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Simon Wells
Simon Wells

Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.

He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.

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Academic Earth

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Academic Earth is a relatively new site where scholars post video lectures from their academic courses. Whilst MIT has been doing something similar for ages with their Open Courseware project and Berkeley has had the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) lecture videos available for ages, I like that this has a really nice online interface that presents all of the available videos from many different sources in a fairly uniform fashion. Anyhow, I have had a good look through the Computer Science lectures and found a number that are of interest to me including the aforementioned SICP which I should finally try to watch and understand, as well as Operating Systems and System Programming and Machine Structures which are both relevant to my AC2B module, and Circuits and Electronics which isn't relevant to anything I teach or actively research but looks just darn interesting from a personal perspective. Particularly nice is that lectures can be downloaded, as MP4, shared or embedded in lots of web 2.0 type ways. As revision materials I think that they could be very useful from an academic perspective.
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