6 May 2022 by Dr Mireilla Bikanga Ada, SICSA Education Champion and SICSA Education Distinguished Speaker Seminar organiser at UofG. The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow held a SICSA Education Distinguished Speaker Seminar on 30th March 2022. The event was organised by the University’s SICSA Education Champion, Dr Mireilla Bikanga Ada. … Read more
As part of the SICSA Conference in the last two years, we have established the SICSA PhD Award for Best Dissertation in Scotland, inviting submissions from our vibrant research student community in order to celebrate ground-breaking research across Scottish Institutions. Chris Cummings (University of Edinburgh) was the winner in 2020 and Ryan Gibson (University of … Read more
We had a fantastic response to the SICSA Data Science Research Theme – Call for Research Grants. The call is now closed. Thank you to those who submitted applications, we will be in contact with your shortly to let you know the outcome of your application The SICSA Data Science Theme invites proposals to support … Read more
Logic4Peace (Fundraising online Logic event for Peace) Friday 22 and Saturday 23 April 2022 Venue: Online (information will be provided to registered participants) Call for Abstracts: Logicians participating in this conference stand united for Peace. The on-going Russian military invasion in Ukraine is causing death, destruction and it is the direct cause of a gigantic … Read more
Early to mid-career colleagues involved in teaching Computing Science and related subjects at SICSA member institutions are invited to apply for the SICSA Education Learning & Teaching Scholars programme. The Scholars programme is designed to develop and support early-to-mid career CS academics with a focus on education. Successful applicants will take part in a series … Read more
23 March 2022 by Theodoros Stouraitis, University of Edinburgh I’m Theo, a research associate at the Statistical Machine Learning and Motor Control (SLMC) group at the University of Edinburgh and I am about to complete a three-month research visit at Interactive Robotics Group (IRG), at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. During … Read more
23 March 2022 by Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow The 25th Scottish Networking Event (SCONE) was held at the University of Glasgow on Friday 25th February 2022. This was the first in-person event for the SICSA Networking & Systems theme for two years. We convened a hybrid meeting, with around 15 people at Glasgow and … Read more
Tech Start-Ups and the Scottish Tech Ecosystem – A role for Scottish Universities and SICSA Students of Computing Science, Informatics and related subjects are invited to participate in a short survey about support for students forming start-ups while they are at University. This survey will be used to help inform SICSA’s* strategy for supporting technology … Read more
15 March 2022 by Christopher McDermott, Robert Gordon University On Tuesday 1st March, we ran our SICSA sponsored workshop during Cyber Scotland Week 2022. The purpose of the workshop was to increase student interest, and ultimately, participation in CTF events. Evidence has shown that introducing technical concepts to students with little or no technical background … Read more
The SICSA HCI Theme is proud to announce the 2022 HCI Sustainable Challenge Fund. This fund intends to bring together researchers involved in work surrounding the UN Sustainable Development Goals that involve HCI methods and thinking. We anticipate that this fund will be helpful for researchers interested in running a series of events that will culminate … Read more