Monty Widenius delivered the Semester 1 Distinguished Lecture Series on Monday 15th October 2012, from 10am to 3.30pm, in Upper College Hall. Monty is CEO & CTO at Monty Program Ab, and is perhaps best known as founder of MySQL, the world’s most used open source. Monty delivered three lectures on MySQL and Open Source … Distinguished Lecture Series: MySQL and Open Source Business, by Monty Widenius
Programme dls_sem2 12 Yaeger An overview of ALife in general, some of the research–including neuroscience, genetic algorithms, information theory, and animal cognition–leading to my incremental, evolved approach to AI, and the work I (and others) have done in this area. Slides: Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Venue: UCH (Upper College Hall)
DLS Programme Lecture 1: The Dependability of Complex Socio-technical Infrastructure Abstract: We have all become dependent on large complex systems such as Facebook, the bank payment system and even the Internet itself. Keeping these systems dependable in the face of accidents, errors and malice is one of the most important, and interesting, challenges facing engineers … The Dependability of Complex Socio-technical Infrastructure & Smart Grids and Smart Meters: Game Changer, or Serious Danger? by Prof. Ross Anderson
Speaker: Barry Smyth Affiliation: University College Dublin Biography: Prof. Barry Smyth holds the Digital Chair of Computer Science in University College Dublin.He is the Director of CLARITY These lectures will focus on how personalization techniques and recommender systems are being used in response to the information overload problem that face web users everyday. Personalization research … From Recommendation to Reputation: Information Discovery Gets Personal