“The technology driving the evolution of internet advertising, targeted advertising or intrusive surveillance?” Tim Palmer, Senior Partner, Digiterre (http://www.digiterre.com)
Earlier this month Professor Julie McCann from Imperial College London, delivered the next set of distinguished lectures for 2016, in Lower and Upper College Hall. The three topical, well attended and interesting lectures centred around Distributed Systems and Sensing and discussed how sensor networks are being used today, how other sciences will impact the research … Distinguished Lecture Series 2016: Prof. Julie McCann
Distributed Systems and Sensing by Julie McCann Event details When: 7th November 2016 09:15 – 16:00 Where: Lower College Hall Series: Distinguished Lectures Series Format: Distinguished lecture 7th November 2016 Lower and Upper College Halls Introduction By Professor Simon Dobson School of Computer Science University of St Andrews The first of this academic year’s … DLS: Distributed Systems and Sensing by Prof. Julie McCann
Abstract: GPS has enabled a number of location based services outdoors, but the problem of localisation remains open in GPS-denied environments, such as indoors and underground. In this talk, I will discuss the key challenges to accurate and robust position estimation, and will describe a variety of sensor modalities and algorithms developed at Oxford to … Multi-modal Indoor Positioning: Trends and Challenges by Prof. Niki Trigoni, Oxford University
Abstract: Quicksort is a well-known sorting algorithm used to implement sort functionality in many libraries. The presentation isn’t really about the algorithm itself but rather about how to actually create an efficient implementation of the algorithm: a text-book implementation of the algorithm actually is not that quick (even if the pivot is chosen cleverly). … Quicker Sort by Dietmar Kühl, Bloomberg L.P.
Abstract: Evolutionary algorithms (EA) has developed as an academic discipline since the 1960s. The subject has spawned major subfields such as swarm intelligence and genetic programming and is applied to a wide variety of practical real world problems in science medicine and engineering. EAs are often the only practical method of solving large combinatorial optimisation … Running Before We have Evolved Legs: The Gap Between Theory and Practice in Evolutionary Algorithms by Prof. John McCall
The School of Computer Science welcomes Frankie Garcia from Keysight Technologies, Edinburgh. Abstract: Over the last two decades we have witnessed an unprecedented growth in the number of Internet-connected devices via the Cloud (storage, compute and intelligent analytics) generally referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT). This includes both machine-to-machine (M2M) and machine-to-person communications on a … School Seminar: “The path to Cellular IoT and the promise of 5G” by Frankie Garcia
Dr Maria Klawe, the first woman president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California delivered the first set of Distinguished Lectures for 2016, in the Byre Theatre. Given the decline in female participation in the tech industry, the three highly relevant, moving, well attended and thought-provoking lectures centred around Computer Science for All. The three … Distinguished Lecture Series 2016: Dr Maria Klawe
Reminder that President Maria Klawe will be speaking at our Distinguished Lecture Series on March 31st 2016 in St Andrews. During this event Maria will discuss the challenges in CS for all, including CS education in K-12, computing for all in undergraduate education, and CS research aimed at people with accessibility challenges and creating educational … Distinguished Lecture Series: Reminder of next event – ‘CS for All’ by President Maria Klawe
“Closure Experiences in Digital Product Design. The loss of the resolution in the shop of abundance” Abstract Most experiences in life are punctuated by a closure experience. In the past these were profound; however, over generations we have distanced ourselves from meaningful closure experiences thanks to our lifestyles increasing in comfort, the church weakening and … School Seminar ‘Closure Experiences in Digital Product Design’ by Joe Macleod