Title: Innovation Begins at Home Abstract: Prof Andy Stanford-Clark, Chief Technologist for Smarter Energy at IBM UK, will discuss the journey from Smart Metering to a future Smart Grid, incorporating the challenges of microgeneration, electric vehicles, intermittent generation, and demand-side management. Focusing specifically on energy saving in the home, Andy will talk about his own … Departmental Seminar – Andy Stanford-Clark
Abstract: Remote monitoring is considered an essential part of future eHealth systems to enable the delivery of healthcare outside clinical sites at reduced cost, while improving quality of patient care. We examine the use of online social networks for re- mote health monitoring. By exploiting the existing infrastructure, initial costs can be reduced and fast … System Seminar: Remote Health Monitoring Using Online Social Media Systems, on 16 April, by Chonlatee Khorakhun
Abstract: Centralised orchestration of service-oriented workflows presents significant scalability challenges, these include: the consumption of network bandwidth, degradation of performance, and single points of failure. These challenges are particularly prominent when dealing with highly distributed data-intensive workflows, which involve large quantities of intermediate data that need to be routed through a centralised engine. In this … System Seminar: Decentralised Orchestration of Service-oriented Workflows, on 16 April, by Ward Jaradat, University of St Andrews
MIT Technology Review has written a comprehensive article about Jakub Dostal’s Diff Displays that track visual changes on unattended displays. Jakub presented the work two weeks ago at the 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces in Santa Monica, California, USA. The Diff Displays project is part of Jakub’s PhD thesis on proximity-aware user interfaces. His … MIT Technology Review – Jakub Dostal
Title: “Shared-Memory Concurrency in the Real World: Working with Relaxed Memory Consistency” Abstract: Shared-memory concurrency is now mainstream, from phones to servers. However, real-world implementations do not validate the basic assumption of Sequential Consistency traditionally made in work on concurrent programming and verification. Instead, we get subtle relaxed consistency models. Furthermore, the consistency models of … Talk by Susmit Sarkar
The SLPS is a forum for discussion of all aspects of programming languages. We meet for a day once every few months, at some congenial location in Scotland. You will find the program and schedule for the next session of SPLS at St Andrews here.
Neil Moore obtained his PhD in Computer Science at St Andrews a couple of years ago, and is now working for Abobe. He’ll be giving a technical talk, and describing internship opportunities at Adobe. Title: Mutualism in software development Abstract: Computers are designed to be extensible at different levels: hardware can run different operating systems … School Seminar: Neil Moore
Congratulations to Per Ola Kristensson who has been appointed a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland. You can read more about the appointments announced yesterday in RSE News.
Thursday 14th March, the regular meeting of the Functional Programming group will give the floor to our guest Dr. Jost Berthold for a public talk called “High-Level Parallel Computing in Finance — Haskell Case Studies within HIPERFIT –” . The presentation will take place from 12.00 to 13.00, in the Jack Cole building, room 1.04 … Talk by Dr Jost Berthold Thursday 14th March
Melissa Mozifian, a third year computer science student, has been awarded a scholarship from the Rectors’ Fund. The scholarship is to help fund her summer internship.