Alan Frisch Seminar Video

From October to December 2011, the School of Computer Science hosted Dr Alan Frisch from the University of York as a SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow. While here, Dr Frisch kindly agreed to give a seminar entitled “Decade of Progress in Constraint Modelling & Reformulation: The Quest for Abstraction and Automation”, the video of which can now be found here.

During his Fellowship Dr Frisch also visited, and spoke at, the universities of Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Event details

  • When: 3rd October 2011 - 22nd December 2011
  • Format: Seminar

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:

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:

SCOttish Networking Event (SCONE)

The next SCONE meeting will be held in the School of Computer Science
in St Andrews on Friday 24 February. We will start with lunch at 1200,
and the main event from 1300-1700 before adjourning to a pub.

To register, please e-mail Tristan Henderson so that we can organise numbers for
catering.

The format for this meeting will be a very small number of talks, and
a PhD poster session. If you are a PhD student, then please consider
bringing a poster to advertise your work and elicit feedback. If you
are a PhD supervisor, then please encourage your students to present a
poster.

If you are not a PhD student and would like to give a talk, then
please also get in touch.

The programme will eventually become available here.

Event details

  • When: 24th February 2012 12:00 - 17:00
  • Where: Cole 1.33a
  • Format: Workshop

Proactive contextual information retrieval by Samuel Kaski

A talk on “Proactive contextual information retrieval” by Samuel Kaski of Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland.

Abstract:

In proactive information retrieval the ultimate goal is to seamlessly access relevant multimodal information in a context-sensitive way. Usually explicit queries are not available or are insufficient, and the alternative is to try to infer users’ interests from implicit feedback signals, such as clickstreams or eye tracking. We have studied how to infer relevance of texts and images to the user from the eye movement patterns. The interests, formulated as an implicit query, can then be used in further searches. I will discuss our new machine learning-based results in this field, including data glasses-based augmented reality interface to contextual information, and timeline browsers for life logs.

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Event details

  • When: 23rd January 2012 14:00 - 15:00
  • Where: Cole 1.33a
  • Series: CS Colloquia Series
  • Format: Seminar

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).