The Higher Education Research Group is happy to announce the SICSA-sponsored workshop on learning analytics on Aug 6th 2018. Goals The purpose of this SICSA-sponsored workshop is to encourage an evidence-based approach to teaching by leveraging quantitative and qualitative data available to CS schools. Most importantly, we plan to organise a multi-institution study on using … SICSA Workshop on Learning Analytics in Education
The School of Computer Science welcomed back three alumni to give keynote talks at our lost in translation event earlier this week. The well-attended and informative event organised by Professor Aaron Quigley, afforded current PhD students and early researchers in computer science an exclusive opportunity to hear from previous students about their transition from academia … Lost in Translation: Academia to Industry
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
(followed by tea/coffee and then informal gatherings at local venues) ROOM: TBA ABSTRACT Public compute clouds provide a flexible platform to host applications as a set of appliances, e.g., web servers or databases. Each appliance usually contains an OS kernel and userspace processes, within which applications access resources via APIs such as POSIX. The flexible … CANCELLED Unikernels: Functional Library Operating Systems for the Cloud by Anil Madhavapeddy, University of Cambridge
The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) have confirmed that the Scottish Funding Council have approved funding for six new initiatives that will provide new placements, exchanges and internships with Scottish and overseas businesses. Read more in the University News and in Latest news from SICSA
Room 1.33a at 2:00 pm on Friday 7th September 2012 Introduction to Grammatical Formalisms for Natural Language Parsing Giorgio Satta, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy Abstract: In the field of natural language parsing, the syntax of natural languages is modeled by means of formal grammars and automata. Sometimes these formalisms are borrowed … Forthcoming talk by SICSA Distinguished Visitor