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in a nutshell Jon Oberlander Director of SICSA

in a nutshell Jon Oberlander Director of SICSA. Structure of this presentation. Why? Who? What?. What’s going on?. How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow? Distributed, pervasive, varied … sometimes big and powerful, sometimes small and low power

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in a nutshell Jon Oberlander Director of SICSA

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  1. in a nutshell Jon Oberlander Director of SICSA

  2. Structure of this presentation • Why? • Who? • What?

  3. What’s going on? • How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow? • Distributed, pervasive, varied … • sometimes big and powerful, sometimes small and low power • How can we “right-scale” in the petabyte age? • Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering

  4. Starting point 9% of UK population 16% of UK 4* output 20% of RC grants Aberdeen Robert Gordon Dundee Abertay St Andrews Stirling Heriot Watt Glasgow Edinburgh Strathclyde

  5. Plans for growth: £29M investment +6 +11 +6 +7 Governing Board +80 Research Committee Graduate Academy Advisory Committees Securing Interfacing Modelling Engineering • Practical networking • Performance analysis • Network security formalisms • Web languages • Computational group theory • System and performance modelling • Model checking • Applications • Socio-technical systems • Agents and autonomics • Complex interactions • Speech and language • HCI • Information retrieval • Machine learning

  6. Who’s here? Academics • Edin Vincent Danos • StA Simon Dobson • Stir Marwan Fayed • Edin Sharon Goldwater • Strath Eva Hornecker • Edin Elham Kashefi • Edin Victor Lavrenko • HW Oliver Lemon • HW H-W Loidl • Edin Richard Mayr • Edin Iain Murray • StA Mirco Musolesi • Gla Gethin Norman • Gla Dimitrios Pezaros • Gla Simon Rogers • Strath Dimitri Roussinov • Edin Guido Sanguinetti • Abd Advaith Siddharthan • Edin Charles Sutton • Gla Alessandro Vinciarelli

  7. Who’s here? Advanced Fellows • StA Edwin Brady • Strath Andrew Coles • Edin Robin Milner • StA Alex Voss • On target for academic recruitment • 10 more to recruit & confirm • On target for advanced fellow recruitment • 3 more to recruit & confirm

  8. Securing the NGI: Research challenges • Future architecture: • Naming, addressing& routing • Security and resilience • Converged services • Ubiquitous access • Network defence - resilience • Issues: • Understanding network evolution • Heterogeneity • Current ossification due to CNI dependencies • Research issues “masked” by commercial drivers http://www.caida.org/ http://www.jump.org.uk/caida_code_red_animations/newframes-small-log.gif

  9. Securing: Strength in Scotland WWW Info Sys. RGU, St Andrews, Stirling Networked Games. Abertay, Glasgow. Applications Security. Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews Protocols and systems Network management Distributed applications. Strathclyde, St Andrews,Stirling Mobile & wireless. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Strathclyde Security services & protocols Network measurement, monitoring & analysis Measurement & monitoring. Glasgow, St Andrews. Protocol analysis and testing. Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews New paradigms and system architecture New architecture. Glasgow, St Andrews

  10. Multimodal Interfacing: Research challenges • Modality: narrow to broad • Speech, gesture, touch, face, body • Interpreting & generating multimodal communication scenes • Frequency: discrete to continuous • Interaction loops, ambient networks, evidential reasoning • Flexibility: impersonal to personal • Dialogue, context, affect, history • User modelling, inference, privacy • Intelligence: explicit to implicit • Intention recognition, assistiveness, very large scale NLP

  11. Interfacing: Strength in Scotland Natural language processing - Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews Information retrieval - Glasgow, Strathclyde, RGU HCI - Glasgow, Dundee, Heriot-Watt Speech - Edinburgh, Stirling Visualisation - Glasgow, Abertay, Heriot-Watt, RGU Cognitive systems - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde Machine learning - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling applications: Ubiquitous computing, dialogue systems, healthcare, knowledge engineering, machine translation, autonomous robotics • Aberdeen, Dundee, Abertay, RGU, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, • Stirling, Strathclyde

  12. Modelling and Abstraction: Research challenges Predictive abstract models for analysis of complex,interacting systems • Languages, abstractions and mappings • discrete/continuous state/time, deterministic/stochastic, individual/population • Effective algorithms • scalable tools • Scalable analysis • large scale, reductions and abstractions • Query languages • for analysis • New application domains

