We are delighted to introduce three female PhD students funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council. Xue Guo (JC1.06) “I am Xue Guo, a returning student from Beijing. My PhD research into Complex Networks is supervised by Prof. Simon Dobson. Last seven years, I hopped over five places: four undergraduate years in BUPT and UCSD, one … Welcome to new PhD students
The yearly World’s Biggest Coffee Morning for MacMillan cancer support is on Friday 30th September. Staff and students are invited to donate cakes, biscuits or home produce for sale on Friday morning from 10.45am in the JCB coffee area. Everyone is invited to bake, cook or donate either national delicacies or just something you want … MacMillan Coffee Morning
Congratulations to Dr David Harris-Birtill, who was announced the winner of the Converge Challenge KickStart award at a ceremony in Edinburgh yesterday. The converge challenge competition rewards an early-stage idea or a new product. David won a cash injection prize of £3,000 to kick-start Beyond Medics – Automated Remote Pulse Oximetry, a camera based system … David Harris-Birtill: Converge Challenge Winner 2016
Title: Argument Technology and Argument Mining Chris Reed, Centre for Argument Technology, University of Dundee – http://arg.tech Abstract: Argument Technology is that part of the overlap between theories of argumentation and reasoning and those of AI where an engineering focus leads to applications and tools that are deployed. One significant step in the past decade has … SACHI Seminar: Professor Chris Reed – Argument Technology and Argument Mining
Title: Touching the future with Matt Jones Abstract: Discover the future of screen technology with computer scientist Matt Jones. Hear how his team are exploring displays that mutate to create textures and change shape to reveal controls like dials and switches depending on our needs. See some of the early prototypes that are connecting our digital … SACHI Seminar: Touching the future with Matt Jones
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Professor Sanjay Jha, Director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Laboratory (Cyspri) at UNSW. The first part of this talk will discuss how the community is converging towards the IoT vision having worked in wireless sensor networking and Machine-2-Machine (M2M) communication. This will follow a general discussion of security challenges in IoT. Finally I will discuss … Seminar: A Changing Landscape: Securing The Internet Of Things (IoT)
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
On August 27th, Alex Voss will be participating in the Great Scottish Swim 2016. Alex is swimming in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, a charity that supports people affected by cancer to ensure no one faces cancer alone. Alex was part of the CS swim team who completed the challenge last year. Visit his JustGiving … Alex Voss: Great Scottish Swim for Macmillan
Congratulations to Vinodh Rajan Sampath, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured below with supervisor Dr Mark-Jan Nederhof, research student Juan Mendoza Santana and internal examiner Dr Tom Kelsey. Dr Peter Stokes from King’s College London, acted as external examiner.