Department News & Events
On this page you will find all the latest news and events from the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems.
Course at ESSLLI 2010
Posted: 18-Jan-2010 10:45am
Michael Zakharyaschev and Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen- Bolzano, Italy) will give a course "Answering Queries in Description Logics: Theory and Applications to Data Management" at the annual European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2010).
Steve Maybank in China
Posted: 18-Jan-2010 10:44am
On Friday 18th December Steve Maybank gave a talk at the Department of Computer and Information Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China. On Monday 14 Dec Steve spoke at at the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Beijing, China.
Roger Johnson receives CEPIS Distinguished Service Award
Posted: 04-Dec-2009 12:35pm
On 24th November 2009, in Brussels, Roger Johnson was presented with the CEPIS Distinguished Service Award by Byron Nicolaides, CEPIS Vice President in recognition of his work for CEPIS the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies. Photograph.
AHRC-funded project: Weaving Communities of Practice
Posted: 15-Oct-2009 7:10pm
An AHRC-funded project entitled "Weaving Communities of Practice" has started involving Sven Helmer and partners at ILCA in Bolivia and CILAVS at Birkbeck. The goal of the project is to develop a knowledge base to store 3D Andean weaving textile patterns together with rich cultural and historic context information. This will allow researchers to access information more quickly, as material for study is currently only available in a piecemeal fashion and without contextual information. More details...
Appointment to Editorial Board
Posted: 09-Oct-2009 4:10pm
George Magoulas has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal Evolving Systems: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology, Springer.
Best paper winners at GECCO-2009
Posted: 09-Oct-2009 4:10pm
Tony Lewis and George Magoulas's paper entitled "Strategies to Minimise the Total Run Time of Cyclic Graph Based Genetic Programming with GPUs" was a best paper winner at The ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009), Montreal, Canada.
SIKTN 2009 wireless sensing winners
Posted: 14-July-2009 9:10am
Michael Zoumboulakis and George Roussos have won the Best Demonstrator, R&D Systems at the 2009 Wireless Sensing Showcase organised by the Sensors and Instrumentation Knowledge Transfer Network (SIKTN). The award was given for their novel approach to in-network data analysis for Intel’s battery-free Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP) platform. More details...
PRINCE2 Course, Foundation and Practitioner Certificates
Posted: 24-June-2009 10:10am
Birkbeck in collaboration with ILX Group is offering students and alumni a course in "Project Management with PRINCE2" with the option to take the PRINCE2 Foundation and PRINCE2 Practitioner Certificates with ILX. Courses start monthly. More details...
Invited lecture at TIME 2009
Posted: 24-June-2009 10:10am
Prof M Zakharyaschev will give an invited talk at the 16th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME-2009)
Prof Mirkin joins Experts Advisory Group
Posted: 03-June-2009 11:10am
Boris Mirkin has joined the Expert Advisory Group for the project "Care Pathways and Packages" involving six Mental Health Trusts in the North of England and led by Carole Green and Anne Rigby of Fieldhead Hospital in Wakefield. The project involves using crisp and fuzzy clustering for develping a system embracing all stages of the care from diagnosis to treatment, services and payment schemes.
Boris Mirkin appointed Associate Editor
Posted: 03-June-2009 11:10am
Boris Mirkin has been appointed as Associate Editor for the new Wiley e-Journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Complex Networks in Information & Knowledge Management (CNIKM)
Posted: 08-May-2009 17:10pm
Dell Zhang, Jun Wang (UCL) and Shi Zhou (UCL) are organising an ACM CIKM-2009 workshop on Complex Networks in Information & Knowledge Management (CNIKM).
Professor Boris Mirkin joins NSF panel
Posted: 03-June-2009 11:10am
Boris Mirkin has been invited to be on the panel for evaluation of projects submitted to the CDI Programme of National Science Foundation (NSF) USA; The panel's first meeting was in February 2009 - Boris was the only overseas academic among the 13 panelists. NSF Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI).
