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in a nutshell
Jon OberlanderDirector of SICSA
sicsa* Structure of this presentation
1. Why?2. Who?3. What?
What’s going on?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
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
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Starting pointStarting point
StrathclydeStrathclyde EdinburghEdinburgh
GlasgowGlasgow
StirlingStirlingSt AndrewsSt Andrews
AbertayAbertay
DundeeDundee
Robert GordonRobert GordonAberdeenAberdeen
Heriot WattHeriot Watt
9% of UK population16% of UK 4* output20% of RC grants
9% of UK population16% of UK 4* output20% of RC grants
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Plans for growth: £29M investment
Governing BoardGoverning Board
AdvisoryCommittees
AdvisoryCommittees
ResearchCommittee
ResearchCommittee Graduate
Academy
GraduateAcademy
SecuringSecuring
•Practical networking
•Performance analysis
•Network security formalisms
•Web languages
InterfacingInterfacing ModellingModelling
•Computational group theory
•System and performance modelling
•Model checking
•Applications
EngineeringEngineering
•Socio-technical systems
•Agents and autonomics
•Complex interactions
•Speech and language
•HCI•Information retrieval
•Machine learning
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sicsa* Who’s here? Academics
1. Edin Vincent Danos2. StA Simon Dobson3. Stir Marwan Fayed4. Edin Sharon Goldwater5. Strath Eva Hornecker6. Edin Elham Kashefi7. Edin Victor Lavrenko8. HW Oliver Lemon9. HW H-W Loidl10. Edin Richard Mayr11. Edin Iain Murray12. StA Mirco Musolesi13. Gla Gethin Norman14. Gla Dimitrios Pezaros15. Gla Simon Rogers16. Strath Dimitri Roussinov17. Edin Guido Sanguinetti18. Abd Advaith Siddharthan19. Edin Charles Sutton20. Gla Alessandro Vinciarelli
sicsa* 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
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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
sicsa* Securing: Strength in Scotland
Applications
Security services &
protocols Protocols
and systemsNetwork management
Network measurement, monitoring & analysis
New paradigms and system architecture
Networked Games.Abertay, Glasgow.
Measurement & monitoring.Glasgow, St Andrews.
Security. Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews
New architecture. Glasgow, St Andrews
Mobile & wireless. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Strathclyde
Protocol analysis and testing. Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews
WWW Info Sys. RGU, St Andrews, Stirling
Distributed applications.Strathclyde, St Andrews,Stirling
sicsa* 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
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Information retrievalHCI
Natural language processing
applications: Ubiquitous computing, dialogue systems, healthcare, knowledge engineering, machine translation, autonomous robotics
Visualisation
- Glasgow, Strathclyde, RGU
- Glasgow, Dundee, Heriot-Watt
- Glasgow, Abertay, Heriot-Watt, RGU
- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde
- Aberdeen, Dundee, Abertay, RGU, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde
Interfacing: Strength in Scotland
Speech
Cognitive systems
- Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews
- Edinburgh, Stirling
Machine learning - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling
sicsa* 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
sicsa* Modelling and Abstraction: Strength in Scotland
types and logics
process algebras
automated reasoning
applications:
neuroinformatics, mathematical biology, networked systems
machine learning
- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews
- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt
- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling
- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling
- Abertay, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling
sicsa* Complex Systems Engineering: Research challenges
Scope– Modelling– Evolution– Socio-technical
Issues– Socio-technical systems
engineering– Novel computing
paradigms– Trusted software– Reducing time to value
sicsa* Complex Systems Engineering: Strength in Scotland
Complexity in OrganisationsSocio-technical systems
Software engineering
Novel computation
Predictable software systems
Mathematical foundations
Accident analysis. Glasgow
LSCITS. St AndrewsResponsibility and trust. St Andrews, EdinburghAgents. Aberdeen, EdinburghAdaptive Computation. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Abertay, Stirling, Dundee, Robert GordonsModel-driven development. EdinburghFunctional systems. St Andrews, Heriot Watt
Empirical SE. Strathclyde
Modelling and Abstraction
Social informatics. Edinburgh, Napier
sicsa* 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
sicsa* Activities
Next generation internet (SCONE) meeting - 12 March 2009
sicsa* 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
sicsa* 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:o Global Sales Strategies, 25th-26th Feb 2009 (with Hillington Park Innovation Centre)
o Entrepreneurial Operational Excellence, 27th-28th Feb 2009
o 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:o Aberdeen, 1st June 2009: “The Six Rules for Startups”
o Edinburgh, 2nd June “Zero Cost Marketing for Startups
• Development of web projects: pod.ium, techmeetup.co.uk, entrepedia
sicsa* 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.
sicsa* Ignite @ University of Cambridge.
Edinburgh:Dot Red Games Ltd QUAIDAffect Labs Ltd Spinsight Ltd WikiJob LtdQUAIDHoodeasy Ltd
GlasgowBrainwave Discovery LtdRobomotic x2
RGUOncology Workbench
NapierInquisitive Systems
SEJohn Murray
sicsa* 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
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ConclusionConclusion
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
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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