Multi-user Environment Programmer, AI, Programming, Philosophy, Knowledge Exchange, Pedagogy
Sam came to Imagination Lancaster after studying Intelligent Systems and Philosophy, with an independent study specialising in modelling empathy as a function. He has a wide and varied background in many academic disciplines with unions on the theme of mind and intelligence, especially agent-based and emergent systems.
He is currently working as part of the New IDEAs team realising creative toolkits for use in digital knowledge exchange. Sam’s likes to indulge his mind-bits in activities such as reading sci-fi, writing and performing poetry, singing sea shanties and old chain-gang blues songs, balancing chairs on his chin and drawing famous people as otters.
The digital tools being developed as part of the New IDEAS project have been seeing increasing use over the past months. Last week saw major test of the system with the first use of the digital tools outside of the Imagination Laboratory and with the largest number of people using the system at one time so far
After six months or so of technical development, we are now creating the first tools that run on our digital KE platform
Multi-user platform in development, allowing collaborative data to be created and visualised using a suite of software and hardware tools
The aim of New IDEAS is to develop, refine and disseminate highly innovative knowledge exchange approaches to local, academic, creative industries and stakeholders that are not dependent on delivery by staff from Imagination for success
An interactive conference, which took place on the 26th and 27th of September 2013 that explored academic engagement with the creative sector as part of The Creative Exchange project