Seminar

SACHI Seminar: Digital tabletops: in the lab and in the wild by Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University

SACHI seminar Title: Digital tabletops: in the lab and in the wild Speaker: Patrick Olivier, Culture Lab, Newcastle University Abstract: The purpose of this talk will be to introduce Culture Lab’s past and current interaction design research into digital tabletops. The talk will span our interaction techniques and technologies research (including pen-based interaction, authentication and SACHI Seminar: Digital tabletops: in the lab and in the wild by Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University

SACHI Seminar: Subtle Gaze-Dependent Techniques for Visualising Display Changes in Multi-Display Environments, by Jakub Dostal, University of St. Andrews

Abstract: Modern computer workstation setups regularly include multiple displays in various configurations. With such multi-monitor or multi-display setups we have reached a stage where we have more display real-estate available than we are able to comfortably attend to. This talk will present the results of an exploration of techniques for visualising display changes in multi-display SACHI Seminar: Subtle Gaze-Dependent Techniques for Visualising Display Changes in Multi-Display Environments, by Jakub Dostal, University of St. Andrews

Seminar by Leo Liberti on “Symmetry in Mathematical Programming”, 19th Nov, 11am

Leo Liberti, the director of the Optimisation and Sustainable Development Chair at Ecole Polytechnique, will be giving a seminar on Monday 19th November, 2012, at 11am-12, in Jack Cole 1.33a. Symmetry in Mathematical Programming Abstract: When solving Mathematical Programming (MP) problems (be they linear or nonlinear, continuous or mixed-integer) using Branch-and-Bound (BB), the presence of Seminar by Leo Liberti on “Symmetry in Mathematical Programming”, 19th Nov, 11am

School Seminar – Mari Ostendorf

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

School Seminar – Kevin Miller

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.

Distinguished Lecture Series: MySQL and Open Source Business, by Monty Widenius

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