Research into Industry Seminar Series
The School of Computing Research into Industry Seminar Series offers extra-curricular sessions that relate what we do (research-led computer science) to the destinations of our graduates (predominantly commerce and industry). All staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to attend.
A further programme of seminars will commence in October 2008 with speakers from Google, Zoo Digital Group and IBM.
Previous Seminars
The first seminar of this series took place in November 2006 and was entitled Applying 4D Ontologies to Enterprise Architecture: God's Eye View of History. Prof. Matthew West, Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager, Shell delivered a 90 minute session which included interaction and discussion. An abstract and the slides are available.
The second seminar took place in February 2007: Books and Bits at the British Library. Sean Martin, Head of Architecture and Development, British Library, delivered a lively and interactive session. An abstract and the slides are available.
The third seminar of this series was presented in May 2008: Research for UK Business: Making it Work. Mourad Kara, Internet Services division, Cable and Wireless, delivered an insightful 90 minute seminar comparing research in academia and industry. An abstract and the slides are available.
The fourth seminar of this series was presented in December 2008: Ordnance Survey and the Semantic Web. Glen Hart, Ordnance Survey Research, delivered a 90 minute seminar on how their research is moving to the semantic web. An abstract and the slides are available.
The fifth seminar of this series was presented in April 2009: Making Data Intelligent. Salah and Pugal, Deloitte LLP, delivered a 90 minute interactive session on data mining and finding key characteristics in large amounts of data. The abstract is available for more information.
The sixth seminar of this series was also presented in April 2009: A Brief Glimpse into Engineering at Google: Infrastructure Software, Technologies, and Development Practices, Peter Dickman, Google Zurich, delivered a 60 minute presentation on how Google culture and software engineering ethos has contributed to Google's success. abstract is available for more information.
The seventh seminar of this series was presented in October 2009: What Do Machines Think?, Peter Cochrane delivered a 90 minute presentation on examining intelligence from both a silicon (designed) and carbon (evolved) point of view, and move on to our relationship and reaction to systems that are both abstract and anthropomorphic. This seminar addressed a most fundamental question; what makes something intelligent? An abstract is available for more information.
The eigth seminar of this series was presented in December 2009: Is that a supercomputer in your pocket or are you pleased to see the future of personal computing?, Ian Oliver, Imagination Technologies, delivered a 90 minute presentation on what it takes to create the high performance consumer electronics of today and the future that will be depending on multi-threading and parallelism. An abstract is available for more information.