HCI 2012 will be held between the 12th and the 14th of September 2012 in Birmingham.
The Programme Committee includes Aaron and Per Ola as short paper chairs and Miguel in Interactive Demos.
Information available online at hci2012 submissions.
School of Computer Science
Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise
This month’s IEEE Computing Now features the paper “Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise” written by Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Ian Sommerville, Jurgen Bogaerts, and Pradeep Teregowda.
School Seminar by Eoin Woods
The Role of the Software Architect in Industry
Eoin Woods is a professional software architect and amateur software architecture researcher, having spent over 20 years in software engineering practice and contributed a number of papers and a co-authored book to the research literature on software architecture. In this talk, he will discuss how the two worlds relate to each other, the context for software architecture provided by enterprise software development and what software architects actually spend their days doing. The aim of the talk is to provide an honest insight into the day-to-day work of an industrial software architect, while still inspiring people to become one!
Event details
- When: 8th May 2012 15:00 - 16:00
- Where: Phys Theatre C
- Series: CS Colloquia Series
- Format: Colloquium
Seminar, An Overview of the AspeKT Project – Turning Academic Excellence into Gold by Colin Adams
An Overview of the AspeKT Project – Turning Academic Excellence into Gold
Abstract
The talk will give an overview of the major elements of the AspeKT project a 3 year program funded by Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Funding Council dedicated to improving the flow of ideas between the research excellence and talent pool produced by SICSA, and local industry. It will go through the major elements of the program designed to stimulate industrial innovation and a great flow of start-ups from that research base.
Bio
Dr Colin Adams is the Director of Commercialisation at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh and the Director of the AspekT program – the knowledge transfer program for the SICSA research pool. Colin started as an academic in the 1970’s before moving to Digital Equipment Corporation where he managed the development of VAX/VMS operating system before running the office automation business and the All-In-1 product line. He then moved into Electronic Design Automation and silicon, founding European Silicon Structures , US Silicon Structures and EuCAD. He sold EuCAD to Cadence Design Systems and managed various Cadence businesses and finally running the TALITY Management Buy Out. After a brief attempt at retiring he returned to the School of Informatics at University of Edinburgh to run the ProspeKT program focusing on generating start-ups out of the talent pool there.
He also chairs 2 local start-ups: ATEEDA and Coriolis Media and is a non Exec Director for ScotlandIS. HE has a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science, both from the University of Edinburgh
Event details
- When: 23rd April 2012 14:00 - 15:00
- Where: Phys Theatre C
- Series: CS Colloquia Series
- Format: Colloquium
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
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…
Open Minds Lecture Series 2011
Throughout St Andrews Week the University opens its doors, and invites members of the public, students and staff to attend lectures.
Ian Gent’s CS1005 lectures, Computer Science and Video Games, will feature in the event. A timetable of events and location details can be found on the University website.
One from the archives: Plans for new computer science building
November 2002, and plans were unveiled in the university news, for a new Computer Science Building. Stages of the build were photographed for posterity.
