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SFC visit - Prof Adrian Smith
Jon Oberlander, Muffy Calder, Saleem Bhatti,Colin Adams, John Murray
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sicsa* Agenda
1. Research Ambition
2. Graduate Training
3. Knowledge Transfer
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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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sicsa* How?
• To help meet that challenge,we must sustain and enhanceScotland’s research excellencein Informatics and Computer Science.
• We must collaborate to compete
• To help meet that challenge,we must sustain and enhanceScotland’s research excellencein Informatics and Computer Science.
• We must collaborate to compete
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sicsa* SICSA scaleSICSA scale
StrathclydeStrathclyde EdinburghEdinburgh
GlasgowGlasgow
StirlingStirlingSt AndrewsSt Andrews
AbertayAbertay
DundeeDundee
Robert GordonRobert GordonAberdeenAberdeen
Heriot WattHeriot Watt
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Academic Research PhD
SICSA personnel
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2007
9% UK population20% RC grants71% 3*4* (vs 63% in UK)
9% UK population20% RC grants71% 3*4* (vs 63% in UK)
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sicsa* SICSA plans: existing base + £29M = world leading cluster
Governing BoardGoverning Board
AdvisoryCommittee
AdvisoryCommittee
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* 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
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sicsa* Prize students 2009
1. Bai, Xi Edinburgh Dave Robertson2. Fan, Zhengjie Aberdeen Jeff Z Pan3. Fountain, Trevor Edinburgh Mirella Lapata4. Kelly, Tom Glasgow Ron Poet5. Keyhanipour, Amir Hosein Glasgow Iadh Ounis6. Khajeh-Hosseini, Ali St Andrews Ian
Sommerville7. Kammar, Ohad Edinburgh Gordon Plotkin8. Kotthoff, Lars St Andrews Ian Miguel9. Maternaghan, Claire Stirling Kenneth
J Turner10. Meedeniya, Dulani St Andrews Juliana Bowles11. Petrovic, Sasa Edinburgh Miles Osborne12. Qi, Lin Heriot-Watt Mike Chantler13. Tan, Niyue Edinburgh Miles Obsorne14. Wanderley Goes, Luis F. Edinburgh Marcelo Cintra15. Wu, Yanghui Robert GordonJohn McCall
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sicsa* ProspeKT and SICSA KT - Colin Adams
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sicsa* Building a world class Knowledge Transfer practice
embedded 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
ProspeKT
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sicsa* 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
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sicsa* Informatics Ventures
£3.7M funding from ERDF for Enterprise Creation for SICSA groupEntrepreneurship 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
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sicsa* 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?
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?
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sicsa* ConclusionConclusion
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?
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?