Professor Mari Ostendorf of the University of Washington is visiting Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews as part of a SICSA Distinguishing Fellowship. Title: Rich Speech Transcription for Spoken Document Processing Abstract: As storage costs drop and bandwidth increases, there has been rapid growth of spoken information available via the web or in online archives — … School Seminar – Mari Ostendorf
Kevin is the founder and CEO of RunRev, overseeing a global team and development of the Rev programming language. This seminar has been postponed due to Kevin’s work commitments. A new date will be announced in due course.
Monty Widenius delivered the Semester 1 Distinguished Lecture Series on Monday 15th October 2012, from 10am to 3.30pm, in Upper College Hall. Monty is CEO & CTO at Monty Program Ab, and is perhaps best known as founder of MySQL, the world’s most used open source. Monty delivered three lectures on MySQL and Open Source … Distinguished Lecture Series: MySQL and Open Source Business, by Monty Widenius
Professor Aaron Quigley will be giving his Inaugural Lecture in School III on Wednesday 31st October at 5:15 p.m. Billions of people are using interconnected computers and have come to rely on the computational power they afford us, to support their lives, or advance our global economy and society. However, how we interact with this … Professor Aaron Quigley Inaugural lecture
Reverend Bayes, meet Countess Lovelace: Probabilistic Programming for Machine Learning Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh Abstract: We propose a marriage of probabilistic functional programming with Bayesian reasoning. Infer.NET Fun turns the simple succinct syntax of F# into an executable modeling language – you can code up the conditional probability distributions of … School Seminar – Andy Gordon
Exciting update on two pieces of software from the Open Virtual Worlds research group. The first is NuiLib (available at NuiLib.org), a utility library for facilitating development with NUI (Natural User Input) devices (such as the Microsoft Kinect). It puts an abstraction layer over the top of the NUI device to hide the gory details … Virtual Worlds Research: NuiLib & Armadilo
New Gateway to Computer Science offers a new opportunity to entry to Computer Science at St Andrews.
Mobility in vivo Barry Brown, Co-director Mobile Life, University of Stockholm barbro.tumblr.com The Mobile VINN Excellence Centre Abstract Despite the widespread use of mobile devices, details of mobile technology use ‘in the wild’ have proven difficult to collect. For this study we uses video data to gain new insight into the use of mobile computing … School Seminar – Barry Brown
After a busy week of welcome talks and induction, orientation week drew to a close with the postgraduate BBQ. MSc and PhD students had an opportunity to meet each other, discuss their diverse backgrounds, previous studies, eat burgers, twiglets and consume the local delicacy Irn Bru. Images Courtesy of Anne Campbell
It was great to see so many undergraduate computer science students at the Orientation Barbecue yesterday. New and returning students had the opportunity to discuss the merits of studying computer science, eat burgers and consume the traditional Irn Bru in a friendly setting. The Gaming/Programming Competition winners also received their prize in the form of … Orientation Week BBQ