Game playing styles
Posted: 08-May-2009 12:34am
Research carried out by Prof. Mark Levene and Dr. Trevor Fenner on A Methodology for Learning Players' Styles from Game Records recently featured in Wired and Technology Review.
The research was focused on a preliminary investigation into learning a Chess player's style from game records. The method used attempts to learn features that make up a player's evaluation function using the method of temporal differences, with the aid of a conventional Chess engine architecture. Some encouraging results were obtained in learning the styles of two recent Chess world champions, and an attempt to use the learnt styles to discriminate between the players from game records by trying to detect who was playing white and who was playing black was carried out. The method used may also be applicable to other strategic games, and may even be generalisable to other domains where sequences of agents' actions are recorded.
Intel Research WISP challenge award
Posted: 28-Apr-2009 17:34pm
George Roussos and the DeTaLe project team have won an Intel Research WISP challenge award to investigate the suitability of the platform for tangible interfaces. WISP = Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform. WISPs have the capabilities of RFID tags, but also support sensing and computing. Like any passive RFID tag, they are powered and read by a standard off-the-shelf RFID reader, harvesting the power it uses from the reader's emitted radio signals and thus requiring no battery.
Computer spellchecking for dyslexics
Posted: 02-Apr-2009 8:04am
Jenny Pedler, whose research area is computer spellchecking for dyslexics, has recently been interviewed by Michael Rosen for a forthcoming edition of BBC Radio 4 Word of Mouth series. The programme will be broadcast on Tue 7 April 4-4.30pm and repeated on Mon 13 April at 11pm. Details of the programme can be found here.
Bringing Programming Languages up to Date
Posted: 18-Feb-2009 9:04am
John Florentin, Professor Emeritus, and Geoff Sharman, Visiting Professor, in the Department will present a seminar entitled "Bringing Programming Languages up to Date" to the BCS Advanced Programming Specialist Group meeting at 6pm on Thursday 12th March.
Venue: BCS HQ, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2 7HA. The nearest underground stations are Covent Garden and Charing Cross. Further details
Web mining series
Posted: 18-Feb-2009 8:58am
Professors Mark Levene and George Magoulas have been appointed as consulting editors for a forthcoming series on Web Data mining.
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Conference
Posted: 18-Feb-2009 8:50am
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo has been awarded a Conference Grant of £660 by the Royal Society for her paper "Designing Self-Organization for Evolvable Assembly Systems" presented at the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO08) in Venice, October 2008.
Weather Disruption: College Closing Early, Evening Teaching Cancelled - Feb 2nd 2009
Posted: 02-Feb-2009 11:50am
A message from the College Secretary - Given the impact of the severe weather conditions teaching this evening is being cancelled. There is an obvious concern, given the current transport situation and the forecast of worse weather, for students and staff being in central London later this evening. The intention is to close College buildings at 5pm this evening. NB in addition the Week II of Maintaining Personal Web Pages Course has been re-scheduled - see below
Weather - Mon 2nd Feb 2009
Posted: 02-Feb-2009 8:25am
The Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network: Week II of Maintaining Personal Web Pages Course has been moved to Monday Feb. 9th, 15:30- 17:30 to be held in lab 131 (same place as Week I).
RAE 2008 outcome
Posted: 18-Dec-2008
Almost all of the department's research has been judged as being of international significance, with 15% being world-leading, 50% internationally excellent, and 30% internationally recognised. RAE 2008 Computer Science and Informatics Quality Profiles
Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence Journal
Posted: 18-Dec-2008
Prof M Zakharyaschev has been appointed as Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence Journal, Elsevier effective January 1, 2009.
PerAda Research Exchange Program Award
Posted: 18-Dec-2008
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo has been awarded €1950 by the EU funded PerAda Research Exchange program, which funds interdisciplinary research exchanges. This grant will support travel exchange with the New University of Lisbon, Portugal for the period between January and June 2009. This exchange aims at developing a prototype of self-organizing industrial assembly system.
