SICSA by Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor Sheykhkanloo 15 October 2018 At Edinburgh Napier University we have received SICSA funding on numerous occasions to assist our cybersecurity events. These events have included but are not limited to: Post Graduate Cyber Security (PGCS) symposium – 2016: https://thecyberacademy.org/event/pgcs-symposium The PGCS is an annual gathering of postgraduate research students working in cybersecurity … Read more
by Dr Jeremy Singer, SGA Director 17 July 2018 Last month, I attended the tenth SICSA PhD conference at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. This is the northern-most location for our annual conference so far, and I was impressed by the beautiful setting and ideal facilities at this modern university campus. Paul Hagan from RGU … Read more
by Gabriel Murray 9 July 2018 Gabriel Murray is visiting Scotland on a SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, and will be giving talks at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Heriot-Watt Universities. The talk abstract, schedule, and Dr. Murray’s biography are below. Talk Abstract: The dynamics of small group interactions are an area of study for many disciplines ranging … Read more
by Dr Jeremy Singer, SGA Director 22 May 2018 Glasgow in summer … what a great experience! If you are enthusiastic about manycore processors, systems and parallel applications, please sign up for the Manycore summer school, running 16-20 July at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. The manycore revolution is fundamentally changing multiple … Read more
SICSA DemoFest, the largest event of it’s kind in Scotland will take place on 6th November 2018 at Our Dynamic Earth Edinburgh. Now in its eleventh year, it showcases the very best of Informatics and Computing Science research from all of Scotland’s Universities. Register to Exhibit Now! Exhibiting at DemoFest is free-of-charge. However, space is limited … Read more
by Dr Rachel Menzies, SICSA Education Director 5 March 2018 In February, I took over as the SICSA Director of Education, a post which had been vacant since Dr Karen Petrie stepped down last year. Already I’ve been really busy, sitting on a number of advisory boards so far, and I’m only two weeks in! … Read more
by Dr Jeremy Singer 19 February 2018 Only a few weeks till the deadline for outline applications to the EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training call! SICSA organized a workshop in Glasgow last week, to bring together Scottish computer scientists who are intending to submit CDT proposals. Around 25 academics attended the event, representing a majority … Read more
by Dr Jeremy Singer. SGA Director 2 February 2018 SICSA aims to maximise the success of EPSRC CDT applications from our member institutions. To this end, we want to support CDT outline bids as far as possible. SICSA has committed to providing a £75K package of in-kind support to each CDT bid. This comprises reserved … Read more
by Juan Ye 29 January 2018 Have you experienced the challenge when you are socialising with people from a wide, diverse background? You may have different ethnic, educational, cultural background, and understanding each other may take a lot of effort. Our EU FET project, called DIVERSITY, is to deliver technological tools that humans can use … Read more
by Dr Rosa Filgueira 22 January 2018 My exchange involved visiting Ewa Deelman and Yolanda Gil, both located in the same University (USC) and Institute (Information Science Institute – ISI), from 30th September to 10th December 2017. This visit gave me the great opportunity to work with two World-leading authority on the research and development … Read more