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04/06/2013 Aalborg University, Nordkraft, Teglgaards Torv, 9000 Aalborg
IIDI News
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Guest-Co-Editor of a special issue in a leading international journal:...
11/05/2013
Professor Bill Buchanan invited to present at 2013 Annual Computing, ICT and Digital Media...
09/05/2013
News
As we move into an information age there are many opportunities to share and integrate data from many different sources, in order to provide holistic care. A key focus of this is the provision of pre-emptive diagnosis, which aims to predict illness and put in place care plans to improve the...
28/06/2013 Friday 28 June, 09:30, Merchiston Campus (upcoming)
Iain McGregor has been invited to present a lecture at the Sound Communication Seminars 2013 in Aalborg. The Danish Innovation Network for Market Communication (IMKF), Aalborg University and The Sound Communication Network present a series of seminars and lectures to strengthen the cooperation,...
04/06/2013 Aalborg University, Nordkraft, Teglgaards Torv, 9000 Aalborg (upcoming)
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
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Guest –Co-Editor of a special issue: Frontiers and advance topics of computer and information technology in Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Elsevier, Volume 79, Issue 2, March 2013, Pages 173–174 2013.
11/05/2013 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
In her role of Convener of the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Doctoral Training Centre's Information Science Pathway, Professor Hazel Hall has taken the lead in the setting up and management of the programme committee of iDocQ 2013.
09/05/2013 Conference Programme Committee
Professor Bill Buchanan has accepted an invite to present at 2013 Annual Computing, ICT and Digital Media Conference on Monday 17 June at the City of Glasgow College. The proposed title is: Let’s Get More Pupils/Students into Computing/ICT and it will cover: There are so many opportunities at the...
09/05/2013 Other News
Dr Neil Urquhart of the Centre for Emergent Computing presented an invited seminar on the use of vehicle emissions pedictions as optimisation criterion. The seminar was made to the ASAP scheduling research group.
09/05/2013 University Of Nottingham, 9/5/13
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Guest-Co-Editor of the Special Issue on Advances in Trust, Security and Privacy for Wireless Networks EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Springer, 2013. http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/sites/10234/pdf/h9323_pf_cfp_springeropen_special_issue_eurasip_jwc_g...
08/05/2013 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
The IIDI research team working on information sharing across the public sector, and on governance and trust architectures, has just released a new survey on electronic health records. The aim of the survey is to evaluate individuals' perceptions on the usage of electronic health records.
06/05/2013 Other News
News of the Centre for Social Informatics project Training provision for the library, information and knowledge sector is reported in the April 2013 issue of CILIPUpdate (page 6). The project is led by Professor Hazel Hall, with team members Christine Irving and Peter Cruickshank.
01/05/2013 Other News
The AHRC-funded Informing the Good Society project begins this week on 1 May. Dr Eve Forrest, postdoctoral research fellow and Lynn Killick, PhD student, will be taking up their new roles, based at the IIDI premises. Several members of the InGSoc external advisory board will also be joining us for...
30/04/2013 1 - 3 May
A research team at Edinburgh Napier, including Prof Bill Buchanan, Dr Lu Fan, Owen Lo, Omair Uthmani, Niall Burns, Alistair Lawson, Richard Lewis and Prof Christoph Thuemmler, has been focusing on creating information sharing infrastructures across the public sector with strong governance, and with...
29/04/2013 Other News
The safi.re team will exhibit its novel governance product at EIE 2013 on 9 May 2013 at the Assembly Rooms on George Street, Edinburgh. At present safi.re focuses on providing trust and governance applied to data access, and is being trialled with a number of projects.
22/04/2013 Other News
IIDI research related to the sa.fire project has contributed to a new white paper on creating trusted data governance across domains and sectors. The paper is published by miiCard, an innovative Scottish-based company, which specialises in highly trusted identity provision.
22/04/2013 Media and Outreach Activity
Federico Charoksy, who is a Principal Consultant at ECS Security, will give a guest lecture in B.2 on Wednesday 24 April 2013 at 4pm on: The current state of the security industry in Scotland, and the possibilities for the future He will also be outlining current opportunities for graduates.
22/04/2013 24/04/2013, 4pm
On 22nd April Professor Hazel Hall delivered an invited presentation entitled "Sharing the DREaM bluprint: lessons in community network building from the DREaM project" as part of the research seminar series of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historial Monuments of Scotland.
22/04/2013 Invited Presentation
Dr Michael Smyth presented a talk entitled "What makes a city smart? Interaction design and the future hybrid city" at the Visioning Urban Futures Conference. The conference was organised by the Scottish Cities Knowledge Centre, and took place in Edinburgh on 17th April 2013.
17/04/2013 Edinburgh
The research team and miiCard aim to outline their novel information sharing architecture at the Cyber Security and Privacy (CSP) EU Forum 2013 in Brussels on 18/19 April 2013. CSP is a collaboration between the European Association for e-Identity and Security (EEMA) and Trust in Digital Life (TDL).
16/04/2013 Other News
Conference at Kyoto, Japan in July 2013
12/04/2013 Conference Organisation
URL: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke13.html Boston, USA, June 2013
12/04/2013 Conference Organisation
URL: http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/incos/2013/ Xi'an China, September 2013
12/04/2013 Conference Organisation
Ahmed has been invited to examine a PhD thesis (on Mobile Communications) in Glasgow Caledonian University.
10/04/2013 External Examiner
Quote from The Herald: ANGEL investors have ploughed £500,000 into young Scottish software company Inquisitive Systems to accelerate the development of the Napier University spin-out's security systems product ZoneFox. Business angel syndicates Archangel and TRI Cap handed the company £270,000 and...
08/04/2013 Media and Outreach Activity
Prof Bill Buchanan received a "100% Excellent" response in the feedback from his well-attended workshops at the Learning Through Technology conference in Glasgow (March 2013): http://learningthroughtechnology2013.holyrood.com/ It was the first time that any Holyrood conference workshop had received...
01/04/2013 Other News
A LEADING Scottish cyber security expert has warned the risk of becoming a victim of internet crime is escalating for financial institutions and their customers. Professor Bill Buchanan, head of the Centre for Distributed Computing and Security at Edinburgh Napier University, said dependence on...
29/03/2013 Media and Outreach Activity
EvoStar 2013 brings together 5 co-located leading conferences in the field of Evolutionary Computing, and will be coordinated for the 16th time by Jennifer Willies from the Centre for Emergent Computing when it begins in Vienna next week on the 3rd April.
28/03/2013 Conference Organisation
27/03/2013 Invited Presentation
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
Prof Hart recently attend a prestigious Royal Society Frontiers of Science meeting in Kazan Russia, as part of an invited delegation of 35 UK scientists drawn from a range of scientific disciplines, ranging from astro-physics to micro-biology.
25/03/2013 Policy Advisory Activity
Members of Centre for Emergent Computing have been successful in having two papers accepted at GECCO 2013, the major international conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing. Kevin Sim and Emma Hart will present work on generating cooperative heuristics for the 1-D Bin Packing Problem using...
25/03/2013 Other Event
UrbanIxD Advisory Board member Martijn de Waal (The Public Matters), is representing the UrbabIxD project at a panel session at FutureEverything this week in Manchester. The title of the session is Open City Infrastructure, and de Waal will participate alongside Usman Haque (Haque Design +...
21/03/2013 Invited Presentation
Wednesday 20th March Tech-Talk: Imaging of the human retina for healthcare, Dr Jano Van Hemert, Optos Title: Imaging of the human retina for healthcare Dr Jano Van Hemert, Optos Abstract: The eye is often quoted as the window to the body. Many diseases affect the eye and especially the retina.
20/03/2013 2pm-3pm, H18
A team from the Centre for Social Informatics has been commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) to conduct research into training provision for the library, information and knowledge sector.
19/03/2013 Funding
A full report of the recent Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) meet-up hosted by the Centre for Social Informatics and held at the Edinburgh Napier Merchiston campus on the evening of 5 March is now available on the Open Knowledge Foundation Edinburgh web site.
19/03/2013 Other News
Professor Bill Buchanan will deliver a presentation on the key challenges of big data at the Future of cyber security conference in London on 21st March 2013. Buchanan will explain how the emphasis in computer security is moving from end point security towards data controls, and this is becoming an...
18/03/2013 Invited Presentation
Professor Bill Buchanan is presenting a breakout session on how to engage school children with computing at the Learning through technology conference in Glasgow on 26 March 2013. The session entitled "Puzzles, codes and cracking: creating fun links between schools and universities" will...
18/03/2013 Invited Presentation
Jessie Kennedy was invited to give a talk and a tutorial at the international symposium, 'Understanding Cancer Genomics through Information Visualization’ at Tokyo University. 'Understanding Cancer Genomics through Information Visualization’ is an international symposium focusing on how information...
18/03/2013 Friday 22nd February 2013, Tokyo University
IIDI spin-out Zonefox has just raised over £500K from Archangels and TRICap (along with existing investors). Zonefox's work builds on a patent on digital forensics and integrates with a cloud-based security infrastructure. The company's current focus is on IP protection and in creating security...
16/03/2013 Other News
This evening Professor Hazel Hall is delivering a paper entitled Leadership in libraries: tying library and information science research to practice at the Institute for Research in Social Sciences, University of Ulster. The presentation draws on Hall's work with the Library and Information Science...
13/03/2013 Invited Presentation
Peter Cruickshank organised a recent Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) meet-up at the Edinburgh Napier Merchiston campus on the evening of 5 March. Around 40 people came to listen to 9 lightening talks: Leah Lockhart on digital engagement for the third sector Kate Byrne on the Google Ancient Places...
11/03/2013 Conference Organisation
Professor David Benyon will give a talk at the Committee of Heads and Professors of Computing (CPHC) conference in Cardiff on Tuesday 26th March. He will be representing the Research Excellence Framework panel for Unit of Assessment 11, of which he is a member.
11/03/2013 Invited Presentation
Prof. J Kennedy is General Co-Chair for BioVis a symposium of Vis a week long gathering of researchers in visualisation, including VAST, Vis and InfoVis.This year Vis will be held in Atlanta, USA from 13-18th October.
11/03/2013 Atlanta, USA from 13-18th October
David Benyon and Tom McEwan hosted a visit from representatives of the Royal Bank of Scotland on 4th March for a round table discussion on biometric methods of authentication, and possible collaborative activities.
04/03/2013 External Visitor
Professor Bill Buchanan and Adrian Smales presented on e-health in the cloud at e-health Scotland: delivering the vision on 1st March 2013. Their presentation focused on: The barriers to integrating citizens into formal health care.
01/03/2013 Other News
Professor Bill Buchanan and Richard Lewis helped set up a conference entitled Health and Social Care in the Digital Age at the Scottish Parliament held last Monday 25th February 2013. The invitation-only event involved 60 of the key influencers within health and social care in Scotland.
26/02/2013 Scottish parliament
Tech-Talk: 20th February 2013 Title: Cans, Cascades, Coral, Crucible and CrowdfundingProf David Corne, Heriot-Watt UniversityAbstract:Coral reefs embrace the planet and support the livelihoods of half a billion people, but they are threatened from several directions, and it tends to be an...
20/02/2013 H18, 2pm-3pm
Professor Hazel Hall has been invited to deliver a paper entitled "Leadership in libraries: tying library and information science research to practice" at the Institute for Research in Social Sciences, University of Ulster on Wednesday 13th March 2013.
18/02/2013 Invited Presentation
Research Fellow Christine Irving has been short-listed for the UK award of Information Literacy Practitioner of the Year. The award is made annually for achievement in the field of information literacy for work that has raised the profile of information literacy, has supported the development of...
14/02/2013 Award
(Note the unusual 3pm start for this talk and change of venue) The Future Internet As we begin the Internet of Everything (IoE) era, more attention is being focused on Metcalfe’s law—a.k.a., the “network effect”—to see if the same rules will apply.
13/02/2013 3pm-4pm, H10
Dr Alistair Duff gave an interview today on flagship current affairs radio programme Good Morning Scotland. Dr Duff discussed his forthcoming research into the social role of expert opinion and its future, and questioned whether e-pundits - such as bloggers and other online voices - will be able to...
13/02/2013 Media and Outreach Activity
IIDI Senior Research Fellow Raja Naeem Akram has joined the program committee of 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Trust and Security in Cloud Computing (TSCloud 2013). The TSCloud is part of The 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications...
12/02/2013 Conference Programme Committee
IIDI's Professor Bill Buchanan has been confirmed as one of the speakers at Cyber Security: protecting networks, infrastructure and data to be held at Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh on Thursday 21st February 2013. The aim of the conference is to contextualise threats to online security, outline where...
07/02/2013 Invited Presentation
In a recent post on the news in the "digital first" era, Information Today Europe refers to the work to be undertaken in the AHRC-funded Informing the Good Society: new directions in information policy (InGSoC) project. Led by Dr Alistair Duff, the project is due to start in May 2013, and is...
06/02/2013 Media and Outreach Activity
Professor Emma Hart has accepted an invitation from the Royal Society to join a delegation of UK scientists to participate in a UK-Russia Frontiers of Science Symposium. This will take place between 12th and 14th March 2013 in the Republic of Tartarstan.
06/02/2013 Policy Advisory Activity
Tech-Talk: Designing trajectories in a large-scale permanent augmented reality installationStuart Reeves (Research Fellow at Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham) Abstract This talk describes a long-term naturalistic study that reveals how artists designed, visitors...
01/02/2013 2pm-3pm, H18
The Centre for Social Informatics is currently advertising two vacancies. These are related to the AHRC-funded project Informing the Good Society: New Directions in Information Policy (InGSoc). This three year project, which begins in May 2013 and is led by Dr Alistair Duff, is concerned with the...
31/01/2013 Studentship
PhD student Samuel Chinenyeze has been awarded a Scottish Overseas Research Student Award Scheme (SORSAS) scholarship. The scholarship award is designed to attract high performing overseas research students to Scottish universities.
28/01/2013 Studentship
IIDI's Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai has joined the organisation committee of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2013). He is serving as one of three program chairs. The conference, which takes place in Melbourne, Australia, 16-18 July, 2013 is an important...
22/01/2013 16th -18 July 2013
IIDI will host the kick-off meeting of the UrbanIxD project this week on 23rd and 24th January. Visiting the Institute will be Martin Brynskov (Aarhus University), Gianluca Zaffiro (Telecom Italia) and Oleg Suran (University of Split).
21/01/2013 23/01/2013
Students studying under IIDI staff in Edinburgh Napier University’s School of Computing are taking part in Cyber Security UK's University Challenge. This first-of-its-kind competition pitches students from four UK Computer Science departments against one another to test their code-making and...
21/01/2013 Media and Outreach Activity
IIDI staff have teamed up with Bright Red Publishing on an innovation project designed to integrate the publisher's web-based material with its educational book range. The end-product will provide direct links between print and online materials.
18/01/2013 Funding
IIDI staff have started a new collaboration with Intelligent Storage Solutions (ISS Ltd). This Knowledge Transfer Programme (KTP) project aims to create a novel cloud-based product which can securely erase computer disk contents.
18/01/2013 Funding
IIDI's William Buchanan, Omair Uthmani and Alistair Lawson have filed a patent on improved information sharing using Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs). The patent describes a unique method of modelling governance policies for information sharing, and defines how anomalies, rule shadowing etc.
17/01/2013 Patents, Spin-outs and Licensing
IIDI's Raja Naeem Akram has been appointed to the programme committee of the Seventh Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practice (WISTP 2013). Entitled Securing mobile and cyber-physical systems, the conference takes place in Heraklion, Greece, from May 28-30 2013.
17/01/2013 May 28-30, 2013, Heraklion, Greece
This interview was broadcast in January 2013 as part of a regular arts programme on Croatian National Television. A recording of the whole programme can be found here, but unfortunately this cannot be viewed on Napier's network.
16/01/2013 Media and Outreach Activity
As a member of the Information Science Pathway of ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (SGS-DTC) Edinburgh Napier University is currently inviting applications for funded PhD studentships offered through the open competition.
15/01/2013 Studentship
On 10 January IIDI hosted the symposium Information security: governance and sharing in a digital age. The main focus of the Symposium was to investigate best practice within governance and information sharing infrastructures. It focused on cloud-based infrastructures and how these can be used to...
