Pitching skills workshop

Date: 
Wed, 25/09/2019 - 13:00 to Thu, 26/09/2019 - 16:45
Location: 
Room G07, Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Mel Sherwood

The ability to clearly, confidently and credibly talk about who you are and what you do is an essential skill in your personal and professional life. This half day pitch masterclass will cover:

Journal Club

Date: 
Thu, 13/06/2019 - 18:00 to Fri, 14/06/2019 - 17:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33

Daniel will be discussing "SAT solving to neural SAT solvers", loosely touching on:

- SATNet: Bridging deep learning and logical reasoning using a differentiable satisfiability solver. P. Wang, et al. (2019).

SICSA Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer School

Date: 
Repeats every day until Thu Aug 08 2019.
Tue, 06/08/2019 - 00:00 to 23:45
Wed, 07/08/2019 - 00:00 to 23:45
Thu, 08/08/2019 - 00:00 to 23:45
Location: 
Postgraduate Centre, Heriot-Watt University

The SICSA Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer School will allow
students to explore key concepts for the design of advanced AAL systems.

The program includes presentations from industry representatives and
healthcare organisations, in addition to lectures and tutorials on
sensing, linked data, machine learning and robotics for AAL
applications.

Robotics Lab Research Open Day 2019

Date: 
Fri, 21/06/2019 - 09:30 to Sat, 22/06/2019 - 18:45
Location: 
Postgraduate Centre, Heriot-Watt University
Speaker: 
Dr Amanda Prorok, University of Cambridge and Dr Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow

The speakers are:

Dr Amanda Prorok from the University of Cambridge: <https://cdt.sensors.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-amanda-prorok>

Talk title: “When Robotics Hit the Road: New Challenges in Multi-Vehicle Coordination"

and 

Dr Mary Ellen Foster from the University of Glasgow <http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~mefoster/>

Talk title:”Face-to-face Conversation with Socially Intelligent Robots"

IPAB Workshop: The Feelings of Robots: A formal approach

Date: 
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 12:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum room 2.33, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Michael Herrmann
University of Edinrburgh

UPDATE: Room has changed to 2.33.

There will be an IPAB workshop this Thursday in the Informatics Forum, room 2.33. Cakes will be provided.  Michael Hermann will be speaking.

Talk title: The Feelings of Robots: A formal approach

Prof. David Lane appointed to AI Council

Prof. David Lane joins leaders in business and data privacy organisations, as well as from academia, in his new role on the UK Government’s AI Council.

This is an important time in the evolution and application of this most disruptive and groundbreaking of technologies.

Prof. David Lane

The newly appointed members will help put in place the right skills, ethics and data so the UK can make the most of AI technologies.