This month’s IEEE Computing Now features the paper “Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise” written by Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Ian Sommerville, Jurgen Bogaerts, and Pradeep Teregowda.
Ishbel, Alan & Janie Brooks of ELT have been awarded £8000 from UKCISA (Council for International Student Affairs) to build a virtual St Andrews to aid international student orientation.
The latest issue of the New Scientist magazine writes about Per Ola Kristensson‘s work on using crowdsourcing and online web sources to create better statistical language models for AAC devices: Crowdsourcing improves predictive texting. The research paper was published in the Association for Computational Linguistics’ 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. It … Crowdsourcing research featured in the New Scientist
UCAS applicants are visiting to experience life in the School of Computer Science.
Professor Aaron Quigley’s research on exploratory visualisation allows historians to trace the flow of a wide range of natural resources around the globe. By working with world experts in text mining within the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance and domain experts in York University, Canada, we can bridge the research divide and answer historical … Special software to trawl thousands of historic archives to uncover Empire trade boom
The Role of the Software Architect in Industry Eoin Woods is a professional software architect and amateur software architecture researcher, having spent over 20 years in software engineering practice and contributed a number of papers and a co-authored book to the research literature on software architecture. In this talk, he will discuss how the two … School Seminar by Eoin Woods
An Overview of the AspeKT Project – Turning Academic Excellence into Gold Abstract The talk will give an overview of the major elements of the AspeKT project a 3 year program funded by Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Funding Council dedicated to improving the flow of ideas between the research excellence and talent pool produced … Seminar, An Overview of the AspeKT Project – Turning Academic Excellence into Gold by Colin Adams
As Muffy Thomas, she was awarded her PhD, in Computational Logic, in this School in 1988. Details are at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/02/scientific-adviser14022012
Abstract: In this talk I will present some of the work being done in the new Inference, Dynamics, and Interaction group, at the University of Glasgow. In particular, we are interested in using probabilistic inference to improve interaction technology on handheld devices (particularly with touch screens). I will show how we are using sequential Monte-Carlo … Autonomy handover and rich interaction on mobile devices by Simon Rodgers