14/01/2013 Seminar
Professor Emma Hart and researcher Kevin Sim have launched a new EPSRC-funded project. The work aims to develop state-of-the-art software to solves problems by learning from experience. A full article about the project can be found on the University News pages.
09/01/2013 Funding
Professor Hart has accepted an invitation to examine a PhD in the field of hyper-heuristics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
09/01/2013 External Examiner
Professor Emma Hart and Kevin Sim are running a workshop on optimisation techniques at GECCO 2013. The conference, which takes place in Amsterdam between 6th and 10th July 2013, is the largest conference in the field of genetic and evolutionary optimisation.
09/01/2013 Conference Organisation
IIDI's Centre for Information and Software Systems is building a long-term research collaboration with the School of Information Technology at Yunnan University of Finance and Economics. The newly-established Joint Centre of Information Technology and Software Systems was opened on 18 December as a...
20/12/2012 18 December 2012, Kunming China
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai has been appointed guest co-editor of a special issue of Future Generation Computer Systems. This issue will publish selected papers from the 11th International Conference in Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2012), held in Liverpool in June 2012.
20/12/2012 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
On 20 December 2012 Hazel Hall examined a PhD entitled The use of Actor-Network Theory and a practice-based Approach to understand online community participation at the University of Sheffield.
20/12/2012 External Examiner
Over 800 school pupils and their teachers will be at Edinburgh Napier's Craiglockhart campus this week to learn about computer security. On the afternoon of Tuesday 18 December they will participate at a fun and engaging Christmas lecture on cyber security organised by an alliance of Scottish...
17/12/2012 Other Event
An Introduction to the Cloud Security Alliance and its EU FP7 Research Projects John Howie is Chief Operating Officer of the Cloud Security Alliance and a Visiting Professor at Edinburgh Napier University’s School of Computing The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a...
13/12/2012 2pm-3pm H5
Edinburgh Napier University students have reached the final of the Cyber Security Challenge UK. This is the first ever University Cipher Challenge. The five university departments where the finalists are hosted have now been invited to develop a cipher for students in the other four participating...
13/12/2012 Other News
Dr Alistair Duff has been awarded a grant of £200,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Entitled Informing the Good Society [InGSoc], over three years the project team will address three main areas: (1) population-census informatics and ethics; (2) the future of columns and...
11/12/2012 Funding
The outcomes of the RiLIES2 project have now been published in the RiLIES2 project report, available to download (pdf). The aim of RiLIES2 was to develop research resources and training materials (1) to support librarians and information scientists in their use of published library and information...
10/12/2012 Other News
The first round of the SAS Cipher Challenge has opened by inviting students based in Scotland to crack the following code: WlBWIElCV0YgTkJPQkhGRSBVUCBFRkRQRUYgVUlGIE5GVFRCSEYuIFhGTU0gRVBPRiE= The solution should be e-mailed to Professor Bill Buchanan.
07/12/2012 Other News
As part of this year's Christmas Cyber lecture on Tuesday 18th December prizes will be awarded to school pupils who perform best in a range of code cracking challenges. Teachers are invited to enter a maximum of three pupils from their school for the challenge by contacting either Professor Bill...
07/12/2012 Other News
Talk tile: Stable Probabilistic Routing Schemes for High Mobility Ad hoc Networks Speaker: Mustafa Bani Khalaf, PhD Candidate, School of Computing In this talk, we investigate efficient strategies for supporting stable probabilistic route discovery in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs).
05/12/2012 2pm-3pm, F29
Every year Santa must visit thousands of boys and girls across the world to deliver presents. It is important that he visits them in an order that will keep his sleigh ride as short as possible. Dr Neil Urquhart of IIDI's Centre for Evolutionary Computing has developed an optimisation algorithm...
04/12/2012 Developed Software
Online identity verification company miiCard has announced that it will verify digital identities for IIDI-developed online healthcare and childcare protection initiatives. IIDI will use miiCard’s Level of Assurance 3 (LOA3) identity-proofing service to safeguard sensitive healthcare and user data.
04/12/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
Professor Bill Buchanan showcased work on Structured Analysis and Filtering InfoRmation Engine (safi.re) at Digital by Default: smarter public services in London on 4 December 2012. safi.re is an information sharing governance architecture which supports the end-to-end design, modelling and...
03/12/2012 Invited Presentation
Professor Bill Buchanan presented a paper entitled "The greatest challenge? Holistic care: integrating formal and informal health/social care" at the Institution of Engineering and Technology's Big Data event on 5th December 2012. Please see below from the abstract of his presentation.
03/12/2012 Other News
On 24th September 2012 Peter Cruickshank took part in the the panel session "Social Media - Who Leads?" The highlights of the discussion are now available as a recording from IRISS.fm presented by Ian Watson. The panel was chaired by Deputy Chief Constable Gordon Scobbie, Tayside Police, Lead for...
03/12/2012 Invited Presentation
Dr Xiaodong Li, Director of the Centre for Information and Software Systems, has been appointed Program Chair for the 2nd International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI 2013). The conference takes place in Weihai, China, in September 2013.
30/11/2012 Conference Organisation
IIDI staff were amongst the invited presenters at the Scottish Enterprise Showcase for High Impact Entrepreneurship in Glasgow on 19th November. They showcased work on Structured Analysis and Filtering InfoRmation Engine (safi.re).
29/11/2012 Invited Presentation
Cathy Scott and Neil Urquhart of the Centre for Emergent Computing are working with Lothian Buses to incorporate expertise gained through the operation of hybrid buses and the evaluation of other low emission vehicle technologies in their research.
27/11/2012 Other News
Professor Bill Buchanan gave a presentation entitled "Delivering patient centric care through Cloud Computing" at the Hospital Directions Conference 2012, London Olympia on 22nd November 2012. The presentation (available to download as a PowerPoint file) draws on the work Professor Buchanan's...
22/11/2012 Invited Presentation
Prof Bill Buchanan and Richard Lewis have helped to bring together the leaders in clinical and social care governance in Scotland to debate the future for the data sharing of clinical and social care data across health and social care boundaries.
22/11/2012 Other Event
IIDI collaboration leads to innovation in the delivery of popular Gaelic language teaching resources
Ùlpan have released the first 24 units (Ìre 1) of their popular Gaelic course as sound files. The technology behind the project has been developed by Edinburgh Napier University’s Institute for Informatics & Digital Innovation in partnership with Deiseal Ltd.
22/11/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
Scholarly Communication and Neo-bibliometric Indicators of Impact Blaise Cronin Rudy Professor of Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington Scholars have an ever-expanding range of communication media and publication platforms at their disposal.
21/11/2012 F29: 2pm-3pm
IIDI's Interactive Collaborative Environment (ICE) is profiled in the October/November/December 2012 issue of Communications Business Solutions Magazine (p. 11). The article outlines the capabilities of the space, and the expertise within IIDI which brought it to fruition.
21/11/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
Dr Michael Smyth has accepted an invitation from the Department of Visual Communications Design at the University of Split, Croatia to deliver a guest lecture. Entitled What makes a city smart? Interaction Design and the future hybrid city, Dr Smyth's presentation on 6th December 2012 will...
19/11/2012 Split, Croatia
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai presented a paper on ICT technologies and green data centres at the Integration of sustainable infrastructure into the existing built environment conference in Glasgow on 15th November 2012. This event explored how sustainable infrastructure can be integrated into the existing...
16/11/2012 Other News
Visible and productive: using social media effectively Prof. Hazel Hall Drawing on a range of examples, Hazel will outline how using social media can help you become more productive in your work and studies, for example in providing access to useful resources to support learning, and in raising the...
14/11/2012 F29, 2pm-3pm
The universities in Scotland aim to inform the next generation of computer specialists with a fun and engaging Christmas lecture on Cyber Security. It is arranged through an Alliance of Scottish Universities (SICSA) and will be run at the Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University, on...
14/11/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai has joined the programme committee member of a world-leading conference: the 27th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2013), which takes place in Barcelona, Spain, March 25-28, 2013.
12/11/2012 Other News
Building business – the TRUMP CaRd David Cairns David Cairns is currently Executive Chairman of PrismTech Group Limited. He has built a career in the technology sector over the last 30 years in the USA, Canada, continental Europe and the UK working for multinationals in top management roles as well...
07/11/2012 F29: 2pm-3pm
Alistair Lawson of IIDI and Fast-Answers.com has been shortlisted for Interface Excellence Award under the Interface Sustained Partnership category.
07/11/2012 Award
Staff in IIDI's Centre for Social Informatics have published the results of a survey of over 1500 Scottish community councils. Scottish Community Councils online: a survey shows that under a quarter (22%) of Scottish community councils maintain an updated online public presence.
06/11/2012 Other News
Last week Hazel Hall presented a paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) in Baltimore, US. As part of a session entitled "Transformation or continuity? The impact of social media on information: implications for theory and practice" she...
05/11/2012 Other News
Owen Lo, currently studying for his PhD on e-Health within the Cloud4Health Cloud based platform, is to receive the FECCI Student of the Year award. It will be awarded on 15 Nov 2012. The day before this event he is also attending the BCS Best Not-for-Project Award in London.
01/11/2012 Other News
All staff and students welcome IIDI-SoC Tech-Talk Building Real-Time Interactive Simulations with Unity3D Chris Mann, Interface3/Tyger Face Games Chris Mann graduated from the School of Computing Games Engineering programme in 2012 and now is employed by Chris Mann, Interface3/Tyger Face Games.
24/10/2012 F29, 2pm-3pm
Edinburgh Napier and IIDI are to host a Symposium on Information Security: Governance and Sharing in a Digital Age on 10 January 2013. More details at: http://digitalgovernance.eventbrite.co.uk/ Context The main focus of the Symposium is to investigate best practice within governance and...
16/10/2012 Other News
Two fully-funded PhD studentships within the Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation are currently advertised at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFI070/phd-studentships/ One studentship will be offered to a student interested in completing research within any Centre of IIDI.
16/10/2012 Studentship
On October 31st Professor David Benyon will give a talk on Urban Informatics at the Smarter Cities Conference at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. For further information please see: http://smartercities2012.holyrood.com/
15/10/2012 31/10/12 Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh
This interaction design workshop, at NordiCHI 2012 in Copenhagen, will address the question of how we, as individuals, might gain value from the exchange of data on a near-future urban setting. Together with a rapid ethnographic study of data exchange, the workshop will adopt a critical design...
14/10/2012 Copenhagen, Denmark
IIDI-SoC Tech Talk Measuring Fun Prof. Janet Read, University of Central Lancaster Building fun into an interface is not straightforward and the evaluation of the fun therein placed is a need if the designer is to be able to assess his or her success.
10/10/2012 F29, 2pm-3pm
IIDI-SoC Tech-Talk: Engaging with Business and Society – Opportunities for Staff and Students Alistair Lawson SoC and IIDI staff, with the help of student developers, undertake a wide range of commercial work and contract research with organisations and companies outside of Edinburgh Napier.
03/10/2012 F29, 2pm-3pm
The new series of IIDI-SoC Tech Talks take place on Wednesdays at 2pm, in room F29, Edinburgh Napier Merchiston campus. All students and staff are warmly invited to attend. The programme for this semester is: · October 3rd : Engaging with Business and Society – Opportunities for Staff and Students...
02/10/2012 F29, 2pm-3pm
Hazel Hall has accepted an invitation to join the international programme committee of i3: information, interactions and impact, which takes place in Aberdeen from Tuesday 25th to Friday 28th June 2013.
01/10/2012 Conference Programme Committee
In 2012/23 Hazel Hall chairs Information Science Pathway committee of the ESRC Scottish Doctoral Training Centre. The Information Science Pathway is one of 24 accredited training pathways within the Scottish ESRC Doctoral Training Centre (DTC).
01/10/2012 Other News
David Benyon participated in the Digital Tourism workshop in Venice
30/09/2012 Venice
Sally Smith (Head of School, School of Computing) and Prof Bill Buchanan have just been named in Tech100, the Public Sector Who's Who of ICT in Scotland: http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1ymq1/HolyroodConnecrIssue/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=
29/09/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
28/09/2012 External Examiner
On 24th September 2012 Peter Cruickshank took part in the the panel session "Social Media - Who Leads?". Other panel members included DCC Gordon Scobie of Tayside Police and representatives from the Scottish Government, Young Scot and industry. More can be found on the twitter feed for the event.
24/09/2012 Glasgow
On-line version: http://youtu.be/7WoR2h1KnpM As we move into an information age, we are all becoming increasing dependent on the Internet in our social and business lives. A fundamental part of this change is the need for information infrastructures which are secure, robust and scaleable.
17/09/2012 Seminar
2nd Awareness Workshop on Challenges for Achieving Self-awareness in Autonomic Systems http://www.aware-project.eu/saso-2012/ To be held at IEEE SASO 2012, Lyon, France, 10th September, the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems In conjunction with...
10/09/2012 Conference Organisation
Ella Taylor-Smith gave a presentation at ePart 2012: fourth international conference on eParticipation (ePart 2012) held in Kristiansand, Norway. The presentation gave an overview of ideas from the paper Participation Spaces, which is published in the conference proceedings.
05/09/2012 Invited Presentation
The Guardian Toolkit team, which is funded by a Scottish Enterprise Proof-of-Concept grant, has made it to the final short-list for the Converge Challenge 2012: http://www.hw.ac.uk/industry/collaborate-with-us/converge-challenge.htm The last six projects will be assessed for the final award.
03/09/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
Cloud4Health, an innovative e-Health platform, has reached the finals of the BCS/Computing Awards. Details are at: http://www.ukitindustryawards.co.uk/static/2012-shortlist?utm_term=&utm_content=View%20the%202012%20shortlist%20here%20&utm_campaign=UK%20IT%20Awards%202012%20-%20shortlist%2020...
03/09/2012 Other News
31/08/2012 Invited Presentation
31/08/2012 Conference Organisation
ECCE, the annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics, is hosted this year at Edinburgh Napier University. Our theme is 'Re-thinking cognition' and our keynote speakers are Professors Yvonne Rogers, Philippe Palanque and Mike Wheeler.
28/08/2012 28 - 31 August 2012, Edinburgh Napier University
The Guardian Toolkit project, which is currently funded with a Scottish Enterprise Proof-of-Concept grant, has made it through to the last round of the Convergence Challenge: http://www.hw.ac.uk/industry/collaborate-with-us/converge-challenge.htm The project now focuses on generating health (or...
20/08/2012 Award
More details here. BackgroundAs information infrastructures move into a Cloud Computing environment, there are increasing risks involved with a wide range of issues including privacy, accountability, and availability. The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and Edinburgh Napier University thus aim to...
19/08/2012 Funding
The topic asks Who’s Leading: That is, who (if anyone) within organisations is leading the response to the rise of social media? How can they manage the risks? While we can encourage individuals to work collaboratively and share information using social media, they face many obstacles when trying...
15/08/2012 24 September, Glasgow
Astra Zeneca approached Dr Oli Mival and the Future Interactions network to help design and develop their meeting rooms and collaboration spaces. The first of these spaces went online this week! Based on the design philosophy behind the ICE (Interactive Collaborative Environment), the room is the...
07/08/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai has been recently awarded the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Leadership Award in recognition of his key successful role in organising the: 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2012) and the 11th IEEE International...
06/08/2012 Award
Prof Buchanan will present some of the key methods used to develop the Cloud4Health platform at: The IET Seminar on Big Data: Turning big challenges in to big opportunities 5 December 2012 London, UK www.theiet.org/big-data
06/08/2012 Invited Presentation
IIDI Professor to present invited talk at Cloud Computing 2012: http://cloudcomputing.holyrood.com/home
03/08/2012 Keynote Speaker
Full details at: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/careers/3373768/edinburgh-napier-university-launches-cybercrime-degree/
03/08/2012 Other News
Prof Bill Buchanan's research team was awarded a three-year PhD studentship from the Cloud Security Alliance. The focus will be on the integration of next generation security infrastructures and methods within the Cloud. For more details, email Bill (w.buchanan@napier.ac.uk).
27/07/2012 Funding
DREaM 5, the DREaM project concluding conference, took place at the British Library Conference Centre on Monday 9th July 2012. Highlights included Dr Ben Goldacre as the closing keynote speaker, presentation of the LIS Practitioner Researcher Excellence Award, invited presentations, an open panel...
