Reverend Bayes, meet Countess Lovelace: Probabilistic Programming for Machine Learning Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh Abstract: We propose a marriage of probabilistic functional programming with Bayesian reasoning. Infer.NET Fun turns the simple succinct syntax of F# into an executable modeling language – you can code up the conditional probability distributions of … School Seminar – Andy Gordon
Exciting update on two pieces of software from the Open Virtual Worlds research group. The first is NuiLib (available at NuiLib.org), a utility library for facilitating development with NUI (Natural User Input) devices (such as the Microsoft Kinect). It puts an abstraction layer over the top of the NUI device to hide the gory details … Virtual Worlds Research: NuiLib & Armadilo
After a busy week of welcome talks and induction, orientation week drew to a close with the postgraduate BBQ. MSc and PhD students had an opportunity to meet each other, discuss their diverse backgrounds, previous studies, eat burgers, twiglets and consume the local delicacy Irn Bru. Images Courtesy of Anne Campbell
It was great to see so many undergraduate computer science students at the Orientation Barbecue yesterday. New and returning students had the opportunity to discuss the merits of studying computer science, eat burgers and consume the traditional Irn Bru in a friendly setting. The Gaming/Programming Competition winners also received their prize in the form of … Orientation Week BBQ
The PhD Reading Party was held at the Burn House, just outside Edzell in the North East of Scotland. It was an opportunity for the research students to give a talk in a relaxed atmosphere, about their research interests. It also allowed for some socialising while wandering through the nearby woods and rivers. Each student … PhD Reading Party 2012
After a summer of hard work the MSc student poster presentations and project demos took place earlier today. Dissertations were submitted on Monday. We wish them every success as they approach graduation and look forward to seeing them again in November!
Congratulations to Hassan and Ali Khajeh-Hosseini on their ShopForCloud business, which has just been sold to RightScale. Ali worked as a software engineering intern at RightScale while studying for his PhD in computer science. Read more in Scotsman business article and on the ShopForCloud Blog.
Congratulations to Comp Sci grads Robert MacInnis, Allan Boyd and Angus Macdonald who are launching their software company AetherStore™ this week at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference. Read about their new business in the press release and in the University Alumni Network. Visit their websites at www.AetherWorks.com and www.AetherStore.com. We wish you every success in … Computer Science Graduates
Congratulations to our PhD students Lars, Angus, Vladimir, Greg and Devan pictured at graduation.
The School of Computer Science is 5th in the UK and top in Scotland in the 2013 Times Good University Guide. The University as a whole came 6th.