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SRG Seminar: “Using Metric Space Indexing for Complete and Efficient Record Linkage” by Özgür Akgün

Record linkage is the process of identifying records that refer to the same real-world entities, in situations where entity identifiers are unavailable. Records are linked on the basis of similarity between common attributes, with every pair being classified as a link or non-link depending on their degree of similarity. Record linkage is usually performed in … SRG Seminar: “Using Metric Space Indexing for Complete and Efficient Record Linkage” by Özgür Akgün

Distinguished Speaker Program Tour (Indonesia): Professor Aaron Quigley

Professor Quigley will engage in a lecture tour to three cities in Indonesia in March 2019 as part of the Distinguished Speaker Program (DSP) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The DSP brings together international thought leaders from academia, industry, and government. Professor Quigley will speak at the 5th International HCI and UX Conference which will travel to Jakarta, Surabaya … Distinguished Speaker Program Tour (Indonesia): Professor Aaron Quigley

DLS: Scalable Intelligent Systems by 2025 (Carl Hewitt)

Venue: The Old Course Hotel (Hall of Champions) Timetable: 9:30 Lecture 1 10:30 Break with Coffee 11:15 Lecture 2 12:15 Break for Lunch (not provided) 14:15 Lecture 3 15:15 Discussion Lecture 1: Introduction to Scalable Intelligent Systems Lecture 2: Foundations for Scalable Intelligent Systems Lecture 3: Implications of Scalable Intelligent Systems Speaker Bio: Professor Carl … DLS: Scalable Intelligent Systems by 2025 (Carl Hewitt)

SRG Seminar: “Efficient Cross-architecture Hardware Virtualisation” by Tom Spink

Virtualisation is a powerful tool used for the isolation, partitioning, and sharing of physical computing resources. Employed heavily in data centres, becoming increasingly popular in industrial settings, and used by home-users for running alternative operating systems, hardware virtualisation has seen a lot of attention from hardware and software developers over the last ten?fifteen years. From … SRG Seminar: “Efficient Cross-architecture Hardware Virtualisation” by Tom Spink

DHSI Seminar – Wednesday 17th October

Digital Health Science Interschool Seminar Series Opportunity for collaboration and networking The next seminar in the DHSI series will be held in Seminar room 6, Gateway building, North Haugh on Wednesday 17th October at 12.00pm The lead contact in Computer Science is Dr Tom Kelsey. The core values of the seminar series is to allow … DHSI Seminar – Wednesday 17th October

School Seminar – Professor Anirudha Joshi: The story of Swarachakra – Cracking the puzzle of text input in Indian languages

Title: The story of Swarachakra – Cracking the puzzle of text input in Indian languages Abstract: There was a time when text input in Indian languages was called a ‘puzzle’. People found it so difficult that became a barrier that prevented them from using most other technology products, from doing common tasks such as searching the … School Seminar – Professor Anirudha Joshi: The story of Swarachakra – Cracking the puzzle of text input in Indian languages

Pascal Bruegger: Resident Monitoring System

Abstract: The situation in hospitals, nursing homes and homes for patients suffering from mental illnesses is increasingly challenging. The medical staff and special educators are often responsible for a large (and growing) number of residents, for which there is only a very limited time for one-to-one care. The risk of not being able to respond … Pascal Bruegger: Resident Monitoring System

School Seminar – Professor Patrick Olivier – Digital Civics: Infrastructuring Participatory Citizenship

Title:  Digital Civics: Infrastructuring Participatory Citizenship Abstract:  Firstly, this is not technical talk, its a talk about a research initiative in “Digital Civics” that Open Lab is undertaking primarily with partners in the North East of England, but also nationally and internationally. Digital Civics proposes the use of digital technologies in the provision of relational models of … School Seminar – Professor Patrick Olivier – Digital Civics: Infrastructuring Participatory Citizenship

Google@St Andrews

Next Wednesday, October 3rd between 2 and 4pm, Google will be hosting an event at St Andrews. Come along to the Purdie building (Lecture Theatre A) to learn the ins and outs of technical roles at Google. You’ll learn about software and site reliability engineering, product management, and engineering at Google in general. You’ll also … Google@St Andrews

Alexander Konovalov (St Andrews): How to teach basic research computing skills? (School Seminar)

Abstract: The Carpentries (https://carpentries.org/) is a global community of volunteers which teach foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide through Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry workshops. Being involved in the Carpentries since 2015, I organised and taught at several workshops, developed new lessons, and trained new Carpentry instructors. In my talk … Alexander Konovalov (St Andrews): How to teach basic research computing skills? (School Seminar)