crowd} computing.

He’s based at the Pervasive Media Studio where he was research director. Tim has been a lecturer at South China University of Technology; senior lecturer at Queen Mary, London; visiting professor of computer science at ITU in Copenhagen and the University of Bath; and a senior researcher at HP Labs, Bristol and Palo Alto.

In his spare time he writes fiction and poetry, and blogs about technology and society at matter II media.

From: 16 Jan 2018, 12:30 p.m.
To: 16 Jan 2018, 1:30 p.m.
Location: Science Central, 1st Floor, Wallace Building, Park Campus

Join us for an informal lunchtime lecture by Tim Kindberg, titled ‘What Computers Can Do: A Sceptical, Unreasonable and Creative Approach’ on Tuesday 16th January, 12:30-1:30pm at Science Central (first floor of the Wallace Building) at Swansea University’s Singleton Campus.

This lecture is aimed at a general audience and open to anyone, and a free lunch and refreshments are provided.


Contact: Julia Harrison (Email: J.F.Harrison@Swansea.ac.uk)


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