Koenderink Prize
Posted: 24-Oct-2008
Steve Maybank has been awarded the Koenderink Prize by the European Conference on Computer Vision, 2008. The prize is awarded for papers in previous ECCV conferences that have withstood the test of time. Steve's paper on camera calibration was published in 1992. The coauthors, Olivier Faugeras and Quang-Tuan Luong shared the Koenderink Prize.
Best Student Paper Award
Posted: 24-Oct-2008
Zack Voulgaris and George Magoulas's paper A discernibility-based approach to feature selection for microarray data was judged the best student paper at IEEE International Conference of Intelligent Systems at Varna in Bulgaria in September 2008.
The 2008 Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize
Posted: 26-Sept-2008
The Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize of the Eleventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (Sydney, Australia, September 16-19, 2008) was awarded to the paper:
Can you tell the difference between DL-Lite ontologies?
by Roman Kontchakov, Frank Wolter and Michael Zakharyaschev.
ESRC/EPSRC £1M+ Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted: 17-June-2008
The London Knowledge Lab has won a second ESRC/EPSRC award in Technology Enhanced Learning. LKL Prof Diana Laurillard is leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers, including George Magoulas as the Birkbeck PI. This £1M+ grant aims to develop an interactive environment - a Learning Design Support Environment (LDSE) - to enable teachers to lead the discovery of innovative pedagogical designs that exploit the potential of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and better integrate TEL in the mainstream provision, processes and practice of educational institutions. The LDSE will provide a space where teachers can explore, model and share ways of normalising their uses of technology, and build on each others work. The LDSE promotes a view of teaching that is closer to a science of learning design and is both a personal, reflective journey, and also a social, collaborative activity.
SUTC-08
Posted: 17-June-2008
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo co-chaired the IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC-08) (http://sutc2008.csie.ncu.edu.tw/), in Taichung, Taiwan, 11-13 June 2008.
50 Years of Computing at Birkbeck
Posted: 25-Feb-2008
The Department is holding a celebration of its 50th anniversary on Wednesday May 21st 2008. All staff and students are warmly invited to join us. Please register your intension to participate by filling in the form at the bottom of: 50 Years of Computing at Birkbeck.
EPSRC funded project: Reliable XML Messaging
Posted: 18-Feb-2008
An EPSRC funded project entitled "Reliable XML Message Management for Web Services" started on February 1st with the appointment of Tadeusz Litak as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant. The project's director Sven Helmer says that the goal on the project is to "provide a robust asynchronous message-based communication framework for web service applications that handles XML data in a reliable and efficient manner" Further information...
Visit to Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Posted: 18-Feb-2008
Steve Maybank has been an invited to visit Hong Kong Polytechnic University for three weeks in July 2008 with an honorarium of 70,000 HKD (approx 4600 ukp).
Congratulations on PhD success
Posted: 10-Dec-2007
Congratulations to David Hardcastle who has been awarded a PhD. His thesis was entitled Riddle posed by computer (6) : The Computer Generation of Cryptic Crossword Clues
Welcome
Posted: 18-Oct-2007
Welcome back to students returning to their studies in the department and a warm welcome to all new students and staff. We have been busily recruiting in the past few months: Nicolas van Labeke joined the MyPlan project in April, the Migen team is nearing full strength with two new RAs, Darren Pearce and Sergio Gutierrez and we are pleased to welcome Eli Katsiri (Lecturer), Jianing Wang (Teaching Assistant/PhD) and PhD students Tony Lewis, Michaela Cocea, Martin O'Shea and Renato Amorim. Further details are on the staff pages and the research student pages.
