University of Hertfordshire

Computer Science Research Colloquium

Wednesdays 1-2 pm
Meeting Room LD454
Hatfield, College Lane Campus

Schedule for 2010-2011 *

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Next Scheduled Talk:
• 7 September 2011 3 pm in B200
  "Biofied Building Integrating Sensor Agent Robots"
  Professor Akira Mita (System Design Engineering, Keio University, Japan)

  SEMESTER A

• 6 October 2010
  "On Informational Principles of Embodied Cognition"
  Dr. Daniel Polani (Adaptive Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

• 13 October 2010
  "Role of Transmedia in Interactive Systems"
  Dr. Sepi Chakaveh (Interactive Media Systems, School of Engineering & Technology, University of Hertfordshire)

• 20 October 2010
  "Promoting Collaborative and Interactive Play among Children with Autism using an Autonomous Humanoid Robot"
  Josh Wainer (Adaptive Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 27 October 2010
  [Postponed]
  

• 3 November 2010
  "Decoding of irregular neural activity by depressing synapses in the cerebellum"
  Johannes Luthman (Bio- / Neural Computation Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)

• 10 November 2010
  "Biologically and Cognitively inspired General Game Playing: Self-motivation from hidden structure in Sokoban, Gambler's Problem and Pacman"
  Tom Anthony (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 19 November 2010
  Approaches to spoken language acquisition by a computational learning agent using KLAIR
  Dr. Mark Huckvale (Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Science, University College London, UK)

• 24 November 2010
  "A Cyborg Genealogy: Science, Fiction, and Myth"
  Dr. Genevieve Liveley (Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol)

• 1 December 2010
  "Blurring Boundaries: Art, Life and Computation"
  Anna Dumitriu (Visiting Research Fellow CCNR, University of Sussex) and Alex May (Independent Artist/Director Quadratura Ltd)

• 8 December 2010
  "High Accuracy Recognition of Connected Script Languages in Old Printed Books"
  Professor William Clocksin (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 15 December 2010
  [No Meeting - CS Xmas Lunch]

• SEMESTER B

• 26 January 2011
  "Grounding Task and Behavior Structure in Informational Constraints"
  Sander van Dijk (Adaptive Systems Research Group, Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 2 February 2011
  "Have You Tried Eating Soup with a Fork?"
  Dr. Rui Loureiro (Middlesex University, UK)

• 9 February 2011
  "Towards Swarm Intelligence in Environmental Monitoring"
  John Oyekan (University of Essex, UK)

• 16 February 2011
  [No Meeting Due to Vice Chancellor's Address at 2 pm on de Havilland Campus, Weston Auditorium]

• 23 February 2011
  "Interactive Audio Maps: Navigation without Sight or Satellites"
  Esther-Anna Loeliger (Algorithms Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

• 2 March 2011
  [No Meeting]

• 9 March 2011 at 3 pm
  "From Information-Theoretic Behaviour Generation towards Agent-Agent Interaction"
  Christoph Salge (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 16 March 2011
  "Sex and the Self-Reproducing Automaton"
  Prof. Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (Adaptive Systems, Algorithms, and BioComputation Research Groups, University of Hertfordshire)

• 23 March 2011
  "Applying Data Mining Techniques to Sentiment Analysis for MediaEvaluation"
  Dr. Daoud Clarke (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 30 March 2011
  "The Potential of Code Versioning Practices for the Teaching of Programming"
  Steve Bennett and Pam Green (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 6 April 2011
  "Computer-Assisted Proof Tutoring and the Aspect of Proof Granularity"
  Dr. Marvin Schiller (Centre for the Study of Expertise, Brunel University, UK)

  2 Week Easter Vacation

• 27 April 2011
  "Introducing Parallel Pixie Dust: Advanced Library-Based Support for Parallelism in C++"
  Jason McGuiness (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 24 May 2011 2 pm in C152
  "Taking the Turing Test seriously: Results from and prospects for the Imitation Game"
  Professor Harry Collins (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)

• 26 May 2011 1 pm in E350
  "Diderot: A Parallel Domain-Specific Language for Image Analysis and Visualization"
  Professor John Reppy (Computation Institute, University of Chicago, USA)

• 31 May 2011 1 pm in E350
  "Compiler Tools for MATLAB"
  Professor Laurie Hendren (McGill University, Canada)

• 30 June 2011 1 pm in E350
  "Human-Robot Interaction in the Wild: Land, Marine, and Aerial Robots at Fukushima and Sendai"
  Professor Robin R. Murphy (Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue, Texas A&M University, USA)

• 7 September 2011 3 pm in B200
  "Biofied Building Integrating Sensor Agent Robots"
  Professor Akira Mita (System Design Engineering, Keio University, Japan)

* This schedule is subject to modification in case of the arrival of external invited speakers on short notice and possibly due to other circumstances.

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