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News from Head of SchoolImpact Studies for Research Excellence Framework (REF) The forthcoming REF will include an
assessment of research impact as 20% of the overall assessment (http://www.hefce.ac.uk/research/ref/). As such, this will be extremely
important to the reputation and income of the school. The assessment of impact will involve case
studies, at the level of one for every 10 members of staff submitted, so the
school will need to return around 6, and is be seeking to identify a larger
collection of candidates. The assessment of impact covers non-academic
impact, potentially of many different kinds. Thus research that has given
rise to spin-out companies or that has been implemented in products,
would be considered to provide mainstream examples of impact. There are quite
specific criteria, however; for example, the impact must have taken place
between 1st January 2008 and 31st July 2013, but the
research can have taken place up to 15 years before the assessment period. We are currently approaching members of staff
who may be associated with candidate case studies to ask them to complete pro
formas that relate case studies to the
criteria. If you have been approached
by Howard Barringer to complete such a pro forma, please do so within the
timescales he has provided, as we need to know where we stand and to identify
follow-on actions. If you have not
been approached but can think of a possible case study, please discuss this
with Howard in the near future. The
details are at: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/research/ref/pubs/2011/01_11/01_11.pdf Encryption of Laptops –
note from Faculty
Having improved in our experience in encrypting laptops, we would like to update you on what the current situation is. We have well established processes for Windows and Linux single boot systems. These have been working well across the University with over 1800 encrypted. Following on from initial problems, we now have an agreed process for encrypting MACs. We have yet to build up our experience here but initial testing by the Encryption Group has proven successful. We are still testing encryption multiple boot configurations. Regardless of the configuration of your own laptop, we would like you to register it for encryption so that we can understand and plan for our upcoming workloads in conjunction with other activities. You can do this by contacting the Service Desk on 65544 or by completing the web form at http://remedy.manchester.ac.uk/cgi-bin/submitnologin.cgi. Please provide as much information about your configuration when logging the call, including notes on problems encountered if you have previously tried to encrypt your own. We will then contact you and arrange an appropriate time for the work to be completed. Many Thanks, EPS IS Team. EventsResource Constrained Reliable Processor Micro-/Architectures against Soft Errors 16 May 11 12:30, Atlas 1, Kilburn Building Prof. Jie Hu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA CloudCache: Expanding and Shrinking Private Caches 16 May 11 16:00, Atlas 1, Kilburn Building Hyunjin Lee, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh Efficient and Scalable Cache Coherence for Many-Core Architectures 17 May 11 12:00, Atlas 1, Kilburn Building Alberto Ros, Technical University of Valencia Mixed Speculative Execution Models 17 May 11 15:15, Atlas 1, Kilburn Building Polychronis Xekalakis, Intel Labs Barcelona APT seminar 19 May 11 A Declarative Language and Compiler for Hardware System Modeling and Design 16:00, 2.15, Kilburn Building Rishiyur S. Nikhil, CTO, Bluespec Inc. Prize & Award OpportunitiesReminder:
Low Carbon and Environment Competition 2011 20
May 11 UMIC and UMIP are pleased to announce the launch of the Low Carbon and Environment Competition 2011. The competition is open to all University of Manchester academics and staff members and we are looking forward to hearing your ideas. Visit the UMIC Innovation Portal to find out more. New Grants and AwardsArabic speech recognition and understanding: a hybrid approach Funding Body: Qatar University Staff newsSabbaticals Norman
Paton - 1 year from 1st November 2011 following on from HoS position.
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