09/07/2012 British Library, London
Codes and Secrets: Computer Security and Digital Forensics A Public Engagement Lecture by Prof Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University As we move into an information age, we are all becoming increasing dependent on the Internet in our social and business lives.
06/07/2012 10/9/2012
IIDI Professor Bill Buchanan is to give invited talk at Hospital Directions at the London Olympia around Cloud4Health: http://www.hospitaldirections.co.uk/
06/07/2012 21/11/2012
Bill Buchanan has launched a learning environment for key principles around computer security, including encryption and authentication. A demonstrator is at: http://billatnapier.com/security It uses the latest ASP.NET MVC Platform, along with integrated Ajax technology.
05/07/2012 Developed Software
IIDI Professor Bill Buchanan joins ICT in Education Excellence Group. Schools IT excellence group set up Experts consider digital communications for pupils Education Secretary Michael Russell has appointed the Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Muffy Calder to convene an ICT Excellence Group to...
02/07/2012 Invited Presentation
Outline[Flyer] This symposium aims to bring together businesses, public sector organisations and education providers, to discuss the upskilling of the Scottish workforce in the face of new and emerging threats around digital security and cybercrime.
28/06/2012 17:15
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/gaojerry/IEEESOSE2013/index.htm
27/06/2012 Conference Organisation
Ahmed is the Programme Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2012) held in Liverpool, UK, 25-27 June 2012. http://scim.brad.ac.uk/~hmibrahi/IUCC2012/
25/06/2012 June 2012
Ahmed is the Programme Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2012) held in Liverpool, UK, 25-27 June 2012. http://scim.brad.ac.uk/~hmibrahi/IUCC2012/ The technologies of computing and communications have undergone a series of evolutionary...
25/06/2012 Conference Organisation
Cloud4Health won a 2nd prize for Best IT Project at Digital Innovation Awards in Glasgow: http://www.scotlandis.com/news/stories/celebrating-the-stars-of-the-scottish-technology-industry
22/06/2012 Award
Full text here and presentation here. Prof John Howie awarded an Honorary Doctorate on 21 June 2012. The full Laureation is: Chancellor, it is my privilege to present John Howie for the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Technology. Computer security is currently one of the key challenges within...
22/06/2012 Award
Full text here and video here. Steve Cordiner awarded an Honorary Doctorate. Thursday, 21 June 2012, 11am Steve Cordiner, Doctor of Technology Chancellor, it is my privilege to present Steve Cordiner for the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Technology.
22/06/2012 Award
Hazel Hall to is make a presentation as part of a panel session at ASIS&T 2012 Baltimore in October 2012. The session is entitled "Transformation or continuity? The impact of social media on information: implications for theory and practice" and will be presented with Andrew Cox of the...
21/06/2012 Other Event
Prof Bill Buchanan presented on the future of technology at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on Wednesday 20 June 2012.
20/06/2012 Keynote Speaker
The second annual Information Science Doctoral Colloquium (iDocQ) took place on 19th June 2012, at the University of Edinburgh, in conjunction with the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS) Summer School. A team of postgraduate students from Strathclyde, Aberdeen and Glasgow...
19/06/2012 Edinburgh
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai is a Member of Europe Smart Cities Stakeholder Platform. http://eu-smartcities.eu/ About Smart Cities Energy is essential in modern cities. It supports economic activities, allows transport and other infrastructure to function, and provides heat, cooling and electricity for...
18/06/2012 Other News
18/06/2012 Funding
PPSN 2012 (http://www.dmi.unict.it/ppsn2012/) accepted approximately 46% of submission in 2012. The Twelfth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XII) will be held in Taormina, Italy on 1-5 September 2012.
18/06/2012 Other News
Professor Salah Merniz has joined the Networks theme to conduct collaborative research with Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai and Dr Imed Romdhani on next generation wireless broadband. Professor Merniz is professor in networking, School of Computing, University of Qustantina, Algeria.
16/06/2012 Other News
IIDI Professor (Bill Buchanan) presents on "Realising the vision" at Connect ICT event in Glasgow: http://connectict.holyrood.com/agenda
14/06/2012 Glasgow
IIDI Professor (Bill Buchanan) has given an endnote presentation at National Information Security Conference: http://www.nisc.org.uk/docs/Agenda%20FINAL%20v4.1.pdf
13/06/2012 Invited Presentation
The Centre for Social Informatics has welcomed Maja Ilievska of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia as a summer intern. Maja's placement has been organised as part of the programme of the International...
12/06/2012 External Visitor
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)
J Kennedy is co-organising a Dagstuhl Seminar on Biological Visualisation with other leading international researchers in the field: Carsten Görg (University of Colorado, US) Lawrence Hunter (University of Colorado, US) Jessie Kennedy (Edinburgh Napier University, GB) Sean O'Donoghue (CSIRO - North...
30/05/2012 Conference Organisation
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai hs been invited to give a keynote Speech at the Low Carbon Earth Summit 2012 （Five Concurrent Events—Smart City Summit）Oct.19-21, 2012 at Guangzhou, China. Mainly Dr Al-Dubai will take part in: Symposium 1: Smart City S1-1: The Creative City S1-2: Digital city S1-3: Mesh cities...
30/05/2012 Keynote Speaker
Three projects: sa.FIRE/Cloud4Health, Personal Health Manger, and Guardian Toolkit (Risk Assessment Platform) have made it to the second round of: http://www.hw.ac.uk/industry/collaborate-with-us/converge-challenge.htm Initial pitches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ZPbv3dTfE...
29/05/2012 Other News
Prof J Kennedy and Dr M Graham have been awarded a BBSRC grant in collaboration with the Global Biodiversity Information facility and Reading University entitled Visual Exploration of Species-referenced Repositories (VESpeR) to develop web-based visualisation tools for taxonomy.
29/05/2012 Funding
Prof. J Kennedy is General Co-Chair for BioVis a symposium of VisWeek a week long gathering of researchers in visualisation, including VAST, Vis and InfoVis.This year VisWeek will be held in Seattle, USA from 14-19th October.
29/05/2012 Conference Programme Committee
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai has been appointed Guset Editor to organise Special Issue in mobile and ubiquitous computing with a world leading journal : Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier. Impact Factor 2.365.
28/05/2012 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
School of Arts & Creative Industries reader and Centre for Social Informatics researcher Dr Alistair Duff spent last week at the University of Oxford's interdisciplinary Oxford Internet Institute. He is working on a range of issues facing 'informatised' democracies, including public opinion and...
28/05/2012 Oxford, UK
Two papers co-authored by Professor Hazel Hall were well received at the 4th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Libraries (QQML2012), which took place in Limerick 22nd-25th May, 2012. The papers were about projects related to the Library and Information Science...
25/05/2012 Other News
On Interdisciplinary Research: Green Computing and Communication Workshop 24th May (10:30 to 4:00) B2-School of Computing, Merchiston We are organising a workshop on sustainability and green computing/communications. The workshop covers a wide range of topics, including green IT, green buildings...
24/05/2012 10:00 to 16:00
Cloud4Health is a finalist at the Scottish Digital Technology Awards 2012. The team have developed an innovative health care platform, which applies strong governance and is scaleable, robust and secure. The team is Prof Bill Buchanan, Dr Lu Fan, Dr Elias Ekonomou, Owen Lo, Prof Christoph...
22/05/2012 Award
We are happy to announce the publication of the Highlights from the 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis 2011, http://www.biovis.net) in BMC Bioinformatics: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/supplements/13/S8 The BioVis 2011 Highlights are a collection of papers...
18/05/2012 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
From Sunday 13th to Friday 18th May 2012 Professor Hazel Hall served as an invited panel member to review the impact of RCUK's £230 million investment in the Digital Economy programme. The panel assessed the extent to which the theme (and associated research) has:Delivered tangible benefits...
18/05/2012 Funding Panel
IIDI Professor Bill Buchanan to present at prestigious British American Business Council event in Edinburgh on Cyber Security to be held on 18 May 2012. Details of speakers is here and an outline agenda is here.
13/05/2012 Other News
The full article is at: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/cda0dbf9#/cda0dbf9/64
10/05/2012 Other News
SACI reader and CSI member Dr Alistair Duff delivered a paper 'The Preferential Option for the (Information) Poor in Digital Societies' at the 4th ICTs-and-Society Network conference, held this year in Uppsala, Sweden. Other speakers included Vincent Mosco, Andrew Feenberg, Graham Murdock and Karle...
09/05/2012 3 May 2012, Uppsala, Sweden
Professor Jessie Kennedy will give a keynote presentation entitled "A case study in Information Visualisation design" at the 16th International Conference Information Visualisation July 2012, Montpellier, France.
08/05/2012 12 July 2012, Montpellier, France
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been elected to serve on the Omani Research Council peer review panel on Computing and Communications. http://home.trc.gov.om
03/05/2012 Funding Panel
Information visualisation is an engaging topic and cool images can be a powerful lure with their use becoming widespread in presentations, websites, newspapers and analytical tools. However what makes an effective information visualisation?
02/05/2012 2pm, F29
The third of the five Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) project events took place at Craighouse campus at Edinburgh Napier University on 25th April 2012. The goal of the AHRC-funded project is to create a UK network of library and information science researchers.
30/04/2012 Other News
David Benyon has been invited to present his work on Blended Spaces at a workshop on Human-Computer Confluence organised by the Austrian Computer Society in Vienna on 14th and 15th May. Full details of the event are available at http://www.pervasive.jku.at/hccvisions/
23/04/2012 Vienna 14/5, 15/5
IIDI has been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with ArtMag (Scotland's largest circulation art magazine) supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher Scheme. http://www.artmag.co.uk/
13/04/2012 Other News
Ella was invited to contribute a post to the London School of Economics Politics and Policy blog, looking at eParticipation in Scotland (and the EU) in light of the Scottish Government's Digital Participation Charter. eParticipation needs to be carefully integrated into the complex world of...
13/04/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
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
Professor Bill Buchanan will be giving an invited presentation at the Scottish Information Assurance Forum in North Lanarkshire on 13th June. The presentation is entitled "Future risks – including the rise of the hacktivism". Abstract: As organisations move towards infrastructures which are highly...
10/04/2012 Invited Presentation
Jessie gave a tutorial with Cydney Neilsen and Martin Kryzwinski at VIZBI 2012 which was well received by the participants. Have a look at the tutorial material. VIZBI was held at the European Molecular Biology Lab in Heidleberg.
08/04/2012 EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Jessie gave a Keynote talk at VIZBI 2012 on User Centred Design in BioVis. A video of the talk will appear on the VIZBI site in due course.
08/04/2012 EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Professor Bill Buchanan invited to present at the Data Handling in Health and Social Care conference
Professor Bill Buchanan has been invited to make a presentation at the Data Handling in Health and Social Care conference Thursday 3rd May 2012 in Edinburgh. The presentation title is "Effective electronic data handling: helping you deliver integrated, patient centric care".
07/04/2012 Keynote Speaker
Professor Bill Buchanan will be serving on a panel at the Future of Public Service Delivery conference in Glasgow on 14th June. In this session the panel will address the question: How close is Scotland to creating a ‘digital public sector’ whose goal is to improve public services and the ease...
07/04/2012 Invited Presentation
Peter Cruickshank spoke to a meeting of the Scottish Local Authorities Chief Internal Auditors Group in Edinburgh on 27 March 2012. He highlighted the irresistible drivers towards increased use of social media by councils, their employees, and the citizens that they serve.
28/03/2012 Invited Presentation
IIDI Seminar: Cloud Computing: Be part of the next generation ... teaching and research in the Cloud
Title: Cloud Computing: Be part of the next generation ... teaching and research in the Cloud Abstract: Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the most fundamental things that has happened in our industry for the last decade. It can provide many advantages within teaching and research, including...
21/03/2012 2pm-3pm, F29
Dr Alistair Duff examined a PhD at Leeds Metropolitan University on 20 March 2012. The candidate's work assessed government initiatives to reduce the digital divide in Sri Lanka, by means of funded tele-centres in rural areas. An original model of tele-access, based on both grounded theory data and...
21/03/2012 20 March 2012
Peter Cruickshank and Ella Taylor-Smith contributed invited "provocations" at the Public Policy Network's workshop entitled Digital governance: Can online citizen participation change democratic practices? on 21st March 2012. The workshop was attended by representatives from local universities, as...
21/03/2012 Invited Presentation
Hazel Hall has been invited to speak to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland about how the AHRC-funded Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) project (based in the Centre for Social Informatics) set out to establish a sustainable network of...
20/03/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
The Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation will be exhibiting at Digital 2012 on Friday 30 March at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow (SECC). Digital 2012 is Scotland’s leading conference for the digital, creative and cultural sectors, from organisers Interactive...
20/03/2012 Exhibition
Information Today Europe has published an article based on Hazel Hall's inaugural professorial lecture, which was delivered on Thursday 15th March 2012. (See also the slides from the lecture.) Information Today Europe provides news, facts and figures, strategic thinking, and informed comment on the...
19/03/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
Social Information Research Professor Gunilla Widén, Information, Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Information that we receive from one another and create together within our social networks is becoming increasingly important in our everyday and professional lives.
16/03/2012 2pm-3pm, D40
Hazel Hall delivers her inaugural professorial lecture entitled "What's so social about informatics?" at the Craiglockhart campus of Edinburgh Napier University on the evening of Thursday 15th March 2012. Anyone who would like to follow the presentation online from 18:00 onwards may access the...
15/03/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
Miniatures and Murals: Portraits of a Discipline and its Adherents Blaise Cronin Rudy Professor of Information Science, Indiana University Bibliometric techniques are widely used to evaluate research performance, analyze patterns of intellectual interaction and map the evolution of disciplines.
14/03/2012 2pm-3pm, F29
Next week Edinburgh Napier University is hosting three events related to social informatics. Two are hosted by IIDI as part of its seminar series. The third is Hazel Hall's inaugural professorial lecture on the evening of Thursday 15th March, hosted by the University.
07/03/2012 Other Event
Peter Cruickshank has been invited to give a briefing on the risks and opportunities that Social Media present to Local Authorities at a meeting of the Chief Internal Auditors Group on 27th March 2012. A key question to be considered is the risks of blocking access to social media services.
06/03/2012 Invited Presentation
Professor Bill Buchanan has been invited to give a keynote presentation at the Digital Crime Seminar at the Police Academy in the Netherlands on 30th March 2012. The focus of the talk will be on Cloud-based Forensics.
06/03/2012 Other News
Ahmed Al-Dubai, a Reader in the School of Computing and the Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation, has won a Carnegie Grant to help foster new international collaborations and research partnerships. The grant will fund a study tour of Qatar in April 2012, to develop a joint research...
02/03/2012 Funding
On Thursday 1st March PhD students and research staff, from all Edinburgh Napier faculties, gathered at Inspace. One student from each school (3 from each faculty) presented their work in a 20-20 style, i.e. in each presentation there were 20 slides, with each one set to advance after 20 seconds of...
01/03/2012 Inspace, Edinburgh
Crime and Punishment: studies in the evolution of co-operation Peter Ross, Emeritus Professor Edinburgh Napier University p.ross@napier.ac.uk How did co-operative behaviour evolve? Darwin was perplexed; the notion of "survival of the fittest" seemed to suggest that it shouldn't, because...
29/02/2012 2pm-3pm, F29
Hazel Hall and details of her forthcoming inaugural professorial lecture on Thursday 15th March are featured in a short article on the Broughton Spurtle web site. IIDI research student Ella Taylor-Smith interviewed Hazel for the story "Say hello to social professor".
27/02/2012 Media and Outreach Activity
Professor Bill Buchanan presents on the developments of an e-health platform to store NHS patient information in the Cloud at Inside Government event. The presentation slides are available to download.
21/02/2012 Other News
IIDI spin-out company Inquisitive Systems Ltd has been selected by a committee of leading industry officials, academics and venture investors as a finalist in the fourth annual Academic Enterprise Awards. The competition is open to entrepreneurs across the European Union and countries affiliated...
21/02/2012 Award
David Benyon and Phil Turner have been invited to present keynote papers at the Human-Computer Confluence Summer School in Milan in July 2012. For further details please see the summer school web pages.
