Jamboree Programme

Locations

Monday 24th May

King's Buildings, Mayfield Road

Tuesday 25th May

Flodden Suite Apex Hotel, 31-35 Grassmarket

Wednesday 26th May

Prestonfield Room, MacIntyre Centre, Pollock Halls.

Thursday 27th May

Lecture Theatre C, David Hume Tower (map reference 33)

Friday 28th May

Lecture Theatre C, David Hume Tower (map reference 33)


Monday 24th May

King's Buildings, Mayfield Road.

JCMB Concourse (map reference 13c)
9:00 Coffee PG Posters
JCMB Lecture Theatre B
Chair: Prof. Alan Bundy, Head of Informatics
9:30 Michael Fourman Whither Informatics? Computation, Communication, Cognition.
10:00 Matthew Stone Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and Instruction
10:30 Richard Mayr Infinity's Shore: Analysis and Verification of Infinite-State Systems
JCMB Concourse
11:00 Coffee PG Posters
JCMB Lecture Theatre B
Chair: Prof. Bonnie Webber, Institute for Representation and Reasoning
11:20 Peter Hancock Proofs of wellfoundedness, programs, and their opposites
11:40 Jason Baldridge Incorporating sets into Combinatory Categorial Grammar
12:00 PG students Poster Spotlight Session
JCMB Concourse
12:30 Pizza Lunch and Poster Session RSVP Janet Lee
JCMB Lecture Theatre B
Chair: Prof. Johanna Moore, Human Communication Research Centre
2:00 Jacques Fleuriot Mechanising Newton's Principia: An adventure with Numbers and Geometry
2:30-3:10 Alex Lascarides Interpreting Discourse
Swann Building Foyer (map reference 25)
3:00 Tea
Swann Lecture Theatre
Chair: Prof. Rod Burstall, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
3:30 Butler Lampson Milner Lecture: Computer Security in the Real World
JCMB 2511
5:00 Reception RSVP Janet Lee

[Locations, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday]


Tuesday 25th May

Flodden Suite Apex Hotel, 31-35 Grassmarket

9:00 Coffee PG Posters
Chair: Dr. Gordon Brebner, Institute for Computing Systems Architectures
9:30 Butler Lampson Computer Systems Research: Past and Future
10:30 Michael Isard Visual motion analysis using the Condensation algorithm
11:30 Coffee PG Posters
11:50 Chris Bishop Adaptive Computing
12:50 Lunch Break Self Catering
Chair: Prof. Don Sannella, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
2:00 Butler Lampson How to Build a Highly Available System without a Toolkit
3:00 Paul Jackson Formal Design of an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
3:40 Coffee
4:00 Adjournment

[Locations, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday]


Wednesday 26th May

Prestonfield Room, MacIntyre Centre Pollock Halls.

10:00 Coffee PG Posters
Chair: Prof. David Willshaw, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
10:30 David Sterratt Is a biological temporal learning rule compatible with learning synfire chains?
10:50 Padraic Monaghan Learning from graphical and sentential representations
11:10 Coffee PG Posters
11:40 Matthew Stone Knowledge, Action and Instruction (I)
12:40 Lunch RSVP Janet Lee
Chair: Prof. Keith Stenning, Human Communication Research Centre & Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
2:00 Jon Oberlander Making an Impression with Natural Language Generation
2:40 Richard Shillcock Topographic Mapping in the Brain Constrains the Lexicon
3:20 Gann Bierner Using Discourse Clues in Information Retrieval
3:40 Paul Cronin Virtual Reality Takes a Hike
4:00 Social Excursion We All Take a Hike

[Locations, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday]


Thursday 27th May

Lecture Theatre C, David Hume Tower

9:00 Coffee PG Posters
Chair: Prof. Gordon Plotkin, FRS, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
9:30 Jacques Fleuriot Mechanising Newton's Principia (I)
10:30 Chris Williams Informatics and Mutual Information
11:10 Coffee PG Posters
11:40 Richard Mayr Infinity's Shore (I)
12:40 Lunch Break Self Catering
Chair: Prof. Mark Steedman, Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
2:00 Matthew Stone Knowledge, Action and Instruction (II)
3:00 Paul Taylor Speech Recognition (I)
3:40 Tea
Chair: Prof. Austin Tate, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute & Institute for Representation and Reasoning
4:10 Perdita Stevens Components
4:50 Nigel Goddard Neuroinformatics
5:30 Adjournment

[Locations, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday]


Friday 28th May

Lecture Theatre C, David Hume Tower

9:00 Coffee PG Posters
Chair: Prof. Colin Stirling, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
9:30 Richard Mayr Infinity's shore (II)
10:30 Herman M Gomes Autonomous Subcomponent Model Learning
10:50 Frank Keller On the Origins of Gradient Acceptability
11:10 Coffee PG Posters
11:40 Martín Escardó Exact Real Number Computation
12:20 Lunch Break Self Catering
Chair: Prof. Michael Fourman, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, and Institute for Representation and Reasoning
2:00 Jacques Fleuriot Mechanising Newton's Principia (II)
3:00 Paul Taylor Speech Recognition (II)
3:40 Poster Competition Prizegiving
4:00 Close

[Locations, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday]
 

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