26 May

Second Homecomings

By Jon Singerton, current PhD student, American History, the University of Edinburgh Exactly a month ago, a group of scholars made their way to Charlottesville for a week of exchange, workshops and sightseeing as members of the Transatlantic Seminar. For...
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10 May

All roads (and railroads) lead to Charlottesville, VA…..

By Edinburgh history alumnus, Dr Jane Judge PhD  For the last several years, the University of Edinburgh main library’s video suite has hosted a transatlantic video seminar that brings together the Early American doctoral communities of the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow,...
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8 Apr

Can robots be compassionate?

By Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, Principal & Vice-Chancellor, the University of Edinburgh I like robots. I met the Stanford Shakey robot in the early 1970s. Working in the Edinburgh Bionics Research Laboratory in the mid-70s I conducted groups of primary...
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4 Apr

A surprising reunion under the Bay Bridge

By Matthew Schoolfield, 2007 MSc Philosophy, the University of Edinburgh   The offices of Mozilla sit under the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. This is the centre of the open-source movement, and at the centre of Mozilla is their browser Firefox. The...
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28 Mar

Our week of discovery has come to an end

By Joanna Storrar, Executive Director, North American Office, the University of Edinburgh After an extraordinary week, our West Coast Pop-Up has come to an end. Popping was definitely the operative word. A record-popping number of people attended an eye-popping array of events. We...
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24 Mar

The Energy Connection between California and Scotland

By Andy Kerr, Executive Director, Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, the University of Edinburgh I’ve just returned from one of my favourite cities, San Francisco, where I was exploring opportunities for partnerships with academic, business and public policy institutions on the...
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17 Mar

A week of discoveries

By Mary Kate Sherwood, Administrator at the University of Edinburgh’s North America Office   The University of Edinburgh’s Global Pop Up Campus in the Bay Area is drawing to a close, and it’s been a wonderful week.  I had the...
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17 Mar

Big data – how do we make sense of it?

By Professor Jon Oberlander, Director, Data Technology Institute, the University of Edinburgh The Big Edinburgh Data event at Stanford showcased the breadth of data science work across the University of Edinburgh, and as we survey that landscape, significant strengths are...
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16 Mar

San Francisco’s Scottish connection

By Dr Gordon Pentland, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, the University of Edinburgh   My main role during this trip was to give a lecture at the St Andrew’s Society of San Francisco. Speaking to lots of different audiences...
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