Women in Computing Research
The London Hopper Colloquium 2009
On 5 May, 2009 over 60 postgraduate students, postdocs and academic staff converged on the British Computer Society (BCS) headquarters in London to participate in the annual London Hopper Colloquium. This 1-day event, organized by Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) and sponsored by BCS, IBM and Women@CL, showcased the exciting work of women in computing research and enabled new researchers to meet with each other as well as with senior women computer scientists.
The day's events started with a presentation from Hannah Dee, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Leeds, who spoke about CCTV video analysis for understanding people and places. She described two different approaches: cognitive models that try to determine a person's goals, and unsupervised machine learning to understand scenes by observing activity. |
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Nobuko Yoshida, a Reader at Imperial College London, then introduced a theory of mobile processes and discussed its use for guaranteeing safe interactive conversations in Web Services and business protocols. |
The last speaker, Holly Cummins of IBM gave a fascinating talk on garbage collection and presented a convincing argument as to the importance of this often neglected topic. |
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A poster competition, sponsored by IBM, drew applications from over 20 Ph.D. students and postdocs who presented a broad array of eye-catching posters describing their computing research.
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First prize for the best poster went to Amelie Anglade of QMUL, who presented a framework for chacterising songs by harmony patterns.
Second prize went to Putri Zulkifi of the University of Sussex who described her work on measuring the degree of competencies of writers, from novice to expert, by studying pauses during their freehand writing.
Third prize went to Rebecca Stewart of QMUL who proposed a new approach to searching and browsing large collections of music using a spatial audio interface.
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