Denise Anthony: “Big Data, CyberSecurity and Healthcare”

Venue: The School of Medicine Building, Britton Smith Foundation Lecture Theatre – 6:30pm

A reception will be held in the Atrium prior to the lecture at 5:30pm

Denise Anthony is Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives, and Professor and past-Chair (2007-11) in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College....

SSC Seminar Series: Gabriella Coleman, McGill University

What did the Fawkes Say: Anonymous and the Politics of Leaking 

Wednesday, January 18 

12:30 - 2:00pm, MacCorry Room D214

Outlaw tactics. Vigilante justice. Website defacement. Data dumps. In this golden age of whistleblowing and leaking, Anonymous has displayed a knack for fomenting controversy and drawing attention to its actions due to their reliance on these unconventional forms of...

Research Fellow, School of Management

We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher to join the SSHRC-funded Big Data Surveillance research team based at The School of Management at St Andrews University. The successful candidate will have a research interest in surveillance as a contemporary socio-technical phenomenon and will have experience of conducting qualitative research in commercial settings. S/he will collaborate with the project...

PhD Fellowships Available - University of Victoria

Two Postgraduate Scholarships at the PhD level (beginning September 2017) are available in the Department of Political Science to work on a project, funded through a SSHRC Partnership Grant, on “ Big Data Surveillance ” under the supervision of Dr. Colin Bennett. The project is a broad interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of the development and impact of big...

SSC Seminar Series: Martin French, Concordia University

Player (Self) Tracking: Responsible Gaming in the Digital Era

Martin French, Concordia University

Wednesday, November 30 

12:30 - 2:00pm, MacCorry Room D411 (Sociology Lounge)

This presentation outlines a new project, situated at the intersection of risk studies, surveillance studies, game studies and gambling studies. Responsible gaming can be conceptualized as a late-modern governance strategy designed to regulate harms associated with institutionalization of gambling. It...

SSC Seminar Series: Susan Cahill, University of Calgary

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 12:30 – 2 pm Dr. Cahill’s talk will address the research she has conducted as part of The Art & Surveillance Project (www.artandsurveillance.com). This online curatorial project catalogues artists, artworks, and exhibitions addressing the policies and technologies of surveillance in Canada post-9/11.

Big data in turbulence: unravelling disorder, one vortex at a time

Turbulence is everywhere: it affects aircraft drag and fuel consumption, blood flow in arteries, the dispersion of pollution in the air, the formation of weather patterns. Yet no theory has been developed that can explain it, except in the simplest scenarios.

SSC Seminar Series: Jennifer R. Whitson, University of Waterloo

Drawing from a two-year ethnographic study of game developers in Montreal, Canada, this talk illustrates the human aspect of informational practice, providing a description of what of big data practice looks like in the trenches of digital media production.

Securing the Big Data City

David Murakami Wood

Queen’s University, Ontario

A lunchtime seminar series showing how Big Data is used, and debated, on campus.

Location: Speaker's Corner, Stauffer Library, Queen's University

‘Smart cities’ are characterized by pervasive and distributed sensor networks capturing and generating big data for forms of centralized urban management, drawing together such previously unconnected infrastructural systems as video surveillance, meteorological stations, traffic lights...

BD175 Art at The Agnes

Big Data Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre

On view in the Atrium through 22 December 2016

Agnes Etherington Art Centre Director Jan Allen in front of the installation of Dave Kemp’s Data Collection. Photo: Tim Forbes

In conjunction with Queen’s University’s 175th anniversary and a cross-faculty series on Big Data (BD175), The Agnes presents two major...

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