Congratulations to Ditchaphong Phoomikiattisak, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured below with supervisor Professor Saleem Bhatti, Internal examiner Professor Simon Dobson, and External examiner Dr Mahesh Marina from the University of Edinburgh.
The first of this academic year’s distinguished lectures will be given by Professor Joe Armstrong, co-inventor of Erlang, on Monday 16th November 2015 at The Byre Theatre. Abstract: To build a scalable system the important thing is to make small isolated independent units. To scale up we just add more units. To build a fault-tolerant … Distinguished Lecture: ‘Scalability and Fault-tolerance, are they the same?’ by Joe Armstrong
Congratulations to CJ Davies, who successfully defended his thesis today. CJ is pictured below with supervisor Dr Alan Miller and Dr Luke Hutton. Dr Ishbel Duncan acted as internal examiner and external examiner was Prof. Vic Callaghan from the University of Essex.
Staff and students from the School of Computer Science attended Prof. Ian Miguel’s Inaugural Lecture in St Salvator’s Quadrangle yesterday evening. The well-received and highly accessible lecture titled “Constraint Satisfaction and the Crystal Maze”, was accompanied by a reception in Lower College Hall. Many will remember celebrating Ian’s installation as a new Professor at December … Professor Ian Miguel’s Inaugural Lecture
Congratulations to our recent graduate Sam Elliott, who has won the Lockheed Martin Award for Best Engineered Project at the Young Software Engineer awards. The Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards are given for the best undergraduate software projects drawn from across all students studying computer science and software engineering in Scotland. Sam’s project, … Lockheed Martin Award
Abstract: Some of the world’s most important industries are intrinsically grounded in the physical world, yet their interaction with it is still almost completely manual. Converge is a young startup, forged in the fires of Entrepreneurs First, that is building wireless, distributed sensor networks to revolutionise how these industries operate. We (Raph and Gideon, founders) … Seminar: ‘Disrupting trillion dollar industries using low power wireless sensor networks’ by Raphael Scheps and Gideon Farrell
The School of Computer Science is delighted to welcome Alan Mislove from Northeastern University Boston to give his talk on ‘Measuring Personalization of Online Services Abstract: Today, many web services personalize their content, including Netflix (movie recommendations), Amazon (product suggestions), and Yelp (business reviews). In many cases, personalization provides advantages for users: for example, when … Seminar: ‘Measuring Personalization of Online Services’ by Alan Mislove
The School of Computer Science are delighted to welcome Pam Briggs from Northumbria University, Newcastle who will deliver her talk on Trust and Engagement. Abstract: Patients now generate a significant amount of online material about health. This raises questions about how we should design websites featuring patient knowledge and experience in order to ensure those … Seminar: ‘Designing trusted and engaging forms of peer to peer healthcare’ by Pam Briggs
Congratulations to Adam Barker who has been awarded a prestigious Visiting Researcher position at Google through the Google Visiting Faculty Program. “The Google Visiting Faculty program aims to identify and support world-class, full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest. Each year, through the Google Visiting Faculty Program, over 25 academics visit Google from … Adam Barker – Google Visiting Faculty
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Ognjen (Oggie) Arandjelović to the School as a new lecturer.