SACHI Seminar: Team-buddy: investigating a long-lived robot companion

SACHI seminar Title: Team-buddy: investigating a long-lived robot companion Speaker: Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Abstract: In the EU-funded LIREC project, finishing last year, Heriot-Watt University investigated how a long-lived multi-embodied (robot, graphical) companion might be incorporated into a work-environment as a team buddy, running a final continuous three-week study. This talk gives an overview of the … SACHI Seminar: Team-buddy: investigating a long-lived robot companion

School of Computer Science: Living the Brand

Staff and students model the latest CS merchandise created by David Letham and Masih Hajiarabderkani at our compulsory Friday BBQ. Stop Press! After weeks of anticipation, the new mugs have finally arrived.

Ambitious, entrepreneurial, innovative, employable and highflying…

Words we use to describe our alumni, who work in New York, Switzerland, London and Edinburgh amongst other places. Whether working for established companies such as Adobe and Google or in their own business start-ups such as AetherWorks LLC. and PlanForCloud (formerly ShopForCloud) our graduates continue to flourish. And rumour has it more of our … Ambitious, entrepreneurial, innovative, employable and highflying…

The 11th International Conference on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP 2013)

The 11th International Conference on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP 2013) was held in the Gateway in St Andrews on July 15-17,2013. Presented were 17 peer-reviewed papers on natural language processing applications, language resources, and theoretical and implementational issues with relevance to finite-state methods. In addition, there were two keynote lectures, by Alexander … The 11th International Conference on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP 2013)

Summer Days in Computer Science

Students and staff took advantage of the Scottish weather on Friday and held a BBQ to mark the anniversary of these events. The Great Fire of Rome Birth of Computer Scientist Mark Crispin The Opening of the StACS Garden Organised by Jan de Muijnck-Hughes and David Letham. Cooked by Jan de Muijnck-Hughes and Masih Hajiarabderkani. … Summer Days in Computer Science

Services to the Cloud

On June 27th Gordon Baxter and Derek Wang gave a presentation about their work on the SFC funded project “Creating High Value Cloud Services” at the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce’s Business Growth Club. Gordon talked about the lessons that have been learned so far from working closely with several Scottish SMEs who are adopting the … Services to the Cloud

Jacob Eisenstein: Interactive Topic Visualization for Exploratory Text Analysis

Abstract: Large text document collections are increasingly important in a variety of domains; examples of such collections include news articles, streaming social media, scientific research papers, and digitized literary documents. Existing methods for searching and exploring these collections focus on surface-level matches to user queries, ignoring higher-level thematic structure. Probabilistic topic models are a machine … Jacob Eisenstein: Interactive Topic Visualization for Exploratory Text Analysis

PhD student awarded Google Scholarship

Many congratulations to Bilal Hussain, first year PhD student working with Dr Ian Miguel. Bilal has been awarded a Google Europe Scholarship for Students with Disabilities. We thank Google for their additional support for Bilal’s study and research. The main funding for Bilal’s PhD comes from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and we … PhD student awarded Google Scholarship

Senior Honours Project Success

A Multi-display exhibit that enables visitors to explore The Old Course and photographs of Lawrence Levy, and to quiz their golf knowledge was developed by Julian Petford. The display was developed during his Senior Honours Project which was supervised by Miguel Nacenta. Great job Julian. We look forward to hearing more about the event in … Senior Honours Project Success