computer science

Jamie Wilkinson

Jamie Wilkinson is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Jamie Wilkinson rather than just read about it. In short: Jamie Wilkinson is an internet culture researcher and software engineer. Wilkinson started Know Your Meme, a database of viral internet memes while working at Rocketboom in New York City.

Key takeaways

Jamie Wilkinson belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Jamie Wilkinson to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Jamie Wilkinson from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Jamie Wilkinson is an internet culture researcher and software engineer. Wilkinson started Know Your Meme, a database of viral internet memes while working at Rocketboom in New York City. Wilkinson also co-founded VHX, a digital distribution platform targeting independent filmmakers, which was acquired by Vimeo in May 2016.

Career Wilkinson is a virtual research fellow of the Free Art and Technology Lab. His work was featured in F.A.T. Gold: Five Years of Free Art & Technology, a retrospective of F.A.T. Lab's work, at Eyebeam, MU Eindhoven, and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. He also co-founded video sharing and payment platform VHX. Wilkinson was Eyebeam's systems administrator in 2006. In August 2010, Wilkinson won an Emmy for "Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Fiction" for his work in collaborating with Casey Pugh, Annelise Pruitt and Chad Pugh on Star Wars Uncut, a web-based platform and community where users can recreate their favorite scenes from Star Wars. In addition to his online video work, Wilkinson taught an "Internet Famous" class at Parsons graduate Design & Technology Program that examined internet attention, specifically how it could be manipulated and aggregated via different strategies. Students’ grades were determined solely based on their ability to garner online attention in the form of web page views, video views, Twitter followers, and "favorites."

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Jamie Wilkinson

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Jamie Wilkinson claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Jamie Wilkinson before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Jamie Wilkinson ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Jamie Wilkinson

In research: Jamie Wilkinson appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Jamie Wilkinson in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Jamie Wilkinson is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 20th-century births, American software engineers, Computer specialist stubs, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Jamie Wilkinson outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Jamie Wilkinson in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Jamie Wilkinson means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Jamie Wilkinson out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Jamie Wilkinson in simple terms?

Jamie Wilkinson is an internet culture researcher and software engineer. Wilkinson started Know Your Meme, a database of viral internet memes while working at Rocketboom in New York City.

Why does Jamie Wilkinson matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Jamie Wilkinson?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Jamie Wilkinson.