Earlier this month, I took over as SICSA Director of Education from Dr Rachel Menzies, who has served in this capacity over the last two years. First off, I would like to thank Rachel for all her hard work, and I look forward to serving the community in this role.
I am currently a Senior Lecturer ...
Read moreby Èric Pairet, Heriot Watt University
25 November 2019
Last week, I attended the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ). IROS is one of the top conferences world-wide were scientists gather to present and discuss the state-of-the-art on robotics.
This ...
Read moreby Gianluca Palombo
5 August 2019
CodeYourFuture are a charity who train refugees, asylum seekers and people from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds to become professional software developers. We are already running classes in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Rome – with plans to extend to other cities in the near future. On the weekend of the 27th June, CodeYourFuture ...
Read moreby Vasileios Stamatis
29th July 2019
The European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is a summer school for Information Retrieval and has been taking place since 1990 and the last few years it has taken by every two years. The ESSIR 2019 took place in Milan, Italy, in the University of Milan-Bicocca. Myself and many other students ...
Read moreSICSA Education would like to invite the Scottish Computing community to apply for funds to host SICSA Education workshops or other education focussed events. Some of the more recent workshops that have been funded have included:
• How should we assess group work?
• Skills in entrepreneurial education
• Computational thinking in primary schools
We now invite members of ...
Read moreby Professor Judy Robertson, University of Edinburgh
24 April 2019
SICSA Education has recently sponsored the production of a handbook to help primary teachers to teach the new computing strand of the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland. For the first time, children aged 3 years upwards will learn about key computing concepts as part of the Technologies ...
Read moreSICSA DemoFest is the largest event of its kind in Scotland. Now in its twelfth year, it showcases the very best of Informatics and Computing Science research from all of Scotland’s Universities
The event will take place on Monday 4th November 2019 from 4.00pm in the stunning venue, Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh
You can now register now ...
Read moreby Dr Susmit Sarkar, SGA Director
09 April 2019
As the Graduate Academy Director, I take great pleasure in inviting the community to the SICSA PhD Conference 2019, to be held at the beautiful University of Stirling on 18th & 19th June. The SICSA PhD Conference is our flagship event for our PhD students, being the highlight ...
Read moreby Dr Stefano De Paoli
4 February 2019
It is quite impossible to talk about European Research without mentioning the current political context as this has clearly created a shadow of uncertainty over UK based organisations’ role in future consortia. I must admit that my trip to the ICT2018 in Vienna (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/events/ict-2018-imagine-digital-connect-europe) did not start under the ...
Read moreby Dr Milan Markovic, University of Aberdeen
10 January 2018
The PECE Travel Bursary
Recently, I had the opportunity to experience what it’s like to be awarded the PECE Travel Bursary by SICSA, which can be used to fund visits to academic institutions in the USA, EU, India, and China. This grant is aimed at early career researchers ...
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