20/02/2012 Keynote Speaker
The Symposium will run on 17 May 2012. It aims to present some of the research and best practice around next generation health care infrastructures, and how they could be used to bring benefits to all the stakeholders involved.
19/02/2012 17/05/2012 Craiglockhart
Routledge has published Alistair Duff's latest research monograph - A normative theory of the information society - in its Information Technology and Society series: Duff, A. (2011). A normative theory of the information society. Oxford: Routledge.
17/02/2012 Other News
In 1857, Scottish archaeologist Alexander Rhind excavated this mummy, now in the collection of National Museums Scotland. The mummy has never been unwrapped; instead, medical CT scanning was used to investigate inside the wrappings.
13/02/2012 Other News
On Monday 13th February the Centre for Social Informatics hosted a training day for PhD students on organisational research and case studies. This forms part of the training provision of the ESRC Scottish Doctoral Training Centre Information Science Pathway partners of Edinburgh Napier, Glasgow,...
13/02/2012 Other Event
Professor Bill Buchanan gave the closing presentation at: http://cybersecurity.holyrood.com/agenda The presentation can be found at: http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/binary/publicationid/13369761/dl/file
11/02/2012 Invited Presentation
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai has been appointed external PhD examiner at University of Bradford. The viva will take place in School of Computing on Tuesday 21st Feb.
10/02/2012 External Examiner
The details of the podcast are at: http://www.thepodcasthost.com/ltapodcasts/2012/02/07/supporting-all-from-iphone-to-lectures-from-real-life-to-simulation-from-challenging-to-fun/ In this week’s podcast we interview Professor Bill Buchanan for the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University.
09/02/2012 Staff Development
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
Title: Public Engagement: Why, How and What's in it for Me? Ingi Helgason and Jessie Kennedy Universities and researchers are increasingly being encouraged to carry out public engagement activities. These activities are often included as specific work tasks within funded research projects.
08/02/2012 2pm-3pm, F29
Paper presented at Interaction12 Will the promise of Critical Design deliver after the disappointment of ethnography? Interaction Designers expected ethnography to reveal rich insights that would inform the creation of better products, services and experiences.
06/02/2012 4 Feb, 2012 :: Dublin, Ireland
Title: Cloud and Security – how to utilise the cloud to better protect yourself. Presented by: Tabassum Sharif, Director Of Operations, Flexiant Ltd Place: H.5, 10am, Thursday 9 Feb 2012. Bio: [Here] Interoperability-IaaS market perspective The aggregation of currently autonomous Cloud systems in...
05/02/2012 H.5, 10am, 09/02/2012
Guest Lecture: David Stubley, 7Elements Title: Security Testing - Be Careful what you ask for… Date/Time: 10am, Tuesday 7 Feb 2012, B.2 (Merchiston) Abstract: We need to have a common language to communicate effectively and this is no different within Information Security.
02/02/2012 07/02/2012
The IEEE Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (ECTC http://ieee-cis.org/technical/ectc/) of the Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) promotes the research, development, and teaching of computational techniques that use...
02/02/2012 Award
Paper entitled Critical Design : Restoring a sense of wonder to Interaction Design at Interaction 12. http://interaction12.ixda.org/programme/#session-147
01/02/2012 Dublin, Ireland
Title: HTML5 - an overview Speaker: Dr Robert Kukla The HTML5 standard is still under development but recent browsers are already supporting an increasing subset of the standard that aims to be ratified in 2014. This Seminar looks at the new features of HTML5 and what makes it attractive to web...
01/02/2012 2pm-3pm, F29
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai has been invited to give a keynote speech on wireless community networks at the World Congress of Emerging InfoTech-2012 (WCEIT-2012), Dalian, China, August 28-30, 2012. WCEIT 2012 has planned to organize this International Conference with the theme “Welcome 3rd Wave Revolution of...
01/02/2012 Keynote Speaker
Guest Lecture: David Stubley, 7Elements Title: Security Testing - Be Careful what you ask for… Date/Time: 10am, Tuesday 7 Feb 2012, B.2 (Merchiston) Abstract: We need to have a common language to communicate effectively and this is no different within Information Security.
01/02/2012 07/02/2012
More details at: http://www.insidegovernment.co.uk/other/cloud-ict/ Tuesday 21st February 2012, One Wimpole Street - London, 08:30 - 16:30 Cloud Computing in the Public Sector: The Way Forward BOOK TODAY and secure on your place.
31/01/2012 Keynote Speaker
Patient Centric Health Care: An Integrated and Secure, Cloud-based, e-Health Platform Wednesday 1st February 2012, 6:30 pm. Speaker: Professor Bill Buchanan, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University. Room 4.31 (fourth floor), University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street,...
24/01/2012 1/2/2012, Room 4.31 (fourth floor), University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Professor Hazel Hall has accepted an invitation to serve on the Research Councils UK (RCUK) Digital Economy Review panel. The panel’s remit is to review the impact of the £130 million investment in research on the digital economy theme over the past four years.
23/01/2012 Other News
Professor Bill Buchanan will give an invited talk on Tuesday at ARAB Health 2012 [Link], which is the second large health event in the World. [Link] The research team currently working on the e-Health Platform, including Prof Bill Buchanan, Dr Lu Fan, Dr Elias Ekonomou, Prof Christoph Thuemmler,...
22/01/2012 Keynote Speaker
Dr Elias Ekonomou was awarded an Enterprise Fellowship, which follows up two recently successful Scottish Enterprise Proof-of-Concepts bids. This Enterprise Fellowship now work builds on the current developments within an e-Health Platform, and has a special focus on the integration of health care...
22/01/2012 Funding
The research team within the Centre of Distributed Computing and Security have won a second Proof-of-Concept (total funding: £320,000) related to a novel Information Sharing Gateway. This work builds on a previously funded PhD studentship from SIPR (Scottish Institute for Policing Research), and...
22/01/2012 Funding
Intellectual Property in Software Jim Adams Murgitroyd & Company Abstract Several different type of intellectual property apply to software, including copyright, patents, trade marks and trade secrets. An overview of the application of these to software will be given, with a focus on copyright...
20/01/2012 H18, 1pm-2pm
Professor Bill Buchanan to give end note talk at Cyber event in Edinburgh: http://cybersecurity.holyrood.com/
11/01/2012 Keynote Speaker
David Benyon has agreed to be External Examiner at York University on their Masters course in Human-Computer Interaction
10/01/2012 External Examiner
Inquistive Systems, a spin-out from IIDI and the Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks and Security, and which focuses on advanced digital forensics and security software is a finalist for a European spin-out award: http://www.sciencebusiness.net/news/75588/UK-companies-lead-finalists-for-Europ...
16/12/2011 Award
We are proud to announce that Jamie Gravies will be awarded Young Alumnus of the Year on Thursday. Jamie has progressed through our programmes, and onto a successful PhD (and an associated patent). After this he has focused on the commercialisation of his research work, with a highly praised...
14/12/2011 Award
Flavien Flandrin (one of our MSc students) won 1st prize at the Scottish Cipher Excellence 2011 Award yesterday, beating competition from students around Scotland. http://scotlandcyber.com/cipher.html
07/12/2011 Award
Raytheon hosted an advanced security challenge in our labs on Monday 5 December, and had queues of students waiting to start it at 11am. Overall 40 students from around Scotland took part, and many spent to the whole day working on it.
07/12/2011 Award
Green IT and the Design of Energy Aware Networks Abstract: While in 2007 ICT already accounted for 2% of the world's Carbon Imprint, similar to the impact of air travel on CO2 emissions, in 2020 the total CO2 emissions are expected to attain 1.43 Billion Tonnes, growing at an annual rate of 4%.
05/12/2011 8th December, 2pm, H5
There will be a seminar on Green IT. The Guest Speaker is Professor Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London. All are welcome. Date/Time: 8th December 2011, 2:00 pm Venue: School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, H5- Merchiston, EH10 5DT Sponsors: The Centre for Distributed Computing,...
04/12/2011 External Visitor
IIDI Seminar: Title: Making games in the classroom: benefits and gender concerns Speaker: Dr Judy Robertson, Heriot-Watt University Abstract: In this talk I will argue that making computer games as part of a classroom project can develop a range of new media storytelling, visual design and audience...
02/12/2011 1pm G32, Merchiston
Abstract Now that so-called 4G networks such as LTE are being rolled out, researchers are starting to consider what comes next. The explosion in demand for mobile data, and the emergence of the ‘Internet of Things’, mean that there will be requirements for faster, more efficient, high-capacity...
29/11/2011 G32
29/11/2011 Conference Organisation
There are many issues related to health care infrastructure within the UK, including the lack of integration of data between the different parts of the health and social care system, and around an aging population. This presentation outlines a new Cloud-based e-Health platform which integrates new...
25/11/2011 1pm G32, Merchiston
Ken Parluski from Kodak, Rochester, NY visited along wiht Brian O'Keefe of Rochester IT institue visited and gave a talk.
24/11/2011 External Visitor
Details at: http://scotlandcyber.com/global.html
23/11/2011 Other Event
David Benyon will speak about EU Funding opportunities in the remaining 2 years of the Framework 7 Programme.
18/11/2011 1pm, G32
CSI member Alistair Duff presented a paper entitled 'The Great Information Society Debate' to 'faculty' and PhD students at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
18/11/2011 1 November 2011
Abstract: As disk sizes increase, typically to many hundreds of Gigabytes or even Tera bytes, the time taken to analyse disks has increased to almost unmanageable levels. There is thus a need for disk triage in order to sample within disk blocks.
16/11/2011 F.27, 11am
Hazel Hall has been appointed to examine a PhD thesis entitled Exploring the engagement of records management within a computer mediated communication focused co-operative enquiry at Northumbria University.
16/11/2011 External Examiner
As former award winner of the IWR Information Professional of the Year award in 2009, Hazel Hall is a member of the panel that is judging the 2011 nominations. The name of the winner of the 2011 award will be announced on Tuesday 29th November at the Online conference at London Olympia.
16/11/2011 Other News
The team working on a new Cloud-based e-Health platform were finalists for two awards last week: the BCS Technology Excellence Award 2011, and the IET Innovation Award 2011. As a result they received a Highly Commended award from the events held in London.
13/11/2011 Award
David Benyon attended the Human-Computer Confluence meeting in Brussels
11/11/2011 Invited Presentation
Bill Buchanan appears in profile at: http://aerospace.newsweaver.co.uk/z712d4ecwfpg38znnatdpc?email=true&a=2&p=18804455&t=17252954 In Profile - Professor Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University Cyber Risk is very much a high profile media topic, with recent the breakdown of...
11/11/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
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
Prof Hart has been invited to participate in a Royal Society International Scientific Seminar to be held at the Kalvi Royal Society International Center on Tuesday May 22nd and Wednesday May 23rd 2012. The focus of the seminar is on “bridging the gap between experimental and computational...
10/11/2011 Invited Presentation
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
SEABIS - Self-organising, emergent, autonomous,biologically inspired systems - is a sub-group of the SICSA research theme in Complex Systems Engineering http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/~benp/seabis/seabis.htm
10/11/2011 Award
The Research in Librarianship Impact Evaluation Project (RiLIES - pronounced 'realise') completed by the Centre for Social Informatics earlier this year explored the extent to which funded librarianship research projects influence library practice in the UK.
08/11/2011 Invited Presentation
Dr Alistair Duff is supervising the visit of Rocío Ortiz Galindo, PhD Candidate in Communication at the University of Navarra, Spain who joined the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) in September, and will continue working on her research at Edinburgh Napier until late December.
07/11/2011 External Visitor
Scotland could lead world in cyber crime fight By Craig Brown Published on Saturday 5 November 2011 02:13 formatPubDate("Sat Nov 05 02:13:46 GMT 2011"); THE academic spearheading Scotland’s fight against cyber crime has said that the country has the potential to lead the world in tackling...
05/11/2011 5/11/2011, The Scotsman
More details at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ADM329/senior-research-fellow/
05/11/2011 Other News
Colette Pemberton, Finance, Edinburgh Napier Unviersity This seminar will be an informal session, comprising of a 15-20 minute presentation, followed by questions. The seminar focuses on finding research funding, specifically targeted at the I.I.D.I. research community.
04/11/2011 Friday 1-2pm, Room G32, Merchiston
IIDI is working with Core Business Psychology Ltd supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher scheme Core BP provides "Business Psychology" and "Organisation Development" services to clients in all business sectors in both private and public organisations.
04/11/2011 Funding
Hazel Hall will present a research paper entitled "More than mere information assets: the reach of social media in information services delivery" as part of the New Directions in Management series at the University of Edinburgh on Friday 11th November.
04/11/2011 Other News
PPSN XII will showcase a wide range of topics in Natural Computing including, but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Quantum Computation, Molecular Computation, Neural Computation, Artificial Life, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Ant Systems, Artificial Immune Systems, Self-Organizing...
01/11/2011 Conference Programme Committee
David Benyon has been invited to be external examiner at the University of York.
31/10/2011 External Examiner
http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/Events/2011/12/ICT-security-cyber-risk-meet-the-buyer.aspx
30/10/2011 Exhibition
Major Cyber-crime Symposium in December Outline: A wide range of speakers, including Charlie McMurdie, Head of Police Central e-Crime Unit at the Met, and Sir Kevin Tebbit, Chairman of Finmeccanica UK, are to give presentations at a Symposium on Security Risk, Cybercrime and Critical...
30/10/2011 9am, Craiglockhart Campus
Evolution in virtual worlds Dr Tim Taylor (Goldsmiths, University of London) Abstract According to the neo-Darwinist theory of evolution, the richness and complexity of biological life can be explained in terms of three fundamental processes: reproduction, heritable variation, and competition for...
28/10/2011 Seminar
Web link: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke12.html
28/10/2011 Conference Organisation
28/10/2011 Oct 2010
The ISPR 2011 International conference on presence research was held 26 - 28 Oct attracting delegates from the USA, Europe, Australia and Singapore.
28/10/2011 Conference Organisation
ISPR2011 the International Conference on Presence research will take place at Edinburgh Napier University's Craighouse campus 26 - 28 October 2011. The final programme is now available http://sct.temple.edu/blogs/ispr/presence-conferences/ispr2011/ Highlights of the conference include invited...
26/10/2011 All day, Craighouse Campus
Abstract Creativity and innovation are very important capabilities within an organisation for sustainability, profitable growth and business success. Creativity and innovation in organisations are complex capacities containing many interrelating determinant factors.
26/10/2011 1pm - 2pm, Room 2/47, Craiglockhart
http://staff.napier.ac.uk/StaffNews/Pages/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=144
26/10/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
As chair of the Interaction Specialist Group of BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT, Tom McEwan from the School of Computing has been invited to The Royal Society in London on 1st November, to propose the vote of thanks to Professor Maja Pantic (Imperial College), who will deliver the prestigious...
26/10/2011 Invited Presentation
The AHRC-funded DREaM project is developing a formal UK-wide network of Library and Information Science (LIS) researchers. This includes 5 events, bringing LIS researchers together to expand their research. The launch event, “Out of the comfort zone” took place at the British Library Conference...
25/10/2011 Craighouse
IIDI has been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with QikServe Ltd supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher Scheme. Established in 2011 and based in Edinburgh, QikServe Limited is the result of genuine customer frustration and aims to enhance the customer experience in...
20/10/2011 Funding
David Benyon was invited to participate in the Human-Computer Confluence discussion meeting in brussels for the 2013/14/ call.
20/10/2011 Invited Presentation
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai has accepted to act as External PhD Examiner, School of Information Technologies- University of Sydney. The thesis is on Green Computing.
17/10/2011 External Examiner
The research team in the Centre of Distributed Computing and Security have organised, with Scottish Enterprise, a major event for industry: http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/events/2011/12/ict-security-cyber-risk-meet-the-buyer.aspx
16/10/2011 Conference Organisation
Art-science: reflections on the interface between arts and sciences Dr Dave Murray-Rust, University of Edinburgh Abstract At present, there is a lot of interest in inter- and trans-disciplinary work between arts and sciences. Often, the impetus for this comes from the artistic sphere, as ways to...
