SICSA Admin The SICSA Directors are pleased to announce that SICSA will sponsor 2 Saltire Fellowships in 2015, coordinated by the Saltire Foundation. The Saltire Fellowship is a world-class, 8 month long programme that equips Fellows with the skills and experience required to take a leadership role within Scottish business. It blends teaching at the #1 ranked … Read more
The SICSA Directors are pleased to announce that from February 2015 SICSA will fund a number of Research Challenges per year, each running for a period of 12 months. Each of the SICSA Research Challenges will be driven by a problem or issue whose resolution will have impact on the world outside Informatics and Computer … Read more
SICSA has funding of up to £7500 available per applicant to undertake an exchange to a University in Europe, North America, China or India. This funding has been made available to support existing research collaborations or to establish new connections. The funding can be used for return travel; accommodation and subsistence; and for additional childcare … Read more
SICSA recently launched a new Research Theme in Medical Imaging and Sensing in Computing. This theme is in partnership with Toshiba Medical Visualisation Systems. For full details of this theme and to view a short video please visit: https://www.sicsa.ac.uk/research/medical-imaging-sensing/ We are pleased to confirm that there are now a number of theme events organised for … Read more
The deadline for abstract submissions for the SICSA 1st Workshop on Data-to-text Generation has been extended to 6th of February 2015. Registration will open on 6th of February and it will be FREE. The Workshop will be held on 6th of March 2015 and is fully sponsored by two SICSA themes (HCI and Data Science) … Read more
We are pleased to announce that the call for the SICSA Early Career Industry Fellowship is now open – the deadline for applications will be 30 April 2015. The fellowship provides early career researchers with valuable experience working directly with industry and opportunities for building long-lasting collaborations to develop their professional academic careers. Key Facts … Read more
MATCH-UP 2015: First Call for Participation 16-18 April 2015 University of Glasgow, UK http://www.optimalmatching.com/MATCHUP2015 co-located with Meeting of COST Action IC1205 on Computational Social Choice http://www.optimalmatching.com/COST2015 MATCH-UP 2015 is the third workshop in the series of interdisciplinary and international workshops on matching under preferences. The first in the series took place in Reykjavik in 2008, … Read more
The SICSA Medical Imaging and Sensing in Computing theme will launch next month, followed by a further event in March. Please see below for full details. SICSA Medical Imaging and Sensing in Computing Theme Launch Event Date: 18th February 2015 Time: 9.30 -16.00. (Talks start at 10am, registration and coffee from 9.30am) Venue: The Royal Society … Read more
We are pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring up to two places on the Saltire Fellowship 2015 programme. The Saltire Fellowship is coordinated by the Saltire Foundation and is a world-class, 8 month long programme that equips candidates with the skills and attitude required to take a leadership role within Scottish business. The programme … Read more
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) results, which evaluate the quality of research at all UK Universities, were published on 18th December 2014. In Scotland the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) created research pools to develop Scottish capacities in particular research areas and The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) is the research pool in Informatics … Read more