Dr Alan Miller joined other virtual reality educationalists to give an invited keynote talk at the 3rd Immersive Learning Network Conference on Tuesday 27th June. The presentation drew upon two major complementary themes: virtual time travel and the use of immersive technologies for museums.
Please note that this seminar will now take place in Jack Cole 1.33A on Wednesday 5th July between 15:00 and 16:00 Title: Between Exploration and Explanation: Visualizations for Insights, Curiosity, and Storytelling. Abstract: This talk presents a set of interactive visualizations for exploration and recent work in how to communicate insights through data-driven stories. In … SACHI Seminar: Benjamin Bach – Between Exploration and Explanation: Visualizations for Insights, Curiosity, and Storytelling
We would like to cordially invite all staff, students, and alumni to this historic CS event in the making. As you know, other schools in St Andrews have their own annual ball e.g. chem-ball, physics-ball, bull-and-bear (economics) ball etc. For a while, we have wanted our own CS ball – and thanks to a team … First ever Computer Science Ball
Congratulations to our Senior Honours Class of 2017, MSci Honours students and our PhD students Dr Anne-Marie Mann, Dr Ildiko Pete, Dr Yuchen Zhao and Dr Michael Mauderer, who graduated on Wednesday. Students were invited to a reception in the School prior to the ceremony, to celebrate their achievement with staff, friends and family. We … Computer Science: June Graduation 2017
Rethinking High performance computing Platforms: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations, co-authored by Adam Barker and a team (Ole Weidner, Malcolm Atkinson, Rosa Filgueira Vicente) in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh was recently featured in the Communications of the ACM and HPC Wire. The paper focuses on container technology and argues that a number of … Containers for HPC environments
Are you a researcher or research student? Please take part in our 10 minute survey about the use of Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCID): This survey aims to establish the extent to which researchers at the University of St Andrews are using ORCID identifiers during their work. The survey will collect anonymous data about the awareness and … Please take part in our 10 minute survey about the use of Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCID):
Title: Finding What to Read: Visual Text Analytics Tools and Techniques to Guide Investigation Abstract: Text is one of the most prominent forms of open data available, from social media to legal cases. Text visualizations are often critiqued for not being useful, for being unstructured and presenting data out of context (think: word clouds). I … SACHI Seminar: Dr. Christopher Collins – Finding What to Read: Visual Text Analytics Tools and Techniques to Guide Investigation
Wednesday 21st June As usual the school will host a small reception in the Jack Cole coffee area between 10.30 and 12.30, come along and enjoy a glass of bubbly and a cream cake or two in true Computer Science fashion! All graduating students, their guests and staff members are invited.
“Addiction” Seminar Room 1 School of Medicine 12:00: Alex Baldacchino- Introduction 12:15: Ognjen Arandjelović & Aniqa Aslam- Understanding Fatal and Non-Fatal Drug Overdose Risk Factors in Fife: Overdose Risk (OdRi) tool 12:45: Damien Williams & Fergus Neville- Transdermal alcohol monitoring 13:15: David Harris-Birtill & David Morrison- Narco Cat – waste water analysis in substance misuse … DHSI Seminar Series (Digital Health Science Initiative)
Event Location: School of Medicine, Seminar room 1 Abstract: Session types are a formalism to model structured communication-based programming. A session type describes communication by specifying the type and direction of data exchanged between two parties. We show that session types are encodable in more primitive and foundational pi-calculus types. Besides providing an expressivity result, … Dr. Ornela Dardha’ talk: Session Types Revisited