Prof. Sir Nigel Shadbolt - The Fifth Paradigm: From Open Data to Social Machines
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Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, delivered his distinguished lecture entitled "The Fifth Paradigm: From Open Data to Social Machines" This lecture is supported jointly by The University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics and the Farr Institute for Health Informatics. www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/news-events/lectures/nigelshadbolt Recorded on Tuesday 10 September 2013 at the University's Informatics Forum.
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