Informatics Jamboree 2005

The Informatics Jamboree 2005 was held on 25th and 26th of April.

The Informatics Jamboree is an annual event consisting of talks by new Informatics professors, readers and lecturers, the Milner Lecture, talks by new research students, a poster competition with cash prizes and the traditional Ceilidh.

Photos are now available!

Programme

Monday, 25 April 2005		Title of talk	Venue
09:30	Chris Bishop	Machines that Learn: Adaptive Computing in the 21st Century	Lecture Theatre 175 Old College, South Bridge
10.30	New Research Students	Talks schedule (including links to slides)	Lecture Theatre 175 Old College, South Bridge
11:15	Coffee Break		Chaplaincy Centre 1 Bristo Square
11:45	Amos Storkey	Probabilistic Methods for Scientific Images. Applications in fMRI.	Lecture Theatre 175 Old College, South Bridge
12:30	Lunch & Posters		Chaplaincy Centre 1 Bristo Square
14:00	Philipp Koehn	The Wonders of Statistical Machine Translation	Lecture Theatre 175 Old College, South Bridge
14:45	Michael Rovatsos	Autonomy versus uncertainty: Why agents are different and what we can do about it	Lecture Theatre 175 Old College, South Bridge
15:30	Coffee break		Chaplaincy Centre 1 Bristo Square
16:00	Hiroshi Shimodaira	Eyesfree Handwriting Interface for Wearable Computing	Lecture Theatre 175 Old College, South Bridge
Tuesday, 26 April 2005
09:30	Jane Hillston	Tuning Systems: From Composition to Performance, Needham Lecture 2004	Lecture Theatre 175 Old College, South Bridge
10.30	Igor Goryanin	Systems Biology Informatics	Lecture Theatre 175 Old College, South Bridge
11:15	Coffee break		Chaplaincy Centre 1 Bristo Square
11:45	Mirella Lapata	Modeling Local Coherence: An Entity-based Approach	Lecture Theatre 175 Old College, South Bridge
12.30	Lunch and Posters		Chaplaincy Centre 1 Bristo Square
14:00	Bjoern Franke	Probabilistic Source-Level Optimisation of Embedded Programs	Lecture Theatre 175 Old College, South Bridge
14:45	Clementine Deliss, Keith Winter and 4th-year architecture students Edinburgh College of Art	Future Academy: with or without buildings	Lecture Theatre 175 Old College, South Bridge
15:30	Coffee break		Chaplaincy Centre 1 Bristo Square
16:00	Poster Judges		Chaplaincy Centre 1 Bristo Square
17:15	Gérard Huet Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)	Milner Lecture: 'Design of a computational linguistics platform—Functional Foundations for Web Services'	Reid Concert Hall
19:00	Ceilidh		South Hall, Holland House, Pollock Halls (see map)

Jamboree Organisers

Dr David Aspinall
Academic Chair

Gillian Watt
Poster Competition Co-ordinator

Diana Sisu
Programme Co-ordinator
Food and Ceilidh

For enquiries: contact Diana.

Note on ceilidh: for all those of you coming from abroad, ceilidh = traditional Scottish dancing. If you have a deep fear of the unknown, visit www.scottishdance.net for detailed instructions, including recommended reading (yup!). Alternatively, just take a look at our photos from previous Jamborees.

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