2013 London Hopper Colloquium, 23th May at BCS Headquarters, London
UCL is presenting the 9th London Hopper Colloquium on Thursday, 23rd May 2013 at the BCS headquarters in London. This 1-day event will feature:
• women speakers talking about their research, and how to work on things that matter.
• a poster competition open to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
• lots of opportunities to network with other new researchers in computing.
This event is free. To register for the Colloquium or the poster competition go to the BCS Academy web site: http://academy.bcs.org/content/london-hopper-colloquium.
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• Posters
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Programme
10:30 - 11:00 Registration & Coffee, Networking Opportunity.
11:00 - 11:10 Welcome.
11:10 - 11:15 Introduction to the day's events.
11:15 - 11:45 Just because it's called code you don't have to make it cryptic.
11:45 - 12:15 Computational Magpie-ism and Music Research.
12:15 - 12:45 Poster spotlight.
12:45 - 14:45 Buffet lunch, Networking Opportunity, Poster Display.
14:45 - 15:15 Preserving Location Privacy in mobile environments.
15:15 - 15:45 Being Passionate and Working on Things that Matter.
15:45 - 16:00 Awarding of prizes for best posters.
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Registration
The event is free. To register go to the BCS Academy web site: http://academy.bcs.org/content/london-hopper-colloquium
Posters
There will be a poster session where postgraduate students (Masters and PhD) and postdoctoral researchers will have an opportunity to present their research work. Three prizes of £100 each, provided by IBM, will be awarded for the best posters. The three winners will also be invited to write a blog post on the BCS Academy website
Two prize winners will be selected by the judges, one prize winner will be chosen by popular vote of the delegates to the Colloquium. The first prize winner selected by the judges will also receive a one year BCS membership and be invited to speak at the next London Hopper.
Posters may cover any topic within the field of computing and/or related interdisciplinary studies.
The deadline for registration for the poster competition is Thursday, 16 May. For instructions and guidelines go to http://academy.bcs.org/content/london-hopper-poster-competition.
Venue
BCS
First Floor
The Davidson Building,
5 Southampton Street
London, WC2E 7HA
Tel: +44 (0)845 300 4417
Fax: +44 (0)1793 417669
Organisers
Caroline Wardle, Larissa dos Santos Romualdo, Steve Marchant (UCL); Hannah Dee (University of Aberystwyth).
Supporters
UCL Computer Science is a global leader in research in experimental computer science. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, 80% of its work was rated world-leading or internationally excellent. Its specialties include virtual environment work, network and systems research, and human-computer interactions. UCL-CS enjoys the UCL tradition – it is multi-disciplinary, sharing ideas and resources from other departments and the wider world. Its researchersare leading the global search for new knowledge, driven by its unique integration of theory and experiment and supported by its culture of high expectation and low boundaries. It ask questions and challenges ideas. UCL-CS is supporting the economy and society by training the next generation of IT specialists, business leaders and researchers. Throughout its history UCL-CS has had a big impact on the European computing landscape, notably, establishing the first connection to the precursor of the Internet outside the United States. It continues to create innovative technologies that change lives with computers.
The BCS Academy of Computing is the Learned Society within BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and is dedicated to advancing computing as an academic discipline. By developing and supporting a cohesive community inclusive of scholars, researchers and professionals with a shared commitment to the advancement of computing, the Academy aims to nurture ingenuity, inventiveness and innovation in computing. It is through our range of activities that we promote excellence in the creation, study and application of knowledge in computing.
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, promotes wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice. Bringing together industry, academics, practitioners and government to share knowledge, we promote new thinking, inform the design of new curricula, shape public policy and inform the public.
IBM is a globally integrated enterprise operating in over 170 countries. Today IBM UK has around 20,000 employees, bringing innovative solutions to a diverse client base to help solve some of their toughest business challenges. In addition to being the world's largest IT and consulting services company, IBM is a global business and technology leader, innovating in research and development to shape the future of society at large. IBM's prized research, development and technical talent around the world partner with governments, corporations, thinkers and doers on ground breaking real world problems to help make the world work better and build a smarter planet.
The Hopper Colloquia
The London Hopper Colloquia grew out of the Scottish Hopper Colloquia, and are modelled on the American Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing which is designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. These annual American meetings are held as a tribute to Admiral Grace Murray Hopper - pioneer of the computer business language COBOL - who inspired many young U.S. Naval computing students during her heyday and still continues to inspire computer scientists around the world many years after her death.
Abstracts & Biographies
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Preserving Location Privacy in mobile environments
Saritha Arunkumar
Abstract: Technology is improving day-by-day and so is the usage of mobile devices. Every activity that would involve manual and paper transactions can now be completed in seconds using your fingertips. On one hand, life has become fairly convenient with the help of mobile devices, whereas on the other hand security of the data and the transactions occurring in the process have been under continuous threat. With data, privacy of the individuals is also very important. Today’s location based service providers get hold of end user’s location and identity information without the consent of the user and are potentially capable of misusing the data. A new architecture that would ensure that the privacy information of the user is preserved is the highlight of the talk. This is achieved by using one of the main components created as part of my research and its called Mobile Integrated Server (MIS)."
