Congratulations to David Letham who has been invited to the Gives Back Awards 2022, on behalf of University of St Andrews Charities Campaign. David is one of the first winners of the making a difference Award. This new Award comes from students and staff who would like to nominate members of staff who have gone … Congratulations David Letham!
SISCO Conference, 5 & 6 February Ian Gent, Chris Jefferson and Simon Dobson are all presenting at the SISCO conference this weekend. There will be social and networking events which include free food in the medicine cafeteria. We think that these will be nice opportunities for all students, speakers and staff to get to know … Only One day to go until SISCO!
Very many congratulations to our Emeritus Professor Ian Sommerville who has recently been awarded the 2022 Nancy Mead award for excellence in software engineering education. https://mycseet.wordpress.com/nancy-mead-award-terms-of-reference/ The award will be presented at the (virtual) Conference for Software Engineering and Training next month. This Award goes to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to software engineering … Congratulations to our Emeritus Professor Ian Sommerville
As part of the schools Distinguished Lecture Series we look forward to welcoming Prof. Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo on Tuesday 9 November. Prof. Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo received her Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 1999. After spending two years at CERN (the European Center for … Welcoming Prof. Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo for our DLS on Tuesday 9 November
Can Language Models be Weak Annotators We are happy to have Phong Le, from Amazon, talk on Teams on Wed 3 March at 12 noon on Teams. Abstract Deep language models e.g. BERT and GPT3 are the breakthrough in Natural Language Processing in the last 3 years. Being trained on massive raw text data, they … Seminar – Phong Le, Amazon – 3rd March 2021
As a part of the Love Data Week, Olexandr Konovalov will give a talk on Tuesday 11 February, 3pm, Physics Lecture Theatre C. Abstract: Have you been frustrated by trying to use someone else’s code which is non-trivial to install? Have you tried to make supplementary code for your paper to be easily accessible for … Modern practices of sharing computational research
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RESCHEDULED: please note the changed date and a non-standard time! Abstract: Prest is a recently published piece of open-source software for computational revealed preference analysis that provides novel ways to estimate decision makers’ preferences over choice alternatives by analysing their observable choice behaviour. This software is informed by classic as well as recent developments in … Georgios Gerasimou (University of St Andrews): Frontiers in computational revealed preference analysis
Abstract: Innovation and creativity are the research drivers of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community which is currently investing a vast amount of resources in the design and evaluation of “new” user interfaces and interaction techniques, leaving the correct functioning of these interfaces at the discretion of the helpless developers. In the area of formal methods … Philippe Palanque (University of Toulouse): Harnessing Usability, UX and Dependability for Interactions in Safety Critical Contexts
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