14/10/2011 Seminar
IIDI has been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with Tweetsport Ltd supported by Sporting Chance Initiative. Tweetsport uses data from official player and pundit accounts on Twitter and feeds from the top news outlets to provide a 360 degree real-time sports news...
12/10/2011 Funding
IIDI has been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with Glass Mountain Ltd supported by EDTC. Founded in February 2011, Glass Mountain is an Edinburgh based SME, specialising in technology solutions for charitable causes. http://www.glassmountain.co.uk/
10/10/2011 Funding
On Wednesday 26 October 2011, 1pm - 2pm, Room 2/47, Craiglockhart Jan Auernhammer, who is jointly supervised by CSI staff in IIDI and the Business School, will give a presentation based on his PhD research as part of the 2011 ERI seminar series.
10/10/2011 1pm - 2pm, Room 2/47, Craiglockhart
Prof Bill Buchanan from the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University has just launched a unique challenge to Scottish students with a series of ever more difficult cipher codes. A key focus is thus to find the students who have the skills to match to the current high demand cybercrime...
09/10/2011 Award
This will run on 6 December 2011. The main focus for the Symposium is to engage a wide range of domains to collaborate effectively, and to understand current and future threats to our citizens and society. The event is free, and is intended to increase the collaboration of organizations around...
09/10/2011 Seminar
Speakers: Dr Aileen Wood, Innovation Manager support for IIDI Dr Sharon McGettrick, Business Development support for IIDI This seminar is targeted at highlighting support for commercial activities within IIDI, and how to obtain funding.
07/10/2011 Seminar
Design is grounded in observation and through that seeks to articulate our needs, desires and expectations in products and services. But what happens when we need to extend that horizon in order to identify emergent themes? How do you begin to design concepts when you don’t know what the design...
28/09/2011 Invited Presentation
Health Care in the UK is facing many issues, especially related to the lack of standardization of data infrastructures, and from the increased demands of an aging population. In the future, systems thus need to be created in a way that are much more patient centric, and which allow for patients to...
26/09/2011 Seminar
Visitors from logica came to look at the ICE and discuss possible collaboration.
26/09/2011 External Visitor
Edinburgh Napier University has been confirmed as the host for the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2012, to be held at the Craiglockhart campus, August 28-31 2012
26/09/2011 Conference Organisation
ACM Interactions Magazine
26/09/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
The "Secure Cloud-based e-Health Platform for the Integration of Assisted Living and Primary/Secondary Health Care " has been selected as a finalist for the Healthcare Technologies category of the IET Innovation Awards 2011. http://www.theiet.org/events/2011/innovation.cfm
23/09/2011 Award
The streamed video is at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/scotland/newsid_9594000/9594710.stm?t=1376s Later the committee was told, by Professor of Computer Security at Edinburgh Napier University William Buchanan, the legislation proposed is "a step forward" but it seems to be scaling what...
21/09/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
The judging panel for RAPP Edinburgh’s competition to find the best new social media idea in Scotland as part of Social Media Week includes Professor Hazel Hall, Director of the Centre for Social Informatics. For more information about the competition and Social Media Week, please see:...
20/09/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
A team consisting of Prof Bill Buchanan, Mathew Miehling, Alistair Lawson, Dr Sharon McGettrick, and Dr Aileen Wood have won nearly £300,000 of funding to take an existing FSA-funded PhD project into a commercial environment. The project will run over 18 months and will focus on enhanced fraud...
09/09/2011 Funding
IIDI has been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with 21Nine Advertising & Design Ltd supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher Scheme. http://www.21nine.co.uk/
08/09/2011 Funding
More information about the Panel This panel will explore whether Critical Design offers new insight as a method for articulating future interactions. Will its promise deliver or are Interaction Designers destined to experience the same feeling of disappointment that HCI practitioners felt after the...
07/09/2011 Seminar
David Benyon attended the FET Robot Companion Flagship meeting in Barcelona
05/09/2011 Other Event
The research team on an innovative e-Health Platform have reached the finals of the BCS/Computing Technology Excellence Award for UK Innovation and Enterprise, which will be awarded in Nov 2011. The Edinburgh Napier research team involves Prof Bill Buchanan, Prof Christoph Thuemmler, Dr Lu Fan, Dr...
02/09/2011 Award
Professor Buchanan has been summoned to give evidence on the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill on Tuesday 20 September 2011 in the Scottish Parliament. The focus on his evidence will be on Internet-related maters.
01/09/2011 Other News
Professor Bill Buchanan presented the research, knowledge transfer and teaching work current being undertaken within IIDI and the School of Computing at CFET 2011. The talk was based around virtualised infrastructures for teaching with security and digital forensics.
01/09/2011 Invited Presentation
University awarded EnCase Centre of Excellence status FORENSICS software used by police investigators around the world is set to be used in classrooms at a Scottish university. Edinburgh Napier’s School of Computing has become one of only a handful of UK university departments to be awarded EnCase...
30/08/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Hazel Hall contributed to a discussion of social media for business with other international experts from a range of organisations including Dow Jones (who hosted the discussion) and KPMG. For full details please see: http://know.dowjones.com/2011/06/01/professor-hazel-hall-director-edinburgh-napier...
29/08/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
The paper 'My Grandfather's ipod: investigating attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts using repertory grids' received the 'best contribution' award at the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, held in Rostock, August 24-26
25/08/2011 Award
Hazel Hall presented a keynote paper ISSOME 2011: Information Science and Social Media International Conference, Turku, Finland, 24th-26th August 2011 (http://issome2011.library2pointoh.fi/). The slides are available at http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~hazelh/esis/hall_ISSOME.ppt
24/08/2011 Keynote Speaker
Prof. J Kennedy is a member of the panel to assess outline proposals to the BBSRC’s Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund 2011, 5/9/2011.
16/08/2011 Funding Panel
Following successful first and second years from August 2009 until July 2011, Professor Hazel Hall will continue to lead the implementation of the UK Library and Information Science Research Coalition until July 2012, supported by research funding from the British Library, CILIP, JISC, MLA, the...
01/08/2011 Other News
Tom McEwan gave the keynote talk at the British HCI educators workshop in association with the annual Interactions conference, Newcastle.
31/07/2011 Keynote Speaker
Emilia Sobolewska presented her doctoral work at the Doctoral Consortium in association with the BCS Interactions annual conference.
31/07/2011 Seminar
The video link is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyzTIiKKi-g
29/07/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Hazel Hall has been appointed to the editorial board of Alib Porceedings. Aslib Proceedings is a peer-reviewed journal that covers international research and practice in library and information science, and information management.
26/07/2011 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
Hazel Hall has joined the programme committee of the 3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World (or IMCW2012), organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University. The symposium will be held in Ankara, Turkey, from 19-21 September 2012.
22/07/2011 Conference Programme Committee
ITNow, the monthly magazine circulated to 80,000 members of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, leads with a two-page piece from Tom McEwan reflecting on Microsoft's Kinect and the lessons we can draw for future interaction technology innovations http://itnow.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
22/07/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
The DREaM project launch conference took place at the British Library Conference Centre on 19th July 2011. Full details of the event, including conference material and reviews are available from http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/dream-event-1-launch-conference-tuesday-19-july-2011/
19/07/2011 Conference Organisation
IIDI has been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with Jupiter Artland Foundation supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher Scheme. http://www.jupiterartland.org/
08/07/2011 Funding
For designers, attempting to respond to unknown design spaces can be a daunting task. This paper describes a series of workshops that presented rapid ethnographic design methods in city streets as a way of exploring human behaviours, and recording their traces.
07/07/2011 Seminar
David Benyon attended the Robot Companions FET flagship meeting in Windsor Great Park
06/07/2011 Other Event
Oli Mival presented work on multi-touch displays at the the Interactive Experience event in association with the annual BCS Interactions conference, Newcastle.
06/07/2011 Seminar
IIDI has been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with The Online Pension Company Ltd supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher Scheme.
04/07/2011 Funding
David Benyon presented at the Workshop on Culture and Interaction Design, Newcastle
04/07/2011 Other Event
IIDI has been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with Sourcerail Ltd supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher Scheme. https://www.sourcerail.com/
30/06/2011 Funding
Hazel Hall presented a keynote paper entitled "Project output versus influence in practice: impact as a dimension of research quality" at the 6th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP6) conference, in Salford in June 2011. http://www.eblip6.salford.ac.uk/index.php
30/06/2011 Keynote Speaker
In a team effort, Tom McEwan, as chair of BCS Interaction SG and speakers Bill Buchanan and Niladri Bose welcome top information security professionals to discuss the interface between humans and computer security. Amongst the attendees Prof Jim Norton, president of BCS, The Chartered Institute for...
28/06/2011 Seminar
Tom follows up the successfull UXCF2010 with a more focused event intended to identify a common university curriculum in UX (user experience) to meet the rapid increase in demand for UX professionals
28/06/2011 Conference Programme Committee
Tom McEwan has begun his first external examinership, for the School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences in the University of Central Lancashire, where he will scrutinise their multimedia, games, mobile technology and information systems undergraduate courses
28/06/2011 External Examiner
Tom McEwan was invited to attend the recent Holyrood Conference on ICT Infrastructure http://ict.holyrood.com/images/brochure.pdf which saw the launch of the long-awaited McClelland Review. Tom asked a number of provocative questions challenging the emerging orthodoxy.
28/06/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
After two years, in his second stint as a member of the board of ScotlandIS (the trade body for ICT in Scotland), Tom announced at the recent board meeting that he would be standing down, due to the pressure of his increased involvement in BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
28/06/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Tom McEwan and Kevin Chalmers (programme leader for BSc Games Development) travelled to Dundee on 16th June to attend a regional networking seminar organised by TIGA, the body which represents the Games Industry. They made a number of industrial contacts as well as noting the cogent suggestion by...
28/06/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Tom McEwan attended another quarterly "Insights" event at which industrialists, public sector and remarkably few academics discuss topical issues for Scottish business. Martin Ewart, Director of Scotland, Logica had been due to discuss “The Changing Face of Leadership”, but due to last minute...
28/06/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Tom McEwan will speak on Enhancing transparency and access at a major Scottish conference on computing in the public sector on 27th September (see http://cloudcomputing.holyrood.com/agenda ) Tom will discuss why access and transparency is important and how to safely and securely achieve e-democracy...
28/06/2011 Keynote Speaker
Tom McEwan will reflect on "Interaction as a craft, HCI is the discipline, UX is the profession" as part of the tenth annniversay HCI Educators workshop within HCI2011, on Thursday 7th July. Tom recently indicated that he would stand down as Chair of BCS Interaction Specialist Group due to...
28/06/2011 Keynote Speaker
Kevin Chalmers is to be the new IIDI representative on the Edinburgh Branch Committee of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. He takes over from Tom McEwan, who in turn inherited the role from Alison Crerar almost five years ago.
28/06/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Tom McEwan attended a seminar by Neil Allison (Univ of Edin) on Storyboarding, as part of the monthly series of events organised by the Scottish chapter of the Usability Professionals Association. These networking events allow academics a glimpse into the needs of professionals, particularly local...
28/06/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Tom McEwan hosted the Scottish national committee of BCs, the Chartered Institute in IT, in the ICE (see http://www.futureinteractions.net/overview/) Eight participants were physically present while another two joined the meeting via videoconferencing.
28/06/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
The Springer journal popularly known as IwC, with a 5-year impact factor of 1.911, is one of the leading international journals for Human Computer Interaction. Tom has recently been invited to review several papers for it, joining IJHCS, IJTHI, JCAL, HuCOM, IJIE, HHCI for which Tom either reviews...
28/06/2011 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
Tom McEwan has a piece in the online edition of BCS ITNow http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/38574 reflecting on the technology trends that lead to and stem from consumer devices such as Microsoft Kinect
28/06/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
When Tom became chair of BCS Interaction SG he inherited a successful web portal (which he had helped start in 2000) which is globally acknowledged as leading the field, but which lacked a coherent business model, and required a five-figure annual subsidy from BCS.
28/06/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
IIDI & ERI (Employment Research Institute) have been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with GamesAnalytics Ltd supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher Scheme. http://gamesanalytics.com/
27/06/2011 Funding
The Symposium on Security and Cybercrime was a major success with over 220 people attending, and had excellent feedback. The live presentations are at: http://eforensicscloud.com
26/06/2011 Conference Organisation
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23/06/2011 Conference Organisation
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/expert-warns-of-growing-threat-from-cyber-crime-1.1107893 A SCOT at the forefront of the international race to prevent cyber war has urged government and commerce to move to tackle the “growing threat”.
22/06/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
IIDI has been successful in obtaining funding for a new collaborative project with Flexiant Ltd supported by the SFC Innovation Voucher Scheme. http://www.flexiant.com/
22/06/2011 Funding
Hazel Hall presented the keynote paper "Coalition and collaboration: supporting the development of LIS research in the UK" at the i3 conference in Aberdeen on 22 June 2011. Further details of the conference are available at http://www.i3conference2011.org.uk/
22/06/2011 Keynote Speaker
Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2011/jun/20/chelsea-westminster-pilot-shared-online-records http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e5e960ea-9a9f-11e0-bab2-00144feab49a.html Chelsea and Westminster Hospital foundation trust is to begin testing online sharing of confidential patient...
21/06/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Ahmed Al-Dubai has bben appointed Co-Chair of The Second International Workshop on Wireless Networks and Multimedia (WNM-2011): http://scim.brad.ac.uk/~hmibrahi/WNM-2011/
20/06/2011 Conference Organisation
Ahmed Al-Dubai and Dr Lewis Mackenzie (University of Glasgow) have received full time PhD studentship from SICSA. This will cover the cost for a full time overseas PhD student (£85,000). This is part of the project on Group Communications in Vehicular Neworks.
20/06/2011 Studentship
Hazel Hall facilitated the iDocQ doctoral forum in Aberdeen on 19th June 2011. This was the first of the events organised by the members of the Information Science Pathway of the Scottish ESRC Doctoral Training Centre. For more details please see http://www.idocq.org.uk/
19/06/2011 Conference Organisation
can be found at http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/events for June 17th.
17/06/2011 Invited Presentation
David Benyon was invited to join the FET Flagship coordination action Robot Companions for Citizens.
David Benyon was invited to join the FET Flagship coordination action Robot Companions for Citizens.
15/06/2011 Other News
http://www.brocku.ca/conferences/immersive-worlds/speakers Dejan Momcilovic also talked on his work in full body animation for filmes such as Lord of the Rings and Avatar.
14/06/2011 Keynote Speaker
Interface (The knowledge connection for business) has used the highly successful collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University IIDI (Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation), TRI (Transport Research Institute), and Fast Answers Ltd as a showcase "success story" in matching businesses...
13/06/2011 Developed Software
09/06/2011 Invited Presentation
David Benyon attended the meeting of REF sub panel 11 in London
06/06/2011 Other News
Professor Bill Buchanan will give a key note at 5th International Conference on Cybercrime Forensics Education & Training: http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/social-applied-sciences/computing/conferences/CFET2011/Home.aspx
05/06/2011 Keynote Speaker
Covering two modules at Napier, the book covers key areas of security and digital forensics. It has one of the most comprehensive support for online material at: http://asecuritybook.com/ Its outline is: Keeping abreast of the latest developments in cyber security requires ongoing commitment, but...
04/06/2011 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
As part of the Festival of Politics Peter will on a panel on Thursday August 25 discussign the topic "Has Twitter changed the world? Social media and Scottish politics". The thrust of the debate is to consider whether the use of Twitter (and other social media) by participants in events such as the...
03/06/2011 Invited Presentation
David Benyon met with people from Adobe, Edinburgh to discuss a TSB bid.
03/06/2011 Other Event
The Scottish Technology Showcase is Scotland’s largest cross-sector, technology event. The focus is on productivity and competitiveness and combines exhibition and networking opportunities with a wide ranging series of short workshops, speakers and access to innovation support.
02/06/2011 Exhibition
David Benyon and other members of CiD met ALi Bowden of the City of Literature in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh to discuss the development of a poetry garden.
02/06/2011 Other Event
Mat won the best final year PhD presention at Faculity Conference held at Craiglockhart in May 2011. The focus of his work is on Affiliate marketing.
01/06/2011 Award
David Benyon attended the kick-off meeting for the FET Flagship coordination action Robot Companions for Citizens in Pisa, Italy.
