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Introducing: High Level Designs!
By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 23 September 2024
What? High level designs give an overall idea to how a project and its components are structured, typically with the aid of a diagram. If you’ve worked with AWS or the CDI, you’ve probably seen some architecture diagrams outlining the flow of the app with various services – this is the sort of idea we’re […]
ARC at UN’s OSPOs for Good and What’s next for OSS?
By David Pérez-Suárez, on 26 July 2024
I, together with Malvika Sharan and Arielle Bennett from the Alan Turing Institute / The Turing Way and Neil Chue Hong from Software Sustainable Institute, attended at the beginning of July OSPOs for Good symposium at the United Nations Headquarters, representing research institutions from the UK. What’s an OSPO? An Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) […]
RSE Initiatives – 6 months in
By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 7 June 2024
What? At ARC I think it would be fair to say we strive to develop and improve not only on an individual level, but also on a group level. One of the ways we are doing this is through our RSE (Research Software Engineer) Initiatives – aiming to advance/evolve the RSE team to improve collaboration […]
Creating Custom Font Symbols
By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 5 June 2024
Why? There are various reasons why researchers may want to include custom symbols to a font; they may want to represent a new concept or add characters from historical sources that are not available in a font yet. Being able to do so makes their work more accessible to colleagues and the public. In the […]
Customising Rich Text Editors
By Amanda Ho-Lyn, on 5 June 2024
Why? Customising rich text editors within web apps offers significant benefits, particularly for researchers in Digital Humanities. While basic text editors fulfil essential functions, rich text editors (RTEs) can incorporate features such as rich text formatting and customisable styling, allowing for clearer and more engaging presentation of textual information. Whilst they provide greater benefits than […]
The importance of collaboration: The latest engagement between DiRAC and ARC
By Connor Aird, on 26 April 2024
When time is scarce on a research project, it is important to continuously plan and effectively collaborate with the whole team. A good example of this is the DiRAC project, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in 3d Models of Fermions with Prof Simon Hands (PI) which, due to a funding deadline, had to be delivered in 5 […]
Research Integrity in an AI-Enabled World
By Samantha Ahern, on 5 April 2024
Over the last 15 months there has been much debate, hype and concern relating to capabilities of tools and platforms leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and media generators. Broadly termed Generative AI. The predominant narrative in Higher Education has been around the perceived threat to academic integirty and associated value to degrees. As such a […]
Role models, outreach and changing the future of STE(A)M
By Samantha Ahern, on 20 December 2023
STE(A)M is for everyone, so why isn’t that reflected in the demography of STE(A)M professionals? Sadly, when we look at the prevailing media representation and social narrative around STE(A)M it’s not surprising. Which, is why, events like the one I recently supported at Samuel Whitbred Academy organised by STEMPoint are incredibly important. Over the course […]
Randomising Blender scene properties for semi-automated data generation
By Ruaridh Gollifer, on 12 December 2023
Blender is a free and open-source software for 3D geometry rendering. Uses include modelling, simulation, animation, virtual reality applications, and more recently synthetic datasets generation. This last application is of particular interest in the field of medical imaging, where often there is limited real data that can be used to train machine learning models. By […]
k-Plan now available to researchers!
By Sam Cunliffe, on 11 December 2023
One of ARC’s longest-running collaborations is with the Biomedical Ultrasound Group. Over the past three years, we’ve been developing a graphical user interface to simulate ultrasound treatment plans! This software is called k-Plan, and licences are now available for sale through UCL’s commercial partner, BrainBox (who also sell ultrasound transducers). If you’re interested in medical […]