  13. Modelling and Abstraction: Strength in Scotland - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews automated reasoning - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt types and logics - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling process algebras - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling machine learning applications: neuroinformatics, mathematical biology, networked systems • Abertay,Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, • Stirling

  14. Complex Systems Engineering: Research challenges • Scope • Modelling • Evolution • Socio-technical • Issues • Socio-technical systems engineering • Novel computing paradigms • Trusted software • Reducing time to value

  15. Complex Systems Engineering: Strength in Scotland Accident analysis. Glasgow Social informatics. Edinburgh, Napier Complexity in Organisations LSCITS. St Andrews Responsibility and trust. St Andrews, Edinburgh Socio-technical systems Agents. Aberdeen, Edinburgh Adaptive Computation. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Abertay, Stirling, Dundee, Robert Gordons Empirical SE. Strathclyde Software engineering Novel computation Predictable software systems Modelling and Abstraction Model-driven development. Edinburgh Functional systems. St Andrews, Heriot Watt Mathematical foundations

  16. Graduate Academy • Prize Studentships • 20 international studentships p.a. • International Summer Schools • 2009: • Pervasive adaptation • Homecare systems • Programming languages: Concurrency, distribution, multicore • National Graduate Symposium • 2009 - June • Visiting Fellowships • 12 p.a. • You are cordially invited to apply

  17. Activities • Next generation internet (SCONE) meeting - 12 March 2009

  18. Commercialisation: The Four Pillars of Informatics Ventures • Practitioner led entrepreneurship education • Silicon Valley Speaker Series • MIT Entrepreneurship Center workshops • SICSA entrepreneurship summer school / bootcamps • Innovative use of the web • www.entrepedia.org • www.informatics-ventures.com/initiatives/podium • www.techmeetup.co.uk • Connecting the community • Engage | Invest | Exploit & Lifting the Lid • Mobile Application Group • Microsoft / RBS Surface Table Competition • Special support for potential winners • Entrepreneurs in Residence • Ignite and MIT EDP

  19. Delivered in six months Feb – Aug 2009 • Engage | Invest | Exploit, April 2009: http://www.informatics-ventures.com/eie09 • Reality Check with Guy Kawasaki for SICSA students, April 2009 • MIT Entrepreneurship Center workshops: • Global Sales Strategies, 25th-26th Feb 2009 (with Hillington Park Innovation Centre) • Entrepreneurial Operational Excellence, 27th-28th Feb 2009 • Financing for Growth, 20th-21st May 2009 • 11 enterprises to Cambridge “Ignite” Programme, June 2009 • 12 student enterprises to Cambridge “Enterprisers” Programme, May 2009 • School for Startups with Doug Richard: • Aberdeen, 1st June 2009: “The Six Rules for Startups” • Edinburgh, 2nd June “Zero Cost Marketing for Startups • Development of web projects: pod.ium, techmeetup.co.uk, entrepedia

  20. Reporting: • Review meeting with ESEP / Scottish Government 30th July • Very positive. ESEP / Scottish Government feel we are on track. • 18 months ‘formally’ into project, 12 months actual. • One of only two projects selected for audit (due to readiness & progress) • Possibility that IV will be used as exemplar Priority 1 for other EU countries. • Article 60b review on 8th September, 2009.

  21. Ignite @ University of Cambridge. Edinburgh: Dot Red Games Ltd QUAID Affect Labs Ltd Spinsight Ltd WikiJob Ltd QUAID Hoodeasy Ltd Glasgow Brainwave Discovery Ltd Robomotic x2 RGU Oncology Workbench Napier Inquisitive Systems SE John Murray

  22. Schedule for next 6 months: August: TechMeetup, 12th New Approaches to Leadership for Aspiring Women Managers 31st September: Leadership: managing growth and change 1st & 2nd International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference (sponsoring) 2nd – 4th John Logie Baird Awards (hosting) 3rd TechMeetup, 9th October: Cambridge/Scotland entrepreneur forum 21st & 22nd November: Lifting the Lid 2009 December: Global Sales Strategies (tbc) Engage | Invest | Exploit roadshow - Investor Showcase in London (tbc) January: MIT EDP

  23. Conclusion • SICSA is about people: • 4 themes • CSE Greg Michaelson • NGI Saleem Bhatti • MAA Jane Hillston • MMI Steve Brewster • 7 research fellows • 30 new academics • 60+ international visitors • 80 international students • Knowledge transfer a central priority • Business Development Executive - Alan Settery • Links: • sicsa.ac.uk Website, plus link to social network • informatics-ventures.com KT features

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