30/05/2011 Other Event
Vitali Vitaliev editor of E&T magazine visited to discuss submitting articles on CiD research activities to his magazine
27/05/2011 External Visitor
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been invited to give a Keynote Talk at the World Congress of U-Home (WCUH-2011), with a theme of “Smart Living with Automation”, which will be held during November, 2011 at Hefei International Congress & Exhibition Center, Anhui, China. http://www.bitconferences.com/wcuh2011/
26/05/2011 Keynote Speaker
David Benyon examined a PhD at the University of Manchester on the topic of Virtual on-screen characters.
25/05/2011 External Examiner
Dr Alistair Duff is currently researching at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, where he used to be a visiting fellow. He has also renewed his attachment to the Oxford Union, often referred to as the greatest debating chamber in the world.
20/05/2011 Other Event
Professor Hazel Hall has been appointed to the editorial board of Aslib Proceedings. Aslib Proceedings is a peer-reviewed high-quality journal covering international research and practice in library and information science, and information management.
20/05/2011 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
The directors of Scottish companies Envirodigital and Fluideye visited to discuss a funding application to the TSB.
20/05/2011 External Visitor
Emma Hart has is to act as Technical Chair of Bionetics 2001, the 2011 International ICST Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems (BIONETICS 2011) to be held from December 5th to 7th (Monday - Wednesday), 2011.
19/05/2011 Conference Organisation
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
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been appointed the Programme Chair of The 10th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC 2011, Dalian, China. The 10th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC 2011) is in a series of highly successful...
19/05/2011 Conference Organisation
Ali Bowden from Edinburgh's UNESCO City of Literature trust visited to discuss issues concerning their digital strategy.
19/05/2011 External Visitor
Neil Urquhart will be co-editing a new book on Automated Scheduling and Planning, to be published by Springer in late 2012. Co-editing the book will be Sima Uyar from Istanbul Technical University and Ender Ozcan from the University of Nottingham.
17/05/2011 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
A panel of experts including IIDI's Dr Oli Mival, got together in May to debate the impact of pervasive, adaptive computing. The talk, open to the public, was augmented by film footage of PerAda project researchers, and interactive voting technologies triggered audience discussion.
17/05/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
16/05/2011 Conference Organisation
http://futureeverything.org/conference-3/interfacing-with-the-city/ This workshop will address future interactions between people and the urban environment, exploring the emerging behaviours of extreme technology users as indicators of tomorrows norms.
12/05/2011 Invited Presentation
Bill Buchanan outlined the innovative e-Health Platform at a keynote at: http://www.publicserviceevents.co.uk/event/programme.asp?ID=177 If you are interested the presentation is at: http://buchananweb.co.uk/inn.pdf
12/05/2011 Keynote Speaker
http://www.fet11.eu/programme-and-exhibition/sessions Where can researchers find inspiration for the transformative applications, concepts and infrastructures that they believe will characterise the next decade? One approach to predicting the future is to reflect on the visions of the future that...
05/05/2011 Invited Presentation
12:00 in room C18 Informal Wednesday seminar (bring your lunch) All staff and students welcome
04/05/2011 Seminar
http://www.fet11.eu/programme-and-exhibition/science-cafe 7 minutes to pitch an idea to the FET folks
04/05/2011 Invited Presentation
Both Flexicage and Inquisitive Systems are listed at http://www.spinoutsuk.co.uk/listings/company-listings/Default.aspx which is a major new survey and online database of UK university commercialisation. While press coverage (eg...
21/04/2011 Patents, Spin-outs and Licensing
12:00 in room C18 Informal Wednesday seminar (bring your lunch) All staff and students welcome
20/04/2011 Seminar
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
Hazel Hall comments in the Edinburgh Evening News on TED's decision to switch the venue of TED Global from Oxford to Edinburgh in July 2011. The full story is available online at http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Conference-move-sees-city-jumping.6753760.jp
18/04/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
J Kennedy will be giving a talk on integrating scientific data at the Genomics Network conference 'Making Sense of Large Datasets: Perspectives Across the Sciences' from 20-21st June 2011 at Exeter Univeristy. http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/egenis/events/conferences/title,24296,en.html
18/04/2011 Invited Presentation
The Centre for Social Informatics warmly welcomes all staff and students to attend at its next research seminar at which the PhD students Jan Auernhammer and Valeri Wiegel present their doctoral research. Both research undertakings are set in the domain of the automotive industry.
15/04/2011 Seminar
Hazel Hall has been named as SLA Europe Information Professional 2011. Established in 1994, the SLA Europe Information Professional Award recognises outstanding achievement in the information profession amongst those living and working in Europe.
14/04/2011 Award
General Jonathan Shaw (the new Cyber "Tzar") is to speak at the Symposium as role as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Global Issues). http://securityandcybercrime.eventbrite.com/ The Symposium will include talks from industry leaders such as Professor John Howie from Microsoft and Don Smith...
13/04/2011 Other News
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been invited to serve in the programme committee of the IEEE Conference on Green Communication. This conference is the first online conference in communication. http://www.ieee-greencom.org/ This conference will be different from other IEEE ComSoc flagship conferences in the way...
12/04/2011 Conference Organisation
Web Link: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/seke11main.html
08/04/2011 Conference Organisation
Bill is to serve as an External Examiner at Dublin City University
06/04/2011 External Examiner
On 23 March, Peter Cruickshank represented Edinburgh Napier University, presenting the evaluation of the EuroPetition project. The evaluation used socio-technical concepts to ensure that the impact on citizens' self-efficacy was central to the work done.
06/04/2011 Other News
12:00 in room D20 Informal Wednesday seminar (bring your lunch) All staff and students welcome
06/04/2011 Seminar
The currently work on building a secure e-Health Platform which runs on a cloud infrastructure has received two nominations for best paper at IEEE Cloud 2011. This conference is a major event in Cloud research, and has less than a 1-in-5 acceptance.
02/04/2011 Other Event
Bill to serve as a PhD examiner on Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) at the University of Essex
02/04/2011 External Examiner
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
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris/2011/ ICARIS 2011 will be held at the University of Cambridge in July 2011 Artificial immune systems (AIS) is a diverse and maturing area of research that bridges the disciplines of immunology and engineering.
30/03/2011 Conference Programme Committee
Web Link: http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/workshop_details.php?id=27&y
30/03/2011 Conference Organisation
Web link: http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/
30/03/2011 Conference Organisation
Alistair Lawson of CDCS was invited this month to give a seminar on the work that he has been leading relating to "GD2IPA: Towards a rule-based system for Gaelic text to International Phonetic Alphabet conversion", at University of Edinburgh School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures seminar...
28/03/2011 Invited Presentation
An ambitious education project involving 60 Gaelic Medium primary school pupils from Edinburgh and Skye is being considered for the inaugural £10,000 Clore Award for Museum Learning. The Air Iomlaid (On Exchange) project was conceived by artist Julie Brook and Johnny Gailey, Programme Manager for...
28/03/2011 Other News
This symposium aims to bring together knowledge from many different domains, such as from academia, industry, the public sector, and law enforcement professionals, to provide a vision to create next generation systems which protect the rights of individuals, and which also to reduce the risks of...
27/03/2011 Conference Organisation
Our discussion, led by Juergen Quittek, NEC, Germany, with IEEE and IEEE Communication Society has led to sponsor a new online IEEE conference on green communication. http://www.ieee-greencom.org/index.html This conference will be different from other IEEE ComSoc flagship conferences in the way...
23/03/2011 Conference Organisation
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
Dr Alistair Duff was quoted on Good Morning Scotland (Radio Scotland's current affairs programme) and Reporting Scotland (BBC Scotland's main news bulletin) on information policy and the ethics of the Population Census. He raised concerns over the use of a company belonging to US company CACI...
22/03/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Dr Ahmed Al-Dubai has accepted a Visiting Professorship for the summer in High Performance Networks and Communication Systems at Universite de Valenciennes, France. Ahmed will help to co-lead a team in Universite de Valenciennes to develop next generation networks and multicast communication in...
17/03/2011 Award
Azizah Jaafar visited from the National University of Malaysia. Azizah was on a whistle stop tour of England and Scotland to catch up with the best of HCI and interaction design research. http://www.ftsm.ukm.my/aj/
14/03/2011 External Visitor
http://www.ecal11.org/ Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary undertaking that investigates the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of biological entities and processes. It also attempts to design and build artificial systems that display properties of...
11/03/2011 Conference Programme Committee
Talk on Friday 18 March 2011 in G.32 from 12-1pm Jason Milletary will give a talk on the anatomy of the “here you have” worm, along with presenting an in-depth analysis of banking Trojans (spyeye, carberp, zeus, bancos/oddjob).
08/03/2011 External Visitor
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been invited to chair a session in the IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC2011, Kyoto-Japan, 5th-9th-June 2011. The IEEE ICC 2011 is the Premier Telecommunications Event for Industry Professionals and Academics from Companies, Governmental Agencies, and...
07/03/2011 Conference Organisation
PhD student Valeri Wiegel has been awarded a £625 conference/travel bursary by the John Campbell Trust to support participation at the European Conference on Information Systems in Helsinki, Finland, June 9-11th 2011: http://www.ecis2011.fi/.
07/03/2011 Award
David Benyon has been invited to give a talk at University of Salford on the recently completed Companions project
04/03/2011 Invited Presentation
Guest lecture: Tabassum Sharif, Wednesday 9 March 2011 at 10am in A.17. Flexiant is a Scottish Company, based in Livingston, and a major innovator in terms of Cloud Computing. Tabassum Sharif, the Director of Operations, from Flexiant will be giving a talk on the next generation of Cloud Computing,...
03/03/2011 External Visitor
In the recent round of University promotions Dr Hazel Hall (Centre for Social Informatics) and Dr Christoph Thuemmler (Centre for Distributed Computing and Network Security) have been promoted to the role of Professor.
02/03/2011 Other News
Computer Forensics: Now and the Future? David will outline IT security and the new threat vectors that he is seeing from the commercial sector, and looks at the need to change mind sets and look for more proactive solutions. Along with this he will cover more conventional forensics practices,...
01/03/2011 External Visitor
The competition was part of the series of events to celebrate the UNESCO City of Literature. The event's press release provides further details: "The one-off February festival, created and run by Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature in partnership with Glasgow UNESCO City of Music, marked the launch...
01/03/2011 Award
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01/03/2011 Keynote Speaker
Bill Buchanan's book Introduction to Security and Network Forensics (CRC Press) has now gone to press. Its content covers three modules within the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. The book cover is at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/084933568X/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&...
26/02/2011 Other Event
The BioVis 2011: Symposium on Biological Data Visualization takes place at VisWeek 2011 in Providence, RI, USA, October 23-24, 2011. The conference web site can be found at http://www.biovis.net, with programme chairs and co-chairs listed at http://www.biovis.net/committee.html.
24/02/2011 Conference Programme Committee
Tom McEwan will co-chair the second international UXCF workshop, as part of HCI2011 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 4-8 July 2011. UXCF2011 aims to build on UXCF2010 which atracted around 40 participants seeking to agree common definitions of User Experience (UX) job roles and competencies.
18/02/2011 Conference Organisation
Dr Jamie Graves is a finalist for the Young Innovator of the Year: http://www.johnlogiebairdawards.co.uk/news.aspx
18/02/2011 Award
Jamie Graves' achievement in reaching the final of the John Logie Baird Awards for innovation has been noticed in the local paper where they describe him as a local "boffin" http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/Label-that-tells-you-when.6720372.jp?articlepage=2
18/02/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Tom McEwan has been invited to provide the keynote address at the latest HCI Educators conference, which is co-located with HCI2011 this year. This will be Tom's first keynote at an international event, and his topic will be announced in the near future.
18/02/2011 Keynote Speaker
Tom has accepted the offer to become co-chair for Panels for Nordichi2012 the 7th Nordic Conference on Human Computer Interaction, to be held in Copenhagen, Oct 14-17 2012. Tom and his co-Chair Olav Bertelsen have appeared together on panels previously and share a commitment to make conference...
11/02/2011 Conference Organisation
David Benyon has been invited to give a Keynote Address at the Interacting in Immersive EWorlds conference in Brock, Canada June 14 2011. http://brocku.ca/conferences/immersive-worlds
03/02/2011 Keynote Speaker
David Benyon is programme co-chair for ISPR 2011 conference to be held at Edinburgh Napier University, October
02/02/2011 Conference Programme Committee
In an overview of e-petitions in the latest issue of Government Computing, Kable (part of the Guardian Media group) surveyed experiences and practices across the UK, including the positive experience of the e-petitioning system which the ITC helped design with the Scottish Parliament.
02/02/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Fred Baker (Cisco Fellow, Former Chair of the IETF, Current Chair of IPv6 Operations Working Group) has been active in technology development and Internet Standardization since the 1980's. He participated in early development of IEEE 802.1d switching and IP routing.
01/02/2011 External Visitor
Peter Cruickshank, Colin F Smith, Ella Taylor-Smith, Valeri Wiegel: ITC presentation on e-petitions to Bundestag delegation Peter, Colin and Ella have been invited to make a presentation of their experiences with e-petitioning and e-democracy generally to a delegation of MPs and officials from the...
01/02/2011 Invited Presentation
Julian Newman from Glasgow Caledonian University visited to discuss joint Carnegie bid.
25/01/2011 External Visitor
Visitors from Edinburgh World Heritage visited to discuss location-specific information design.
25/01/2011 External Visitor
Sian Joel successfully defended her PhD which was awarded subject to minor amendments.
25/01/2011 Other News
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25/01/2011 Conference Organisation
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25/01/2011 Conference Organisation
David Benyon has been invited onto sub-panel 11 for the forth coming Research Excellence Framework (REF). For the full list of panel members please see: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/research/ref/panels/main_panel_B_2.pdf
24/01/2011 Award
Phil Turner is conference chair for the ISPR 2011 conference on Presence Research to be held in October at Craighouse, Edinburgh Napier University
24/01/2011 Conference Organisation
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been appointed a Guest Editor –Special Issue-Journal of Computer and System Sciences – Elsevier, 2011. The Journal of Computer and System Sciences publishes original research papers in computer science and related subjects in system science, with attention to the relevant...
23/01/2011 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
Until recently it has been almost impossible to accurately predict the spread of an airborne infection. We at Edinburgh Napier University have been working with Imperial College London using smart phone location tracking technology to address this challenge.
21/01/2011 Media and Outreach Activity
Michael Smyth has been invited to lead a session at the Interaction Design Workshop, University of Split, Croatia, 14-19 March, 2011. (Conference web site at http://www.umas.hr/splitinteractions-2011.)
19/01/2011 Invited Presentation
In this presentation to NetIKX in London on Wednesday 19th January 2011 Hazel Hall shares insights from her work leading the implementation of the Library and Information Science Research Coalition, and from her research, on: (1) how organisations can use social media as an extension of their...
18/01/2011 Invited Presentation
Webpage: http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~emmah/SEABIS/SEABIS.htm Event Registration:http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2657040279 SEABIS MEETING: Self-organising, emergent, autonomous, biologically inspired systemsThe meetng runs from lunchtime to lunchtime, and includes lunch.
11/01/2011 Seminar
10/01/2011 Conference Organisation
Frank Greig won the award for the Most Innovate Pratice at the Edinburgh Napier Univerity Staff Conference for his novel Student Feedback system.
09/01/2011 Award
Ahmed Al-Dubai is member of the steering committee of the IEEE International Workshop on “Multi Constraints Algorithms for Wireless Networks, to be held in Conjunction with 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information Science and Applications, Jeju Island, Korea, 26-29 April 2011
27/12/2010 Conference Organisation
As the UK's intensive care departments struggle to deal with the number of people admitted with the flu, scientists are testing how global positioning systems (GPS) in mobile phones can be used to track how people spread infectious diseases.
23/12/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Computer security experts from Edinburgh Napier University, Microsoft and HoIP CIC have won a £2m grant to help enhance patient privacy and care. Researchers at the University’s Institute of Informatics and Digital Innovation will use the funding from the Technology Strategy Board and the...
23/12/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
22/12/2010 External Examiner
Scientists at Edinburgh Napier University and Imperial College London are using smart phone location tracking technology to predict the spread of infectious diseases. The scientists use 'geo' - information available from location tracking devices - to record the nature and frequency of interactions...
