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John Conway created/discovered the Surreal Numbers (along with the game of life cellular automaton) while pondering the game of Go. They include all the reals and rationals you probably know but also infinite and infinitesimal values, lots of them. Combinatorial Game Theory is an additive theory of games with perfect information and no chance element. Fortunately, though it touches on things at the core of Mathematics, it requires almost no other concepts to understand it It turns out some Games are Numbers, however any Game that is interesting enough to be worth playing is not a Number. We need a new language to describe them (whence Uppitiness, Atomic Weight and Chilling). We will find out how to play the Nim perfectly, realise Dots and Boxes has more to it than you thought, play Col, Snort and Cutcake, understand the Tweedledee and Tweedledum argument, learn Hackenbush and maybe begin to analyse Go and chess end games. about this event: https://c3voc.de

We will give a short talk detailing how we set up the network, brought high-speed Internet to the farm, and delivered wired and wirelessly across the site. Particularly we'll talk about what we did differently this time around, what went well, what proved more of a hurdle than expected, and finally we'll go through some stats on how the network was used. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Join Jos Weyers, Warren Rockley, Nigel Tolley and John Naughton as they answer your questions on anything lock and physical security related. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A showing of the science fiction film that has been filmed around the EMF site during the event, along with a Q&A with the team. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A talk about Disney's four keys (Safety, Courtesy, Efficiency, Show), giving examples of how Disney uses them in building their parks, and how we apply them to web development. about this event: https://c3voc.de

How TiLDA MKe went from a list of Ideas the week before EMW, to epaper and finally the to the badge around your neck. With all the bumps along the way. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A talk about how biometrics are not always secure, & the security systems are often poorly implemented. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Inclusive and collaborative space projects for the techy, creative and curious and where to get started. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A exploration into current techniques malicious hackers use to evade anti-virus systems, presented in a way that less technical attendees can still enjoy whilst containing enough detail to keep more experienced viewers interested. about this event: https://c3voc.de

This summer I went on holiday on a container ship, so this talk will be a slideshow of my holiday photos. I'll also go on tangents about supply chains, Shenzhen, shipping containers, rare earth metal mines, GPS, and that kind of thing. about this event: https://c3voc.de

This presentation will discuss the extreme vulnerability that most people have to being stalked online and then focusing on a few examples of research going on in universities on network inference. The purpose of this talk is to shed light on the topic of social network inference and show yet another application of machine learning. about this event: https://c3voc.de

We have written USBProxy, an open source software tool targeted at cheap hardware, such as the BeagleBone Black, which allows us to build, explore and break USB devices with simple software. I will show how we can use USBProxy to monitor and debug USB connections and how we can build a USB device in software using £35 of hardware. about this event: https://c3voc.de

I'll be talking about the "Our Data, Ourselves" project at King's College London, which been done in conjunction with some teenage coders via Young Rewired State. They are already contributing to the app, and have started to examine the data they have generated. We will report on their attitudes to privacy, how the app works, and some preliminary results. about this event: https://c3voc.de

In this talk I will discuss how to dramatically improve the speed and quality of your robotics and computer vision projects using MATLAB and Simulink to program your Arduino, Raspberry Pi and LEGO Mindstorms. Firstly, I will introduce MATLAB and Simulink, the industry standard tools used by engineers worldwide to program everything from cars engines to smartphone cameras to spacecraft navigation systems. Next I will give some examples of how these tools can greatly speed up the development of software for a wide range of low-cost hardware devices. Examples include, getting started with Computer Vision on a Raspberry Pi in only 3 lines of code; Programming an Arduino without learning C++ and modifying your code at runtime; Graphically designing a complex control system for a LEGO Mindstorms robot. about this event: https://c3voc.de

I'll provide a short update on progress made in the campaign to make NHS IT less bad. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A followup talk to one given at OHM in 2013 about how to run your own infrastructure rather than relying on Google or other large companies. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A deep dive into cgroups, unshare and other technologies in the Linux kernel used to create isolated containers (as used by Docker/lxc). about this event: https://c3voc.de

A talk about dog behaviour and communication. This is especially targeted at anyone afraid of dogs but is relevant to anyone looking to understand the basics of canine communication and how it affects their interactions with humans and other creatures. about this event: https://c3voc.de

In this talk I will present a few quick tips on making your web applications more resistant to common attack vectors, without putting a lot of effort in. In some cases, simply adding a line to a configuration file can completely prevent entire classes of attack from being viable. We'll take a look at hardening against XSS, SQL injection, clickjacking, password cracking, and a few other bits if there's time. With any luck, you'll make my job a bit more difficult. about this event: https://c3voc.de

The Hexayurt Project is an open source housing project with > 1000 units deployed each year. However, there's more to the story - a transformation vision about how engineering "outside of the market" can change the world in ways that markets cannot manage. Over three billion people live substantially outside of the market: where could they go with with this technology? about this event: https://c3voc.de

Computers have become ubiquitous and essential, but they remain massively error-prone and insecure - as if we were back in the early days of the industrial revolution, with steam engines exploding left, right, and centre. Why is this, and can we do better? about this event: https://c3voc.de

