The Summer of V’s is an exciting series of four events on the Four V’s of Data Science: Veracity, Variety, Velocity and Volume. The series is coordinated by the new Institute of Data Intensive Research at the University of St Andrews. However, these events don’t simply target groups in Science, Medicine or the Humanities but … May 18th, Data Science Seminar Series or “a Summer of V’s”
Speaker: Andruid Kerne, Texas A&M, USA Date/Time: 2-3pm June 26, 2015 Location: CS1.33a, University of St Andrews Andruid is research scientist-artist investigating how people experience personal expression, creative ideation, and social engagement. He develops and evaluates expressive interfaces, computational architectures, and distributed systems that support creative processes of knowledge production and interpersonal communication. For … June 26, Andruid Kerne, The Future of Human Expression: Ideation − Play − Body-based Interaction
Speaker: Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham Date/Time: 2-3pm May 19, 2015 Location: CS1.33a, University of St Andrews As ubiquitous systems have moved out of the lab and into the world the need to think more systematically about how there are realised has grown. This talk will present intradisciplinary work I have been engaged in with … May 19, Tom Rodden, On lions, impala, and bigraphs: modelling interactions in Ubiquitous Computing.
A hands-on introduction to data literacy This will be a hands-on workshop where we will conduct exercises on data characterisation, visualisation data sketching, and constructive visualisation. There will be several short talks on basic data visualisation concepts, discussions, sketching sessions and constructive visualisation sessions. In this workshop you employ the basic visual variables to construct … May 8th, Workshop, Sketching and Constructing Visualisations
The impressive ParaPhrase project which commenced in October 2011, brought together a world-leading team of academic and industrial experts to improve the programmability and performance of modern parallel computing technologies. The consortium consisted of 7 academic and 3 industrial partners from 6 countries and was coordinated by Prof. Kevin Hammond here in the School of … €4.2M ParaPhrase Project Concludes
Professor David Kaufman of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver will be visiting the School between May 7th and May 21st. Prof. Kaufman is a world leading expert on Computer Supported Education, Educational Technologies and Digital StoryTelling. See: http://www.sfu.ca/education/faculty-profiles/dkaufman.html He will be hosted by Ishbel and working with the Virtual Worlds research group. Prof. Kaufman will … DVF: Professor David Kaufman
The School of Computer Science welcomes Dr Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin to give his talk on ‘Technologies for mental health: designing for engagement’. Abstract: Mental illness is one of the greatest social and economic challenges facing our society. The talk will consider at some of the different ways in which technology (and HCI research) … June 16th, seminar by Gavin Doherty: Technologies for mental health: designing for engagement
The School of Computer Science welcomes Mel Woods from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. Abstract: Blue heritage plaques pepper the UK landscape expounding officially validated narratives celebrating past events, people, and buildings. This seminar will discuss a novel method that draws on this specific cultural context to generate reflective, nano-stories, … April 28th, seminar by Mel Woods: Future Cities: Co-creating Future City Design Fictions in the Wild
Speaker: Nicolai Marquardt, University College London Date/Time: 1-2pm April 13, 2015 Location: CS1.33a, University of St Andrews Abstract: Despite the ongoing proliferation of devices and form-factors such as tablets and electronic whiteboards, technology often hinders (rather than helps) informal small-group interactions. Whereas natural human conversation is fluid and dynamic, discussions that rely on digital content—slides, … April 13th, seminar by Nicolai Marquardt: Towards Ad-hoc Collaboration Spaces with Cross-Device Interaction Techniques
C3: Scalable & Verified Shared Memory via Consistency-directed Cache Coherence Susmit Sarkar with colleagues in the University of Edinburgh and Intel as project partners, have been successful in their application to the EPSRC for their project C3: Scalable & Verified Shared Memory via Consistency-directed Cache Coherence. This 3 year project starts in July 2015 and … New EPSRC project C3: Scalable & Verified Shared Memory