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Hay On Wye, innovation and the US ambassador to the UK – or why Instagram isn’t as interesting an innovation exemplar as Eastman Kodak.

@rodgerlea I recently attended a talk on Innovation at the annual Hay On Wye literary festival. A strange place for an innovation talk you might think, and to a certain extent you’re right. It wasn’t quite what I expected, and certainly light on content. It was, however, interesting to hear what the US ambassador to the UK thought about innovation as well as his role in explaining the US’s position to UK citizens. At one point, the interviewer, Alec Ross,…

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Call for papers – Smart City Workshop at Ubicomp 2015

Call For Papers: The First International Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology and Data Extended deadlines: June 5th, 2015: Submission Deadline June 29th, 2015: Acceptance Notification July 10th, 2015: Camera-ready Due September 7th, 2015: Workshop Day Workshop Homepage: http://www.ht.sfc.keio.ac.jp/iwsc15/ The 1st International Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology and Data will be held in conjunction with the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2015) in Osaka, Japan on from Sep. 7-11, colocated with ISWC 2015. Accepted…

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