Congratulations on PhD success
Posted: 18-Oct-2007
Congratulations to the following students who have been awarded a PhD this year:
Jennifer Pedler, Computer Correction of Real-word Spelling Errors in Dyslexic Text
George Papamarkos, Event-Condition-Action Rule Languages over Semistructured Data
Dacheng Tao, Discriminative Linear and Multilinear Subspace Methods
Hideyuki Matsumoto, Cross-Cultural Comparison of Global Strategic Information Systems Management in the Multinational Investment Banking Industry
Full time Post-doctoral Researcher
Posted: 1-Aug-2007
The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems is seeking a post-doctoral researcher on a project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council titled "Reliable XML Message Management for Web Services". The post is for a fixed-term of two and a half years in the salary range: £30,977 per annum rising to £35,484 per annum inclusive of London Allowance. The closing date for applications is Tuesday 14 August 2007 at 12.00 noon. further details...
LKL Knowledge Briefing
Posted: 27-July-2007
The London Knowledge Lab, a unique collaboration between two of the UK's most prominent centres of world-class research - Birkbeck and the Institute of Education has released the first edition of Knowledge Briefing [PDF].
Two PhD studentships available
Posted: 08-May-2007
The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems is offering two PhD research studentships commencing on or before 1 October 2007. These will provide funding for up to three years covering tuition fees (one at the international rate, one at the UK/EU rate) and an annual stipend of at least £12,600. The closing date for applications is 30 June 2007.
£1M+ Technology Enhanced Learning award for LKL
Posted: 18-Apr-2007
The London Knowledge Lab has won a hotly-contested ESRC/EPSRC award in Technology Enhanced Learning. LKL co-director, Richard Noss, is leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers based at the LKL, including Alex Poulovassilis and George Magoulas as the Birkbeck co-PIs. This £1M+ grant aims to co-design, build and evaluate, with teachers and teacher educators, a pedagogical and technical environment for improving 11-14 year-old students' learning of mathematical generalisation. We will be recruiting 4 Postdoctoral Researchers for this project, which will start in October 2008 - the adverts are expected to appear on jobs.ac.uk in May 2007.
EPSRC award for research in the Computational Logic of Euclidean Spaces
Posted: 18-Apr-2007
Professor Michael Zakharyaschev has been awarded £242,579 by the EPSRC to study Computational Logic of Euclidean Spaces. The research project partner is Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium. The project runs from April 2007 to March 2010. Full details...
New staff and leavers
Posted: 18-Apr-2007
Welcome to Dr Nicolas van Labeke who recently joined the Department as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant. Nicolas will be working on the JISC-funded project "MyPlan - Personal Planning for Learning throughout Life" and is based at the London Knowledge Lab.
It is time to say farewell to two staff who will soon be leaving the Department. Sara de Freitas and Niki Trigoni are leaving at the end of April. We wish them every success in their future careers.
New book by Mark Levene and Kevin Keenoy
Posted: 18-Apr-2007
Professor Mark Levene and Kevin Keenoy are contributing co-editors of a new book entitled "TRAILS IN EDUCATION Technologies that Support Navigational Learning". The book is about sequences of learning objects ordered according to time or according to the demands of given learning materials. As users navigate through a learning environment, they follow prescribed trails and create personal trails through their interactions. The book is available as an e-book and in paperback.
Information Technology for Finance
Posted: 30-Mar-2007
In Autumn 2007, Birkbeck will launch a new Graduate Diploma in IT for Finance. The programme is aimed at students and professionals wishing to progress their careers in the finance sector.
The programme features new modules on C++ programming including Monte Carlo simulations and Mathematics for Finance. Teaching will be delivered by academic staff from the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems and the Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics. It will be available on a part-time or full-time basis. Further details...
UEC International e-Learning Forum 2007, Japan
Posted: 30-Mar-2007
George Magoulas gave an invited talk on lifelong learning e-infrastructures at the UEC International e-Learning Forum 2007, Tokyo, Japan, on the 2nd of March 2007.
PhD studentship available
Posted: 29-Mar-2007
The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems is offering a PhD research studentship commencing on or before 1 October 2007. This will provide funding for up to three years covering tuition fees (UK/EU rate) and an annual stipend of at least £12,600.
