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Prof . Emma Hart gives interview "An Insider's Guide to Evolutionary Computation"

Laura van Beers from ContactEngine, a London based company delivering software that enables its customers to proactively engage customers in AI-driven conversations to fulfil their business objective...

17 December 2018
Prof. Emma Hart invited to talk at Scotland IS Software Engineering Leader's Forum to discuss SICSA's work on AI

Prof. Emma Hart gave an invited talk at the monthly meet-up of the Scotland IS Software Engineering forum on behalf of the SICSA AI theme to describe the work taking place across Scottish Universities...

20 November 2018
Edinburgh Napier University has the greatest representation at the prestigious Scottish Cyber Awards

Edinburgh Napier University has once more a great presence in the Scottish Cyber Awards, with six (direct and indirect finalists) in five categories.

10 October 2018
Scottish Cyber Awards: Basil Manoussos (Manager of The Cyber Academy) nominated for Cyber Evangelist of the Year

Basil Manoussos, the Manager of The Cyber Academy at the School of Computing is a finalist for the prestigious Cyber Evangelist of the Year (2018)

9 October 2018
Prof. Emma Hart interviewed in new video released by Sentient AI to provide unique insights to business leaders on the growing applicability of evolutionary computation

Sentient Technologies, a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) products based on evolutionary computation, today announced a new video collection that provides unique insights to the burgeonin...

13 August 2018
Prof. Emma Hart and Dr Kevin Sim win Bronze Award in International Humies competition for work on predicting wind damage in Forestry

The Annual Humies prize is awarded at the International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation for human-competitive results that have been produced by any form of genetic and evolutionar...

18 July 2018
Evolutionary Robotics Research Nominated for Best Paper Award

Prof. Emma Hart, Dr Andreas Steyven and Prof. Ben Paechter have been nominated for a prestigious best paper award at the GECCO 18, Kyoto, Japan for new work in evolving a diverse team of swarm robot...

14 July 2018
Big Data in Cyber Security Conference

Big Data in Cyber Security Conference held at Craiglockhart

30 May 2018
OSINT - Open Source Intelligence course

OSINT course delivered to Scottish Paralegal Associatio

21 May 2018
SOCLAB Launch

Official launch of SOCLAB, the new SOC facility in Merchiston Campus

10 April 2018
Tom Flint to talk at Edinburgh Informatics HCI Group

Tom Flint will be discussing his work with Jupiter Artland in a talk titled An infrastructure for exploring the mixed reality continuum with children: Minecraft, Mixed Reality, and Jupiter Artland. T...

20 February 2018
Centre for Social Informatics researchers report on the long-term value of networking grants

The Journal of Documentation has recently accepted a journal article by Centre for Social Informatics researchers that considers the long-term value and impact of AHRC network grant funding.

15 February 2018
Professor Hazel Hall wins SICSA PhD Supervisor of the Year Silver Award 2017

Professor Hazel Hall has won the SICSA PhD Supervisor of the Year Silver Award 2017

12 January 2018
Dr. Zhiyuan Tan Invited to Deliver a Seminar on Internet of Things and Its Security at the Dongguan University of Technology, China, December 2017

Dongguan University of Technology (DGUT) is a key university in Dongguan, China. DGUT has undertaken more than 900 significant research projects, such as the National Key Basic Research Development Pl...

12 December 2017
Professor Isto Huvila visits the Centre for Social Informatics

Professor Isto Huvila of Uppsala University, Sweden visited Scotland in November 2017. As part of his programme he spent some time with colleagues in the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Nap...

26 November 2017
Appropriation Affordance and Minecraft Invited talk by Tom Flint

Tom Flint gave a seminar for The Centre for Research in Digital Education titled Appropriation Affordance and Minecraft: What the methods people use to navigate Minecraft tell us about approaches to t...

24 November 2017
Augusto Esteves will be delivering a seminar at the University of Bath

Augusto Esteves has been invited by the HCI group at the University of Bath to deliver a seminar on his work on motion matching input for the Internet-of-Things (IoT).

Abstract: Motion m...

22 November 2017
Dr. Zhiyuan Tan Won The National Research Award 2017 from The Research Council of the Sultanate of Oman

Dr. Zhiyuan Tan's research work entitled "Building an intrusion detection system using a filter-based feature selection algorithm" has been awarded by the The Research Council of the Sultanate of Oman...

12 November 2017
Centre for Social Informatics contribute to ASIST2017 in Washington DC

The Centre for Social Informatics participated at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST2017) in Washington DC on 30th October 2017.

30 October 2017
WaveTrace awarded by Design United and the Dutch Design Week

WaveTrace, a project that was internally funded, was awarded with an additional 5000€ from Design United, to prepare an exhibition at the acclaimed Dutch Design Week. This work was done in collaborati...

20 October 2017
Dr. Simon Powers has been appointed as an Associate Editor for Adaptive Behavior

Adaptive Behavior is an indexed, international peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on adaptive behavior in biological systems and autonomous artificial systems. Dr. Simon Powers has been inv...

18 October 2017
Augusto Esteves was featured in The Conversation and EconoTimes

The articles cover the work published at ICMI '17, exploring the use of head-mounted displays as opera glasses, with the goal of delivering an egalitarian user experience during live events. Links bel...

9 October 2017
Centre for Social Informatics contribute to the ESRC ‘Ways of being in a digital age’ project review conference

The Centre for Social Informatics made a contribution to the the ESRC ‘Ways of being in a digital age’ project review conference in October 2017.

9 October 2017
Centre for Social Informatics contribute to ECIL 2017

The Centre for Social Informatics made a contribution to the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) in St Malo, France, in September 2017.

19 September 2017
Centre for Social Informatics contribution to ECKM 2017

The Centre for Social Informatics made a contribution to the European Conference on Knowledge Management 2017 in Barcelona, Spain in September 2017.

7 September 2017

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