School Seminar Series

You are warmly invited to the third School Seminar: Speaker: Jon Rogers Title: There’s plenty of room in our communities: Rethinking computational scale through open hardware Abstract: The dominant business model of Big Tech is built on scale. Scale to outpace competitors, capture global markets, and consolidate control. Today, just a handful of companies mediate … School Seminar: Jon Rogers, “There’s plenty of room in our communities: Rethinking computational scale through open hardware”

You are warmly invited to the second School Seminar: Speaker: Peter Macgregor Title: Fast Dynamic Algorithms for Modern Clustering Abstract: Spectral clustering and DBSCAN both have long histories as theoretically grounded, general-purpose clustering algorithms. However, they face practical challenges when scaling to large datasets which have limited their adoption in practice. In recent work, we … School Seminar – Peter Macgregor “Fast Dynamic Algorithms for Modern Clustering”

You are warmly invited to the next School Seminar: Speaker: Ian Gent Title: How Not To Do It Abstract: Empirical methods are a vital part of a researcher’s toolbox. Which means that the more senior a researcher is, the more tools they have dropped on their feet!  I will share real mistakes which I or my colleagues … School Seminar – Ian Gent, “How Not To Do It”