This week Professor Quigley joined a mission to Japan with other academics from the University of Oxford, Edinburgh, UCL and Manchester. The week long event was organised by the UK’s Science and Innovation team in Japan, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Over five days the delegation visited and presented at seven companies along … Science and Innovation mission to Japan
Professor Quigley will be a distinguished speaker at the World Usability Day in Tallinn, Estonia this November as part of the ACM DSP. Aaron was appointed to the Distinguished Speaker Program (DSP) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) earlier this year. The DSP brings together international thought leaders from academia, industry, and government. In Estonia, Aaron will present a talk on … Global Human Computer Interaction at World Usability Day Estonia
Dr Tom Kelsey will be holding a panel discussion at Computing’s first ever Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Live conference on Monday 19th November in London. Through a variety of expert key-notes, end-user case studies, and panel discussions the conference will highlight key developments within AI. Tom’s panel discussion: The next big thing or the … The next big thing or the next big gimmick?
Dr Tom Kelsey will be an expert panel member for the launch event on the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning held at the London Marriott Hotel, November 2018.
CUHK + UniMelb = Fable-based Learning + A Tale of Two Cities Prof Jimmy Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong This talk reports on the pedagogical innovation and experience of a joint venture by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the University of Melbourne (UniMelb) in the development of MOOCs on the computer … Fable-based Learning: Seminar by Prof Jimmy Lee
Professor Mateu Villaret, from Universitat de Girona is a visiting scholar with the AI group from July 1st until September 30th. Professor Villaret works on algorithms for routing and scheduling with the AI group at St Andrews. As well as solving practical problems, he also enjoys puzzle games. That is the basis of this talk, … Seminar: SMT, Planning and Snowmen
The Higher Education Research Group is happy to announce the workshop on using video on Computer Science education on Aug 7th 2018. Goals Participants of this full-day workshop will look at the role of video in education in general, and specifically: * Discussing opportunities and challenges that are specific for use of video in teaching … Workshop on Using Video in CS Education
The Higher Education Research Group is happy to announce the SICSA-sponsored workshop on learning analytics on Aug 6th 2018. Goals The purpose of this SICSA-sponsored workshop is to encourage an evidence-based approach to teaching by leveraging quantitative and qualitative data available to CS schools. Most importantly, we plan to organise a multi-institution study on using … SICSA Workshop on Learning Analytics in Education
The speaker is Lars Kotthoff, previously a PhD student here, now and Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming. All welcome. Often, there is more than one way to solve a problem. It could be a different parameter setting, a different piece of software, or an entirely different approach. Choosing the best way is … Seminar: AI-augmented algorithms — how I learned to stop worrying and love choice
Congratulations to Daniel Rough, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with supervisor Professor Aaron Quigley, Internal examiner Dr Uta Hinrichs and external examiner Professor Alessio Malizia, from the University of Hertfordshire. Images courtesy of Annemarie Paton