Cognitive Engineering

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss whether lane changing gets you anywhere.

Nick, Peter and Fraser talk about what the presentation of shop fronts tells up about signalling and quality.

Fraser, Peter, and Nick discuss how machine learning can be used to fight online fraudsters, with special guest Mairtin O'Riada, CIO of Ravelin.

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss the value of playing games and whether they can help you learn.

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss why it is so hard to spot future potential in ideas.

Nick, Peter and Fraser ponder the length of podcasts and what that tells us about the size of an idea.

Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss the film Sunspring, written by an artificial intelligence. Is it a novelty or a sign of things to come?

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss what the Olympics show us about the the human pursuit to reach for the limits of performance.

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss mechanisms of government decision making in the wake of the Chilcot Report. http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss ad blocking and what it can tell us about messaging.

Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss what summer is, and how we know when it's started.

Fraser, Nick and Peter consider the use of Big Data for prediction of terrorist attacks. New online ecology of adversarial aggregates: ISIS and beyond: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6292/1459

Fraser, Nick and Peter wonder if they have had enough of experts.

In the wake of the Brexit vote, Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss what referendums can tell us, and what technology means for democracy.

Nick, Peter and Fraser return to the Library of Babel and discuss how to go about building one.

Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss what the point of averages is, and whether we will need them any more in a world of machine analysis.

Nick, Peter and Fraser discuss why Leicester City winning the Premier League was perhaps not all that surprising.

Nick, Peter and Fraser make some irrational assertions about decision-making.

Peter, Nick, Fraser and special guest Andres get lost in the vastness of Jorge Luis Borges’s Library of Babel and discuss what it tells us about probability, information, language and meaning.

Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss the the hit 1980s movie, The Karate Kid, and what it suggests about learning and skills development.