Category: Work Updates
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Using AI for systemic risks in food systems
I have long had an interest in systemic risks and failure. How a system can come apart and fail is at last as interesting as how they work, and applying complex systems methods to understand how systems are vulnerable to failure is something I would like to spend more time on. With that in mind…
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Breaking the Mould
The Institute for Safe Autonomy and the School for Business and Society at the University of York are leading a pilot study into the use of internal environment monitoring systems that could help with the detection of damp and mould in homes. Led by Philip Garnett, a professor in the School for Business and Society…
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Images for Academic Work
I am always searching for places to get images that I can use in my academic work, teaching slides, presentations etc. To help me, and perhaps others, I have made a list of sources. Creative Commons, and their search facility. Every Stock Photo, has the ability to search across different databases with a number of…
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Crypto Wars 2.0
I was invited to give a talk at Oxford University on Crypto Wars 2.0 for the Cyber Security DTC that is jointly ran by Oxford and Royal Holloway. I have given a talk on the Crypto Wars at Durham in the past but this talk was a combination of a revisiting the the Crypto Wars today, but…
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Business History – Banks, births, and tipping points
We have a new piece published in Business History, Complexity in History: modelling the organisational demography of the British banking sector. Continuing our work modelling the British banking sector we have responded to the very interesting comment by J Bissell, “The decline in the British bank population since 1810 obeys a law of negative compound…
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RGS Panel: Risk and Complexity in Finance and Beyond
Our Royal Geographical Society panel, “Risk and Complexity in Finance and Beyond” has been accepted for this years RGS annual conference! Some details below: Session organiser/s: Philip Garnett, The University of York, UK; John H. Morris, Durham University, UK Session chair/s: Philip Garnett, The University of York, UK; John H. Morris, Durham University, UK Session…