School of CS newsletter

Gavin Brown will be giving his inaugural talk for his Chair that was awarded in 2017.

Gavin’s talk is on Wednesday 21 March in KB LT 1.1.

The talk is entitled “Finding new ways to Think: Twenty Years in Machine Learning”.

There is an EventBright page by which you can find more details and register:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fse-inaugural-lecture-series-professor-gavin-brown-tickets-43088746601 

21 Feb 2018 Turing Lecture, University Place Theatre B, refreshments from 5.15pm, with Lecture at 6pm followed by drinks reception:

Innovation and technology - art or science? Dr Andy Harter

- plus Insight Speaker Professor Gavin Brown, Professor of Machine Learning, and Director of Research for the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester.

In his lecture Dr Harter will discuss the role of “art” in innovation and technology including not only the aesthetic but also craft, design, skill, invention and intuition. Andy will draw on his own expertise and experiences in computing and ask if we can do more to appreciate and promote the importance of “art” as a feature on the interdisciplinary landscape?

Speaker biography Dr Andy Harter CBE FREng FIET FBCS is a distinguished innovator and entrepreneur. He was Director of Research and Engineering at the influential AT&T Cambridge Laboratory where he led many hardware and software projects through to commercial exploitation. He was responsible for VNC software and its seminal role in establishing the remote access market. The technology is on over a billion devices, is on more different kinds of computer than any other application and is an official part of the internet. He has an MA and a PhD from Cambridge University, where he is a Fellow of the Computer Laboratory and chair of Cambridge Network. He has received numerous awards, including the Silver Medal and MacRobert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Faraday Medal of the IET. In 2017 he was awarded a CBE for services to engineering.

Do come along if you can – some good talks, plus drinks and nibbles afterwards and a chance to talk to people.

Book now: https://events.theiet.org/turing/register.cfm?

The Project Malawi team of staff and students from Computer Science were “Highly Commended” for their outstanding public engagement initiative in bringing Computer Science education to remote parts of central Africa. There were many very good projects across the Faculty in the highly competitive "Bettter World” awards ceremony.

So congratulations to the team: Dave Ames, Karen Corless, Jo Hodge, Carol Murray, David Rydeheard, Sarah Zaman, Mihai-Dan Garbur, Razvan Lacatusu and Teo Taylor, and to Nikki Luxford and Ripple Africa for hosting the team in Africa.

Early Career Fellowships offer 50% match-funding for salary costs up to a maximum of £25,000 per annum and up to £6,000 annual research expenses. The scheme enables early career researchers to undertake a significant piece of publishable work so applicants must have a track record of research but should not have held an established academic appointment in the UK.

Fellowships are tenable for three years and must commence between 1 September 2018 and 1 May 2019. Further information can be found here.

Please inform Su Smith, Research Support Manager, if you intend to apply.