IIDI News
FOCAS team to run workshop at ECAL 2013: 12th International Conference on Artificial Life
25/03/2013 4/09/13
News (Ben Paechter)
This year's all faculty student research conference features a welcome (09:30) from Professor Alistair Sambell (Vice Principal: Academic), a keynote, "Like Humans Do" (09:45) , from Riccardo Marini (Senior Consultant at Gehl Architects and City Design Leader at City of Edinburgh Council).
16/05/2013 Thursday 16th May, 09:30, Craiglockhart Campus
Professors Emma Hart and Ben Paechter from the FOCAS project will run a workshop on the Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems at ECAL 2013, the 12th International Conference on Artificial Life in September 2013 in Taormina, Sicily.
25/03/2013 4/09/13
The Awareness Summer School (AWASS 2012) will be held from June 10th -16th 2012 at Edinburgh Napier University Craighouse Campus (UK). The summer school will cover theoretical, practical, and technological issues related to autonomic self-awareness and its various facets.
10/06/2012 June 10th -16th 2012 at Edinburgh Napier University Craighouse Campus (UK)
The AWARE project was delighted to present a talk by Professor Alan Winfield at the Edinburgh International Science Festival on 12th April. See a cartoonist's summary of the talk below! http://radiocartoonist.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/edinburgh-science-festival-6-thinking.html The Festival is one of...
12/04/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
The Thinking Robot Press headlines frequently refer to robots that think like humans, have feelings, or even behave ethically, but are these simply sensationalist hype? The question of robot intelligence intrigues Professor Alan Winfield, Director of the Science Communication Unit at the University...
09/02/2012 April 12th 2012, National Museum of Scotland
Prof A Eiben of Vrije University Amsterdam highlights software developed at IIDI to produce timetables at Edinburgh Napier University, scheduling across campuses, all modules, students and staff in his new TEDx talk on Evolutionary Design.
11/11/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
The project finished on 31/06/11 and was evaluated as "Excellent: the project has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals for the period and has even exceeded expectations" The reviewers commented: In summary, the project has done a great job during the third and final period as well as...
10/11/2011 Other News
The PerAda team hosted an science engagement event at the Dana Centre (part of the Science Museum, London) called: User Heaven or Techno Hell: Where are intelligent adaptive technologies taking us ? Hosted by science journalist Rebecca Mileham, author of Powering Up: are computer games changing our...
19/05/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Talk: Emotion as Interface 19th April, 6pm ( £8 / £6 - includes a glass of wine and a chance to view the associated exhibition ) Professor Kevin Warwick Dr Jenny Tillotson Professor Nikola Serbedzija The new generation of computer systems are able to understand and alter our individual emotional...
19/04/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
This Pervasive Day Soon, wearable technology will mean that everyday items we carry on our bodies - phones, clothing and laptops - will be able to sense and alter our moods and make changes to our environments, with or without our knowledge.
19/04/2011 Exhibition
The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011 is the second instalment of a new forum dedicated to frontier research in information and communication technologies. fet11 is a unique conference on visionary, high-risk and long-term research in information science and technology.
30/03/2011 Other Event
PerAda are running an exhibition at FET 2011: Learning about pervasive adaptation through art and music Fancy yourself as the next Jackson Pollock? Want to find out how music - from Mozart to Meatloaf - can affect your mood? These are just two of the interactive games, videos and interactive...
30/03/2011 Exhibition
The Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling is an international conference that takes place every two years. It was born at Edinburgh Napier in 1995 when Ben Paechter organised the first in the series.
23/03/2011 Keynote Speaker
The workshop which is funded by the European Commission as part of the Awareness pro-active initiative is the second in a series organised by the EvoBody project. International experts will take part in a two-day "lock-in" to try to advance the science of embodied artificial evolution.
23/03/2011 Invited Presentation
The Aware coordination action www.aware-project.eu is a Coordination Action (CA), supporting 5 research projects under the FP7: FET Proactive Intiative: Self-Awareness in Autonomic Systems (AWARENESS). The CA is a 3 year project: 2010 – 2013.
14/12/2010 Other Event
Emma Hart and Ben Paechter chair workshop at the 4th IEEE conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Systems, Budapest, September 27-Oct 1, 2010 http://www.perada.eu/perada-activities/18-current-events/118-saso-2010-workshop
13/09/2010 Conference Organisation
Ben was confirmed as continuing as one of only eleven Assocaite Editors of "Evolutuonary Computation" (MIT Press) for which all submissions automatically appear in the ACM Digital Library.
09/06/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
