Welcome to the Heriot-Watt Computer Science Seminar Series
Welcome to the website of the Heriot-Watt Computer Science Seminar Series. This website is currently under development and new content will be added shortly. For more information about the seminar series, or to organise a seminar, please contact the seminar coordinator, Rob Stewart.
Upcoming seminars
- Jason Alexander, User Interfaces that Bridge the Physical-Digital Divide, 2018-11-14
- Kevin Swingler, An Introduction to Mixed Order Hyper Networks, 2018-11-21
- Eric Ye, Lifelong Learning in Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition, 2018-11-22
Past seminars
2018
- Miroslav Bures, Model-based Testing of Software and IoT Systems, 2018-11-07
- Frank Schiller, Big Data in Disability Insurance, 2018-10-18
- Mauro Vallati, AI Planning and Urban Traffic Control, 2018-08-29
- Gabriel Murray, NLP and Small Group Interaction, 2018-07-11
- Deborah Richards, Virtual Worlds and Intelligent Virtual Agents for Education, Training, Health and Wellbeing, 2018-07-04
- Joanna Bryson, Why robots must be property, 2018-05-30
- Henning Basold, Inductive-Coinductive Reasoning: Computability and Type Theory, 2018-05-30
- Louise Veling, Hidden Meanings: Uncovering Qualitative Research in HRI, 2018-05-16
- Richard Membarth, AnyDSL: A Compiler-Framework for Domain-Specific Libraries (DSLs), 2018-04-20
- Alexandra Birch, Evaluating Discourse Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation, 2018-04-18
- Rinus Plasmeijer, Task Oriented Programming, 2018-02-23
2017
- Allan Jardine, Open Source Entrepreneurship, 2017-11-17
- Andreas Vlachos, Imitation learning for structured prediction and automated fact checking, 2017-11-15
- Marios Katsigiannis, Heterogeneous Computing (industrial seminar), 2017-11-08
- Pedro Patron, Current challenges and future opportunities on Underwater Robotics (industrial seminar), 2017-10-25
- Manuel Giuliani, To Err is Robot, 2017-09-27
- Vijay Kumar, A Security Shield for Medical Domain, 2017-06-23
- Leon Watts, Jean Abreu, and Michele Panegrossi, Me, Mach-eba and I: Choreographing interaction dynamics of dancer-robot relations in a work of identity, personhood and emotional renewal, 2017-06-20
- Vincent Rahli, Towards an Intuitionistic Type Theory, 2017-05-29
- Séverin Lemaignan, Of Cognition and Social Robots, 2017-05-16
- André Freitas, Data Management for Artificial Intelligence: When Natural Language Processing meets Databases, 2017-05-08
- Arash Eshghi, Learning to Understand Natural Language in Interaction, 2017-05-03
- Zhou Yu, Situated Intelligent Interactive Systems, 2017-04-25
- Yiannis Konstas, Building Adaptable and Scalable Natural Language Generation Systems using Deep Learning, 2017-03-29
- Hagen Lehmann, Approaches in Social Human-Robot Interaction Research and Social Robotics, 2017-03-27
- Fabian Veit, Process Mining - Turning data into value, 2017-02-15
- Burkhard Schafer, When computers say no: ethical and legal transparency duties for data scientists, 2017-02-08
- Derek Sleeman, Recommending Treatments for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients using Decision Tree Analyses, 2017-02-01
2016
- Martin Trefzer, Engineering Taught by Nature: Biologically Inspired Electronic Systems, 2016-11-03
- Thomas Bolander, Learning to Act: Qualitative Learning of Deterministic Action Models, 2016-11-01
- Philip Scott, From Goedel to Lambek: studies in the foundations of logic and computation, 2016-10-26
- Ely Carneiro de Paiva, Airships for Heavy-Load Transport and Unmanned Environment Monitoring and Surveillance, 2016-10-06
- Philip Scott, What is linear logic?, 2016-10-05
