Series

School Seminar: Jon Rogers, “There’s plenty of room in our communities: Rethinking computational scale through open hardware”

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”

AI Seminar – Symbolic reasoning with Dr Ruth Hoffmann Wednesday 29 October

Please join us for an in-person event entitled ‘Symbolic reasoning’ on Wednesday 29 October 2025 between 1:30pm and 3pm. To help monitor attendance, please register using the link below. This event is open to all members of the community at the University of St Andrews.   Speaker: Dr Ruth Hoffman, School of Computer Science, University of St AI Seminar – Symbolic reasoning with Dr Ruth Hoffmann Wednesday 29 October

Seminar series on computing intelligence

There will be a series of talks at the Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences which might be interesting to staff in the School. It will be a mix of discussions about how different fields (i.e., not just CS) think about intelligence and some talks about various sub-fields of AI presented by CS staff. Talks Seminar series on computing intelligence

School Seminar – Peter Macgregor “Fast Dynamic Algorithms for Modern Clustering”

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”

SACHI Seminar – Prof Sampsa Hyysalo: Design Participation | Fri 23 May, 15:00–16:00, JCB 1.33A

We are excited to invite you to a special SACHI seminar this week with Prof Sampsa Hyysalo, who will be visiting us from Aalto University in Finland. This is a great opportunity to hear from one of the leading voices in participatory design and user innovation. 📅 Friday 23rd May | 🕛 15:00 – 16:00 PM SACHI Seminar – Prof Sampsa Hyysalo: Design Participation | Fri 23 May, 15:00–16:00, JCB 1.33A

Distinguished Lecture Series 2025

This years Distinguished Lecture series was delivered yesterday ( Tuesday 1st April) by Professor Arthur Zimek, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. In his talk on, ‘Data Mining and the “Curse of Dimensionality”’ he considered the challenges of the “curse” from the perspective of data mining. In Talk 1, he discussed the “curse” in Distinguished Lecture Series 2025

SACHI Seminar, Stavroula Pipyrou – Radical Imagination: Knowledge Through Generations

We are pleased to share our upcoming SACHI seminar this week by Dr Stavroula Pipyrou, a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and Founding Director of the Centre for Minorities Research. 📅 Wednesday 2nd April  | 🕛 13:00 – 14:00 PM | 📍 JCB, Room 1.33A Title: Radical Imagination: Knowledge SACHI Seminar, Stavroula Pipyrou – Radical Imagination: Knowledge Through Generations

SACHI Seminar, Mark Zarb – Bridging Minds and Machines: Redefining Computing Education

We are pleased to share our upcoming SACHI seminar by Dr Mark Zarb, an Associate Professor based within the School of Computing, Engineering and Technology at RGU: 📅 26th March | 🕛 13:00 – 14:00 PM | 📍 JCB, Room 1.33A Title: Bridging Minds and Machines: Redefining Computing Education Abstract: Since 2009, Dr Zarb has been exploring the SACHI Seminar, Mark Zarb – Bridging Minds and Machines: Redefining Computing Education

Distinguished Lecture Series: Data Mining and the “Curse of Dimensionality”

Tuesday 1st April Booth Lecture Theatre, School of Medicine Schedule: Talk 1: 10:00 – 11:30 Lunch: 12:00 – 13:00 Talk 2 : 13:00 – 14:30 Coffee break: 14:30 – 15:00 Talk 3: 15:00 – 16:30 We look forward to welcoming Professor Arthur Zimek, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, who will talk about Data Distinguished Lecture Series: Data Mining and the “Curse of Dimensionality”