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Narrating FAIR: recognising and rewarding FAIR practices and the use of narrative CVs
By Samantha Ahern, on 20 March 2025
On Wednesday 5th March 2025 colleagues from ARC piloted the new interactive workshop: Narrating FAIR: recognising and rewarding FAIR practices and the use of narrative CVs The initial ideas for the workshop were generated as part of the FAIR Data Accelerator Workshop, an activity of the FAIR Data Accelerator Pilot Project. The aim of the […]
Ideas from UX London
By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 12 March 2025
What? UX London was a conference on user experience design, i.e. how we can design products/services/systems for users to have meaningful and pleasant experiences using them. The incentive was that within ARC, we have little experience in designing our products and with an increasing number of web projects which are not just intended for internal/researcher-only […]
ARC ❤ Google Summer of Code
By David Pérez-Suárez, on 28 February 2025
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) accepted organisations were announced yesterday, and many of us in ARC and friends from other departments are involved in this year’s edition. Google has been running this programme for 20 years, making this one its 21st. GSoC focuses on helping Open Source projects get new contributors so they can learn […]
Research Data Stewardship Community Launches!
By dorothy.chung, on 26 February 2025
UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC) has recently established the Research Data Stewardship Community, which aims to bring together those working at UCL under the research data stewardship umbrella in a supportive and uplifting professional environment. In advance of this, both in-person and online launch events have been conducted to introduce the concept and shape the […]
CHAOSSCon and FOSDEM: open-source, health, and waffles
By Saransh Chopra, on 19 February 2025
I have experienced conferences before; I have experienced developer workshops; I have also experienced small meetups; what I never had experienced was FOSDEM, or the way I see it, Comic-Con for open-source people. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting) is an annual event organized by and for people involved with open-source software in […]
FOSDEM 2025: A Weekend of Talks, Conversations, and Controlled Chaos
By Christian Gutschow, on 17 February 2025
My first FOSDEM has come and gone, and what a whirlwind it was! Over 8,000 attendees, more than 1,000 talks, and 70 parallel tracks—all squeezed into two intense days, where no matter where you stood, you were never more than five minutes away from a place serving strong Belgian beer. It’s an overwhelming, exhilarating, and […]
FOSDEM 2025
By Sam Cunliffe, on 13 February 2025
It’s… Huge. On the 1st and 2nd of February, 11 of our team went to the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting. This is an epic two-day conference with over 1000 talks (and something like 8,000 attendees) hosted in Brussels. It’s really huge. It’s so huge, in fact, that there are a good […]
UCL attends SuperComputing 24
By dorothy.chung, on 29 January 2025
In November, UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC) provided funding for select UCL staff to attend SC24, the 2024 running of the annual SuperComputing (SC) conference, hosted in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. UCL was one of 494 exhibitors, with a stand showcasing several novel High-Performance Computing (HPC) research initiatives taking place at UCL through posters and talks. […]
Workshop on Open-Source Software for Surgical Technologies
By m.xochicale, on 20 December 2024
To champion the creation of sustainable, robust, and equitable digital healthcare systems that prevent the perpetuation of healthcare inequalities, ARC researchers took the lead in organising the second workshop on Open-Source Software for Surgical Technologies at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics on June 28th, 2024. The workshop focused on a key question: how can […]
SAFEHR
By Sarah Keating, on 16 December 2024
What’s in a name? Electronic Healthcare Records are a vital source of data for a wide range of research, ranging from the implementation of new medical devices to the investigation of cures for disease. However, this data cannot just be made available to anyone, a written request must be vetted and approved, appropriate data must […]
