CISA Seminar - AI & Ethics: the view down under

Date: 
Tue, 09/07/2019 - 14:00 to Wed, 10/07/2019 - 14:45
Location: 
G.07, Informatics Forum
Speaker: 
Prof. Toby Walsh
University of New South Wales

There will be a guest speaking at the CISA Seminar on the 9th July. Prof. Toby Walsh (Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence) will be speaking on 'AI & Ethics: the view down under' in G.07 at 2pm.

There will be refreshments after the Seminar in the café area. Please register to this event. Link below.

Abstract

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada

Submitted by Anne Murphy on Thu, 04/07/2019 - 14:34

RAS CDT student, Christian Rauch attended the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Montreal, Canada from 20th -24th May.

ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s flagship conference, attracting 4145 participants from 71 different countries.

Christian presented his recent work on articulated tracking and took the opportunity to discuss his research with others working in the same area.

New student induction - On-line

Date: 
Thu, 10/09/2020 - 09:30 to 12:30

09.30 - 10.00 Introduction from Centre Directors

10.00 - 10.05 Introduction to Admin Team

10.05 - 10.30 Students introduce themselves, where they have studied previously, research interests etc

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 11.30 Health and Safetry Briefing - Stuart McLean

11.30 - 12.00 Course choice and other admin matters

12.00 - 12.30 Student Wellbeing - Kenny Boyd

12.30              Induction close

All students with confirmed offers will be forwarded the link for the Teams Meeting no later than Monday 7th October.

Journal Club

Date: 
Thu, 27/06/2019 - 18:00 to 19:30
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33

Ioannis will be presenting:

- A Structural Probe for Finding Syntax in Word Representations. J. Hewitt, and C. D. Manning. (2019).

and Francisco will be presenting:

- WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio. A. Oord, et al. (2016).

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: