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Student Induction Day

for SICSA Prize Studentsand supervisors

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sicsa* What’s up?

10.45-11.00 Coffee and registration

11.00-11.10 Welcome and Introduction Jon Oberlander

11.10-11.30 Icebreaker event Jon Turner

11.30-12.45 Student Presentations Jon Oberlander

12.45-1.45 Lunch

1.45-2.00 Intro to the Graduate Academy Ian Sommerville

2.00-3.00 Challenges for Supervision Jon Turner

3.00-3.15 Tea

3.15-3.45 Introduction to SGA PG training Ian Sommerville

inc. Entrepreneurship training Danny Helson

3.45-4.45 Mediated communication Colin AllisonPaul Cockshott

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sicsa* Where from?Where from?

StrathclydeStrathclyde EdinburghEdinburgh

GlasgowGlasgow

StirlingStirlingSt AndrewsSt Andrews

AbertayAbertay

DundeeDundee

Robert GordonRobert GordonAberdeenAberdeen

Heriot WattHeriot Watt

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sicsa* Who’s here?

1. Bai, Xi Edinburgh Dave Robertson2. Fan, Zhengjie Aberdeen Jeff Z Pan3. Fountain, Trevor Edinburgh Mirella Lapata4. Kelly, Tom Glasgow Ron Poet5. Keyhanipour, Amir Hosein Glasgow Iadh Ounis6. Khajeh-Hosseini, Ali St Andrews Ian

Sommerville7. Kammar, Ohad Edinburgh Gordon Plotkin8. Kotthoff, Lars St Andrews Ian Miguel9. Maternaghan, Claire Stirling Kenneth

J Turner10. Meedeniya, Dulani St Andrews Juliana Bowles11. Petrovic, Sasa Edinburgh Miles Osborne12. Qi, Lin Heriot-Watt Mike Chantler13. Tan, Niyue Edinburgh Miles Obsorne14. Wanderley Goes, Luis F. Edinburgh Marcelo Cintra15. Wu, Yanghui Robert GordonJohn McCall

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What’s going on?What’s going on?

How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow?

– Distributed, pervasive, varied …• sometimes big and powerful, sometimes small and low power

How can we “right-scale” in the petabyte age?

– Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering

How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow?

– Distributed, pervasive, varied …• sometimes big and powerful, sometimes small and low power

How can we “right-scale” in the petabyte age?

– Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering

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sicsa* OK, how?

• To help meet that challenge,we must sustain and enhanceScotland’s research excellencein Informatics and Computer Science.

• We must collaborate to compete

• To help meet that challenge,we must sustain and enhanceScotland’s research excellencein Informatics and Computer Science.

• We must collaborate to compete

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sicsa* Can we build it?

9% UK population 20% UK research council computing grants 19% UK’s top researchers (RAE2001)

More research is world class/internationally recognised– 71% in SICSA vs 63% in UK (RAE2008)

Unparalleled in the UK, European-leading, world class

Rest of UK

Scotland

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sicsa* Can we build it?

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300

400

500

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Academic Research PhD

SICSA personnel

2001

2007

Academic Research

PhD

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sicsa* Who’s going to build it?

Governing BoardGoverning Board

AdvisoryCommittee

AdvisoryCommittee

ResearchCommittee

ResearchCommittee Graduate

Academy

GraduateAcademy

SecuringSecuring

•Practical networking

•Performance analysis

•Network security formalisms

•Web languages

InterfacingInterfacing ModellingModelling

•Computational group theory

•System and performance modelling

•Model checking

•Applications

EngineeringEngineering

•Socio-technical systems

•Agents and autonomics

•Complex interactions

•Speech and language

•HCI•Information retrieval

•Machine learning

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sicsa* Who’s going to build it?Who’s going to build it?

SICSA is about people:– 4 themes for networking – 7 research fellows– 30 new academics– 60+ international visitors– 80 international students

You!

SICSA is about people:– 4 themes for networking – 7 research fellows– 30 new academics– 60+ international visitors– 80 international students

You!