I'm new to the Raspberry Pi. This is the story of how I embarked on a project to catch fly tippers on our local farms, but got distracted trying to frighten kids at Halloween, and discovered I'm feeding the local feline population. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A performance and talk about the chiptune music I create on my Game Boy, along with specially written visuals to go along with the set. about this event: https://c3voc.de

I write electronic music & build controllers with a nautical theme! Between playing tracks I'll answer questions about how our kit is set up and how it works. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Wiimote-controlled chiptune-inspired lo-fi synthpop from Dave Green (former NTK editor) & Dave Pape (Museum of Techno). about this event: https://c3voc.de

A series of short, funny, geeky talks by people who know their stuff, hosted by Steve Cross. This show will not be suitable for children! about this event: https://c3voc.de

Over the past 5 years since the final year of my undergraduate degree in 2009 I have been building a split-flap display (departure board) like you'd have seen at train stations and airports several years ago. This talk is about how I learnt almost everything I know through curiosity, trying, and making and iterating. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Why would anybody feel the need to create a webservice for writing graffiti on a Github commit history graph, when there are real problems that need solving? Come and find out in this talk, which also features the Sinclair Spectrum font and a brief exploration of the Github API. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A talk covering the basics of health, what you should be doing, and monitoring yourself at home. about this event: https://c3voc.de

The world's first computer, Colossus, was commissioned in 1943 just a few minutes away from the EMF camp. It gave Bletchley Park unprecedented access to the Hitler's most private communications. How did it work? Why was it built? Who designed it? All this and several shameless plugs for The National Museum of Computing. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A gently performative, slightly poetic talk on the ways games break; in personal and political, difficult and perfect ways. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A year ago we bought an old caravan and converted it into a 3 player starship disaster simulator called the "LHS Bikeshed". This is the story of how we've done it and not torn out all of our hair in the process. about this event: https://c3voc.de

We have developed a rugged, low-cost, portable fingerprint scanner and software that integrates with almost any existing mHealth application, allowing for real-time identification and access to patient records. We’re going to present our story, beginning as clueless students who managed to build a prototype from scratch in less than one year. With almost no money we tested it in the remote corners of Bangladesh, working with the largest development NGO in the world. about this event: https://c3voc.de

I'm a geek standing as an MP next year, and I'm learning how it all works as I go along, blogging and publishing open data wherever possible. I'll talk all about what I've found out so far, what's left to learn, and how easy it really is to stand up for a better future. about this event: https://c3voc.de

You thought two hackers, one keyboard was bad? Just wait until you see what hollywood does to lockpickers. From no-contact lockpicking to real rocks in a fake keys, and from reasonably realistic heists to 'fuck it, we'll do it live', we'll overview the diverse manner in which lockpickers and lockpicking are portrayed in the media. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Traditional metal casting can make parts of very high strengths, and 3D printing can produce things quickly out of fragile plastic parts. However the two processes can be joined, to produce the mould from a home-made 3D printer for use to make traditional metal castings. This talk will focus on the use of 3D printed parts to make investment castings in Aluminium. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Back in the days when I was a professional, card-carrying scientist, I was fascinated by the various tools that were being developed to measure very small things, very precisely. This talk covers some of the ones that really stuck, the ones that make you go "Really?? That's possible?" about this event: https://c3voc.de

A defence of shitty scientific programming. I'd like to outline some of the issues that scientists learning to code on the job might face, and also acknowledge how learning some software engineering skills will help your science progress faster and more reproducibly, with a few (not original) ideas about what those helpful things might be. about this event: https://c3voc.de

I will talk about my PhD which is on using metamaterials and transformation optics to create invisibility cloaks and perfect Imaging devices. (Working invisibility cloak prototypes will not be provided) about this event: https://c3voc.de

A very quick demonstration of how to use Twilio in under ten minutes. Expect audience participation! about this event: https://c3voc.de

What's the world's favourite number? How do numbers unconsciously influence decision-making? And what has Eratosthenes got to do with spaceships? I'll answer all these questions and more in a one hour talk about my latest book. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A talk about the OpenKnit project, and a demonstration of a working prototype. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A short talk on the legislative history of Disney World. It's not *quite* as boring as it sounds. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A talk about building UAVs, in particular quadrotors, from scratch, in an age where it's easy to buy them ready-made, or in kit form where you just have to plug a few components together. about this event: https://c3voc.de

At BBC Research and Development, part of our job is to think about and demonstrate what radio might be like in the future. To do this effectively, we need to be able to quickly and cheaply show how our ideas would work on physical radio sets, because this is still how the majority of people listen. This talk is about techniques we've developed to do this, from helping people to describe what they want from a radio, to filtering out bad ideas ("cat wigs"), to prototyping experiences on physical devices using a Raspberry Pi and web technologies. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A talk about hackerspaces, the problems with them, and how you can help combat those problems. about this event: https://c3voc.de

A series of short, funny, geeky talks by people who know their stuff, hosted by Steve Cross. Family friendly and fun for everyone. about this event: https://c3voc.de

First, a quick overview of current hacker-friendly EEG systems. Then, a more in-depth look at how to hack together a robot army with the NeuroSky MindFlex and a Pinoccio microcontroller. about this event: https://c3voc.de

3D printing is opening up new opportunities to make complex or one-off objects. But makers need to think about materials: What materials can be used, how processing affects the properties, and the post-processing of fabricated objects. about this event: https://c3voc.de