Distinguished Seminars
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| There are no forthcoming seminars scheduled. |
Previous Seminars
| Seminar | Date |
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| Feb 2009 | |
| Sweet-Spot Products: Why I Love My GPS Occasionally, interactive devices hit a sweet spot in their evolution: A few new tricks to learn, an... [ more ] Location: ITL Meeting room Speaker: Prof. Jan Borchers (Head Media Computing, RWTH Aachen University ) |
Wed 11th February 2009 11:00 |
| Jan 2009 | |
| Computational Service Economies: Design and Applications Many modern computing systems have to operate in environments that are highly interconnected, highly... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof. Nick Jennings (University of Southampton) |
Wed 28th January 2009 15:00 |
| Natural born computers - when biology meets computer science - Prof McOwan Inaugrual Biological brains have impressive information processing strategies to allow survival in the natural... [ more ] Location: Clinical Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Build Speaker: Prof Peter McOwan (QMUL) |
Wed 14th January 2009 18:30 |
| Nov 2008 | |
| Expert Decision Making:Confirmation, contextual & other cognitive biases One of the fundamental and established cornerstones of human cognition is that people do not passive... [ more ] Location: CS446 Speaker: Dr Itiel Dror (University of Southampton) |
Wed 26th November 2008 15:00 |
| A rule-based approach to the global dynamics of protein networks Over the past decade, networks have emerged as a biological paradigm. High-throughput experimental ... [ more ] Location: CS446 Speaker: Prof. Vincent Danos (University of Edinburgh) |
Wed 12th November 2008 15:00 |
| Oct 2008 | |
| Not 'The Usual suspects' - Factors Impacting Video Surveillance In Practice CCTV systems have been widely deployed in the UK over the past 10 years. While the general perceptio... [ more ] Location: CS446 Speaker: Prof Angela Sasse (UCL) |
Wed 1st October 2008 15:00 |
| Mar 2008 | |
| From Questions to Queries: Issues in the Interpretation of Questions The Text REtrieval Conference Question Answering track (TREC QA) has come to dominate work in open d... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof. Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield) |
Wed 19th March 2008 15:00 |
| Feb 2008 | |
| Can we benefit from Robotic Helpers? Human-Robot Interaction Studies with Robot Companions Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is a very interdiscplinary and quickly growing research area. While a ... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire) |
Wed 6th February 2008 15:00 |
| Jan 2008 | |
| Google like search of image databases and videos How can we retrieve images containing specific objects, scenes or people with the ease, speed and ac... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof. Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford) |
Wed 30th January 2008 15:00 |
| Towards a Science of the Web Long before the Web existed hypertext visionaries foresaw a richly inter-linked global information n... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof. Wendy Hall (University of Southampton) |
Wed 16th January 2008 15:00 |
| Nov 2007 | |
| Computability and experimental procedures applied to physical systems In this lecture I will survey some old and new results that try to answer these questions: 1. W... [ more ] Location: CS446 Speaker: Prof. John Tucker (Swansea University) |
Wed 28th November 2007 15:00 |
| Inaugural Seminar: Information, Information, Information: from focused to aggregated answers Digitized information is everywhere. We rely on it to answer many of our information needs. Sometime... [ more ] Location: Biological Lecture Theatre, G E Fogg Building, M Speaker: Prof Mounia Lalmas (QMUL) |
Wed 21st November 2007 17:30 |
| From Science on the Web to a Web of Science The World Wide Web is one of humankind’s most disruptive and transformational technologies. As th... [ more ] Location: Maths Lecture Theatre Speaker: Prof. Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) |
Wed 14th November 2007 15:00 |
| Oct 2007 | |
| Reasoning about Visual Scenes Abstract: There is widespread scientific and commercial interest in the development of computationa... [ more ] Location: CS446 Speaker: Prof. David Hogg (University of Leeds) |
Wed 31st October 2007 15:00 |
| Mar 2007 | |
| Cryptography: The Art of Knowing Nothing Cryptography is a subject whose basic theory uses a concept of zero-knowledge, i.e. the absence of ... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof Nigel Smart (University of Bristol) |
Wed 21st March 2007 15:00 |
| Beyond the desktop and the vision of calm computing: A critique of the emerging field of UbiComp The paradigm of ubiquitous computing, captured by the slogan 'beyond the desktop', is coming of age.... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Yvonne Rogers (Open University) |
Wed 7th March 2007 15:00 |
| Jan 2007 | |
| Network Architecture Research Considerations Or The Internet Conspiracy Network architecture emerges from a collection of ideas. For instance, the Internet emerged from a s... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge) |
Wed 31st January 2007 15:00 |
