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SUMMARY:SICSA Seminar - From Large to Small: Building Affordable Language Models with Limited Resources
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend \nJoin us on Wednesday\, 25 February for an AI & Data Science Seminar. \nDr Burcu Can of University of Stirling presents \nFrom Large to Small: Building Affordable Language Models with Limited Resources \nThis talk aims to question the limitations and harms of Large Language Models\, followed by a review of Small Language Models\, covering prominent examples\, their key techniques\, and their capabilities. It will also give an overview of even smaller ‘baby’ language models. Finally\, the talk will conclude by presenting some recent studies in which we developed baby language models using very small amounts of data.
URL:https://sicsa.ac.uk/event/sicsa-seminar-20260225-burcu-can/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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LOCATION:https://sicsa.ac.uk/event/sicsa-seminar-20260225-burcu-can/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260128T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260128T170000
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SUMMARY:Aberdeen GameJam 2026
DESCRIPTION:View full event details here. \nAfter the success of last year\, University of Aberdeen’s School of Natural and Computing Sciences will be running Aberdeen GameJam 2026\, this time in partnership with the History department! \nThe event is open to students at University of Aberdeen and any other Scottish University. Each participant will receive an Aberdeen GameJam 2026 t-shirt and Amazon vouchers will be awarded to winners in each prize category. \nAdditionally\, ABVentures and Common Profyt Games have sponsored prizes\, one for the Best Pitch\, and one for a category yet to be announced! \nThis year’s general theme is Games & History (so it might be a good idea to grab somebody who knows their history!) \nParticipants will have a week to develop from scratch a game on a more specific theme that will be announced on Wednesday\, 21 January 2026\, followed by an in-person event starting at 9am on Wednesday\, 28 January 2025 where teams will get feedback from judges. \nTeams will make a short presentation of their game starting at Noon and then judges will choose a winner for our prizes to be announced that afternoon.
URL:https://sicsa.ac.uk/event/aberdeen-gamejam-2026/
LOCATION:Meston Building\, University of Aberdeen\, Meston Walk\, Aberdeen\, AB24 3UE
CATEGORIES:Event,Game Jam,Hackathon
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260126T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260126T130000
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SUMMARY:Learning & Teaching Scholars Kick-off
DESCRIPTION:SICSA’s Learning & Teaching Scholars will kick-off the 25/26 cohort with a speed networking event.
URL:https://sicsa.ac.uk/event/learning-teaching-scholars-kick-off/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event,Networking,Workshop
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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-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event,Meeting,Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260119T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260119T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T101924Z
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SUMMARY:SCONE Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The next SCONE meeting will be hosted at University of Glasgow from 12-1pm on Monday\, 19 January 2026. \nRegister \n\nSCONE is the SCOttish Networking Event – an informal gathering of networking and systems researchers in and around Scotland. The goal of these meetings is to foster interaction between researchers from our various institutions. Each meeting will take place over the course of an afternoon\, and feature: \n\ntalks from PhD students\ntalks from faculty\, postdocs and industrial researchers\ndiscussions of possible funding opportunities\nfood and drink
URL:https://sicsa.ac.uk/event/scone-meeting/
LOCATION:Sir Alwyn Williams Building\, University of Glasgow\, 18 Lilybank Gardens\, Glasgow\, G12 8QN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Event,Meeting,Networking
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251215T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251215T153000
DTSTAMP:20251202T181218Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251210T160000
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241204
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SUMMARY:1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO 2024)
DESCRIPTION:The 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO 2024) will bring together researchers and practitioners with a keen interest in low carbon and sustainable computing. The workshop will provide a forum for sharing new ideas\, for presenting ongoing work and early results\, as well as for bringing forward well-founded criticism. \nLOCO 2024 is an initiative of the Scottish Programming Languages Institute (SPLI)\, supported by the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)\, and was inspired by the Programming for the Planet (PROPL) workshop. \nView more information and register online.
URL:https://sicsa.ac.uk/event/loco2024/
LOCATION:Advanced Research Centre (ARC)\, 11 Chapel lane\, Glasgow\, G11 6EW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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