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SFC visit - Prof Adrian Smith

SFC visit - Prof Adrian Smith. Jon Oberlander, Muffy Calder, Saleem Bhatti, Colin Adams, John Murray. Agenda. Research Ambition Graduate Training Knowledge Transfer. What’s going on?. How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow? Distributed, pervasive, varied …

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SFC visit - Prof Adrian Smith

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  1. SFC visit - Prof Adrian Smith Jon Oberlander, Muffy Calder, Saleem Bhatti, Colin Adams, John Murray

  2. Agenda • Research Ambition • Graduate Training • Knowledge Transfer

  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. How? • To help meet that challenge,we must sustain and enhanceScotland’s research excellencein Informatics and Computer Science. • We must collaborate to compete

  5. SICSA scale 9% UK population 20% RC grants 71% 3*4* (vs 63% in UK) Aberdeen Robert Gordon Dundee Abertay St Andrews Stirling Heriot Watt Glasgow Edinburgh Strathclyde

  6. SICSA plans: existing base + £29M = world leading cluster +6 +11 +6 +7 Governing Board Research Committee Graduate Academy Advisory Committee 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

  7. Graduate Academy • Prize students 2008 • Awarded: 15, at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Robert Gordon, Stirling, and St Andrews • Next competition: Opens 15 Dec • Summer schools 2009 • Awarded sponsorship to: • Pervasive adaptation, June 2009; organised by Napier • Home Care Systems, June 2009; organised by Stirling • Advances in Programming Languages: Concurrency, Distribution, and Multicore, August 2009; organised by Heriot-Watt • Next deadline: • End Sept 2009 for summer schools 2010 • (but spring schools 2010 also possible - earlier deadline) • Distinguished visitors 2009 • Awarded: 4 - Janis Voigtlaender, Geoff Goodhill, Alex Gruenstein, Aaron Seitz • Next deadline: End Feb 2009

  8. Prize students 2009 • Bai, Xi Edinburgh Dave Robertson • Fan, Zhengjie Aberdeen Jeff Z Pan • Fountain, Trevor Edinburgh Mirella Lapata • Kelly, Tom Glasgow Ron Poet • Keyhanipour, Amir Hosein Glasgow Iadh Ounis • Khajeh-Hosseini, Ali St Andrews Ian Sommerville • Kammar, Ohad Edinburgh Gordon Plotkin • Kotthoff, Lars St Andrews Ian Miguel • Maternaghan, Claire Stirling Kenneth J Turner • Meedeniya, Dulani St Andrews Juliana Bowles • Petrovic, Sasa Edinburgh Miles Osborne • Qi, Lin Heriot-Watt Mike Chantler • Tan, Niyue Edinburgh Miles Obsorne • Wanderley Goes, Luis F. Edinburgh Marcelo Cintra • Wu, Yanghui Robert Gordon John McCall

  9. ProspeKT and SICSA KT - Colin Adams

  10. ProspeKT Building a world class Knowledge Transfer practiceembedded within Informatics • 5 year Partnership with SE, £8.3M of investment • SE (£4.9M) + University of Edinburgh (£3.4M) • 3 year ERDF award for £3.7m for Enterprise Creation • Informatics Ventures – National Program • Strong external representation on Supervisory Board • Crawford Beveridge, Polly Purvis, 1 Entrepreneur - industry • David Caughey, John Murray + 1 from co-investment fund– SE • Associated Global Scot Panel • Entrepreneurs in Residence program • Economic Impact via Industrial Cooperation • Large Globals • Local SME’s • Start-ups • 3 major themes • Commercialisation • Entrepreneurship Culture • Outreach

  11. Open Innovation and Empowerment • Informatics-RBS-Microsoft Surface Challenge • 1st Microsoft Surface in Scotland, 1st in a university in the UK • £10K prize fund, specific category for Students • Most innovative use of a Surface in a Banking Branch • Mobile Phone Apps Group • Group aimed at promoting Mobile Phone Apps as a business opportunity • Part of the Tech Meet up – connecting community work • in Association with A***e and some other vendors • Alumnus Mentoring by Entrepreneurs in Residence

  12. Informatics Ventures • £3.7M funding from ERDF for Enterprise Creation for SICSA group • Entrepreneurship Education • Practitioner lead, series of workshops and seminars • Partner with the best – Stanford, MIT, Cambridge • Silicon Valley Speaker CEO workshops • Ken Morse (MIT) • Doug Richards : School for Start Ups • Web Based Information sources(http://www.informatics-ventures.com/) • Entrepedia – Wiki for student business formation (http://www.entrepedia.org) • Pod.ium – Podcast Channel: connect start ups to funders • Tech Entrepreneur – online Course (http://www.techent.org/home.htm) • Building the Community • Tech Meet-Up and Mobile Phone Apps series (http://www.techmeetup.co.uk/) • VC Event Each Spring - Engage Invest Exploit - (Guy Kawasaki, 29-April-09) • SME Event each November – Lifting the Lid – research connections • Focus on Winners – how to produce companies of scale • 12 hot prospects bursaries to MIT/Cambridge programs • Entrepreneurs in Residence Program

  13. ProspeKT and SICSA KT - Colin Adams Economic impact • For ProspeKT/Scottish Enterprise investment in Edinburgh alone … • By 2016, these combined investments are independently estimated to result in: • an annual contribution of £16M to the economy,of which £10M will be additional • a cumulative contribution of £128M to the economy,of which £64M will be additional • For combined investment in SICSA: • Double it?

  14. Conclusion • Knowledge transfer a central priority • SICSA is about people: • 4 themes for networking • 7 research fellows • 30 new academics • 60+ international visitors • 80 international students • Looking forward: • UK’s challenges require interdisciplinary responses • Questions?

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