Product Forge is running a Medical Visualisation Hackathon at CodeBase in Edinburgh from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th November 2017 with Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Europe and Scottish Health Innovations Ltd. Entrepreneurially minded data scientists and analysts, clinicians, designers and software engineers will spend 3 days and 3 nights side by side analysing a range … Read more
By Dr Areti Manataki, Senior Researcher in The University of Edinburgh 22nd October 2017 In summer 2017 I visited the Department of Biomedical Informatics in the Arizona State University as part of a SICSA-funded Postdoctoral and Early Career Researcher Exchange (PECE). To say that this research visit has been successful would be an understatement. It … Read more
by Dr Jeremy Singer, SICSA Graduate Academy Director 16 October 2017 Hundreds of people attended the SICSA DemoFest at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, last week. The annual DemoFest event showcases over 50 innovative Computing Science research projects currently under development at Scotland’s universities As I wandered round the large exhibition hall, I saw sonic levitating devices, … Read more
Let SICSA help you ……. funding call opportunities for October 2017. SICSA Summer School Sponsorship Funding Are you thinking of organising a Computing Science and Informatics focussed Summer School in Scotland? If so, SICSA can provide sponsorship funding for a number of free student places; up to £750 per student for residential summer schools or … Read more
After a very successful SICSA PhD Conference 2017, SICSA is now making plans for next year’s event. As always, the SICSA PhD Conference next year will be put together by a hard-working group of student volunteers and we are now recruiting for the next organising committee. If you are a PhD student in Informatics/Computer Science, … Read more
DemoFest: Bringing Research to Life Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh 3 October 2017, 4-7pm Register free-of-charge here: https://sicsademofest2017.eventbrite.co.uk SICSA DemoFest is the largest event of its kind in Scotland. Now in its tenth year, it showcases the very best of Informatics and Computing Science research from all of Scotland’s Universities. The next event will take place … Read more
Computer Science PhD supervisors in Scotland are doing fantastic work! SICSA wants to celebrate PhD supervision with an award for Scottish Computing Science Supervisor of the Year. Please consider nominating your supervisor by completing the nomination form, before Friday 15 September. Note that SICSA will not share nomination form details with supervisors, in the interests … Read more
SICSA DemoFest is the largest event of its kind in Scotland. Now in its tenth year, it showcases the very best of Informatics and Computing Science research from all of Scotland’s Universities. The next event will take place on 3rd October 2017, 4-7pm at Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh. Register to Exhibit Now! Exhibiting at DemoFest is free-of-charge. However, … Read more
The SICSA Directors offer their sincere thanks to Dr Karen Petrie, who yesterday completed her final task as SICSA Education Director at the SICSA PhD Conference at the University of Dundee. Dr Petrie served as the SICSA Education Director from September 2013 until June 2017 . During that time she dedicated significant time, energy and … Read more
As part of their 400 Anniversary, Registers of Scotland (RoS) is offering an amazing, once in a lifetime MSc level scholarship. Theme: Any course related to data (Data Science, Data Engineering, etc.) 2017 is a landmark year for the Registers of Scotland, as they are celebrating a mammoth 400 years of the world’s oldest national land … Read more