Abstract: Touch input and two-handed interaction were intensively studied in the mid 80′s but it’s taken 20 years for these ideas to emerge in the mainstream, with the advent of multi-touch interfaces. Gaze has been studied for almost as long as interaction modality and appears on the brink of wider use. This talk will present … Ubicomp, Touch and Gaze by Hans Gellersen
As the Internet becomes increasingly important to all aspects of society, the consequences of disruption are increasingly severe. Thus it is critical to increase the resilience and survivability of the future networks in general, and the Internet in particular. We define resilience as the ability of the network to provide desired service even when the … Evaluation of Network Resilience and Survivability: Analysis, Simulation, Tools, and Experimentation by James P. G. Sterbenz, ITTC, University of Kansas
Anna Clements, Head of Research Data and Information Services, University of St Andrews. Open Science’ seems to be one of the hottest topics around with organisations and funders from the G8 downwards stressing the importance of open data in driving everything from global innovation through to more accountable governance; not to mention the more direct … Evolution of our existing institutional research information infrastructure : a facilitator for Open Science?
These lectures will take place in Lower College Hall, North Street. The lectures will discuss the close relationship between how knowledge and problems may be represented and how people and computers use these representations to guide their reasoning about the problems. 10.00 1. Title: The Interaction of Representation and Reasoning Abstract: Successful reasoning is dependent … The Interaction of Representation and Reasoning by Professor Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh
Limits of language can be studied from various perspectives such as morphology, syntax, and semantics, among others. At the syntactic level, one direction that has been pursued very actively is via the theory of formal languages, beginning with the so-called Chomsky hierarchy. In this hierarchy, the finite state languages (regular languages) and the context free … Some Limits of Language: A Perspective from Formal Grammars and Languages by Prof Arvind Joshi, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Internships are fantastic opportunities to gain some practical experience as well as find out what is happening the real world of computer science! Come and hear some our UG students share their experiences of their 2013 summer internships. Melissa Mozifian: Adobe Waqas Arshad: AIG Mariya Hristova: Google STEP Sam Koch: Facebook
Welcome to the first presentation in the School of Computer Science’s Seminar Series. Please join us on for a seminar on Skyscanner’s technology this Tuesday (September 24) at 14:00 in Purdie Lecture Theatre C. The two talks combined will take about 50 minutes with time for questions, and combine two topics presented by Skyscanner experts: … Scaling Skyscanner’s Flight Search & Making Mobile Applications at Skyscanner
The recipient of the 2012 award for the best doctoral dissertation completed at a Canadian university in the field of Human-Computer Interaction is Dr. Uta Hinrichs. Uta is a postdoc in the SACHI Group with us here. Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Société canadienne du dialogue humain-machine Uta Hinrichs 2012 Bill … 2012 Bill Buxton Best Canadian HCI Dissertation Award
At 2pm today there will be a series of talks in Physics Lecture Theatre B by Google engineers and myself. Event details here: https://plus.google.com/events/cugartcmak5aabt8a91q6kfb0h8 “Ryan Shatford, a senior engineering manager from California who has been with Google since 2001 will talk about his experiences of Google as it grew from a silicon valley startup to … Google
UCAS applicants are visiting to experience life in the School of Computer Science.