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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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SICSA Announce new funding opportunities
SICSA have just announced several new funding opportunities for researchers and academics based at any of the SICSA partner institutions. This includes support for international travel to promote the engagement of Scottish SMEs in European Commission funded FP7 projects. This can be used in the development of new proposals, or even at the negotiation stage of existing projects. Another exciting opportunity is available for postdoctoral or early career researchers to participate in international visits to Europe, North America, China and India. Several other funding opportunities are available from SICSA, and for full details please go to the funding opportunities page. NB: The first deadline for applications is 30 April 2012
Posted Feb 22, 2012 8:58 AM by Dominique Balharry
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Symposium on the Future of e-Health organised by Edinburgh Napier University
Edinburgh Napier
University is organising a second symposium on the Future of e-Health, to be
held at the University on Thursday 17 May 2012. Health Care in the
UK is facing many issues, especially
related to the lack of standardization of data infrastructures, and
from the increased demands of an aging population. In the future,
systems thus need to be created in a way that are much more patient
centric, and which allow for patients to be cared for in a holistic
way. A key element of this is that the must be scaleable, robust and
secure. This
event aims to present some of the reseach and best practice around next
generation health care infrastructures, and how they ...
Posted Feb 22, 2012 6:43 AM by Thea de Joode
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Scottish jobs boost down to graduates
Swiss banking software firm, Avaloq, opened its first UK development site in Edinburgh on 16th February 2012. The chairman of the firm, Didier Sangiorgio, cited the quality of Scottish graduates as one of the reasons that Scotland was chosen over other countries.
Avaloq has hired 30 engineers and analysts from Scottish universities and plans to employ 500 staff at its city centre offices over the next four years.
For more information on this story, see the recent Scotsman article.
Posted Feb 20, 2012 6:50 AM by Steven Kendrick
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SICSA Distinguished Visitor applications deadline approaching - 28 February 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 Feb 17, 2012 8:11 AM by Thea de Joode
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Theme Report: Modelling and Abstraction
On 21st October 2011 the Second SICSA Workshop on Biological Networks: Theory and Applications was held in Edinburgh at the Informatics Forum. The workshop was organised by Matthias Hennig of the University of Edinburgh and Pierluigi Frisco of Heriot-Watt University with sponsorship from the Modelling and Abstraction Theme of SICSA, Nexxus and local company Brainwave-Discovery. The workshop had 65 registered participants who came from a range of disciplines and institutions, from both within SICSA and outside.
The programme for the workshop was richly varied and consisted of eight 20 minute technical presentations, three 10 minute tool presentations and four posters. One of the presentations, by Derek Gatherer from the University of Glasgow, gave account of joint work ...
Posted Feb 15, 2012 2:02 AM by Steven Kendrick
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Professor of Computing Science at University of Glasgow appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland
The new Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland will be Professor Muffy Calder, First Minister Alex Salmond has announced.
Professor Calder, currently Professor of Computing Science and Dean of Research at the University of Glasgow’s College of Science and Engineering, has been appointed following an open competition.
The Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland is an overarching role, championing science as a key driver of the economy, and ensuring the Scottish Government uses science effectively in all policy-making.
You can find more information on this story at the Scottish Government web site.
Posted Feb 15, 2012 1:35 AM by Steven Kendrick
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