Edward Simpson: Bayes at Bletchley Park

08 / 2006 Historicising knowledge - intensive organizations : the case of Bletchley Park 1939 - 1945 Grey , C

This paper contributes to the emerging ‘historic turn’ in organizational analysis identified by Booth & Rowlinson (2006) by developing an historicised account of Knowledge-Intensive Organizations (KIOs). In a way parallel to McGrath’s (2005) study of early medieval Irish monastic communities as KIOs, we provide a study of Bletchley Park (BP), the WW2 codebreaking centre. In particular, we argue...

Bletchley Park text: using mobile and semantic web technologies to support the post-visit use of online museum resources

A number of technologies have been developed to support the museum visitor, with the aim of making their visit more educationally rewarding and/or entertaining. Examples include PDA-based personalized tour guides and virtual reality representations of cultural objects or scenes. Rather than supporting the actual visit, we decided to employ technology to support the post-visitor, that is, encour...

Edward and George Phillips ’ Pottery at Longport

Ceramics marked with the Phillips name are frequently found in estate auctions, antiques shops, and historical societies in New England. While transfer printed wares predominate, the firm produced a range of earthenwares, including flow blue, creamware, edged ware, painted pearlware, plain white ironstone, and luster. Printed pieces were often marked with a transfer containing the name of the p...

Steve Simpson

Steve Simpson was born and grew up in Australia. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland, he travelled to London where he undertook his PhD on locust feeding physiology. Steve then spent 22 years in Oxford, fi rst in Experimental Psychology and then in the Department of Zoology and the Natural History Museum, before being enticed back to Australia in 2005. Toge...

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