I gave a keynote address at the OpenSym conference in Paris, France, on Challenges and Opportunities for Open Collaboration. You can see me in action: https://twitter.com/darkirony/status/1032180926619340800
The Big Data Factories book has been published by Springer. The book discusses how to use the increasing flood of data created as a byproduct of online behaviour as a source for research. I have a chapter entitled "Levels of Trace Data for Social and Behavioural Science Research".
I am interested in finding new PhD students interested in work and technology, especially work and intelligent machines. You can find more information on the program here. Please get in touch if you have questions or are thinking about applying.
My work with James Howison and Francesco Bolici on stigmergy in software development was picked up by ACM Ubiquity: http://ubiquity.acm.org/blog/why-cant-programmers-be-more-like-ants-or-…
The Springer Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence has been published including an article by me on Open Source Technology Development and another on Citizen Science, among many other topics.
