On October 10th, we were delighted to welcome back Professor Ursula Martin from the University of Oxford, to deliver the semester one distinguished lecture series in the Byre Theatre. Earlier in her career Prof Martin was professor of Computer Science here, and in fact only the second female professor in the history of the University … Distinguished Lecture Series 2017: Professor Ursula Martin
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Computer History Prof Ursula Martin Update: Lectures will be live streamed at this link. Distinguished Lecture Series, Semester 1, 2017-18 Biography: Professor Ursula Martin CBE FREng FRSE joined the University of Oxford as Professor of Computer Science in 2014, and is a member of the Mathematical Institute. She holds … DLS: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Computer History
On March 31st, Dr David Manlove from the University of Glasgow, delivered the semester two distinguished lectures in Lower and Upper College Hall. The overall title was, “Algorithms for healthcare-related matching problems”. David started with an overview of complexity theory and solving hard problems. He gave examples of this in practice, for example how researchers … Distinguished Lecture Series 2017: Dr David Manlove
Algorithms for healthcare-related matching problems Distinguished Lecture Series, Semester 2, 2016-7 David Manlove School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow Lower College Hall (with overflow simulcast in Upper College Hall) Abstract: Algorithms arise in numerous everyday applications – in this series of lectures I will describe how algorithms can be used to solve matching problems having applications … DLS: Algorithms for healthcare-related matching problems
Earlier this month Professor Julie McCann from Imperial College London, delivered the next set of distinguished lectures for 2016, in Lower and Upper College Hall. The three topical, well attended and interesting lectures centred around Distributed Systems and Sensing and discussed how sensor networks are being used today, how other sciences will impact the research … Distinguished Lecture Series 2016: Prof. Julie McCann
The School of Computer Science in the University of St Andrews is pleased to announce the next set of Distinguished Lectures (DLS) leading up to the 50th anniversary of the series in 2019. The next DLS will be delivered by Maria Klawe the president of Harvey Mudd College and former president of the ACM (Association … School of Computer Science: Distinguished Lecture Series
Earlier this week Professor Joe Armstrong from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, delivered the second set of distinguished lectures for 2015, in the Byre Theatre. The three topical, well attended and interesting lectures centred around the question “Scalability and fault-tolerance, are they the same?” Images courtesy of Saleem Bhatti.
The 2014 Distinguished Lecture Series took place on Tuesday in Lower College Hall. This year’s speaker Prof Luca Cardelli of Microsoft Research and the University of Oxford, delivered three lectures involving Morphisms of Reaction Networks that Couple Structure to Function. Slides from the lectures are now available: http://lucacardelli.name/indexTalks.html Abstract The mechanisms underlying complex biological systems … Distinguished Lecture Series 2014: Luca Cardelli