Unicode 12, released 5th March 2019, includes 9 control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text. These resulted from an initiative by Dr. Mark-Jan Nederhof (St Andrews) and Egyptologists at the University of Liège, CNAM (Paris) and the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, in collaboration with Unicode experts. The control characters allow hieroglyphs to be arranged horizontally … Encoding Egyptian quadrats in Unicode
Congratulations to Vinodh Rajan, Ben Mitchell, Martin Jansche and Sascha Brawer on their successful proposal for additions to the repertoire of ISO/IEC 10646, which will see Pali letters added to Lao in Unicode 12. As a result, it is now possible to write both Pali/Sanskrit in Lao and represent the entire Tripitaka in the Lao … Lao Characters for Pali added to Unicode 12
Congratulations to Hussein Bakri, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with Internal examiner Professor Ian Miguel and external examiner Dr Maria Economou, from the University of Glasgow.
Dr Juan Ye will be running an online event for IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society) on Lifelong Learning. The technical seminar, designed to focus on future research trends in human activity recognition, will take place on Friday 1st February from 2.00pm – 3.00pm. Seminar Details: Human activity recognition systems will be increasingly deployed … Dr Juan Ye: Lifelong Learning in Human Activity Recognition
Arne Sunde, the incoming Editor-in-Chief, has appointed Tom Kelsey as Associate Editor of Human Reproduction Update. Human Reproduction Update is the leading journal in Reproductive Medicine, with an Impact Factor of 11.852. The journal publishes comprehensive and systematic review articles in human reproductive physiology and medicine, and is published on behalf of the European Society … Tom Kelsey appointed Associate Editor of Human Reproduction Update
The School of Computer Science is recruiting two new Lecturers as part of a large on-going expansion of our academic staff. You will be a scholar with a growing international research reputation in Computer Science and a commitment to delivering high quality teaching within the broad field of Computer Science and its applications. The successful … Job vacancies: Lecturers in Computer Science
Professor Aaron Quigley and Professor Yoshifumi Kitamura (Tohoku University, Japan) have been appointed the general co-chairs for the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Asia in 2021. CHI is hosted by the ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international … Professors Quigley and Kitamura to co-chair ACM CHI 2021 in Asia
The Schools of Medicine and Computer Science are seeking to appoint three highly motivated data scientists with a passion for computer vision and deep learning, and specifically their application to medical imaging. The data scientists will be based in the Schools of Computer Science and Medicine at the University of St Andrews and will work … Job vacancies: Interdisciplinary Data Scientists
Congratulations to Khawar Shehzad, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with supervisor Professor Saleem Bhatti, Internal examiner Dr Ishbel Duncan and external examiner Dr Dimitrios Pezaros, from the University of Glasgow.
Congratulations to Shyam Reyal, who successfully defended his thesis yesterday. He is pictured with Internal examiner Dr Tom Kelsey and external examiner Dr Mark Dunlop , from the University of Strathclyde. Shyam’s research was supervised by Dr Per Ola Kristensson and Dr Mark-Jan Nederhof. Image courtesy of Annemarie Paton