School of CS newsletter

The Library has developed a guide to the use of copyright material in teaching materials in response to feedback from teaching staff. The copyright ‘decision tree’ will help you to understand what you can use and when you can use it without infringing copyright. Information on copyright can be found here, the decision tree for teaching materials is here.

Please do not make material publicly available unless you are sure that you have the right to do that.

The MRC Guidance for Applicants has been published in a new and improved format: www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/guidance-for-applicants.

The final episode of "Computing Britain” broadcast last week talked about the mobile revolution and the role that Acorn and ARM played in it. Includes interviews with Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06c4fvm

07/10/15 14:00, Lecture Theatre 1.4 Kilburn building

Jenny Radcliffe (of http://www.jennyradcliffetraining.com/) is a much sought after Psychological Pen-tester, Social Engineer, involved in Deception Detection, Non-Verbal Communication, Negotiations, and Security. It's been no easy task to get her to the School hence the late notice. As an ethical social engineer, Jenny has hacked into client organisations including major corporates, nuclear facilities and the Tower of London. Whilst we design chips to handle data safely, Jenny tests the safeguards with a bag of chips for the operators and anyone else in the chain of vulnerabilities which expose organisations long before the tech has booted up. As organisations continue to improve IT and physical security technologies, criminals increasingly focus on the human factors. Social engineering — or people hacking — uses cons, tricks and scams for theft, industrial espionage and malicious disruption. Every organisation is at risk and every individual can be a target. Combating insider threats needs the marriage of supporting technologies and psychological factors.  Understand what we have to program against!

Deadline: 01 Dec 2015

http://www.jsps.org/funding/2015/10/the-jsps-london-call-for-the-prepost-doctoral-fellowship-for-foreign-researchers-short-term.html

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Pre/Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers (Short Term) provides the opportunity for researchers based outside of Japan to conduct collaborative research activities with leading research groups at Japanese Universities and Research Institutions for visits of up to 12 months. Eligible applicants need to be either within 2 years of finishing their PhD at the time of applying to start their fellowship in Japan or have obtained their PhD after 2 April 2010. Fellowships must start between 1 May 2016 to 31 March 2017.

Case studies including former JSPS Fellows who have taken part in this programme can be found here: http://www.jsps.org/case_studies/index.html

Future Manufacturing Research Hubs 2016

Deadline: 19 November 2015 at 16:00

EPSRC is inviting outline applications for a number of large-scale, multidisciplinary research Hubs to address major, long-term challenges facing manufacturing industries, as well as capture opportunities from emerging research areas.

Urban Living Partnership - pilot phase
The Urban Living Partnership, which is opening a call for proposals in the area of city research. This is the first, diagnostic, phase for which city consortia can apply for one of five pilot grants.

EPSRC-JSPS Core-to-Core Collaboration in Spintronics and Advanced Materials - call for proposals 2015

EPSRC is seeking proposals from the successful candidates at the first stage of this call which was 'Expression of Interests for participation in the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Core-to-Core Scheme in the area of Spintronics and Advanced Materials'

• Millard P, Portais J-C, Mendes P (2015) Impact of kinetic isotope effects in isotopic studies of metabolic systems. BMC Systems Biology 9:64.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12918-015-0213-8

• Villaverde AF, Henriques D, Smallbone K, Bongard S, Schmid J, Cicin-Sain D, Crombach A, Saez-Rodriguez J, Mauch K, Balsa-Canto E, Mendes P, Jaeger J, Banga JR (2015) BioPreDyn-bench: a suite of benchmark problems for dynamic modelling in systems biology. BMC Systems Biology 9:8.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12918-015-0144-4

• Bastiaens P, Birtwistle MR, Blüthgen N, Bruggeman FJ, Cho KH, Cosentino C, de la Fuente A, Hoek JB, Kiyatkin A, Klamt S, Kolch W, Legewie S, Mendes P, Naka T, Santra T, Sontag E, Westerhoff HV, Kholodenko BN. (2015) Silence on the relevant literature and errors in implementation. Nature Biotechnology 33:336-9.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3185