The National Robotarium website is now live
Submitted by Anne Murphy on Fri, 24/04/2020 - 09:35The website for The National Robotarium is now live. Please visit https://www.hw.ac.uk/uk/research/the-national-robotarium.htm
Spring 2020 Newsletter
Submitted by Mirren McLeod on Tue, 21/04/2020 - 10:07CANCELLED - RSE After Hours Event
Date:
Wed, 15/04/2020 - 18:00 to Thu, 16/04/2020 - 20:45
Location:
Royal Society of Edinburgh, George Street, Edinburgh
An evening of expert discussions, talks and demonstrations on how Artificial Intelligence is changing the world.
Tickets are £7.50 / £5 concession
IPAB Workshop: Information Theory for Autonomous Agents
Date:
Thu, 27/02/2020 - 12:45 to Fri, 28/02/2020 - 13:45
Location:
Informatics Forum G.03, University of Edinburgh
Speaker:
Michael Herrmann
University of Edinburgh
The next IPAB Workshop will take place on 27/02/2020 at 12:45 in room G.03 (pastries will be served). Michael Herrmann will be speaking.
Title: Information Theory for Autonomous Agents
Psychology Keynote Talk: Comparing human and computer ‘perception’ of faces
Date:
Fri, 28/02/2020 - 16:00 to Sat, 29/02/2020 - 15:45
Location:
F21 7 George Square
Speaker:
Peter Hancock
University of Stirling
There will be a Psychology Keynote talk by Professor Peter Hancock, University of Stirling, at on Friday of this week 28th Feb. 2020, at 4.00pm in F21 7 George Sq.
All welcome
Industry Seminar: Introduction to SYCL
Date:
Thu, 27/02/2020 - 16:15 to 17:15
Location:
EM 1.83, Heriot-Watt University
Speaker:
Codeplay
There will be a Industry CS Seminar on Thursday 27 February 2020 from 16:15-17:15 in EM 1.83
Title: Developing parallel applications with SYCL, an open standards
alternative to CUDA
Abstract: Computer system architecture trends are constantly evolving to provide
higher performance and computing power, to support the increasing demand
for high-performance computing domains including AI, machine learning,
image processing and automotive driving aids.
RAS CDT Executive Meeting
Date:
Mon, 16/03/2020 - 14:30 to Tue, 17/03/2020 - 16:45
Location:
Seminar Room, Robotarium, Heriot-Watt University
Consensus meeting
Date:
Mon, 16/03/2020 - 12:30 to 14:30
Location:
Robotarium Seminar Room, Heriot-Watt University
IPAB Workshop: Insect AI, Barbara Webb
Date:
Thu, 20/02/2020 - 12:45 to Fri, 21/02/2020 - 13:45
Location:
IF, G.03, University of Edinburgh
Speaker:
Barbara Webb
University of Edinburgh
The next IPAB Workshop will take place on 20/02/2020 at 12:45 in room G.03 (pastries will be served).
Speaker: Barbara Webb
Title: Insect AI
CANCELLED: Persuasive Social Robots for Youth Participation in Digital Civics
Date:
Fri, 03/04/2020 - 14:15 to 15:30
Location:
MF2, 4th Floor, Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh
Speaker:
Kaisa Väänänen and Kirsikka Kaipainen
Tampere University
Social robots can be designed to entail persuasive capabilities in various application domains. We investigate how social robots can be designed to motivate and facilitate youth in civic participation. In our RoboCivics project, social robots are co-designed with the youth (15-24 years) to gain understanding of the youth’s perspectives to desirable forms of social robot interaction, with sustainability as the application domain. User trials take place in real contexts of use such as youth spaces, schools and shopping centres.