Month: December 2013

Techniques for Scalable Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage

Three-Hour Research Tutorial by Peter Christen, Australian National University Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage (PPRL) is an increasingly important topic in data management, data engineering, and data mining, as organizations in both the private and public sectors are under pressure to share, integrate, and link their data in order to allow analysis that is not possible on Techniques for Scalable Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage

Funded PhD Research Studentships

The School of Computer Science  has funding for students to undertake PhD research in any of the general research areas in the school: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/research We are looking for highly motivated research students with an interest in these exciting research areas Our only requirements are that the proposed research would be good, we have staff to Funded PhD Research Studentships

Researcher wins NVIDIA award

Blesson Varghese won a NVIDIA award for his proposal “GPU Accelaration for Real-time  Analytics”.  Details of the award can be found at http://bigdata.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/nvidia-award-for-blesson-varghese/

An Experience of Peer Instruction

Talk by Quintin Cutts, University of Glasgow Fed up with talking at students in one-hour chunks? Fed up with them not turning up, or falling asleep, or not remembering anything you said? Alternatively, are you fed up going to seminars where you get talked at for 55 minutes with only 5 minutes to ask questions? An Experience of Peer Instruction

The Usual Suspects

Breaking away from the CS coffee machine at last. Academics from the School subtly advertise Costa sponsorship deal at November Graduation? Surely not! We reserve the right to protect the confidentiality of our source.

Honorary Professor John Stasko

Professor John Stasko and the Associate Chair of the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech has been appointed as an Honorary Professor in the School of Computer Science. This appointment comes following a SICSA distinguished visiting fellowship John was awarded. This fellowship allowed John to participate in the SACHI/Big Honorary Professor John Stasko