We had our first School seminar of the semester today. The speaker was André G. Pereira visiting Scotland on a SICSA DVF Fellowship. André is working on AI Planning problems, an area that is closely related to the work of our own Constraint Programming research group. Title: Understanding Neuro-Symbolic Planning Abstract: In this seminar, we … SICSA DVF Seminar – Dr André G. Pereira
Alan Miller and The Virtual Open Worlds team appeared in The Herald earlier this month promoting their digital reconstruction of Fort William for the West Highland Museum Using VR headsets, the team created a fully immersive virtual reality model of the old fort in Fort William in the days leading up to the Battle of … Virtual Open Worlds appear in The Herald
Congratulations to Rosa Filgueira who has been awarded with the UK Young Academy (UKYA) membership The UK Young Academy’s first cohort brings together members from across academia, charity organisations and the private sector, to galvanise their skills, knowledge, and experience to find innovative solutions to the challenges facing societies now and in the future.
Best Wishes from the school of Computer Science
Congratulations to all our students who recently graduated, We wish you all the very best of luck! Congratulations also go to Chris Jefferson and Juliana Bowles in their professorships
Funded PhD opportunity. The project will be heavy on state of the art machine learning with applications to statistical ecology. The project will be jointly supervised by the Schools of Maths and Stats (Alison Johnston, Chris Sutherland) and Computer Science (Kasim and Oggie) and potentially fully funded by CREEM. Strong applicants with experience with deep … PhD opportunity: Interdisciplinary approaches for improving biodiversity assessments using remote sensors
Please join me in congratulating Catherine Cassidy, supervised by Alan Miller, and mentored by Alice Toniolo, who has just passed her PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Jonathon Richter (President of Immersive Learning Research Network) for serving as the external examiner.
If you are currently teaching or interested in teaching anything to do with ethics and technology, then please consider attending a half-day workshop that Dharini Balasubramaniam and Tristan Henderson are holding in JC 1.33 on Tuesday 6 Dec. The aim is to discuss challenges, share syllabi and best practices, and ideally to build a shared … Workshop on Teaching and Assessing Technology Ethics, Tuesday 6 Dec
The School of Computer Science will host a small graduation reception in the JC coffee area on Tuesday 29th November between 14:00-16:00. Graduating students and their guests are invited to come along and celebrate with a glass of bubbly. Computer Science degrees will be conferred in an afternoon ceremony in the Younger Hall. Family and … November Graduation
The new SETI Post-Detection Hub, coordinated by Dr John Elliott, an honorary research fellow of the School of Computer Science has gathered widespread press interest, across UK, Europe, USA, Canada, South America and South East Asia. The Hub hosted by the Centre of Exoplanet Science and the Centre for Global Law and Governance of the … Research hub considers response to life beyond Earth