Department of Computer Science

Departmental Seminars 1999

Seminars, normally held in Room 229, Pearson Building at 1pm, are open to all.
Anyone willing to give a seminar should contact John Campbell.
If you wish to be notified of seminars, you should email ucl-cs-seminars-request@cs.ucl.ac.uk.
Click on the title to see the abstract.

Spring

13 January RESEARCH STUDENT TALK

Chair: Mel Slater

Speaker: Tom Quick, UCL

Embodiment and emergence - attaining autonomy and adaptation in software the natural way.

20 January

Chair: Louise Clark

Speaker: Ann Blandford, Middlesex University

Modelling users, devices and domains for usability evaluation

3 February RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS

Chair: Mel Slater

Speaker: Alberto De Souza, UCL

Dynamically Scheduling the Trace Produced During Program Execution into VLIW Instructions

Speaker: Joao Oliveira, UCL

3D Geometric Level of Detail

10 February

Chair: Simon Arridge

Speaker: Olivier Coulon

Multiscale analysis of cerebral functional activation maps

16 February NOTE: Tuesday, not Wednesday

Chair: Anthony Finkelstein

Speaker: Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham

Features of software systems

23 February NOTE: Tuesday, not Wednesday

Chair: Simon Arridge

Speaker: Dr. V. Dicken, Universitat Potsdam

Simultaneous Activity and Attenuation Reconstruction in Emission Tomography, a nonlinear inverse Problem.

24 February

Chair: Bernard Buxton

Speaker: Edwin Hancock, University of York

Segmenting and matching triangulated representations of shape

3 March RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS

Chair: Mel Slater

Speaker: Louise Clark, UCL

Conceptual Design - Designing Interfaces for Network Services

Speaker: Gillian Wilson, UCL

The relationship between media quality and user cost in networked multimedia applications

10 March

Chair: Sean Holden

Speaker: Christophe Giraud-Carrier, University of Bristol

Hybrid Models in Machine Learning

24 March

Chair: B.Buxton

Speaker: Shimon Edelman, University of Sussex

Core problems in high-level vision

28 April

Chair: B.Buxton

Speaker: Tim Cootes, University of Manchester

Active Appearance Models

6 May Thursday

Chair: Simon Arridge

Speaker: Chris Johnson, Center for Scientific Computing and Imaging, University of Utah

Interactive Simulation and Visualization: Applications to Large-Scale Computational Problems

12 May

Chair: Angela Sasse

Speaker: John Adams, Dept. of Geography

The Millenium Bug and other Virtual Risks

19 May

Chair: Sean Holden

Speaker: John Shawe-Taylor, Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London

Robust Bounds on Generalization from the Margin Distribution

13 July Tuesday

NOTE: New date

New location: Room 127 Pearson Building

Chair: Mel Slater

Speaker: Brian A. Barsky, Professor of Computer Science, Affiliate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley <barsky@cs.berkeley.edu>

The OPTICAL Project: OPtics and Topography Involving the Cornea And Lens

8 October Friday

Chair: John Crowcroft

Speaker: Steve Deering, Cisco Systems.

Watching the Waist of the Protocol Hourglass

19 November NOTE: Friday in Room 203

Chair: Louise Sheeran

Speaker: Ann Light, COGS, Sussex University

Interacting through Websites: Why a Communication Model is Useful

8 December

Chair: John Campbell

Speaker: Dr Volodya Vovk, Dept. of Computer Science, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College

Transductive Confidence Machines

15 December

Chair: John Campbell

Speaker: Jon Crowcroft , Dept. of Computer Science, UCL

Herding Cats? - Why Measuring the Internet is Better than Trying to Control it through Modelling

17 December

Chair: Jonathan Howell

Speaker: Amela Sadagic , Advanced Network & Services, Armonk NY

National Tele-immersion Initiative (NTII): Visions and Challenges