| Ensembl: Going beyond A,T,G and C and Interdisciplinary Informatics Hub Launch The genome is the natural index for biology; most reagents will map uniquely to a single place in ... [ more ] Location: Mathematics Lecture Theatre Speaker: Dr Ewan Birney (European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)) |
Wed 17th January 2007 15:00 |
| Nov 2006 | |
| Claim your place in the IT Industry Call for Participation: 1-Day Workshop on Women, Innovation and Invention: "Be Innovative and Clai... [ more ] Location: Octagon Speaker: Gillian Arnold (IBM) |
Wed 29th November 2006 15:00 |
| Conscious Machines: Fiction or Fact In some ways the notion of a conscious machine sounds like sacrilege. But it is a product of the br... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Professor Igor Aleksander (Imperial College) |
Wed 15th November 2006 15:00 |
| Oct 2006 | |
| Speech Sounds and the Direct Meeting of Minds Some philosophers claim that when we speak to one another in a language we understand there is a dir... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Dr Barry Smith (Birkbeck College, University of London) |
Wed 18th October 2006 15:00 |
| Automatic Formal Verification for Operating Systems Code Formal verification is the discipline of proving, with mathematics and logic, that a formal represen... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Dr. Byron Cook (Microsoft Research Cambridge) |
Wed 4th October 2006 15:00 |
| May 2006 | |
| And Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth During the past fifty years there has been extensive, continuous, and growing interaction between l... [ more ] Location: Mathematics Lecture Theatre Speaker: Prof. Moshe Vardi (Rice University) |
Wed 3rd May 2006 15:30 |
| Mar 2006 | |
| The Not So Free For All - websites, online resources and the role of law The technical purpose of the Internet is to make information available, cross-border, seamlessly and... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof. Chris Reed (Faculty of Law & Social Science, QMUL) |
Wed 22nd March 2006 15:30 |
| Feb 2006 | |
| Information Retrieval, its geometry and logic One of the most important models for Information Retrieval (IR) derives from the representation of d... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow) |
Wed 22nd February 2006 15:30 |
| Rational ways of talking In modern theories of communication, people need to cooperate in order to talk with each other. The... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof. Herbert H. Clark (Stanford University) |
Wed 8th February 2006 15:30 |
| Jan 2006 | |
| Object-Oriented Bayesian Networks for Forensic Identification Problems of forensic identification from DNA profile evidence can become extremely challenging, both... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof. Philip Dawid (UCL) |
Wed 11th January 2006 15:30 |
| Nov 2005 | |
| Video segmentation by fusion of colour, contrast and stereo Technology advances mean that a stereo webcam could be manufactured and sold for essentially the sam... [ more ] Location: CS 338 Speaker: Prof Andrew Blake, FRS ERng (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) |
Wed 30th November 2005 15:30 |
| Data Integration by Bi-Directional Schema Transformation Rules In this talk I will describe a new approach to data integration which subsumes local-as-view (LAV) a... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof. Alex Poulovassilis (Birkbeck College, University of London) |
Wed 16th November 2005 15:30 |
| Invariant based programming Program verification is usually done by adding specifications and invariants to the program and the... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof Ralph-Johan Back (Abo Akademi University, Finland) |
Wed 2nd November 2005 15:30 |
| Oct 2005 | |
| Zeros and Ones in the wireless age Sadie Plant started writing about the many and varied relationships between women and new technologi... [ more ] Location: Clinical Lecture Theatre, Medical Science Buildi Speaker: Plant Sadie () |
Tue 25th October 2005 17:30 |
| Five Things Every Scientist and Engineer Should Know about Computing Your laptop has nearly half a billion transistors, and the software that drives it has around 100 ... [ more ] Location: Clinical Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Build Speaker: Prof. Ursula Martin (Queen Mary, University of London) |
Thu 20th October 2005 17:30 |
| From interactive to collaborative systems - the breakdowns, challenges and hopes. Many systems that we use and come into contact with are designed from the perspective of person(s) o... [ more ] Location: CS 446 Speaker: Prof Peter Johnson (University of Bath) |
Wed 19th October 2005 15:30 |
| Hybrid Intelligence: Combining Human and Machine Brains Prof Warwick will look at how the use of implant technology is rapidly diminishing the effects of ce... [ more ] Location: Mathematics Lecture Theatre Speaker: Prof Kevin Warwick (Dept of Cybernetics, University of Reading) |
Wed 5th October 2005 15:30 |
| Mar 2005 | |
| Open Source Event As space is limited please RSVP by email: osevent@dcs.qmul.ac.uk if you wish to attend. Stuar... [ more ] Location: Room PP1, Queen's Building Speaker: Stuart Cohen (CEO of OSDL, Oregon), Phillipe Robin (ARM Limited) |
Mon 7th March 2005 4:30 |
