The School of Computer Science will be holding a Graduation Reception in the Jack Cole Building on Friday 30th November starting at 12:00 for the Masters Class of 2011. Students are invited to attend after their graduation along with any guests attending the event. Current MSc Students are also invited to the reception, which will … Graduation November 2012
Tuesday 27 November, 1400-1500, 1.33a Jack Cole building (Computer Science) Aardvark Swift, recruitment agents for the gaming industry, will be talking about how to break into the sector. Get advice from those in the know on the key skills you will need, the common pitfalls, and how to maximise your chances. Ideal for programming enthusiasts … Computer Gaming Industry careers: Aardvark Swift presentation – Get in the Game
We were privileged today to hear three lectures from Monty Widenius, main author of the MySQL database system. His main focus was on entrepreneurship and being an entrepreneur while giving away source code on an open source basis. Three staff members from St Andrews are pictured with Monty before the first lecture, in St … Four Geeks and an Entrepreneur
Professor Mari Ostendorf of the University of Washington is visiting Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews as part of a SICSA Distinguishing Fellowship. Title: Rich Speech Transcription for Spoken Document Processing Abstract: As storage costs drop and bandwidth increases, there has been rapid growth of spoken information available via the web or in online archives — … School Seminar – Mari Ostendorf
Kevin is the founder and CEO of RunRev, overseeing a global team and development of the Rev programming language. This seminar has been postponed due to Kevin’s work commitments. A new date will be announced in due course.
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
Professor Aaron Quigley will be giving his Inaugural Lecture in School III on Wednesday 31st October at 5:15 p.m. Billions of people are using interconnected computers and have come to rely on the computational power they afford us, to support their lives, or advance our global economy and society. However, how we interact with this … Professor Aaron Quigley Inaugural lecture
Reverend Bayes, meet Countess Lovelace: Probabilistic Programming for Machine Learning Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh Abstract: We propose a marriage of probabilistic functional programming with Bayesian reasoning. Infer.NET Fun turns the simple succinct syntax of F# into an executable modeling language – you can code up the conditional probability distributions of … School Seminar – Andy Gordon
Mobility in vivo Barry Brown, Co-director Mobile Life, University of Stockholm barbro.tumblr.com The Mobile VINN Excellence Centre Abstract Despite the widespread use of mobile devices, details of mobile technology use ‘in the wild’ have proven difficult to collect. For this study we uses video data to gain new insight into the use of mobile computing … School Seminar – Barry Brown
When: Wednesday 12th of September 9:30am – 5pm (with a 1 hour break for lunch) Where: Sub-honours lab in Jack Cole building (0.35) As part of this competition, you may be offered an opportunity to participate in a Human-Computer Interaction study on subtle interaction. Participation in this study is completely voluntary. There will be two … St Andrews Algorithmic Programming Competition