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Comparing Listeners' and Designers' Listening Experiences
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 (2010)
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
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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
