The medical school is holding a Seminar on Wednesday 8th January @1400-1530 New tools and methods to prevent blindness. Seminar room 1, Medical and Biological Sciences Building Dr. Andrew Blaikie, St Andrews Arclight Project Dr. Craig Robertson, CEO Epipole Ltd Hand held fundus cameras Prof Congdon, Queen’s University Belfast Overview of Global Ophthalmology
The Melville Trust for the Care and Cure of Cancer have funded a PGR Studentship relative to the project entitled ‘Detecting high-risk smokers in Primary Care Electronic Health Records: An automatic classification, data extraction and predictive modelling approach’. The supervisors are Prof. Frank Sullivan of the School of Medicine and Prof. Tom Kelsey of the … The Melville Trust for the Care and Cure of Cancer PhD award
Title: Innovation Begins at Home Abstract: Prof Andy Stanford-Clark, Chief Technologist for Smarter Energy at IBM UK, will discuss the journey from Smart Metering to a future Smart Grid, incorporating the challenges of microgeneration, electric vehicles, intermittent generation, and demand-side management. Focusing specifically on energy saving in the home, Andy will talk about his own … Departmental Seminar – Andy Stanford-Clark
Neil Moore obtained his PhD in Computer Science at St Andrews a couple of years ago, and is now working for Abobe. He’ll be giving a technical talk, and describing internship opportunities at Adobe. Title: Mutualism in software development Abstract: Computers are designed to be extensible at different levels: hardware can run different operating systems … School Seminar: Neil Moore
Professor Mari Ostendorf of the University of Washington is visiting Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews as part of a SICSA Distinguishing Fellowship. Title: Rich Speech Transcription for Spoken Document Processing Abstract: As storage costs drop and bandwidth increases, there has been rapid growth of spoken information available via the web or in online archives — … School Seminar – Mari Ostendorf
Kevin is the founder and CEO of RunRev, overseeing a global team and development of the Rev programming language. This seminar has been postponed due to Kevin’s work commitments. A new date will be announced in due course.
Reverend Bayes, meet Countess Lovelace: Probabilistic Programming for Machine Learning Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh Abstract: We propose a marriage of probabilistic functional programming with Bayesian reasoning. Infer.NET Fun turns the simple succinct syntax of F# into an executable modeling language – you can code up the conditional probability distributions of … School Seminar – Andy Gordon
Mobility in vivo Barry Brown, Co-director Mobile Life, University of Stockholm barbro.tumblr.com The Mobile VINN Excellence Centre Abstract Despite the widespread use of mobile devices, details of mobile technology use ‘in the wild’ have proven difficult to collect. For this study we uses video data to gain new insight into the use of mobile computing … School Seminar – Barry Brown
Room 1.33a at 2:00 pm on Friday 7th September 2012 Introduction to Grammatical Formalisms for Natural Language Parsing Giorgio Satta, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy Abstract: In the field of natural language parsing, the syntax of natural languages is modeled by means of formal grammars and automata. Sometimes these formalisms are borrowed … Forthcoming talk by SICSA Distinguished Visitor
Research by Tom Kelsey and colleagues from Glasgow and Edinburgh into normative models of hormone levels has been featured in the Daily Telegraph, the Scotsman, and the Express. Read the original paper here.