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Weekly Newsletter |
26 Oct 2009 |
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News from Head of SchoolSad News We recently learned of the sad death of Margaret Huzar, following a battle with cancer. Margaret joined the Department in October 1973. At that time, the Department employed a number of ladies to type input data on cards (punch cards) for staff and students, although Margaret did her punching on tape. She then transferred to punching exclusively for Professor Derrick Morris on a research project, until Professor Morris moved to a position at UMIST. At that point, Margaret moved into Finance & Stores where she remained until her retirement in June 2000. Following retirement, she enjoyed coming in twice a year to help with the checking of exam marks. Margaret was 73 when she died. Her funeral will be held this Thursday at Stockport Crematorium at 2.15pm. The family have requested no flowers, but any donations to Christie’s.
On the assumption that at least some of you are curious about this sort of thing, the following links (thanks to Dave Lester) provide some rankings and commentary on the THES world rankings:
For less recent information, the university prefers the Shanghai Jiao Tong index (http://www.arwu.org/), a position easily defended in this context by the fact that we do rather less well in that than in the THES (40th in the world, though 5th in the UK). EventsText Mining for Scholarly Communications and Repositories Joint Workshop 28-29 Oct 09 This event is being hosted jointly by NaCTeM and held at
MIB at the The aim of the event is to examine the issues, challenges
and priorities associated with integrating text mining technologies in
applications to support scholarly communication and repository
initiatives. The audience is expected
to consist of researchers, information management professionals, librarians,
text miners, repository providers, publishers, policy makers and JISC service
representatives. Public Engagement Networking Lunch 6 Nov 09The above is a Faculty run event and will take place in
the Kanaris Lecture Theatre, PrizesACM call for nominations 30 Nov 09 ACM has issued a call
for nominations for the following awards: |
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On Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 October the
School took part in the "Speedy Science" event for schoolchildren,
part of this year's Manchester Science Festival. The event was held in Pure
at the Printworks, with over 500 schoolchildren visiting. Our activity was
"Race the Baby", where the kids could download a Java simulator of
the original Baby into their mobile phones, using Bluetooth, and then race
that against the simulator in the PhotoBaby running at the original Baby
clock speed. The event proved extremely popular with the kids, and we met
several budding computer scientists! Thanks to the team: Andrew Robinson,
whose idea it was, Dave Thorne, Ros Cooper, Jez Lloyd and Toby Howard.