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SUMMARY:Scottish Programming Languages Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The SPLS hybrid event will be held by the MSP Group of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at University of Strathclyde. \nTalks will take place in room TL325 in the Learning and Teaching Building (49 Richmond Street). There will be signs directing you from the main entrance of the building. \nA special PhD event will be held in the morning\, starting at 1000hrs. The PhD Event will be held in LT1414a in Livingstone Tower\, home to the Department of Computer & Information Sciences. It will be an introduction to SPLI in specific\, and doing a PhD in general\, as well as a chance to meet your fellow PhD students from other institutes. It is intended to be most useful to students early in their PhD\, although everyone is free to attend (including non-PhD students). \nFind out more about the programme and register for the event. Registration will close on 26 November.
URL:https://sicsa.ac.uk/event/scottish-programming-languages-seminar-3/
LOCATION:Learning and Teaching Building\, University of Strathclyde
CATEGORIES:Event,Seminar
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SUMMARY:Education Champions Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Monthly meeting of SICSA Education Champions. \nPlease contact the Education Director if you’re a CS academic based in Scotland and are interested in becoming an Education Champion for your institution.
URL:https://sicsa.ac.uk/event/education-champions-meeting/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event,Meeting,Networking
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SUMMARY:LOCOS Seminar - Sylvia Wenmackers: "A Philosophical Exploration of Frugal Computing"
DESCRIPTION:Low Carbon Computing Seminar \nSylvia Wenmackers\, BOF Research Professor at the  Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) of KU Leuven\, will deliver their talk “A Philosophical Exploration of Frugal Computing” \nIn response to the unsustainable rise in materials and energy required for current and projected computations\, Vanderbauhede (2021) argued that we urgently need to adopt a more frugal approach to computing. To develop this proposal\, this talk explores related ideas from economics and philosophy. For instance\, Schumacher’s (1973) Small Is Beautiful gave rise to the notion of ‘appropriate technology’\, which suggests supplementing frugal computing with a people-centered focus. In addition\, environmental virtue ethics can be used to refine a question that frugal computing already poses: in light of human flourishing\, which computations are worth doing in the first place? Finally\, we may wonder whether the study of what needs to be done should ever take precedence over the investigation of the facts themselves. Vermeersch (2001) argued that our current environmental problems do indeed warrant such priorities. \nSee past and future LOCOS Seminars at https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/research/researchthemes/lowcarbon/ 
URL:https://sicsa.ac.uk/event/locos-seminar-sylvia-wenmackers-a-philosophical-exploration-of-frugal-computing/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event,Seminar
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SUMMARY:CSA Africa Showcase 2025
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an inspiring session showcasing how CSA Africa is empowering the next generation of African tech talent. \n10:30am on Friday\, 12 December 2025 at University of Glasgow’s School of Computing Science. \nRegister \nCSA Africa is a transformative international outreach initiative under the School of Computing Science. Founded by Dr. Sofiat Olaosebikan\, the initiative is driven by her personal journey of overcoming limited access to computing education in Nigeria to become an academic in the field. Her story fuels our commitment to bridging the tech education gap across Africa\, ensuring that young Africans have the opportunity to build successful careers in technology. \nSince 2018\, CSA Africa has raised over £150\,000 in funding\, delivered 5 Python programming workshops across the continent (Nigeria\, Rwanda\, Kenya\, and online) and empowering 700+ young Africans with technical skills and opening doors to careers in technology. \nThis showcase event brings together the CSA Africa community to celebrate our impact\, share powerful stories\, and explore how you can be part of our next chapter. \nThis will be a hybrid event\, with options for attendance both online and in-person. If you are interested in attending\, please sign-up at the Eventbrite link here.
URL:https://sicsa.ac.uk/event/csa-africa-showcase-2025/
LOCATION:University of Glasgow\, School of Computing Science\, Room 423\, Sir Alwyn Williams Building\, Lilybank Gardens\, Glasgow\, G12 8RZ
CATEGORIES:Event,Networking,Opportunity,Showcase,Showcase
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251215T153000
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SUMMARY:SICSA Education Seminar - Pedagogical Prompt Engineering Protocol Applied to LLM Feedback in Introductory Programming
DESCRIPTION:Please register to attend in person or online. \nVenue: Room 423\, Sir Alwyn Williams Building\, Lilybank Gardens\, School of Computing Science\, University of Glasgow \nJoin us for the last SICSA Education Seminar of 2025 on 15 December at 2pm where University of Glasgow doctoral candidate Eyman Alyahyan will present her work:  A Pedagogical Prompt Engineering Protocol Applied to LLM Feedback in Introductory Programming \nAbstract:\nMany researchers and educators are exploring how Large Language Models (LLMs) could be used to support feedback practices in computing education. Yet the prompts that guide these systems are often ad-hoc and not grounded in pedagogy. What if we could design prompts that enable LLMs to produce feedback that supports student learning? \nIn this seminar\, Eyman Alyahyan introduces the Pedagogical Prompt Engineering Protocol (PPEP)—a systematic\, theory-informed methodology for developing effective educational prompts. PPEP served as the methodological foundation for this work. Applying the protocol led to the PPE-LLM framework\, a set of 10 components that translate the protocol into a clear design structure for building prompts. These components give teachers a ready-to-use scaffold for creating a well-structured prompt. That prompt can then be used to generate formative feedback using LLMs that supports student learning in introductory programming. \nThe talk shows how moving from principles to practice can make LLM-generated feedback more consistent and pedagogically meaningful. It also offers a transparent\, repeatable approach for researchers and developers to create future prompt frameworks and LLM-based feedback tools grounded in pedagogy rather than intuition.
URL:https://sicsa.ac.uk/event/sicsa-education-seminar-pedagogical-prompt-engineering-protocol-applied-to-llm-feedback-in-introductory-programming/
LOCATION:University of Glasgow\, School of Computing Science\, Room 423\, Sir Alwyn Williams Building\, Lilybank Gardens\, Glasgow\, G12 8RZ
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