25 November 2020
By Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University
The series of SICSA Programming Challenges, started during lock-down in June 2020, is continuing
and featured a Scotland-wide, SICSA-funded challenge, called “dynamic Denning”, on Wed 21st of October.
As before, a sequence of programming tasks was posted on the OpenKattis platform which provides a huge repository of online problems, and performs ...
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SICSA and ScotChem are coordinating a fortnight of short remote one-to-one calls between researchers to stimulate inter-disciplinary exchanges of research ideas and agendas. Working across disciplines is notoriously difficult in ordinary circumstances, but the restrictions caused by the current pandemic have even further curtailed opportunities for chance encounters at conferences, or meetings that lead to ...
Read moreApplications are invited for any suitable member of academic staff within a SICSA Institution to co-lead the SICSA Artificial Intelligence Research Theme.
Role Purpose
SICSA is the Scottish Funding Council Research Pool in Informatics and Computer Science. The goal of SICSA is to cohere the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science research communities to help increase critical mass ...
Read more2 November 2020
By Ella Taylor-Smith, Edinburgh Napier University
The Ada Scotland Festival grew out of a SICSA-sponsored workshop, Addressing Gender Imbalance in Computing Science Education, organised by Dr Matthew Barr (University of Glasgow).
From this workshop, a core collaboration* emerged to create an online Festival which would:
welcome girls and women into computing/ tech (and address gender imbalance);
and ...
Read moreBy Dr Dharini Balasubramaniam, University of St Andrews
October 2020
The Higher Education Research Group at the School of Computer Science in the University of St Andrews was established in January 2018 with the aim of giving an identity to staff interested in higher education research and to facilitate collaboration among them. There are around 15 members ...
Read moreBy Raquel Ajates Gonzalez
October 2020
WeObserve a European consortium of four Citizen Observatories, is inviting you to the final run of its online course “Citizen Science Projects: How to Make Difference”. The course starts on Monday 5th October 2020 and will run for four weeks with three flexible hours of recommended study a week. It will ...
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that the SICSA Conference 2020 will take place, on-line on 1 October 2020 and will be under the theme SICSA and the Sustainable Society.
The conference this year will be co-located with ScotSoft, which is Scotland’s leading tech conference allowing our delegates to access elements of the event throughout the day.
For this ...
Read moreApplications are invited for any suitable member of academic staff within a SICSA Institution to co-lead the SICSA Human-Computer Interaction Research Theme.
Role Purpose
SICSA is the Scottish Funding Council Research Pool in Informatics and Computer Science. The goal of SICSA is to cohere the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science research communities to help increase critical mass ...
Read moreBy Zeeshan Siddiqui, University of West of Scotland
10 July 2020
Finally, some good news in a tense pandemic year. Cybersecurity SICSA grant title, “Analysis and impact of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities on Excessive and Un-administered use of Smart Devices by Children of All Ages”, was completed and conducted by Dr. Zeeshan Siddiqui in the University of the West ...
Read moreby Dr Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University
29 June 2020
Different communities deal quite differently with the current Covid-19 situation and with lock-down.
Some get stressed over a flurry of online meetings, juggling several different technologies. For
your average hacker, who is quite used to spending hours, days and, well, weeks in front of the screen, the main challenge is ...
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