Dr. Jean Carletta has been awarded the 2021 Association for Computational Linguistics 25-year Test-of-Time paper award for Assessing Agreement on Classification Tasks: The Kappa Statistic, Computational Linguistics 22 (1), 1996. In this paper she intervened to correct a common but misleading statistical practice. As a result, her field began to require assessments of how variability … ACL 2021 Test of Time Award
Haifa Al Nasseri passed her PhD viva this week, subject to minor corrections. Her research was on detecting data leakage in cloud virtual network isolation. Pictured are the internal examiner, Dr Graham Kirby, Haifa Al Nasseri, the external examiner Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor from Napier, and her research supervisor, Dr Ishbel Duncan.
Peter Cushley (MSci) brilliantly sang the part of Hilarion in the Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s Princess Ida performance at the Byre on the 20th and 21st April. Two other Computer Scientists were in the cast; Joanna Moreland and Simon Cadge, both in 2nd year. The performances were well received with great applause. Some of the … Students perform in G&S’s Princess Ida
At the Cyber Academy’s International Conference on Big Data in Cyber Security on May 10 2017 at Edinburgh Napier’s Craiglockhart Campus, PhD student Haifa Al Nasseri won two 3rd prizes. One was for her research poster on Cloud Virtual Network Isolation Security and the other was for her team’s efforts in the Splunk Hackathon.
The yearly World’s Biggest Coffee Morning for MacMillan cancer support is on Friday 30th September. Staff and students are invited to donate cakes, biscuits or home produce for sale on Friday morning from 10.45am in the JCB coffee area. Everyone is invited to bake, cook or donate either national delicacies or just something you want … MacMillan Coffee Morning
Professor Sanjay Jha, Director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Laboratory (Cyspri) at UNSW. The first part of this talk will discuss how the community is converging towards the IoT vision having worked in wireless sensor networking and Machine-2-Machine (M2M) communication. This will follow a general discussion of security challenges in IoT. Finally I will discuss … Seminar: A Changing Landscape: Securing The Internet Of Things (IoT)
Prof. Ursula Martin will be talking about the letters of Lady Ada Lovelace at 5.30pm on Thursday 17th December in Abertay University (Kydd Building, Bell St, Dundee, behind Dundee High School). This is a BCS sponsored event and all are welcome. Teas/Coffees from 4.30pm. PhD research posters will also be on display.
Thanks to all those who baked, donated and ate. We raised £142 for MacMillan Cancer Support.
Professor David Kaufman of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver will be visiting the School between May 7th and May 21st. Prof. Kaufman is a world leading expert on Computer Supported Education, Educational Technologies and Digital StoryTelling. See: http://www.sfu.ca/education/faculty-profiles/dkaufman.html He will be hosted by Ishbel and working with the Virtual Worlds research group. Prof. Kaufman will … DVF: Professor David Kaufman
Alan Miller and Ishbel Duncan are running a special session at CSEDU 2013 (in May in Aachen) on using Virtual Worlds for learning. Levels of learning, applicable learning theories, student interaction, avatar interaction, learning contexts and evaluation are all open for discussion. The due date for papers is February 27 2013 and more information can … Virtual Worlds for Immersive Learning