- Hatice Kose, Humanoid Robot and Avatar Assisted Sign Language Tutoring for Children, 2016-09-06
- Ina Wechsung, Why Usable Is Not Enough. What Psychological Needs Tell Us About the (non-) Usage of Security Mechanisms, 2016-06-15
- Matthew Purver, Analysing Dialogue for Diagnosis and Prediction in Mental Health, 2016-06-01
- Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen, Beyond Conditional LM: Neural Network Language Generation for Dialogue Systems, 2016-05-24
- Myriam Delgado, METAHEURISTICS : From Optimization to MetaLearning, 2016-05-18
- Mohd Khairul Azmi Hassan, Communication and Tracking Ontology Development for Civilians Earthquake Disaster Assistance, 2016-05-10
- Mark Core, Practicing interpersonal skills using virtual humans as role players, 2016-04-29
- Kallirroi Georgila, Challenges in reinforcement learning of negotiation dialogue policies, 2016-04-27
- Elise Van Den Hoven, Materialising Memories: using design research programme to study everyday remembering, 2016-04-14
- MEng Students, Staying Fit and Social: A Treasure Hunt App, 2016-03-30
- Murdoch Gabbay, Nominal Foundations of Mathematics, 2016-03-30
- Christian Dondrup, Shaping human-aware navigation and human-robot joint motion using long-term adaptation, 2016-02-17
- Julian Vincent, Trade-offs in an ontology of biomimetics, 2016-01-27
- Denis Cavallucci, Innovation and Creativity: how generating ideas can be systematized and become a robust process?, 2016-01-27
- Gaya Nadarajan, Modelling Mutation Analysis for Epigenomics with Planning and Semantics, 2016-01-22
2015
- Isabelle Augenstein, Distant Supervision with Imitation Learning, 2015-11-30
- David Beattie, A Comparison of Artificial Driving Sounds for Automated Vehicles, 2015-08-19
- Nicholas Micallef, Why aren't users using protection? Investigating the usability of smartphone locking, 2015-08-19
- Chris Baker, Self-service Semantic Data Federation for Clinical Intelligence, Genomics and BioCuration, 2015-08-03
- Lynne Baillie & Team, Four Talks, 2015-06-17
- Steve Birnie, Diabetes – Teenagers, Technology and Transition, 2015-06-10
- Luis Fuente, Tackling Terrain: Adaptive Robotic Gaits using Artificial Signalling Networks and Chaos Control, 2015-06-05
- Lee Bradford, Data flow algorithms for processors with vector extensions: handling actors with internal state, 2015-05-20
- Skevos Evripidou, Data-Driven Multithreading: A paradigm shift for High Performance Computing, 2015-04-20
- Elisabeth André, Interacting with Socially Intelligent Agents in the Wild, 2015-04-10
- Khaled Benkrid, The ARM University Programme, 2015-04-02
- Maciej Zurawski, Technology Entrepreneurship, 2015-03-18
- Vivien Mast, Probabilistic Reference and Grounding with PRAGR, 2015-03-05
- Catherine Hatton, A technical career path...what's that?, 2015-02-27
- Massimo Felici, Accountability for Data Governance in the Cloud, 2015-02-18
- John Fox, The CREDO stack: from decision science to decision engineering, 2015-01-30 (cancelled)
2014
- Lu Chen, SJTU Trackers for DSTC2&3, 2014-12-15
- Hiroshi Ishiguro, The future life with robots, 2014-11-04
- Yukie Nagai, Predictive Learning as a Key for Cognitive Development: New Insight from Developmental Robotics, 2014-10-20
- Alasdair Gray, Scientific lenses to support multiple views over linked chemistry data, 2014-10-08
- Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Open domain conversation project at NTT: understanding open domain utterances by predicate-argument structure analysis and generation by using knowledge acquired from blogs and Twitter, 2014-08-22
- Aba-Sah Dadzie, Augmenting Knowledge Management through Visualisation & Semantic Web Technology, 2014-07-11