S4 pupils take part in fun, hands-on activities themed around Computer Science and Medicine. They will have the opportunity to work in groups to build and deploy their own Android application. This session is run in collaboration with Reach Scotland, Access for Rural Communities (ARC), and the Academic Mentoring Project (AMP).
Computer Science was well represented at a workshop on the challenges of variability in data-driven research that was held earlier this week.
Abstract: Representing argument binding in compositional relational programs is an issue due to the syntactic problems. We first present our former research on using visualization to overcome this problem, and relevant user studies, and go on to discuss our recent work on syntactic improvements in solving the same problem. We are looking forward to feedback … Visualizing and writing variable-free compositional relational programs
The Summer of V’s is an exciting series of four events on the Four V’s of Data Science: Veracity, Variety, Velocity and Volume. The series is coordinated by the new Institute of Data Intensive Research at the University of St Andrews. However, these events don’t simply target groups in Science, Medicine or the Humanities but … May 18th, Data Science Seminar Series or “a Summer of V’s”
Speaker: Andruid Kerne, Texas A&M, USA Date/Time: 2-3pm June 26, 2015 Location: CS1.33a, University of St Andrews Andruid is research scientist-artist investigating how people experience personal expression, creative ideation, and social engagement. He develops and evaluates expressive interfaces, computational architectures, and distributed systems that support creative processes of knowledge production and interpersonal communication. For … June 26, Andruid Kerne, The Future of Human Expression: Ideation − Play − Body-based Interaction
Speaker: Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham Date/Time: 2-3pm May 19, 2015 Location: CS1.33a, University of St Andrews As ubiquitous systems have moved out of the lab and into the world the need to think more systematically about how there are realised has grown. This talk will present intradisciplinary work I have been engaged in with … May 19, Tom Rodden, On lions, impala, and bigraphs: modelling interactions in Ubiquitous Computing.
A hands-on introduction to data literacy This will be a hands-on workshop where we will conduct exercises on data characterisation, visualisation data sketching, and constructive visualisation. There will be several short talks on basic data visualisation concepts, discussions, sketching sessions and constructive visualisation sessions. In this workshop you employ the basic visual variables to construct … May 8th, Workshop, Sketching and Constructing Visualisations
Primary School pupils from across Fife take part in fun, hands-on activities themed around Computer Science and Space. They will have the opportunity to use online resources to explore the solar system, program their own Lunar Lander game in Scratch, and guide a Lego Mindstorm robot around a track. This session is part of Space School … Space School @ Computer Science
The School of Computer Science welcomes Dr Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin to give his talk on ‘Technologies for mental health: designing for engagement’. Abstract: Mental illness is one of the greatest social and economic challenges facing our society. The talk will consider at some of the different ways in which technology (and HCI research) … June 16th, seminar by Gavin Doherty: Technologies for mental health: designing for engagement
The School of Computer Science welcomes Mel Woods from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. Abstract: Blue heritage plaques pepper the UK landscape expounding officially validated narratives celebrating past events, people, and buildings. This seminar will discuss a novel method that draws on this specific cultural context to generate reflective, nano-stories, … April 28th, seminar by Mel Woods: Future Cities: Co-creating Future City Design Fictions in the Wild