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Previous Seminars and Events

2012

DateAbstractSpeaker
Spring 2012
11 January 2012, Room G44A survey of nominal techniquesDr Jamie Gabbay, Heriot-Watt University
18 January 2012, Room G44Systems and Security Modelling: From Theory to Practice (Really)Prof David J. Pym, University of Aberdeen
22 February 2012Joint Decision Making for Situated Language GenerationNina Dethlefs (Interaction Lab), Heriot-Watt University
29 February 2012Slot available
07 March 2012, Room G44Personal Data Stores and Services - Individuals and OrganisationsDr Alex Stobart, Mydex Community Interest Company
14 March 2012, Room G44The Grammar of Creative Spaces: Codifying the Impact of Physical Space on Creativity in the WorkplaceDr Alison Williams, Creativity Syntax, University of Strathclyde and University of East London
21 March 2012 (16:15-17:15), Room G44Affecting people with Natural Language GenerationDr Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen
26 March 2012, Room G45Nature-Inspired Metaheuristics: Smart Algorithms or Selective Random Search?Dr Xin-She Yang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
28 March 2012Slot available
29 March 2012, Room G44Challenges in RFID Security and PrivacyDr Julio Hernandez-Castro, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth
30 March 2012, Room G44The use of Gameplay to structure the pedagogical design of educational Games: A case study of a Role Playing Game designed to teach the OSI ModelDr Mike O'Dea, York St John University
Summer 2012
18 April 2012, Room G44River Trail - Data-Parallel Programming for the WebDr Herhut Stephan, Programming Systems Lab, Intel, California
25 April 2012 (14:15-15:15), Room G44Context-sensitive affect recognition for robotic companionsDr Ginevra Castellano, School of Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Birmingham
02 May 2012, Room G44Parallel Patterns for Adaptive Heterogeneous Multicore SystemsProf. Kevin Hammond, University of St. Andrews
09 May 2012Slot available
16 May 2012Slot available
20 June 2012, Room G44Biomedical Atlas Informatics: Current State and Future ChallengesDr Albert Burger, Heriot-Watt University
27 June 2012 (11:15-12:15), Room 1.70BabyTalk-Family: Natural Language Generation for Parents of NICU InfantsDr Saad Mahamood, University of Aberdeen
3 July 2012 (14:15-15:15), Room G44Intelligent and Social Audio ProcessingDr Bjoern Schuller, Technische Universität München
25 July 2012, Room G44TBCIoannis Konstas

2009 - 2011

Date, time & placeAbstractSpeaker
16 November 2011, 15:15-16:15, Earl Mountbatten, Room G.446 Multi-core ExperimentsWilliam Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow
9 November 2011 15:15 - 16:15 Earl Mountbatten Building; room 3.03Expectation propagation for modelling user behaviour in spoken dialoguesDr. Blaise Thomson, Dialogue Systems Group, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge
2 November 2011 15:15 - 16:15 Earl Mountbatten Building; room G.45Embedding evaluation into the user experienceDr. Lynne Hall, Department of Computing, Engineering and Technology University of Sunderland
27 October 2011 15:15 - 16:15 Earl Mountbatten Building; room 3.07Robot Companions as Home Assistants and Therapeutic ToolsProf. Kerstin Dautenhahn School of Computer Science University of Hertfordshire
27 October 2011 14:15 - 15:15 Earl Mountbatten Building; room 3.07Algebraic and Enacitve Methods in Artificial Intelligence: From Symmetry Structures to Experience and Language in Humanoid RoboticsProf. Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Adaptive, Algorithms & BioComputation Research Groups University of Hertfordshire
20 October 2011 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.07Time-varying networksDr. Vito Latora, Department of Physics, Universita' di Catania (Italy)
5 October 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02Doing more with less: Improving the performance of genetic programmingDr Colin Johnson, University of Kent in Canterbury
17 August 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.06Haskell for distributed computingJeff Epstein, University of Cambridge
3 August 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.06Extrapolation of visual appearance on the basis of semantic relatednessDr Lewis Griffin, University College London
15 June 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02Auto-tuning MapReduce applications for multicoresDr Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow
25 March 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02Integration of Biomedical Atlases: Current State, Future Challenges and PromisesDr Albert Burger
18 May 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02Dynamic Information VisualisationProf. Aaron J Quigley, St Andrews University
16 May 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten G.45How to put children off studying computing: learnersʼattitudes to computer science after school based game making projectsDr Judy Robertson
27 April 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02Intelligent Transport and Social Inclusion: The Business PerspectivesDr Kostas N Giannoutakis, Newcastle University Business School
7 April 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02Synchronisation, networks of coupled phase oscillators and behaviour: applying neurodynamics to evolutionary roboticsRenan Moioli, University of Sussex
6 April 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02Semantic Web and Reasoning: The Story so FarDr Jeff Z Pan, University of Aberdeen
9 March 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 1.55Illusory gloss and velvet shapesDr Maarten Wijntjes, Delft University of Technology
2 March 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02Automating the design of data mining algorithms with genetic programmingDr Alex Freitas, University of Kent
23 February 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02Vision in natural behaviourDr Benjamin Tatler, Dundee University
12 January 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten G.44Planning for Natural Language: Instruction Giving, Robot Dialogue, and Social InteractionDr Ron Petrick, University of Edinburgh
6 January 2011, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten G.44Session types for access and information flow controlProf. Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Torino University
6 November 2010, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 1.83Correct-by-Construction Protocols in the Logic of Events: An Investigation into the Foundations of Distributed ComputingProf. Robert Constable, Cornell University
5 May 2010, 15:15–16:15 Colin Maclaurin F.17Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop - effects of input device configuration on awareness and equity of participationDr Eva Hornecker, University of Strathclyde
26 January 2010, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten G.44Refactoring Haskell ProgramsDr Chris Brown, St Andrews University
7 December 2010, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02Building Refactoring Tools for Functional LanguagesProf. Simon Thompson, University of Kent
25 November 2010, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02The Impact of Principia Mathematica on Computer ScienceProf. Robert Constable, Cornell University
19 November 2009, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02Autonomous agents and Bayesian networks in Directed Emergent Drama (DED)Maria Arinbjarnar, University of York
11 November 2009, 15:15–16:15 Earl Mountbatten 3.02Estimating the glossiness transfer function induced by illumination change and testing its transitivityProf. Laurence Maloney, New York University
Date & timeLocationAbstractContact
16–19 August 2009Heriot-Watt UniversityThe 3rd International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments (VSTTE-10)Andrew Ireland
2 December 2009The Royal Society of EdinburghComputing with cells: Membrane ComputingPierluigi Frisco
11 November 2009Heriot-Watt UniversityJoint SICSA CSE THREADSS/SEMANTICS WorkshopPhil Trinder
31 August–2 September 2009Heriot-Watt UniversityInternational Summer School on Advances in Programming LanguagesGreg Michaelson
6–9 April 2009Heriot-Watt University23rd Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of BehaviourNick Taylor
28–31 July 2008Heriot-Watt University15th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and ComputationFairouz Kamareddine and Ruy De Queriroz
1–4 July 2008-Workshop on Membrane ComputingPierluigi Frisco and David Corne