Biography: Saritha has 13 years of experience in IT Security and has been working in a wide span of roles such as Security Lead, Consultant, Specialist, Senior Architect and Subject Matter Expert - Security. She has gained deep expertise in Identity and Access Management solutions, Web Services security, and Public key Infrastructure, Cryptography and Internet security. Most of the projects that she has been involved in revolve around creating end-to-end security architectures, designs and security solutions. Her vast experience with major banks, insurance firms, social security organizations, telecommunications, trading organizations, and retail has made her Subject Matter Expert in Tivoli and the WebSphere suite of security products including DataPower, federated identity manager, Access manager, Identity Manager, Enterprise single Sign-on Solutions. She also has in-depth experience in defining end-to-end security architecture, high level and detail security designs and Infrastructure security solutions. Saritha has also worked on a number of security assessment engagements, which involved assessing IBM WebSphere Application Server on AIX and Solaris systems.
Saritha has a Bachelors Degree in Engineering, MBA in Operations Management, MPhil degree in Mobile Security, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Mobile Security from City University, London. She has presented in a number of conference proceedings and has published papers on Security. Her research contribution to the wider IBM community has been demonstrated from time to time by chairing and presenting at IBM internal security seminars/workshops. She has chaired and presented in a number of security seminars in the City University on a regular basis and continues to do so. She is also working on the integration of third-party mobile technologies with IBM’s security portfolio, investigating how new products can be made more secure by integrating them with IBM technology. An example of this is her work with the Aoptix Iris Recognition kit and smart mobile identity kit.
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Computational Magpie-ism and Music Research
Elaine Chew
Abstract: Computational magpie-ism characterizes a domain-driven and problem-centred approach to interdisciplinary computing research. With a domain-specific problem as centre, the magpie philosophy draws on any number of mathematical representations and computational methodologies, creating new ones when necessary, to tackle the problem at hand. More often invoked in operations research and in mathematics education, this approach makes important connections between concrete problems and useful solution strategies; it is also an effective motivator for learning when used as a pedagogical tool. In the music domain, the digitisation of music has led to the exponential growth in music computing research in areas ranging from audio engineering to information retrieval to human-computer interaction. Elaine will discuss computational magpie-ism and how it is shaping new music research, giving examples from her own experiences and research focus on performed music.
Biography: Dr. Elaine Chew is Professor of Digital Media in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London, where she is also Director of Music Initiatives in the Centre for Digital Music. She was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, where she founded and directed research at the Music Computation and Cognition Lab. She earned her PhD and SM degrees in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BAS in Mathematical and Computational Sciences (honors) and in Music Performance (distinction) from Stanford University. She holds Fellowship and Licentiate diplomas in piano performance from Trinity College, London.
She received the (U.S.) National Science Foundation Career Award and Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering in 2004 and 2005, respectively, for her research and education activities at the intersection of music and engineering; in 2007-2008, she was the Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and she subsequently held Visiting Scholar appointments in Music and in Computer Science at Harvard University the following year.
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Being Passionate and Working on Things that Matter
Kate Ho
Abstract: Steve Job's once said "Your work is going to fill a large part of yourlife, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believeis great work." In this talk, I'm going to be making the case for whyit's important to work on things that matter, and things that you believe in. I'll go through my attempts to do this throughInterface3 and Tigerface Games and list out potential strategies for doing this. Plus, I'll talk a little about burnout and mechanisms to try and avoid it.
Biography: Kate is Managing Director of Interface3, which passionately designsand crafts exciting customer branded experiences using innovativetechnologies (such as Augmented Reality, Mobile Games). Working withsome of the biggest brands in the world including Pearson Education,PBS KIDS, SMART Technologies, they strive to create things that engage and delight people. She also started Tigerface Games recently. Heracademic background is in Computer Science, and she navigated throughacademia with a BSc (Edinburgh), MSc (Manchester) and finally studyingfor a PhD in requirements engineering in Edinburgh.
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Just because it's called code you don't have to make it cryptic.
Gail Ollis
Abstract: Some pieces of code are much easier for fellow programmers to work with than others. Gail has coined the term ‘articulate code’ for that which facilitates the task of others in adapting or maintaining it. She will explain why articulate code matters so much and discuss the work she is doing to establish just what constitutes articulacy. There will also be an opportunity to experience first-hand some of the methods she is using to elicit this definition from practising programmers.
Biography: Gail Ollis worked as a software engineer for many years. She has written in at least ten different programming languages for applications as diverse as radar data processing, digital video effects and porting the Java Virtual Machine to a cash register. Pursuing her interest in how programmers make their many small-scale design decisions, she is now a postgraduate researcher at Bournemouth University investigating the psychological characteristics of experienced software developers. Her research interest is the role that these individual differences play in their ability to write ‘articulate code’. She also teaches introductory Java programming.
Gail has a BSc in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Surrey and a BSc in Psychology from the Open University. She is a member of the British Computer Society, Chartered IT Professional and a member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS).
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