Learning in Immersive Worlds: a review of game-based learning
Posted: 21-Feb-2007
A newly-published, JISC-commissioned report by Sara de Freitas finds that computer games could have an important role to play in learning Learning in Immersive Worlds: a review of game-based learning
2006 Handheld Learning Conference
Posted: 20-Dec-2006
Sarah de Freitas gave a presentation on "Sustaining personalised mobile learning innovation" at the 2006 Handheld Learning Conference in London.
EUMAS'06
Posted: 19-Dec-2006
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo gave an invited presentation at the European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS'06) at Lisbon on the 14th of December. The topic of the talk was a service-oriented architecture for specification-carrying code.
New Staff
Posted: 18-Dec-2006
We would all like to welcome Gordon McIntyre who joins the department in January 2007 as a Programme Manager on the Foundation Degree in IT. Gordon joins us from the Centre for Distance Education of the University of London where he has been involved in e-learning course design and development for the University of London External Programme.
House of Commons date for Birkbeck PhD student
Posted: 18-Dec-2006
Robert Stanforth was successful in winning a place at the SET for Britain competition held at the House of Commons on 12th December. SET† for Britain aims to encourage, support and promote Britain's early-stage research scientists, engineers and technologists. Robert presented a poster on Measuring distance to dataset based on k_means clustering. He is studying for a PhD in the department under the supervision of Prof. Boris Mirkin and Dr. E. Kolossov of IDBS.
†SET = Scientists, Engineers and Technologists
JISC awards £200,000 for MyPlan research project
Posted: 14-Dec-2006
Alex Poulovassilis, George Magoulas (co-PIs), Diana Laurillard, Sara de Freitas, Martin Oliver and Ian Harrison have been awarded £200,000 from JISC for a project entitled "MyPlan - Personal Planning for Learning throughout Life", which will develop, deploy and evaluate new techniques and tools that allow personalised planning of lifelong learning. The project which started in September 2006 will continue until November 2008.
BCS accreditation and exemption confirmed
Posted: 27-Nov-2006
The Department has been notified by the British Computer Society (BCS) that students passing the courses below can gain exemption from the BCS Professional Examinations thereby providing a route to BCS Membership. Additionally, as a Nominated Body of the Engineering Council UK and the Science Council BCS has accredited these courses at Chartered or Incorporated Engineer and Chartered Scientist level.
The courses are: BSc Information Systems and Management, MSc Computer Science, MSc Advanced Information Systems, MSc Web Information Management. Students must pass the project at the first attempt to gain exemption.
When the BCS visited us the BSc Information Systems and Computing and the MSc Intelligent Information Systems were just starting so it was too early to apply for exemption for these courses.
Outstanding Paper Award
Posted: 18-Oct-2006
Dionisios Dimakopoulos and George Magoulas won an outstanding paper award at the 4th IADIS International Conference on WWW/Internet 2006, which was held at Murcia, Spain, 5-8 October 2006. The award is based on the blind review of their written paper, entitled "A personalised mobile environment for lifelong learners", and the oral presentation by Dionisios who attended the conference.
Betty Walters
Posted: 17-Oct-2006
Betty Walters retired in October 2006 after a many years of invaluable service. We would all like to thank Betty for the work she has done for Computer Science at Birkbeck and wish her the very best of luck in her retirement. (Watch this space for photos of Betty's leaving party). A warm welcome to Jane Lucas who has joined us as the new Department Manager.
Transactions in Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Posted: 16-Oct-2006
Dr Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the new ACM Transactions in Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). The first issue of ACM TAAS appeared in September 2006. ACM TAAS is a venue for high quality research contributions addressing different aspects of computing systems exhibiting autonomous and adaptive behaviour.
Brendan Murphy prize
Posted: 17-Jul-2006
Ettore Ferranti won the Brendan Murphy prize, sponsored by Intel Research, for giving the best talk at the Multi-Service Networks Workshop 2006. The workshop is in the context of the EPSRC-supported network called 'Next Generation Networking'. Ettore's talk was entitled "Multi-agent exploration of unknown terrains".
