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2014
September
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Cafe Scientifique Explorathon Special
-Hear from our researchers about their favourite scientists of all time and have your say!
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European Corner at Union Square
-Science busking throughout the day and exhibition stalls from 3pm.
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Computing Science Seminar. Curé on "WaterFowl: a Compact, Self-indexed RDF Store based on Succinct Data Structures
-Abstract: This talk will start with an introduction of the main strategies for storing and indexing RDF data sets. This will consider solutions based on a native RDF approach but also approaches using a relational or NoSQL storage backend. Then, I will present the main features of an on-going work that...
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Student vs. Alumni Sports Day
We are inviting alumni to take part in the inaugural Student vs. Alumni Sports Day.
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Computing Science Mini-Workshop on Natural Language Processing
-Computing Science Mini-Workshop on Natural Language Processing This is a mini-workshop on Natural Language Processing with talks by several visitors and department colleagues. Speakers: Hailong Cao on "Soft Dependency Matching for Hierarchical Phrase-based Machine Translation" Abstract: In this talk, I would like to present a soft dependency matching model for hierarchical phrase-based (HPB) machine translation. When...
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Cognitive Science Meeting
-This is an occasional, informal Cognitive Science get together to hear who is doing what, to learn about new topics, and to strengthen/forge collegial networks. There will be a series of short talks by participants, which will give us an opportunity to get acquainted. We will order pizza to be delivered...
August
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Computing Science Seminar. Pérez on "When History Matters - Assessing Reliability for the Reuse of Scientific Workflows"
-Abstract: Scientific workflows play an important role in computational research, as the essential artifacts for communicating the methods used to produce the research findings. We are witnessing a growing number of efforts of treating workflows as first-class artifacts for sharing and exchanging scientific knowledge, either as part of scholarly articles or...
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Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference 2014
-The University of Aberdeen is delighted to host this prestigious conference. The 13th Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference will be a forum that brings together an international interdisciplinary group involving physicists, engineers, mathematicians, chemists, biologists, and neuroscientists focused on various aspects of experimental Chaos and Complexity. This meeting will focus...
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Computing Science Mini-Workshop "Perspectives on Text Readability"
-A Mini-Workshop on Perspectives on Text Readability Speakers: Hitoshi Nishikawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Tokyo) - Learning to Generate Coherent Summary with Discriminative Hidden Semi-Markov Model Tadashi Nomoto (National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo) - Exploration in Memory Based Topic Detection (Or Concept Generation with Distributional Semantics) Itsumi Saito (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Tokyo) - Morphological Analysis...
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Cafe Scientifique Inverness - Can Computers Think for Themselves?
-Coffee and a slice of science at Waterstones Eastgate Centre Inverness.