22/12/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Staff working on the PerAda EU project will be presenting at i-Docs at the Digital Cultures Research Centre in March 2011. The event, based at the University of the West of England, is the first lab/symposium to be dedicated to the rapidly evolving field of interactive documentary.
17/12/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Excert from award: "The title of the Edinburgh Napier Alumnus of the Year award was just as keenly contested, with many very worthy nominations put forward. However, the outstanding candidate was clear, and I am delighted to announce Steve Cordiner as our 2010 winner.
15/12/2010 Award
Emma Hart invited to be a member of the GECCO New
Frontiers Track: Self-* Search programme committee
GECCO http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2011/ is the largest conference in the field of Genetic and Evolutionary Computing. In 2011, the event will be held in Dublin from 12-16 July
15/12/2010 Conference Programme Committee
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
The 11th edition of the seminar series Latest Advances in Computer Science was held from November 30th-Dec 3rd. See http://uai.pcg.ull.es/?q=en/introduction for further details. Emma Hart gave the following talk: Applications of Artificial Immune Systems The field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS)...
10/12/2010 Invited Presentation
08/12/2010 Funding Panel
Welcome to EuroVis 2011 EuroVis 2011 is the 13th annual Visualization Symposium jointly organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. Bergen is Norway's second largest city and the main center of life and business on...
08/12/2010 Conference Programme Committee
Ella Taylor-Smith was invited to speak at the ePractice workshop on eParticipation in Brussels on 7th December, 2010. As the snow caused flights to be cancelled, Ella presented remotely over the phone. The focus of the presentation was eParticipation in science and technology topics -specifically...
07/12/2010 Invited Presentation
At the award ceremony, the entry from IIDI won the above honour. There are 47 entries in the IT category. Our entry is based on the whole phases of FlexiCAGE project. Our entry is one of the best ones but the top award was acquired by Cambridge Consultant Ltd.
06/12/2010 Award
Ahmed Al-Dubai is a member of the steering committee of the 2011 International Conference on Information and Communication Systems ICICS. (ICICS 2011) will be held in Amman, Jordan, May 22-24-2011. It is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results,...
25/11/2010 Conference Organisation
Tom McEwan gets the lead story in the latest edition of ITNow, the monthly magazine for BCS members)
More than 70,000 BCS members this month will open their copies of ITNow to find a two page article by Tom McEwan. BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT issues the publication monthly and this issue focuses on mobile computing. Tom's piece makes the link between design for mobile and design for...
23/11/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Tom McEwan attended the Strangers Dining Room in the Houses of Parliament, where he and the rest of the BCS Government Relations Group were hosting the annual MP's Website Awards. This year the awards were based on the criteria of accessibility, usability, engagement and the use of social media,...
23/11/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Each November, the Edinburgh Branch of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, hosts a topical debate at the Edinburgh Informatics Forum. Leading local speakers in the field are invited, and this year the topic was e-Commerce Skills.
23/11/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
This workshop was convened for the benefit of researchers in the PerAda (www.perada.eu) projects as a cross-project event to determine key challenges in security, trust and privacy as they relate to pervasive adaptation and as guided by particular factors arising from project work.
22/11/2010 Other Event
This talk will review experiences of working with biologists to solve different biological data challenges using information visualization over the past ten years. The visualization techniques adopted or developed to address the issues and the insights that have arisen will be presented.
16/11/2010 Invited Presentation
Workshop on Next Generation Patient-Centric Systems Details http://dacar.eventbrite.com Date: Tuesday, 7 December 2010 Time: 2pm until 5pm Location: Wyman Lecture Room, 4th Floor, Lift Bank D, C&W Hospital London Context and Aim At present C&W are involved in an EPSRC/TSB-supported research...
16/11/2010 Conference Organisation
British scientists are hoping to use the "location", or geo, information that is increasingly a part of mobile internet and phone usage, to track the spread of infectious diseases and so provide important clues about how quickly a pandemic might occur and also provide data with which...
16/11/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-11765760 Metro: http://buchananweb.co.uk/jamie.jpg Revolutionary digital fingerprinting software invented by Edinburgh computer scientists could be set to stem the growing tide of cyber crime.
16/11/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Redlands Chief of Police Jim Bueermann discovered the work of Dr Oli Mival online and asked him to visit and advice them as they update their briefing room and information infrastructure. As the designer and creator of the the ICE, Edinburgh Napier's cutting edge Interactive Collaborative...
12/11/2010 External Visitor
While malicious software for smartphones is on the increase, it could still be human error that creates the easiest opportunities for cyber-crime. Ever since phones became "smart", there has been concern that they could become riddled with malicious, self-replicating viruses and worms just like...
12/11/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
A software demonstration of vehicle routing based upon, emissions and other factors using state of the art Emergent Algorithms was presented at the 2010 SICSA Demo Fest.
10/11/2010 Exhibition
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been appointed Guest Editor, Journal of Telecommunication Systems-Springer, Special Issue on Highly Scalable Communications, 2010-2011.
04/11/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
Hazel Hall has accepted an invitation to serve on the international programme committee of i3, which takes place in Aberdeen, June 20-23 2011. For further information about the conference please see http://www.i3conference2011.org.uk/
03/11/2010 Conference Programme Committee
03/11/2010 External Visitor
Inquistive Systems, a spin-out from successful research work, were awarded a part in a TSB/ESPRC Trusted Services Call (£150K). It involves a collaboration with Lumison and Flexiant. The company, now led by Dr Jamie Graves and Niladri Bose, has successfuly received funding, including a SMART...
01/11/2010 Funding
The SFC has approved, in-principle, the funding (of around £700K) for the creation of a Scottish Centre of Excellence in Security and Cybercrime. This Centre of Excellence aims to bring together knowledge and vision from many different domains, such as from academia, industry, the public sector,...
01/11/2010 Funding
Dr Hazel Hall, Director of the Centre for Social Informatics, has accepted an invitation to give a keynote speech at ISSOME 2001:Information Science and Social Media International Conference, Turku, Finland, 24-26 August 2011.
28/10/2010 Invited Presentation
SACI and CSI member Dr Alistair Duff was approached by This Morning Scotland for comment, following a quote about the 'Wild West' Internet in the Sunday Herald. The issue was the criminal prosecution of school pupils for offensive postings about their teacher, on a social networking site.
27/10/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
27/10/2010 Invited Presentation
Oli Mival spent a week working with the police in Redlands, CA, USA to advise them on how best to use multitouch technologies such as those in our own ICE for their incident room.
23/10/2010 Other News
A debate billed as 'The Digital Media Debate' took place last night (21 October 2010) in front of a full house at Lower Parliament Hall, St Andrews. SACI Reader and CSI member Alistair Duff opened for the motion, This House Believes Print Media is Dead.
22/10/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Dr Alistair Duff was quoted in the Sunday Herald 17 October 2010, in a piece on the cyberbullying, so-called, of teachers. The focus was a local teacher who discovered some highly critical conversations on Bebo between some of her pupils.
19/10/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Inquisitive Systems (Jamie and Niladri new spin-out) are in the final of the Global Security Challenge Summit on the 11th and 12th November at the University of London. First prize: $10K. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Security_Challenge http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/
14/10/2010 Award
07/10/2010 Award
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the technical programme committee member of the Fourth IEEE ICC 2011 Workshop on Green Communications, 5-9 June Kyoto, Japan, 2011. This workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers for discussing energy-efficient communications.
07/10/2010 Conference Programme Committee
Jessie Kennedy is a member of the EPSRC Challenging Engineering 2010 ICT short listing Panel 2010-11.
05/10/2010 Funding Panel
Tom was elected to the board of ScotlandIS in May 2009. He had previously been a Director during its start-up phase (1999-2001) and then for several years ran the ScotlandIS Usability group and related events. The Scottish ICT Strategy Implementation group numbers around 40 key individuals in the...
04/10/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Tom joined the Edinburgh Branch Committee of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT in May 2008, taking the roles of publicity officer and disability liaison officer. He has since also taken responsibility for organising and chairing some of the branch events, most notably the annual November debate,...
04/10/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Program Chair, the 8th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Ubiquitous Computing and Networked Systems (PMEO-UCNS’2009), May 25-29, 2009, Rome, Italy, supported by IEEE and ACM.
04/10/2010 Conference Organisation
Computer security researchers at Edinburgh Napier University, along with Microsoft plc and HoIP, have just been awarded a research grant of over £2 million from the TSB (Technology Strategy Board) and the EPSRC related to their Trusted Services Call.
03/10/2010 Funding
Owen Lo, a 1st class Hons graduate in the School of Computing, received the Lumison Prize at the Young Software Engineering of the Year award at the Scotland IS 2010 Awards on Thursday 30 September 2010 at the Sheraton Hotel in Edinburgh.
03/10/2010 Award
Neil Urquhart has been invited to organise anc chair the Meta-heuristics stream at the YOR17 conference organised by Operations Research Society. More details of the event may be found here.
01/10/2010 Conference Organisation
Invited Keynote at First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia (IITM 2010), Allahabad, India
28/09/2010 Invited Presentation
Peter Cruickshank will be representing the ITC at the PEP-NET summit to be held in Hamburg on 23 September. The main focus of his talk will be e-petitioning and the upcoming European Citizen's Initiative, but he will also take the opportunity to highlight the ITC's expertise in the areas of youth...
23/09/2010 Invited Presentation
23/09/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been invited to take part in a workshop on Green Communication Networks, Glasgow.
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been invited to participate in Smart Grids & Smart Meters workshop, organised by The Digital Communications and Modern Build Environment Knowledge and Technology Strategy Board. The workshop will take place on 21 September in Glasgow.
21/09/2010 Other Event
Bill Buchanan has been nominated as an External Examiner for a PhD at the University of Plymouth.
19/09/2010 External Examiner
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been the PhD external examiner at University of Bradford. The viva was on 17th September and the thesis is on Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architectures.
17/09/2010 External Examiner
15/09/2010 External Examiner
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
Dr Jamie Graves presented at his final investors meeting, which has resulted in an over subscription of investors, which shows the potentional of the spin-out. Each investor must purchase shares in the company for £6,000 each.
11/09/2010 Patents, Spin-outs and Licensing
Bill was an external examiner in September 2010 for a PhD at the University of the West of Scotland. The work related to the teaching of software programming to students.
11/09/2010 External Examiner
Christoph and Bill have been invited to give a talk on Cloud Computing in the Public Sector on Monday 20 September 2010. Their focus is to discuss the implementation of the e-Health Cloud infrastructure that has been developed in Napier.
11/09/2010 Invited Presentation
Bill will be presented at the Glasgow Science Centre on 22 September in the Innovation Stream.
11/09/2010 Invited Presentation
J. Kennedy is the Invited Keynote speaker at CDVE2010: The 7th International Conference on Cooperative Design Visualisation and Engineering, Mallorca, Sept 19-22, 2010.
07/09/2010 Invited Presentation
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Guest Co-Editor, the Computer Journal, Oxford Journals, the British Computer Society Special Issue on Embedded Computing Systems: Techniques and Trends, 2010
06/09/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
A paper based on Luke Burrows' MSc dissertation, co-authored by Susan Turner and Phil Turner was awarded 'Best Short Paper' at the 2010 European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics held recently in Delft. The paper is entitled 'Re-creating Edinburgh: adopting the tourist gaze'.
03/09/2010 Award
Ahmed received an Outstanding Service Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IEEE Computer Society. It came in recognition of his achievement and contribution to a number of IEEE conferences in computing and communications.
01/09/2010 Award
http://uai10.pcg.ull.es/?q=en/program The objective of the 14th seminar in Lastest Advances in Computer Science (Últimos Avances en Informátia), is the training of the attendants in the most recent contributions of Computer Science from the experience, the exchange of ideas and the knowledge of...
01/09/2010 Invited Presentation
http://informingurbanfutures.wordpress.com/about/
31/08/2010 Other Event
Xiaodong Liu presented FlexiCAGE at a number of exhibitions and conferences: for example, Connect Scotland 2009, Angel Investment London Dec 2009, Investor ShowCase 2009
30/08/2010 Exhibition
27/08/2010 Other News
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Guest Co-Editor, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier, Special Issue on Performance of Networks and Ubiquitous Computing Systems: Techniques and Trends, 2010.
25/08/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
Owen Lo (our new PhD student) is a finalist for the Young Software Engineer of the Year event which will be held in September 2010. It is based on his Hons project, of which the abstract is: There are a multitude of threats now faced in computer networks such as viruses, worms, trojans, attempted...
12/08/2010 Award
Tom McEwan has been appointed to the Government Relations Group of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. His appointment is as the BCS-in-Scotland representative of and lasts until June 2013, during which time he will contribute to the many consultations BCS has with the UK and Scottish Governments,...
03/08/2010 Award
Tom McEwan and David Benyon have been contributing to the launch of EUSSET - The European Society of Socially Embedded Technologies. The BCS Interaction Specialist Group sent Tom to inaugural meetings in Vienna and Copenhagen, attended by a range of the founding members.
03/08/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Tom McEwan was invited to join the Research Committee (chaired by Prof Muffy Calder from the University of Glasgow). Tom's existing role as Chair of the BCS Interaction Specialist Group led to the nomination, and Tom hopes to share good practice, from Interaction and other specialist groups of BCS,...
03/08/2010 Award
Tom McEwan will co-chair, with Professor Lachlan MacKinnon of the University of Greenwich, the leading annual European English-language conference in Human Computer Interaction. Tom and Lachlan are editing the proceedings which will be published by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and will be...
03/08/2010 Conference Organisation
Hazel Hall has accepted an invitation to present a keynote speech at the 6th International Conference on Evidence Based Library and Information Practice to be held in Manchester between 27th and 30th June 2011. The conference, which is held every two years, returns to the UK after events in Sweden...
03/08/2010 Invited Presentation
Following a successful first year from August 2009 until July 2010, Dr Hazel Hall will continue to lead the implementation of the UK Library and Information Science Research Coalition until July 2011, supported by research funding from the British Library, COLICO, CILIP, JISC, MLA, the Research...
01/08/2010 Other News
The International Teledemocracy Centre's HUWY project: http://www.huwy.eu/ have been holding workshops to get young people and policy-makers more involved in this project, which aims to get young people involved in policies to do with the Internet.
30/07/2010 Other Event
28/07/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
21/07/2010 Other Event
19/07/2010 Conference Organisation
David Benyon has reached stage 2 of the ERC Advanced Grant scheme meeting the 'excellence' criteria for principal investigator, project proposal and research environment.
15/07/2010 Award
13/07/2010 Conference Programme Committee
12/07/2010 Conference Programme Committee
The DACAR Cloud is being built, and the first demo of the SPoC concept is here.
11/07/2010 Developed Software
A SCOTTISH computer expert based in the United States is to take up a new role at an Edinburgh university. Edinburgh-born John Howie, now working in Seattle, holds a senior position with Microsoft. He is a leading force in cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, advises governments and...
05/07/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Napier hosted a successful Symposium which over 160 people attended from a range of organisations. The symposium aimed to bring together knowledge from many different domains, such as from academia, industry, the public sector, and law enforcement professionals, to provide a vision to create next...
05/07/2010 Conference Organisation
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the International Special Issue Journal Coordinator for organising special issue journals for three Int. IEEE conferences. · The 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, IEEE CIT 2010, 28-30 June, Liverpool, UK. · The 12th IEEE Int.
05/07/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
Ahmed Al-Dubai is an Organising/Steering Committee Member, the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, IEEE CIT 2010, 28-30 June, Liverpool, UK
16/06/2010 Conference Organisation
Information Visualization (InfoVis) focuses on the use of visualization techniques to help people understand and analyze data. While related fields such as Scientific Visualization involve the presentation of data that has some physical or geometric correspondence, Information Visualization centers...
14/06/2010 Invited Presentation
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
Mikael Thomsen from ITU Copenhagen visiting Summer 2010
07/06/2010 External Visitor
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Programme Committee member: Special Session on, On-Chip Parallel and Network-Based Systems, in conjunction with the 18th IEEE Euro micro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, Pisa, Italy, February 17-19, 2010
21/05/2010 Conference Programme Committee
The 5th International Workshop on Performance Analysis and Enhancement of Wireless Networks (PAEWN’10), in conjunction with IEEE AINA, Perth, Australia, 20-23 April 2010.
