“Thanks to cloud computing, accessing to a virtualised computing cluster has become not only easy but also feasible to organisations, especially small and medium-sized ones. First of all, it does not require an upfront investment in building data centres and a constant expense for managing them. Instead, users can pay only for the amount of … SRG Seminar: Cloud scheduling algorithms by Long Thai
Title: Social interaction characteristics for socially acceptable robots Abstract: The last decade has seen fast advances in Social Robotic Technology. Social Robots start to be successfully used as robot companions and as therapeutic aids. In both of these cases the robots need to be able to interact intuitively and comfortably with their human users in … SACHI Seminar: Dr Hagen Lehmann – Social interaction characteristics for socially acceptable robots
One of our PhD students Esma Mansouri Benssassi and her supervisor Dr Erica Ye defined a requirement for a wrist worn device to group a number of Haptic feedback elements for an experiment they wished to carry out. The on-board Haptic elements are two eccentric rotating mass micro motors and an linear resonant actuator. Initial … Wrist Worn Haptic Feedback Device
Rethinking High performance computing Platforms: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations, co-authored by Adam Barker and a team (Ole Weidner, Malcolm Atkinson, Rosa Filgueira Vicente) in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh was recently featured in the Communications of the ACM and HPC Wire. The paper focuses on container technology and argues that a number of … Research on containers for HPC environments featured in CACM and HPC Wire
The Hut Group develop and manage a proprietary eCommerce platform that handled over half a billion pounds of revenue last year. UX within the company is responsible for optimising user flows through the website, and working with Design departments to deliver user delight. With over 30 distinct site brands internally, and several external clients, the … Data and the User Experience in Retail
On 10th February, Michael Pitcher gave a talk on his upcoming work for his PhD. Michael is a first-year PhD student based in the School of Computer Science, whose research also involves close collaboration with the School of Medicine. Michael’s work involves investigation of the use of computational models to simulate the progression and treatment … Computational Models of Tuberculosis
The School of Computer Science welcomes Lilian Edwards, Professor of Internet Law at the University of Strathclyde. Abstract: There is considerable current concern about the decisions made wholly or partly by algorithms in our digital “big data society”: decisions which now include – hiring, promoting and firing in the employment arena profiling for surveillance by … Seminar: Slave to the Algo-Rhythm? Awaiting the Law Cavalry (Professor Lilian Edwards, Strathclyde)
*PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE IN BMS BUILDING – SEMINAR ROOM 113* BIO: Nikhil Barthwal is a polyglot programmer currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Jet.com, an e-commerce startup recently acquired by Walmart. He works in the Tools & Productivity team with the aim of making developers more productive, as well … Implementing Event-Driven Microservices Architecture using Functional programming
Associated with the recently-funded EPSRC grant A Constraint Modelling Pipeline, a 3.5-year postdoctoral research fellow position is available in the School. Full details can be found at the University vacancies page.
Title: An argumentation-based approach to facilitate and improve human reasoning. Abstract: The ability of understanding and reasoning about different alternatives for a decision is fundamental for making informed choices. Intelligent autonomous systems have the potential to improve the quality of human-decision making but the use of such systems may be hampered by human difficulties to … SACHI Seminar: Dr Alice Toniolo – An argumentation-based approach to facilitate and improve human reasoning