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ESRC Science Festival and SerenA
Hi all, As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, we would like to invite you to attend our interactive event at Nottingham Castle on Friday 8th November 2013. Our event will explore information sharing and connection-making based on the SerenA ...
Serendipity. Let’s talk numbers…
A guest blog post by Abigail McBirnie, who completed her PhD at Aberystwyth University in December 2012. Her thesis examined networked and quantitative aspects of serendipity. She can be contacted on amcbirnie at googlemail dot com. Back in October ...
Second-hand serendipity?
Doing research on serendipity enables me to reflect more than I would have done otherwise on experiences that I'd class as serendipity. Preparing for a recent workshop, I realised that it was a serendipitous encounter that led to all our ...
The Princes of Serendip
Horace Walpole, the effete author of the first gothic novel and the first gothic house, defined the word serendipity in response to the Persian tale. The word means similar in experience to the Princes of Serendip (which is now Sri Lanka ...
Harnessing Serendipity as a Creative Force
The SerenA Project has been gathering Stories of Serendipity for our research, we regularly present and talk about this work and encourage submissions of stories to the website. This post is from Ron Berti, the Artistic Producer/Executive Director of an Indigenous Storytelling ...
‘Serendipity buildings’…science fiction?
Another SerenA meeting took place a couple of weeks ago…this time in beautiful Nottingham! Being out for some after-work drinks, we came to experience (once again!) the frantic business of the centre with loads of students hanging around, people coming ...
Maximising serendipity for personal change
Guest blog by James Lawley, Psychotherapist and partner of The Developing Company. It’s clear why researchers, scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs would be interested in serendipity, but why would a couple of psychotherapists? When we think of serendipity, the sensational examples catch the ...
The launch of SerenA Academic
As part of our interest in supporting serendipitous connections between researchers, the SerenA project team at Heriot-Watt University have been developing software which uses available information about researchers' publications and interests. Our approach piggybacks on a growing need for transparent ...
Agents and real-world devices
Multi-agent systems are broadly conceptualised as a collection of specialised software components (the agents) inhabiting some notional space (the environment). Agents can range from the very simple reactive kind, to more complex autonomous agents capable of initiating actions within the environment. The environment itself ...
Serendipity from the storm?
I sat in my hotel room in the Hilton Baltimore a few weeks ago, staring at the gallon of water, fluorescent shake-me-to-wake-me torch and stash of nutri-grain bars on my desk that I'd panic-bought along with most of the rest ...
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