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SICSA Data Science Research Theme: Call for Data Science Research Grants – Deadline 21 October 2022

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The SICSA Data Science Theme invites proposals to support Data Science research across Scottish Universities to carry out research activities completed by 31 January 2023. We have £2500 to support the following activities: Face-To-Face Event Organization, including workshops and presentations, for funding toward catering or speaker travel (max £500); Online events/Webinars Organization (max £500); Computational … Read more

SICSA Education – Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge

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SICSA is extremely proud to sponsor the Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge, taking place on the 18th & 19th October 2022 at cyberQuarter, Abertay University, Dundee. The Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge is an annual cyber policy and strategy competition where students from across the globe compete in developing policy recommendations tackling a fictional cyber catastrophe. Now … Read more

SICSA Saltire Exchange Scheme – Visit to ICS-FORTH

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30 September 2022, by Lito Michala, University of Glasgow I am Dr Lito Michala and I am an early career researcher who works as a lecturer at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. For my visit I chose to travel to Greece to ICS-FORTH and particularly the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory … Read more

SICSA DVF Seminar Series – Professor Vincenzo Vespri, The University of Florence

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Professor Vincenzo Vespri, from The University of Florence is visiting  Stirling University as SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow. He has kindly offered to give the series of seminars below. He will be in Stirling from Sept.19th to Sept. 30th, happy to meet interested colleagues- short bio sketch below. ———————————— IOTA, the blockchain of the near future? … Read more

SICSA Remote Collaboration Activities – Recruiting Participants

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13 September 2022, by Isa Inuwa-Dutse from the University of Hertfordshire, and Salma ElSayed from Abertay University Introduction/Overview Crowdsourcing involves the act of engaging a wide collection of diverse individuals to work on a paid or voluntary activity submitted by requesters. The individuals or  participant are not constraints by geographical location. Prolific is an online … Read more

SICSA Research Scholar Funding: IADS Summer School

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13 September 2022 by Ipshita Roy Chowdhury, University of Stirling I am a current PhD student in the division of Computing science at the University of Stirling. I have attended the Analytics, Data Science & Decision Making Summer School at the Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex from 25th July-29th July, 2022 … Read more

SICSA Research Scholar Funding: DeepLearn 2022 Summer School

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6 September 2022, by Katarina Alexander, Edinburgh Napier University This year’s IRDTA Deep Learn Summer School took place in Gran Canaria from July 25th – 29th. The summer school was both in-person and online, with the majority of the nearly 500 participants coming to the island. The three keynote speakers – Wahid Bhimji, Joachim M. … Read more