Tobias Escher at the OII

Larry Lessig is in for a change. Maybe I am just about the last one to find out about it but never mind: I am stunned. There is this guy called Larry Lessig who is a kind of super hero if you are interested in intellectual property in the age of the Internet and more [...]

Today we had a presentation by our very own Martin Dimov. He has been hiding in the OII library for the last months in order to research about differences between Bulgaria and the United Kingdom in terms of ICT adoption. So basically what factors correlate with use of mobile phones, PCs and/or the Internet. Almost [...]

Right, so everyone with a first-year course in statistics knows that it is desirable to draw a random sample from a population in order to enable statistical inference. But how do you select really randomly? Turns out that this is not as simple as it sounds. Most software “only” generates pseudo random numbers which means [...]

Whatever name you prefer for the current state of the Internet (user generated content, Web 2.0, the social web etc.), it clearly seems like a good time for consumers of goods, even of those we still rather reluctantly consider as such like healthcare or education. The opinion of the general public is in high demand [...]