This article belongs to Concepts of the digital society, a special section Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Christian Katzenbach and Thomas Bächle. 1. Introduction The concept decentralisation traverses multiple contexts, fields disciplines.

Multidisciplinary research reliant upon high-performance computing stretches the traditional educational framework into which it is often shoehorned. Multidisciplinary research centers, coupled with flexible and responsive educational plans, provide a means of training the next generation of multidisciplinary computational scientists and engineers. The purpose of this paper is to address some o...

The aim of this chapter is to describe the development of an undergraduate Human Computer Interaction (HCI) course that is taught from a multidisciplinary perspective to a multidisciplinary audience using themes from the various disciplines that are encompassed within HCI. Consequently, the goals of this chapter are to: • Describe HCI • Introduce HCI as a multidisciplinary field • Expound on th...