21/05/2010 Conference Programme Committee
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Program Committee member: The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudCom 2010), IndianaPolis, USA, 30 Nov-03 Dec. 2010
21/05/2010 Conference Programme Committee
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Programme Committee Member of the 3rd 3rd International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service, CTRQ 2010-IARIA, June 13-19, 2010 - Athens, Greece., 2010.
21/05/2010 Conference Programme Committee
Neil Urquhart has been invited to co-chair the 2011 European Workshop on Evolutionary Computing for Scheduling Timetabling and Planning (EvoStim) part of Evo*2011.
21/05/2010 Other News
CiD seminar given by Hyowon Lee (Dublin City University)
20/05/2010 External Visitor
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Guest Co-Editor, the Computer Journal, Oxford Journals, the British Computer Society Special Issue on Embedded Computing Systems: Techniques and Trends, 2010.
20/05/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been invited to examine a PhD thesis, University of Bradford, the viva has been initially scheduled to take place in the first week of Sept. 2010.
20/05/2010 External Examiner
Ahmed Al-Dubai has presented an Invited talk at the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, 11th May 2010; the talk was on the next generation networking and green communication.
20/05/2010 Invited Presentation
Ahmed Al-dubai is the Track Chair, the 8th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) held in Hammamet, Tunisia, May 16-19, 2010, Tunisia.
16/05/2010 Conference Organisation
As part of the work of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo to enable the exchange of experience from countries of the region, a delegation from the Kosovan Assembly visited the Scottish Parliament in the week of 10 May, and CSI was invited to present the work of the International Teledemocracy Centre in...
12/05/2010 Invited Presentation
A group of parliamentarians and officials from Bavaria visited Scotland to compare experiences and lessons from the use of petitioning systems, online and offline. As part of the visit, CSI was invited to present the International Teledemocracy Centre's work in the design, development and...
11/05/2010 Invited Presentation
Workshop: Social Networking Tools supporting constructive involvement throughout the policy-cycle As part of the HUWY project, Ella Taylor-Smith (ITC, Edinburgh Napier University) and Ralf Lindner (Fraunhofer ISI), organised a workshop at the 4th International Conference on Electronic Democracy,...
07/05/2010 Other Event
Dr Hazel Hall, Director of the Centre for Social Informatics, has accepted an invitation to present a keynote paper on the theme of social computing at Internet Librarian International in London on October 15th 2010. Further information about ILI2010 can be found at...
06/05/2010 Invited Presentation
CSI member, Alistair Duff, has been invited onto the international advisory board of Keio Communication Review, a longstanding international journal dealing with information society issues, telecommunications regulation, media convergence, etc.
06/05/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the International Journal Coordinator for organising special issue journals for three Int. IEEE conferences. The 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, IEEE CIT 2010, 28-30 June, Bradford, UK. The 12th IEEE Int.
12/04/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Organising/Steering Committee Member, the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, IEEE CIT 2010, 28-30 June, Liverpool, UK. http://www.scim.brad.ac.uk/~ylwu/CIT2010/committees.html
12/04/2010 Conference Organisation
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Program Co-Chair, the 9th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Ubiquitous Computing and Networked Systems (PMEO-UCNS’2010), April 19–23, 2010, Atlanta, GA, Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, USA, supported by IEEE and ACM. http://www.inf.brad.ac.
12/04/2010 Conference Organisation
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Track Chair, the 8th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) will be held in Hammamet, Tunisia, May 16-19, 2010, Tunisia. http://www2.lifl.fr/AICCSA2010/
12/04/2010 Conference Organisation
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been the Guest Co-Editor,Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier.
12/04/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the Journal Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier, 2010.
12/04/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
A Scottish Overseas Research Students Award has been recieved to fund a PhD student, Mr Mustafa Bani Khalaf who is working with Ahmed and Bill on Mobile Ad hoc Vehicular Networks
12/04/2010 Studentship
A server to share large files within the school is now accessible to all members of staff as storage.soc.napier.ac.uk. For details on how to access it see the wiki.
31/03/2010 Other News
31/03/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
The current issue of The Journal, distributed on campuses across Edinburgh, contains a signed column by Dr Alistair Duff. 'The Holy Grail of a Viable Press' analyses some key issues facing the press in the information age.
24/03/2010 Other News
Dr Hazel Hall will be presenting the opening keynote paper at this year's BLA conference. Entitled "The Research Agenda" the cionference takes place in Liverpool on 7th and 8th July 2010. For further details, please see http://www.bbslg.org/2010Conference.aspx
21/03/2010 Invited Presentation
Dr Hazel Hall has accepted an invitation to serve on the programme committeee of the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. This meeting will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania between 22nd and 27th October 2010.
21/03/2010 Conference Programme Committee
This SCONE event aimed to showcase the excellence in the research built around the SICSA Next Generation Internet theme. The programme covers a wide range of research tops, but with a special focus on presentations on the areas of security and trust.
01/03/2010 Conference Organisation
David Benyon was elected to serve on EPSRC peer review panel from 2010
01/03/2010 Award
David Benyon is invited to join peer review of Computer science at University of Limerick April 2010
01/03/2010 Funding Panel
Louise Rasmussen, PhD student based in the Centre for Social Informatics, has been awarded John Campbell Trust scholarship of £1000 to support her work "Distributed knowledge networks in a public sector agency". For further details of the John Campbell Trust, please see:...
01/03/2010 Award
25/02/2010 Studentship
What makes for an engaging museum installation? I will discuss findings and observations from two studies of museum installations, focussing on aspects that contribute to their success in terms of visitor engagement and the social 'user experience'.
24/02/2010 External Visitor
19/02/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
19/02/2010 Conference Organisation
http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=15701255
19/02/2010 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
As part of the HUWY.eu project (http://huwy.eu) a seminar was organised to promote the project to people working within relevant UK government ministries and youth organisations, working in youth engagement, based in London. The seminar was hosted by HUWY project partner, the Ministry of Justice.
17/02/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
Hugh Wallace has nearly fifteen years experience working in the digital media field. He joined National Museums Scotland as their Head of Digital Media in July 2009. His presentation will focus on his experience to date within the museum sector and his plans as they develop.
12/02/2010 External Visitor
Dr Hazel Hall has been invited to lead a webinar on the business opportunities and risks of social computing to the Knowledge and Innovation Network (KIN) at Warwick University Business School on 29th April 2010. This is the second time that Dr Hall has been invited to contribute to KIN.
01/02/2010 Invited Presentation
News of Hazel Hall's award of Information Professional of the Year 2009 presented at Online 2009 is covered by Information Today, Information World Review, Online 2009, CILIP, Edinburgh Napier University, Neil Infield of the British Library), Library and Information Gazette (p.
31/01/2010 Media and Outreach Activity
31/01/2010 Patents, Spin-outs and Licensing
19/01/2010 Studentship
Applications are invited for a funded three-year PhD studentship within the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University. The studentship will cover tuition fees to home/EU level, with the possibility of a standard living allowance (stipend) - currently £13,290 per annum for 2009/10...
12/01/2010 Studentship
A PhD place is available within the Centre for Emergent Computing. Start on 01/03/2010, applications by 25/01/2010. Applications are invited for a funded three-year PhD studentship within the Centre for Emergent Computing at Edinburgh Napier University.
08/01/2010 Other News
30/12/2009 Patents, Spin-outs and Licensing
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Organising/Steering Committee Member, the International Conference on Information and Communications Systems 20-22 December, 2009, Amman, Jordan.
20/12/2009 Conference Organisation
Chris Speed (ECA) gave a talk on his work
18/12/2009 External Visitor
Dr. Chris Speed is Reader in Digital Spaces across the Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art, where he teaches undergraduate, masters and supervises PhD students. The three year TOTeM research project funded by the EPSRC, investigates the potential for...
04/12/2009 External Visitor
On Thursday, 3rd December, the HUWY project held a very successful event at Edinburgh’s eScience Institute to mark the beginning of the interactive phase of HUWY.eu. http://itc.napier.ac.uk/ITC/NewsItem.asp?ID=45
03/12/2009 Media and Outreach Activity
The Award was presented to Hazel at a ceremony at the Online conference in London Olympia in December 2009 for her outstanding contribution to the information profession.The award is organised by IWR magazine and Online Information Conference organisers, Incisive Media and sponsored by the American...
01/12/2009 Award
Dr. Deborah Fels has a PhD (1994) in Human Factors from Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, and a Masters of Health Science (1987) in Clinical Engineering from the University of Toronto. She is currently employed as an associate professor in the School of Information Technology...
27/11/2009 External Visitor
25/11/2009 Invited Presentation
Micjael Smyth gave an invited keynote to the SICSA whole body interaction wokrshop in Glasgow.
05/11/2009 Invited Presentation
There was a visit from Prof. Chaudray and Dr. Dutta Roy from IIT Delhi accompanied by Rama Venellakanti of HP Labs, Bangalore
27/10/2009 External Visitor
A group of delegates from Nigeria are visiting Scotland this week to delve deeper into the interface between formal politics and civil society. The group includes state representatives as well as representatives from non-governmental organisations and a number of attendees from the Niger Delta...
26/10/2009 External Visitor
19/10/2009 Media and Outreach Activity
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Co-Chair, the International Workshop on Design, Optimization and Management of Heterogeneous Networked Systems (DOM-HetNetS’09), held in conjunction with 38th ICPP 2009, IEEE Computer Society Press, Vienna, Austria, September 22-25, 2009.
22/09/2009 Conference Organisation
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Design, Optimization and Management of Heterogeneous Networked Systems (DOM-HetNetS’09), held in conjunction with 38th ICPP 2009, IEEE Computer Society Press, Vienna, Austria, September 22-25, 2009.
22/09/2009 Conference Organisation
01/09/2009 Other News
The online festival impact toolkit developed by A Cannon and R Kukla in conjunction with Edinburgh Institute for Festival and Event Management featured in the Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News, The Express, the Event magazine and the TSNN website.
27/08/2009 Media and Outreach Activity
20/07/2009 Conference Organisation
Alan Cannon and Robert Kukla have created an interactive website that implements a toolkit which has been developed by the Edinburgh Institute for Festival & Event Management (part of the business school of ENU): http://www.impactkit.co.uk/.
18/07/2009 Developed Software
17/07/2009 Conference Programme Committee
Ahmed Al-Dubai is the Publicity Co Chair, the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Pervasive Applications (TSP-09), October 5-7, 2009 in Macau SAR, P.R. China.
05/07/2009 Conference Organisation
01/07/2009 Conference Organisation
27/06/2009 Invited Presentation
Bodies, Places and Interaction Design :: This lecture will explore how our understanding of artefacts and places are intimately connected with and through the body. Drawing from diverse fields such as skateboarding to illustrate both the nature of interaction and the re-appropriation of public...
23/05/2009 Invited Presentation
An 8 day workshop hosted as part of the Magdalena Festival, an International Festival of Creative Communication, Maribor, Slovenia
15/05/2009 Invited Presentation
30/04/2009 External Examiner
Xiaodong Liu became Editorial board member of Journal of Software.
01/04/2009 Award
Director of the Centre for Social Informatics, Dr Hazel Hall, gave a presentation as part of the CSI seminar series on 24th March 2009. She discussed the main risks and opportunities of the adoption of social computing tools within organizations for collaborative work purposes from the perspective...
30/03/2009 Other News
Wednesday 1st April, 14.00-16.00, D40 Library 2.0 into practice - new rules of engagement Professor Gunilla Widén-Wulff, Department of Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Finland This presentation will focus on a large research project within the framework of Library 2.0.
26/03/2009 External Visitor
http://www.umas.hr/dvk/interactions/symposium/
18/03/2009 Invited Presentation
09/03/2009 External Visitor
Ahmed acted as a PhD external examiner , University of Glamorgan Thesis: Design and Investigation of Scalable Multicast Recursive Protocols for Wired and Wireless and Ad hoc Networks. Faculty of Advanced Tech. University of Glamorgan.
29/01/2009 External Examiner
Ahmed acted as a PhD external examiner, University of Sydney Thesis: A Real-Time Communication Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks, School of Information Tech. University of Sydney
22/01/2009 External Examiner
In collaboration with our international partners[1] The International Teledemocracy Centre (which is part of the Centre for Social Informatics in the School of Computing) has recently been awarded an EU funded project in the field of e-Participation.
23/12/2008 Other News
The International Teledemocracy Centre (which is part of the Centre for Social Informatics in the School of Computing) recently hosted a very successful ESRC funded workshop to establish the baseline for eParticipation in Scotland.
23/12/2008 Media and Outreach Activity
King’s College London’s Student Union http://www.kclsu.org/ has recently acquired a licence to use the International Teledemocracy Centre’s e-petitioner system. Peter Eland adapted the system which can be seen at http://petition.kclsu.org/list_petitions.asp to fit with the look and feel of the...
23/12/2008 Other News
30/09/2008 Patents, Spin-outs and Licensing
Ahmed Al-Dubai is Program Co-Chair, the 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-08), September 25-27,2008, DaLian, China.
27/09/2008 Conference Organisation
Ahmed Al-dubai is the Co-Chair, the International Workshop on Wireless Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks (WiSAN 2008), held in conjunction with 37th ICPP 2008, Portland, Oregon, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, Sept. 8-12, 2008.
08/09/2008 Conference Organisation
15/08/2008 Studentship
12/08/2008 Exhibition
22/07/2008 Conference Organisation
15/07/2008 Conference Programme Committee
01/07/2008 Conference Programme Committee
30/06/2008 Patents, Spin-outs and Licensing
The Centre for Distributed Computing and Security (CDCS) has won one of the prestigious SIPR (Scottish Institute for Policing Research) PhD Studentships. It will focus on an Enhanced, Verifiable and Auditable Intelligence Interface between the Scottish Police and Community Partners with Time...
26/03/2008 Studentship
Ahmed Al-Dubai has been elevated to Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE).
10/03/2008 Award
07/01/2008 Editorship, Journal Reviewer
Bi-annual downloadable e-zine : Urban Edition The second issue of Keho looks at how Presence research can impact on the way we live, the way we learn and how we are entertained. This time the team has been cruising the mean streets, hanging out with urban planner wannabes and experiencing the ‘non...
05/12/2007 Other News
Business Transfer Partnership: Taigh na Teud/ Napier University Lead Academic Supervisor: Alistair Lawson BTP Associate: Felix Ruthenberg Taigh na Teud is the largest sheet music publishers of traditional Scottish music in Scotland, with books widely used for educational purposes in schools,...
28/08/2007 Other News
PhD Studentship, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK School of Computing and Financial Services Authority (FSA) A fully funded three-year PhD studentship is available between the School of Computing and the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
27/08/2007 Other News
17/07/2007 Conference Organisation
17/07/2007 Conference Programme Committee
21/06/2007 Other News
His research is focused on Mobile Agent replay attacks.
21/06/2007 Other News
Dr. Michael Smyth was the local organizer for the event that attracted 50 students from across Europe and the US. The students engaged in one of five interaction design ‘atelliers’ - workshops focused on some aspect of living and working with technology in the context of the Edinburgh Festivals.
21/06/2007 Conference Organisation
Prof. Benyon was photographed and interviews about the vision of the Companions project; ‘the must have Christmas present in 2012. The serious issues of getting the interaction design right, and the computing advances necessary to get the companion’s ability to understand language were not...
21/06/2007 Media and Outreach Activity
We signed off on the new logo for CISS, now incorporated in to the CISS web pages. We think it captures much of the work of the centre. Modelling, component engineering, distributed networks and visualisation. Please use the logo when presenting your research.
19/06/2007 Other News
The 24th British National Conference on Databases will take place 3-5 July, 2007 at the University of Glasgow. BNCOD24 Programme Chair: Jessie Kennedy
19/06/2007 Conference Programme Committee
Best paper in the Int. Conference on Information Technology ACIT'2002, Doha, Qatar, 2002.
20/06/2002 Award
The outcomes of the RiLIES2 project have now been published in the RiLIES2 project report, available to download (pdf). The aim of RiLIES2 was to develop research resources and training materials (1) to support librarians and information scientists in their use of published library and information...
13/12/2000 Other News
