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Department of Computer Science

Departmental Seminars 2002

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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.

Department of Computer Science
University College London
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London WC1E 6BT
UK

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Summer series Autumn series Other years are available: 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

Winter

16 January
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Dr. Chris Watkins , Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
QUANTIFYING THE ADAPTIVE CAPACITY OF GENETIC SYSTEMS

23 January
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Gabor Tatai , Department of Computer Science, UCL
ANTCHESS

23 January
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Tristan Henderson , Department of Computer Science, UCL
HOW TO FIND A GAMES SERVER

30 January
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Susan Collins, Gary Woodley and Tom Lomax , Electronic Media Department & Sculpture Department, Slade School UCL
3 DIMENSIONS IN THE SLADE SCHOOL: PROJECTS, PROBLEMS, AND POSSIBILITIES FOR LINKS WITH COMPUTING

6 February
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Mr. Brian Oakley , (formerly a scientific manager/administrator in several historically interesting environments connected with the title of the seminar)
BLETCHLEY PARK and WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS: STORIES from the PREHISTORY and EARLY HISTORY of BRITISH COMPUTING

13 February
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Ian Graham , Dept of Computer Science, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
Network traffic measurement projects at the University of Waikato

20 February
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Prof. Simon Lavington , Dept. of Computer Science, University of Essex
PEGASUS AND OTHER ANIMALS

26 February
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Dan Horn , Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
TRUTH, LIES and VIDEOCONFERENCING: DETECTING DECEPTION in VIDEO-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

6 March
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Marios C. Angelides , Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University
Modelling multimedia content semantics for interactive learning environments: The application of COSMOS in the development of ARISTOTLE

13 March
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Licia Capra , Department of Computer Science, UCL
Mobile Computing Middleware for Context-Aware Applications

13 March
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Allan Erskine , Department of Computer Science, UCL
Algorithmic Complexity Theory and Machine Learning

20 March
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Prof. Chris Potts , Department of Mathematics, University of Southampton
LOCAL SEARCH USING NEIGHBOURHOODS OF EXPONENTIAL SIZE

1 May
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Nima Kaveh , Department of Computer Science, UCL
Verification of Distributed Object Systems Design

1 May
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Peter Monthienvichienchai , Department of Computer Science, UCL
Computer Support for Vicarious Learning

8 May
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Dr. Dave Cliff , Senior Research Scientist, Digital Media Systems, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol
hpDJ: A COMPUTERISED DANCE-MUSIC DISC-JOCKEY

15 May
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Professor I. A. Stewart , University of Leicester
"Finite model theory, complexity theory and program schemes" AND "The MathFIT initiative" (or 2 for the price of 1)

17 May
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Prof. Joseph A. Konstan , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
OVERCOMING INFORMATION OVERLOAD: INTERFACES for MAKING ABUNDANCE EASIER

1 July
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Prof. Andrew Hornof , Dept. of Computer & Information Science, University of Oregon
FINDING WHAT YOU NEED: COGNITIVE STRATEGIES FOR VISUAL SEARCH OF COMPUTER DISPLAYS

8 October
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Prof Darrell Whitley , out going Editor of Evolutionary Computation and head of the Colorado State Artificial Intelligence Lab
No Free Lunch and Beyond

23 October
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Prof. Marta Kwiatkowska , School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
PRISM: Probabilistic Symbolic Model Checker

5 November
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Hugh Melvin , Dept. of Computer Science, University College Dublin (UCD) Ireland
Enhancing Voice over IP Quality through use of Synchronised Time

11 November
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Caroline Wardle , National Science Foundation, Washington
WHY SO FEW WOMEN IN THE (U.S.) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WORKFORCE?

13 November
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Jasminko Novak , MARS Exploratory Media Lab, Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication
MIXED REALITY, INTERFACES AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AT THE MARS EXPLORATORY MEDIA LAB

20 November
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Robert Bowerman , Computer Science, UCL
Confirmation, Resolution and Decomposition: Handling Inconsistency with Argumentation

20 November
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Kathleen Curran , Computer Science, UCL
Orientation Matching in Registration of DT-MRI

3 December
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Prof. Harold Thimbleby , UCL Interaction Centre [UCLIC]
COMPUTER SCIENCE IN HANDHELDS (not)

11 December
Chair: W.Emmerich
Speaker: Richard Wheeldon , Department of Computing Science, Birkbeck College
COMPUTER SCIENCE IN HANDHELDS (not)


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