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ONE DAY WORKSHOP

``THE IMAGINEERING QUARTER:
DESPERATELY SEEKING DIGITAL CREATIVITY''

** FEATURE **:
OFFICIAL LAUNCH: DERRY DIGITAL CONTENT STRATEGY

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31st, 2010

MG Building (MG-229 & MG-203-B)

UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER, MAGEE CAMPUS

Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

SPONSORS:
Derry City Council
Seagate Technology

This one day workshop will include presentations and interactive panel
sessions on strategies for  developing digital media and creativity in
education  and   research,  technology  transfer   and  industry.   Of
particular interest will be panel sessions on `Monetizing imagineering
industry'  and   `Genesis  of  the   Imagineering  Quarter',  software
demonstrations and exhibits.

This event will also include the Official Launch
of the DERRY DIGITAL CONTENT STRATEGY.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Prof. Geraint Wiggins, Professor of Computational Creativity,
Dept. of Computing, Goldsmiths' College, 
University of London, England.
(** SPONSOR **: DERRY CITY COUNCIL)

Geraint leads the Intelligent Sound  and Music Systems (ISMS) group in
the Department of Computing,  Goldsmiths' College, which forms part of
the  Centre for  Cognition,  Computation and  Culture,  a new  venture
involving   staff  from  several   departments  around   the  College.
Geraint's  first Ph.D. was  from Edinburgh,  supervised by  Dr. Graeme
Ritchie,  in Computational  Linguistics;  the second  one, in  Musical
Composition,  also  from  Edinburgh,  was supervised  by  Prof.  Nigel
Osborne.   Geraint  served  on  two  of the  UK  Technology  Foresight
Creative Digital Media Task Groups, Community and Education and on the
Creative Digital  Media Subgroup.  From 2000  to 2003 he  was chair of
the SSAISB, the  UK learned society for AI/Cognitive  Science. He is a
founding editor of the AISB Journal, and Associate Editor (English) of
Musicae Scientiae, the journal of  ESCOM, the European Society for the
Cognitive Sciences of Music.


REGISTRATION, SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS & EXHIBITS:

To volunteer a software demonstration or exhibit,  
or to register for this workshop,
 
please contact Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt at:
email [E-mail: p.mckevitt@ulster.ac.uk] 
by Tuesday, 30th March, 2010.

http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~paul/ct/

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