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SICSA Distinguished Visitor applications deadline approaching - 30 June 2012
SICSA offers support to eminent researchers who would like to come and work in Scotland for periods of one week to three months. Visitors are expected to interact with SICSA members, to offer at least one seminar that is open to all of SICSA, and ideally to visit more than one SICSA site during their stay. Prospective visitors should be based at one (or more) of the SICSA institutions, and will be expected to provide specific benefits for Scottish research community. These benefits might include some or all of the following: taking part in or helping to direct research via generation of new ideas, sharing of expertise by giving short lecture courses, guest lectures, colloquia, or participation in a summer ...
Posted May 4, 2012 6:45 AM by Thea de Joode
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US Computing firm chooses Edinburgh base
A leading United States computing company has chosen Edinburgh as its European headquarters.
Minneapolis-based enStratus has begun recruiting key staff ready for opening its base in the Capital later this year and says it will create up to 30 highly skilled jobs by the end of 2014.
Its European headquarters will be based at Edinburgh University’s Appleton Tower, which is also home to part of the School of Informatics. For further information about this story, please see the full article in the Edinburgh Evening News.
Posted Apr 13, 2012 1:49 AM by Steven Kendrick
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Funding opportunities available through SICSA
SICSA is pleased to be able to offer such a wide range of funding opportunities to both academics and students involved in informatics and computing science research in Scotland. Whether you are interested in attending a summer school, hosting a distinguished visitor, an international summer school, participating in a cross pool research project or organising a large scale international conference in Scotland, we may be able to assist you. While some funding opportunities have strict deadlines, others such as support for major international computing science and informatics focussed conferences held in Scotland hold no fixed deadlines. For more information on the different SICSA funding opportunities available, please click here, or alternatively please contact admin@sicsa.ac.uk
Posted Apr 12, 2012 4:55 AM by Thea de Joode
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SICSA presents 'Engaging the next generation: A Scottish Computing Graduate Recruitment Showcase'
SICSA is delighted to invite all employers of Computing graduates to our forthcoming 'Engaging the Next Generation' Education event. Date: Wednesday 25th April, 2012, 17.00-19.00 Venue: Wolfson Medical School Building, University Avenue, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQDuring the event employers will have the opportunity to explore:• the full range of Computing programmes taught in Scottish Universities and meet with University representatives from across Scotland.• the skill-sets offered by Scottish Computing graduates.• opportunities for direct contact with Scottish Computing departments through placement schemes, careers advice and recruitment sessions and industrial advisory boards.Our event promises to demonstrate why we are so proud of our courses and graduates:• Scottish Universities’ undergraduate and postgraduate Computing programmes are amongst ...
Posted Mar 30, 2012 4:26 AM by Thea de Joode
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SICSA PhD Conference 2012 - Registration now open
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the SICSA PhD Conference 2012. This year's conference will take place from the 20th - 22nd June 2012, at Glasgow Caledonian University. The conference will feature a number of high profile keynote speakers, transferrable-skills sessions, workshops, poster sessions and a busy social schedule. This year’s conference themes are: ■Distributed and Parallel Computing■Computing and how it changes people's lives■Large scale experiments & modelling■Mathematical and Statistical Computing The cost of registration for all Computing Science and Informatics PhD students studying in Scotland is funded by SICSA. Accommodation for the conference will be on campus at Glasgow Caledonian University and the cost of both nights' accommodation ...
Posted Mar 12, 2012 3:56 AM by Steven Kendrick
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Maths and Computer Proof Discussion Day
SICSA Distinguished Visitor Professor Ursula Martin CBE, will be chairing this small focused workshop held at the Informatics Forum, Edinburgh on 15 April 2012
The goal of the event is to bring together a small number of leading
mathematicians, and experts in computer proof, for a day of informal discussion,
to consider the broad question of how present and future research efforts in
computer proof can best serve mathematical advance. The idea is to think "big
picture" thoughts about the future of mathematics, and the possible role of
formal proof within it, rather than to discuss technical questions - expertise
in computer proof is not required.
Participants so far include Dr Georges Gonthier of Microsoft Research, who
has produced a formal ...
Posted Mar 9, 2012 2:28 AM by Suzanne Perry
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Institute research seminar to discuss password security
Robert Gordon University’s Institute for Innovation, Design and Sustainability Research (IDEAS) will host the latest in a series of digital technology seminars on Friday 2 March at the School of Computing, St Andrew Street, Aberdeen.
During the guest lecture, aimed at IT professionals and security specialists, Dr Karen Renaud, Senior Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, will explore the real effects of password policies on IT systems in large organisations.
Users are often considered the weakest link in a company’s security chain because of poor password protection behaviour. As the need for increased IT security grows, there is now an emphasis on enhanced password management in both private and public sector organisations.
Dr Renaud explains ...
Posted Feb 27, 2012 6:41 AM by Steven Kendrick
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SICSA Scientists publish in New Scientist: Crowdsourcing Improves Predictive Texting
Exciting new research carried out by SICSA Lecturer Per Ola Kristensson and collaborators at the Montana Tech is hitting the main stream after publication in the New Scientist Magazine. The New Scientist writes about their use of crowdsourcing and online web sources to create better statistical language models for Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices. The full article ‘Crowdsourcing Improves Predictive Texting’ can be found on the New Scientist website.
Posted Feb 24, 2012 7:19 AM by Dominique Balharry
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SICSA to host Showcase of Scottish Computing Science Education
SICSA is highlighting the range of Computing programmes and graduate skills on offer at Scottish Universities at the first SICSA Education Showcase in Spring 2012. This innovative, employer facing event will be held from 17.00-19.00 on 25th April 2012 at the Wolfson Medical School Building, University of Glasgow.
Despite the global recession, demand for highly skilled Computing practitioners remains buoyant and is likely to grow further as economies recover. Scotland's Universities are extremely well placed to meet this demand, offering internationally leading undergraduate and postgraduate education across the range of Computing. This event will bring together all 14 SICSA Universities, providing them with an opportunity to showcase their programmes and graduate skills to UK business.
Professor ...
Posted Feb 24, 2012 6:08 AM by Steven Kendrick
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NAIS Workshop on Skeletons, Heterogeneous Systems and Domain Specific Optimization
The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is organising a NAIS Workshop on Skeletons, Heterogeneous Systems and Domain Specific Optimization on Friday 20 April 2012. The arrival of highly parallel, heterogeneous hardware in the computing mainstream challenges conventional programming models. This workshop brings together a series of talks on projects which seek to address the issues, focusing in particular on the synthesis between pattern and domain oriented programming abstractions and the ability to autotune code for performance portability. The workshop is funded by the Centre for Numerical Algorithms and Intelligent Software (NAIS).Full information with talk details, abstracts and information on how to register is available by clicking here.
Posted Feb 23, 2012 7:59 AM by Thea de Joode
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