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New app released: Self-Heal
A new app has been created by one of the student IT Innovation Challenges projects. Self-Heal is a free tool that guides the management and reduction of self-injury. It can be used anonymously and independently, to enable users to take … Continue reading
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Summer update
Some may think that summer is a quiet period where it comes to activities at the University. For the IT Innovation Challenges, however, the summer is a very busy period. Having competed the third 2015/16 challenge in June (see Spring … Continue reading
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IT Innovation get-together
Inspired by comments at the latest kick-off meeting, IT Innovation held an informal get-together for current projects on July 27. Despite summer being upon us, nine projects were able to attend and contributed by sharing experiences and ideas over cake … Continue reading
Bringing the Zooniverse to Facebook
— By Roger Hutchings — Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers — hundreds of thousands of people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers. … Continue reading
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June update
June started with the pitch event for the Spring 2016 challenge. The panel was impressed by the ideas and presentations, and offered funding to five projects, four of which have now signed the official award agreement (the fifth project has … Continue reading
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Spring 2016 – successful projects
Following the IT Innovation pitch event on June 1st, these projects have been offered and accepted funding: Diversifying the University Voice – researcher/student mobile trails. Based at TORCH in collaboration with the Pitt Rivers Museum (abstract) Effective Computing for Research Reproducibility. … Continue reading
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go_girl Symposium
(by Anne Geniets) go_girl: code + create is an interdisciplinary project at the Department of Education. In line with Oxford’s targets in its Access Agreement with the Office for Fair Access, the project set out to complement existing programmes aimed … Continue reading
IT Innovation Challenges 2016/17 to be suspended for staff
Following a meeting of IT Committee on Monday 18 April where the financial challenges faced by the University and particular the IT Capital Plan were discussed, it was decided that for 16/17 the IT Innovation Challenges for staff will be … Continue reading
May update
In the lovely month of Maying, activities for IT Innovation Challenges have centred on new projects. Some of the student projects have started and are making good progress. Others are not due to run until the summer, but even there … Continue reading
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CabiNET
The CabiNET project (also known as Between Text and Object), funded by the IT Innovation Challenges in the Trinity term round 2015, recently presented their work in a talk for the Research Uncovered series, organised by the Centre for Digital … Continue reading