Department of Computer Science

Departmental Seminars 2000

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.
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Department of Computer Science
University College London
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Spring

12 January RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Simon Attfield, UCL; Information-seeking in context: using a model of journalistic authoring to explain information-seeking phenomena.; Speaker: Dawn Kennedy, UCL; Application of the Total Least Squares Procedure to Linear View Interpolation.
19 January: Chair: John Campbell; Speaker: Alex Chengyu Fang, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London; Tagging and Parsing Linguistic Corpora for Language and Speech Applications
26 January: Chair: John Campbell; Speaker: Dr. Hartley Millar, Management Partners, Wimbledon; Adventures of a Consultant in the British Computing Jungle
2 February RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Andreas Loizides, UCL; Empathic Visualisation Algorithm (EVA); Speaker: Gideon Amos, UCL; Numerical Solution of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation and its Application to Animation.
7th February: Monday 4pm; Location: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1; Chair: Mel Slater; Speaker: Jaron Lanier (A co-founder of virtual reality who coined the term); Novel strategies for networking virtual worlds
16 February: Chair: John Campbell; Speaker: John Campbell, Professor of Computer Science, UCL; Agents in an uneconomic world: what integral calculus can tell designers of multi-agent systems
23 February: Chair: John Campbell; Speaker: Prof. Derek McAuley, Assistant Director, Microsoft Research, Cambridge; Network Congestion, Pricing and Futures
1 March RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS: Postponed to 3 May; Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Giles Thompson, UCL; Texture mapping for 3D human models; Speaker: Mischa Weiss-Lijn, UCL; Metadata in document navigation and authoring
8 March: Chair: John Campbell; Speaker: Prof. Masoud Yazdani, Faculty of Art, Media and Design, University of the West of England, Bristol; Post-Modern Authorship in Computing Environments
15 March: Chair: John Campbell; Speaker: Dr. Michael Schroeder Distributed and Agent-Based Systems Group, School of Informatics, City University; Should Hamlet kill Claudius? or Towards a Visualisation of Arguing Agents
22 March: Chair: John Campbell; Speaker: Prof. Andy Hopper, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering &
AT&T Laboratories Cambridge; Sentient Computing
3 May RESEARCH STUDENT TALKS: Chair: Angela Sasse; Speaker: Giles Thomps on, UCL; Texture mapping for 3D human models (to be confirmed).; Speaker: Mischa Wei ss-Lijn, UCL; Metadata in document navigation and authoring
10 May: Chair: John Campbell; Speaker: Dr. David Shrimpton, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury; The Convergence of Interactive Television and the World Wide Web
17 May: Chair: John Campbell; Speaker: Dr Riccardo Poli, Department of Computer Science, University of Birmingham; Exact Schema Theories and Effective Fitness in Genetic Programming and Genetic Algorithms
25 May (NOTE: Thursday): Chair: John Campbell; Speaker: Prof. Chris Jesshope, Department of Computer Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand; Technology Integrated Learning Environments
18 July: Tuesday 3pm; Chair: Mel Slater; Speaker: Prof. Brian A. Barsky, OPTICAL Project, Computer Scie nce Division, University of California, Berkeley; Towards the Incorporation of Camera Models, Eye Models and Actual Patient Eye Data for the Accurate Rendering of Computer Graphics Imagery
16 August: Chair: W.Emmerich; Speaker: Prof. Kurt Geihs , CS Department, University of Frankfurt, Germany; currently visiting researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge; Middleware - Quo(S) Vadis?
8 November: Chair: W.Emmerich; Speaker: Prof. James Davenport , Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath.; Abstract Data Types in Computer Algebra
15 November: Chair: W.Emmerich; Speaker: Dr. Allen Long , School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics South Bank University London; Detecting Fraudulent Debit Card transactions in Large-Scale Databases
22 November: Chair: W.Emmerich; Speaker: Michelle Doughty , author and financial journalist; How to make a million in the City - the truth
24 November: Chair: W.Emmerich; Speaker: Professor Sajal K. Das , Director Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN), Department of Computer Science & Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington; Towards a Universal Model for Personal Mobility Management in Wireless Networks
29 November: Chair: W.Emmerich; Speaker: Dr. W. Langdon, , Dept. of Compurer Science, UCL; How does the Genetic Programming Problem Scale?
6 December: Chair: W.Emmerich; Speaker: Dr. A. Narayanan, , Dept. of Computer Science, University of Exeter; Quantum Computing: The End of Computer Science as we know it?
13 December: Chair: W.Emmerich; Speaker: Christian Nentwich , Dept. of Computer Science, UCL; Consistency Checking and Smart Link Generation
14 December: Chair: W.Emmerich; Speaker: Prof. Larry F. Hodges , College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology; Using the Virtual World to Improve Quality of Life in the Real World

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