Research on provenance in databases (or other settings) sometimes has an arbitrary flavor. Once we abandon the classical semantics of queries there is a large design space for alternative semantics that could provide some useful provenance information, but there is little guidance for how to explore this space or justify or compare different proposals. Topics … Is provenance logical? (James Cheney, University of Edinburgh)
Despite the weather conditions, the end of summer BBQ went ahead, on Friday. It provided the perfect opportunity to welcome new members of staff and newly arrived PhD students. Congratulations also to Greg on submitting his thesis, and farewell to Angus who will be starting work in New York soon.
Pervasive systems must offer an open, extensible, and evolving portfolio of services which integrate sensor data from a diverse range of sources. The core challenge is to provide appropriate and consistent adaptive behaviours for these services in the face of huge volumes of sensor data exhibiting varying degrees of precision, accuracy and dynamism. Situation identification is an enabling technology that resolves … Exploring semantics in situation identification using context lattices by Dr.Juan Ye
Software Freedom Day is an annual event held by communities who are passionate about free and open-source software (FOSS). The event programme includes a talk by Dr Markus Tauber from the School, titled Expectations, Requirements and Survival when Starting with Linux. Markus has provided a short overview of his talk for those interested in attending: … Software Freedom Day
The annual welcome reception for the new evening degree students took place last night in the Gateway brasserie. The familiar but extremely useful Meet Your Tutor session followed shortly afterwards. Tuesday evening sessions for IT begin next week. Graduate Claire Gorgan was singled out for her achievements. Congratulations Claire. Evening Degree Programme website
Speaker: Mark Shovman, University of Abertay, Dundee Abstract: In natural and social sciences, novel insights are often derived from visual analysis of data. But what principles underpin the extraction of meaningful content from these visualisations? Abstract data visualisation can be traced at least as far back as 1801; but with the increase in the quantity … Measuring the Effectiveness of Abstract Data Visualisations
After much anticipation and excitement, the School welcomes 12 new African Cichlids for the start of a new semester.
Students undertaking the pre-sessional language course before entering our taught Masters programme, had the opportunity to try out their programming skills this afternoon, in a fun and enjoyable context using Java to write programmes that control robots. Jan de Muijnck-Hughes and Lars Kotthoff led the session in the John Honey Building.
The Basilica reconstruction was a collaborative project between the School of Classics and the School Computer Science. Research Blog A reconstruction of St Andrews Cathedral has also taken place. The reconstruction was a research topic for successful computer science and information technology MSc. dissertations in the summer of 2010 and 2011. Technical support was available … Virtual reconstruction of the Acropolis Basilica
A small celebratory cake for Angus.