Event

Adriana Wilde (St Andrews): Rising to challenges in assessment, feedback and encouraging gender diversity in computing (School Seminar)

Abstract This talk is in two parts, in the first of which Adriana will focus on her experiences in assessment and feedback in large classes, and in the second part on her work in encouraging gender diversity in computer science. The focus of the first part will be on her involvement in redesigning an undergraduate … Adriana Wilde (St Andrews): Rising to challenges in assessment, feedback and encouraging gender diversity in computing (School Seminar)

Pireh Pirzada: Sensors in Smart Homes for independent living of elderly people

Title: Sensors in Smart Homes for independent living of elderly people Abstract: In the UK alone approximately about 3.64 million people aged 65 or above live on their own, and this number is rising. This increases concern of the safety and wellbeing of an ageing population, as growing old often results in reduced capabilities for … Pireh Pirzada: Sensors in Smart Homes for independent living of elderly people

Dr. Vladimir Janjic – Efficient Dynamic Mapping of Parallel Applications to NUMA Architectures by Reinforcement Learning

Title: Efficient Dynamic Mapping of Parallel Applications to NUMA Architectures by Reinforcement Learning   Abstract: We present a dynamic framework for mapping threads and data of parallel applications to computational cores/memory nodes of parallel non-uniform memory architecture (NUMA) systems. We use a feedback-based mechanism where the performance of each thread is collected and used to … Dr. Vladimir Janjic – Efficient Dynamic Mapping of Parallel Applications to NUMA Architectures by Reinforcement Learning

School Graduation Reception

We invite our graduating students and their relatives to join us next Thursday, between 12 and 3.30 in the Jack Cole coffee area, for a glass of fizz to celebrate graduation. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Salesforce Graduate Opportunities

Alumni Paul Dobra will host a short session about Salesforce graduate opportunities on Friday the 8th December, at 11am in Jack Cole 1.33. Target audience MSc, MSci and Honours students.

“Sensing and topology: some ideas by other people, and an early experiment” by Simon Dobson

Abstract The core problem in many sensing applications is that we’re trying to infer high-resolution information from low-resolution observations — and keep our trust in this information as the sensors degrade. How can we do this in a principled way? There’s an emerging body of work on using topology to manage both sensing and analytics, … “Sensing and topology: some ideas by other people, and an early experiment” by Simon Dobson

Edgar Chavez (CICESE): The Metric Approach to Reverse Searching (School Seminar)

Abstract: Searching for complex objects (e.g. images, faces, audio or video), is an everyday problem in computer science, motivated by many applications. Efficient algorithms are demanded for reverse searching, also known as query by content, in large repositories. Current industrial solutions are ad hoc, domain-dependant, hardware intensive and have limited scaling. However, those disparate domains … Edgar Chavez (CICESE): The Metric Approach to Reverse Searching (School Seminar)

Bidirectional-Curious? – Dr. Conor McBride

Type systems are often presented in a declarative style, but with an emphasis on ensuring that there is some sort of type synthesis algorithm. Since Pierce and Turner’s “Local Type Inference” system, however, there has been a small but growing alternative: bidirectional typing, where types are synthesized for variables and elimination forms, but must always … Bidirectional-Curious? – Dr. Conor McBride

Computational Approaches for Accurate, Automated and Safe Cancer Care – HIG Seminar

Modern external beam radiation therapy techniques allow the design of highly conformal radiation treatment plans that permit high doses of ionsing radition to be delivered to the tumour in order to eradicate cancer cells while sparing surrounding normal tissue. However, since it is difficult to avoid irradiation of normal tissue altogether and ionising radiation also … Computational Approaches for Accurate, Automated and Safe Cancer Care – HIG Seminar