Biography: Jane Hillston was appointed Professor of Quantitative Modelling in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in 2006, having joined the University as a Lecturer in Computer Science in 1995. She is currently Head of the School of Informatics. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Member of … Distinguished Lecture Series: Formal Approaches to Quantitative Evaluation
Unicode 12, released 5th March 2019, includes 9 control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text. These resulted from an initiative by Dr. Mark-Jan Nederhof (St Andrews) and Egyptologists at the University of Liège, CNAM (Paris) and the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, in collaboration with Unicode experts. The control characters allow hieroglyphs to be arranged horizontally … Encoding Egyptian quadrats in Unicode
Congratulations to Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche and Sascha Brawer on their successful proposal for additions to the repertoire of ISO/IEC 10646, which will see Pali letters added to Lao in Unicode 12. As a result, it is now possible to write both Pali/Sanskrit in Lao and represent the entire Tripitaka in the Lao … Lao Characters for Pali added to Unicode 12
Congratulations to Hussein Bakri, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with Internal examiner Professor Ian Miguel and external examiner Dr Maria Economou, from the University of Glasgow.
Dr Juan Ye will be running an online event for IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society) on Lifelong Learning. The technical seminar, designed to focus on future research trends in human activity recognition, will take place on Friday 1st February from 2.00pm – 3.00pm. Seminar Details: Human activity recognition systems will be increasingly deployed … Dr Juan Ye: Lifelong Learning in Human Activity Recognition
Seminar Details Using Intensive Longitudinal Methods to Study Fear of Breast Cancer Recurrence in Everyday Life Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, Ph.D. Venue: Seminar room 1 Date: 14 January 2019 Time: 3-4pm. Intensive longitudinal methods (also called experience sampling, daily diary, or ecological momentary assessment methods) allow researchers to study people’s health-related behavior, thoughts, and emotions as experienced … Population and Behavioural Sciences Division workshop and seminar
The School of Computer Science is recruiting two new Lecturers as part of a large on-going expansion of our academic staff. You will be a scholar with a growing international research reputation in Computer Science and a commitment to delivering high quality teaching within the broad field of Computer Science and its applications. The successful … Job vacancies: Lecturers in Computer Science
The Schools of Medicine and Computer Science are seeking to appoint three highly motivated data scientists with a passion for computer vision and deep learning, and specifically their application to medical imaging. The data scientists will be based in the Schools of Computer Science and Medicine at the University of St Andrews and will work … Job vacancies: Interdisciplinary Data Scientists
Congratulations to the Masters Class of 2018, and PhD students Dr Daniel Rough and Dr Adeola Fabola who graduated last week. The School also celebrated the Installation of Professor Adam Barker. Students and guests were invited to a reception in Computer Science after the ceremony to celebrate their achievement and reflect on their time in … December Graduation 2018
Congratulations to Khawar Shehzad, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with supervisor Professor Saleem Bhatti, Internal examiner Dr Ishbel Duncan and external examiner Dr Dimitrios Pezaros, from the University of Glasgow.