We are pleased to announce that we are now recruiting for a new SICSA Director of Education. Applications are welcome from any suitable member of academic staff working at a SICSA member institution. SICSA Education has a focus on enhancing collaboration across the core activities of Undergraduate and Postgraduate education provision in Scotland. The group … Read more
The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) is welcoming the publication of a positive report on the last decade of their research, policymaking and industrial partnerships. The full report can be found at the Scottish Funding Council. Along with an overview of all other projects supported by the pooling initiative, the Independent Review of … Read more
DemoFest: Bringing Research to Life 4th November 2019, 4.00pm – 7.00pm at Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh. DemoFest is SICSA’s signature knowledge exchange event, showcasing the very best of Informatics and Computing Science research from all of Scotland’s Universities. The largest event of its kind in Scotland, DemoFest attracts a mix of more than 300 participants, including software industry … Read more
by Gianluca Palombo 5 August 2019 CodeYourFuture are a charity who train refugees, asylum seekers and people from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds to become professional software developers. We are already running classes in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Rome – with plans to extend to other cities in the near future. On the weekend of the 27th … Read more
by Vasileios Stamatis 29th July 2019 The European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is a summer school for Information Retrieval and has been taking place since 1990 and the last few years it has taken by every two years. The ESSIR 2019 took place in Milan, Italy, in the University of Milan-Bicocca. Myself and many … Read more
Welcome to Professor Aaron Quigley of the University of St Andrews, who assumes the role of SICSA Director today. Aaron brings a wealth of experience to the role at an important time for SICSA as we look towards 2020. You can contact Aaron at sicsa-director@www.sicsa.ac.uk. Also, our thanks go to Professor Rod Murray-Smith, who has provided … Read more
SICSA extends a warm welcome to Dr Lilia Georgieva (Heriot Watt University) who takes over co-leadership of the SICSA Theory, Modelling and Computation research theme this month. Along with Clemens Kupke (University of Strathclyde), Lilia will be responsible for leading the theme for the next two years. Thanks go to Dr Ekaterina Komendantskaya for her role … Read more
Congratulations to all of the prize winners at the SICSA PhD Conference 2019 in Stirling! They are: SICSA PhD Research Competition 1st Year Winner: Jacob König (GCU): ‘Deep Learning Surface Crack Segmentation’ 2nd Year Winner: Ryan Gibson (University of Strathclyde): ‘Using Tablet Technologies to Promote Communication Between Adults with Mild Learning Disabilities and General Practitioner’ … Read more
Congratulations go to the SICSA Supervisor of the Year 2019, Professor David Manlove of the University of Glasgow. This award recognises the exceptional contribution that Professor Manlove has made to his students and it was presented at the SICSA PhD Conference on 18th June 2019. We received a great many nominations this year from across … Read more
On behalf of the SICSA Cyber Security theme leaders, congratulations go to the successful applicants for the recent SICSA Cyber Security Small Grants call: Andrea Bracciali, Stirling Nhamo Mtetwa, GCU Zeeshan Siddiqui, UWS The Cyber Security small grants are a new development for the SICSA research themes and we received a relatively high number of … Read more