Computer Science

Departmental Seminars 1998

Room 229, Pearson Building

1pm - Bring your lunch with you.

The departmental seminar series is open to all.

If you wish to be notified of seminars, you should email ucl-cs-seminars-request.

Abstracts are available for highlighted titles.

Summer series

Autumn series

Other years are available from the page for the current year

Spring

4 February: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex; Safetynet: using the semantics of programming languages to build safe active networks

11 February RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS: Chair: K.Vekaria; Speaker: Julia Schnabel, UCL; Multi-scale active shape description in medical imaging.; Speaker: Nadia Kausar, UCL; A General conference control protocol for multimedia communication.

18 February: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Martin Colbert, Ergonomics Unit, UCL; Generic Inheritance Displays for Network Administrators

25 February: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Chris Locke, School of Library, Archiving & Information Studies, UCL; Postponed due to illness, this seminar will be give at a later date.

4 March: Chair: Farez Abdul Rahman; Speaker: Dr Mohammed Shabeer, Mobility Research Unit, BT Laboratories; Internet Mobility

11 March RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS: Chair: Mel Slater; Speaker: Kanta Vekaria, UCL; Selective Crossover in Genetic Algorithms; Speaker: Ethan Collopy, UCL; Applying the Bootstrap to Dependency Data Mining in Temporal and Indefinite Databases

18 March: Chair: Anthony Steed; Speaker: Adrian Hilton, University of Surrey; Visual Capture of 3D Models for Objects and People

Summer

22 April RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS

29 April CANCELLED This seminar will be rescheduled for the Autumn: Chair: Chris Clack; Speaker: David Pym, Queen Mary & Westfield College; Informatics turns logic upside-down (or what's missing from Aristotelian thinking)

6 May: Chair: Simon Arridge; Speaker: Duncan Gillies, Imperial College; Computer Simulation for Interactive Medical Training

13 May RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS: Chair: Mel Slater; Speaker: Dave Lewis, UCL; Integrating TINA into an Internet-based Services Market; Speaker: Joc Chappell, UCL; Mobile Quality of Service Provision in the Multi-Service Network

20 May: Chair: Jon Crowcroft; Speaker: Colin Smythe, University of Sheffield; Cable Access for Digital Services

27 May: Chair: Steve Wilbur; Speaker: John Fox, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Advanced Computing Lab; Intelligent Agents which Reason about Beliefs, Decisions and Plans: Logical Foundations and Practical Applications

10 June: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Jon Crowcroft, UCL; CRAM: Cell Re-labeling at Merge-points for ATM Multicast

Autumn

7 October RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS

14 October: Chair: Steve Wilbur; Speaker: Yiorgos Chrysanthou, UCL; Shooting faster than your shadow

21 October: Chair: Steve Wilbur; Speaker: John Dowell, UCL; Cognitive design in disaster management training

28 October: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow; One step forward and (oops) two steps back: Why traditional HCI techniques fail to support Desktop Virtual Reality

4 November RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS: Chair: Ian Brown; Speaker: Anna Bouch; Network pricing: The user perspective.; Speaker: Sacha Brostoff; Improving password memorability.

18 November: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Jon Crowcroft, UCL; Multicasting and Active Inter-Networks - Two or three things we might do if Internet Routers were more programmable.

25 November: Chair: Janet McDonnell; Speaker: Arthur Miller, Dept. of Science and Technology Studies, UCL; Visualising the Invisible: Visual Imagery in 20th Century Art and Science

2 December RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS: Chair: Mel Slater; Speaker: Anne Adams; Users' perception of privacy in multimedia communications: who's watching who in CS?; Speaker: Simone Stumpf; Design Team Interaction - Just Mere Rhetoric?

9 December: Postponed until next term due to illness.; Chair: Louise Clark; Speaker: Ann Blandford, Middlesex University; Modelling users, devices and domains for usability evaluation

16 December: Chair: Steve Wilbur; Speaker: Saleem Bhatti, UCL; Enabling Dynamically Adaptable Internet Applications

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