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Chemistry Department Seminar

Transition metal chalcogenides: what solid state electrochemistry has to do with them

Computing Seminar: Low Code IoT Middleware for Gait Velocity Monitoring at Home

Title:  Low Code IoT Middleware for Gait Velocity Monitoring at Home Abstract: Gait velocity has become a valid and important metric for senior populations. However, existing approaches to measure gait velocity are either limited to specific location or too expensive to be applied. IoT middleware allows the systems to collect data in...

Fine-Grained Access Control via Policy-Carrying Data by Prof. Vasconcelos

Abstract: We address the problem of associating access policies with datasets and how to monitor compliance via policy-carrying data. Our contributions are a formal model in first-order logic inspired by normative multi-agent systems to regulate data access, and a computational model for the validation of specific use cases and the...

Computing Seminar in RGU: Exploring Moral Dilemmas in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments

RGU School of Computing Science and Digital Media Seminar Wednesday 31 May 2017 at 13:00 in Room N117, Sir Iain Wood Building TITLE: Exploring Moral Dilemmas in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments Professor Fotis Liarokapis HCI Laboratory Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University  Brno,  Czech Republic liarokap@fi.muni.cz   ABSTRACT: Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that simulates user experiences in a synthetic way. Immersion into VR is a...

Computing Seminar: Towards Socially Intelligent Robots - Karen Spärck Jones lecture

The 2017 lecture will be given by Dr. Maja Matarić (University of Southern California) who is Professor and Chan Soon-Shiong Chair of Computer Science, Neuroscience & Pediatrics; Founding Director at the USC’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center, and Director of the USC’s Robotics Research Lab. The lecture will take place on...

Computing Seminar "Policy-carrying data: towards a data-sharing economy" by Prof. W. Vasconcelos

This event was cancelled

The title is: Title: Policy-carrying data: towards a data-sharing economy Abstract: This seminar will introduce a formal model (drawing upon notions from normative multiagent systems) to regulate data access, and secondly a computational model that allows both for the validation of specific use cases and the verification of the policy against criteria. Some of...

Computing Seminar: Deep Learning and Ensemble Learning, by Dr. Jayne and Dr. Elyan

Deep Learning and Ensemble Learning Chrisina Jayne and Eyad Elyan There has been a significant research interest in recent years related to deep architectures, which refer to neural network architectures with a larger number of hidden layers. The breakthrough paper published in 2006 by Hinton et al. introduced unsupervised fast, greedy learning...

Computing Seminar: "Neural computation for sequence classification" by Dr. Dybowski

Brief:   The seminar will provide a review of neural-based approaches to sequence classification from feed-forward networks to recurrent neural networks and finishing with the neural Turing machine.   Bio:   I obtained a PhD in computational chemistry at Leeds University looking at symbolic and statistical approaches to the diagnosis of endocrine metabolites. Whilst a research fellow with King's College...

Computing Seminar: "From design patterns to the automated design of algorithms" by Dr. Woodward

Computing Seminar: Speaker: Dr John Woodward from Stirling University http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~jrw/ Title: From design patterns to the automated design of algorithms Abstract:  Design Patterns have informed us when we need to provide solutions to Object Oriented design problems. This talk looks at how design patterns can assist us in building metaheuristic solutions and avoid reinventing the wheel. ...

Computing Seminar "Improving Relevance Ranking for Search Engines" by Yi Chang

Abstract: Relevance ranking of search engine is a billion-dollar challenge, while there is a disadvantage of backwardness in web search competition. Learning to rank algorithms could effectively improve relevance ranking, yet it is a systematic effort to continuously improve the relevance of a search engine. In this talk, I will introduce...