Ishbel, Alan & Janie Brooks of ELT have been awarded £8000 from UKCISA (Council for International Student Affairs) to build a virtual St Andrews to aid international student orientation.
News
Crowdsourcing research featured in the New Scientist
The latest issue of the New Scientist magazine writes about Per Ola Kristensson‘s work on using crowdsourcing and online web sources to create better statistical language models for AAC devices: Crowdsourcing improves predictive texting.
The research paper was published in the Association for Computational Linguistics’ 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. It is published using the open access model and can be read here. The language models are publicly released and can be found here.
Special software to trawl thousands of historic archives to uncover Empire trade boom
Professor Aaron Quigley’s research on exploratory visualisation allows historians to trace the flow of a wide range of natural resources around the globe.
By working with world experts in text mining within the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance and domain experts in York University, Canada, we can bridge the research divide and answer historical questions on trading
Professor Muffy Calder (Glasgow University) has been appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland.
As Muffy Thomas, she was awarded her PhD, in Computational Logic, in this School in 1988.
Details are at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/02/scientific-adviser14022012
PhD Research featured in Poster Session
Last week we had a very successful poster session for PhD students to feature their research in the School of Computer Science. As previously blogged, three prizes were awarded by Professor Emeritus and former head of School, Ron Morrison.
Many of the posters featured at this session, including all the prizewinners, are now available for everyone to look at.
Competition entrants included:
- Jan de Muijnck-Hughes Leveraging Predicate Based Encryption
Systems - James W. Smith Energy Efficiency in Cloud Computing
- CJ Davies Virtual Time Windows − Cross Reality for Cultural Heritage
- John McCaffery Open Virtual Worlds as a Platform for 3D
Application - Ruth Hoffmann Token Passing Networks and Permutation Pattern
Classes - Indika Perera 3D Multi User Learning Environments:
Management Policy Considerations - Ward Jaradat A Scalable Architecture for Decentralised Execution of Data-Intensive Workflows
- Jin Huang Architectural Concerns for Distributed, Self‐adaptive
Systems - Ozgur Akgün Refining Portfolios of Constraint Models with CONJURE
- Masih Hajiarabderkani Adaptive Dissemination of Maintenance
Information in Peer-to-Peer Systems - Jakub Dostal Viewing Distance and Attention Detection in
Multi-Display Environments (MDEs) - Arunas Prokopas Constraint Solver Synthesizer
- Chonlatee Khorakhun Enabling “Internet of Things”
- Luke Hutton Temporal decay of social networking privacy
policies - Bruce Simpson A new approach to multihoming in the IPv6
Internet
Many thanks to all the students for their hard work in creating such interesting posters, and to Ron for his very careful prizegiving.
PhD Poster Session 2012
The PhD poster session took place today in the Jack Cole coffee area.
Ron Morrison awarded Amazon vouchers to the three best posters. Congratulations to Lakshitha, Yi and Ali.
3rd place to System Deployment Costs in Public Clouds – Ali Khajeh-Hosseini
2nd place to Building Energy Awareness into ICT Systems (complete with magnifying glass) – Yi Yu
1st place to Monitoring Architectural Conformance through Runtime Event Interpretation – Lakshitha De Silva
Many of the posters featured at this session, including all the prizewinners, are now available for everyone to look at.
Competition entrants included:
- Jan de Muijnck-Hughes Leveraging Predicate Based Encryption
Systems - James W. Smith Energy Efficiency in Cloud Computing
- CJ Davies Virtual Time Windows − Cross Reality for Cultural Heritage
- John McCaffery Open Virtual Worlds as a Platform for 3D
Application - Ruth Hoffmann Token Passing Networks and Permutation Pattern
Classes - Indika Perera 3D Multi User Learning Environments:
Management Policy Considerations - Ward Jaradat A Scalable Architecture for Decentralised Execution of Data-Intensive Workflows
- Jin Huang Architectural Concerns for Distributed, Self‐adaptive
Systems - Ozgur Akgün Refining Portfolios of Constraint Models with CONJURE
- Masih Hajiarabderkani Adaptive Dissemination of Maintenance
Information in Peer-to-Peer Systems - Jakub Dostal Viewing Distance and Attention Detection in
Multi-Display Environments (MDEs) - Arunas Prokopas Constraint Solver Synthesizer
- Chonlatee Khorakhun Enabling “Internet of Things”
- Luke Hutton Temporal decay of social networking privacy
policies - Bruce Simpson A new approach to multihoming in the IPv6
Internet
Research Fellow Vacancy
The SACHI research group are seeking applications for a research fellow
Information on how to apply.
Twitter Innocent in English riots
Alex Voss was part of the team investigating the role of social media during the English Riots. The study was highlighted in the University news today, and the Guardian this morning.
Update
The results of the study will also be presented at the Reading the Riots conference,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/dec/14/reading-the-riots-conference-live-blog
which also features a range of other speakers including Ed Miliband, the leader of the opposition, Theresa May,
the home secretary and Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary.
The study was led by Professor Rob Procter, of the University of Manchester, and funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee).
Hats off and congratulations to…
November Graduation 2011
Congratulations to the Masters Class of 2011, and our PhD students, who graduated today. Students were invited to a reception in the school to celebrate their achievement with staff, friends and family. Our graduates have moved on to a wide variety of interesting and challenging employment opportunities, and we wish them all well with their future careers.