DTI collaborative research and development project
Posted: 22-Jun-2006
Dr Sara de Freitas is part of the research and development team that has been awarded £1 million from the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) and a further £1 million from Vega Group PLC and Blitz Games (TruSim) to explore 'Serious Games: Engaging Training Solutions'. The DTI collaborative research and development project will bring industrial and academic partners together to provide frameworks and guidelines for supporting the development of games applications for solving specific business needs.
Dr Sara de Freitas
Posted: 22-Jun-2006
Dr Sara de Freitas has been awarded £50,000 from the University of London's Centre for Distance Education to explore 'Pedagogical Models for Synchronous Audiographic Conferencing'. The research project will commence in November 2006.
Microsoft "DesignIT for a charity" 2006 competition
Posted: 06-Jun-2006
Congratulations to the FdIT workplace projects team who finished runners up in the Microsoft "DesignIT for a charity" 2006 competition. The project was Rural Focus on village communities - Learn 'n' Train Trailer. The team will receive £1000 to spend on software. Further details.
Lifelong Learning for all: e-learning from concept to practice
Posted: 05-Jun-2006
Sara de Freitas chaired the conference Lifelong Learning for all: e-learning from concept to practice held at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London.
Unified WebCT Portal
Posted: 22-May-2006
The Foundation Degree in IT programme is the first programme in Birkbeck to have a unified WebCT portal enabling students to access all their computer science and management modules plus programme information and news from the portal. All FdIT students in 2006-7 will have access to all management and computer science modules within their MyWebCT portal. Electronic submission of coursework is supported but is an option for the lecturer.
Many thanks to the staff who have made the effort to provide this improved learner support. This is a particularly important achievement where modules are team taught and for programmes which run in more than one department.
£17,000 awarded by the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development
Posted: 21-Apr-2006
Niki Trigoni has been awarded £17,000 by the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development for a project entitled "Robust and Real-Time Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks"
£30,000 JISC Award
Posted: 21-Apr-2006
JISC has awarded approx £30,000 to George Magoulas, Alex Poulovassilis, Ian Harrison, Dave Wilson, Sara de Freitas and George Papamarkos, to continue our work on the "L4All - Lifelong Learning in London for all" project for a further 7 months.
DTI Grant of £61,947
Posted: 28-Feb-2006
Mark Levene, in collaboration with University College London and other partners, has been awarded a grant from the DTI. The project is entitled "Process Envelopes for Cement-based Stabilisation/Solidification (ProCeSS)". Birkbeck will receive funding of £61,947 for this project.
EU Grant
Posted: 14-Feb-2006, updated 28-Feb-2006.
George Roussos has just been successful in being awarded a grant from the EU in collaboration with an number of European partners. The project is Association Studies assisted by Inference and Semantic Technologies. The Birkbeck part of the grant is about £113,500 and the project will run for two years from 1st January 2006. The project is currently recruiting two Research Assistants.
New Book - Personalizing Learning in the 21st Century
Posted: 2-Feb-2006
Personalizing Learning in the 21st Century (PDF) - a new book edited by Sara de Freitas and Chris Yapp is now available.
EPSRC Grant Awards
Posted: 1-Feb-2006
Congratulations to Michael Zakharyaschev who has been awarded two grants from the EPSRC:
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning about Distances (£134,517)
Dynamic Ontologies: a Framework for Service Descriptions (£94,885)
Roman Kontchakov and Mikhail Sheremet will be the Research Associates working on these projects at Birkbeck from 1st February. A warm welcome to them.
The Ubicomp Google
Posted: 10-Jan-2006
George Roussos, Mark Levene and several collaborators are working on the ubicomp google, a navigation engine for the emerging ubiquitous computing world. Users moving through ubiquitous computing enabled spaces, that is environments constructed by physical objects augmented with computational, sensing, auto-identification and wireless communication capabilities, create trails of information that must be archived, managed and subsequently retrieved. The navigation engine being developed by the Birkbeck team offers such facilities and thus plays a role in the ubicomp world akin to that of Google on the web.
Sensing pollution in London Fields
Posted: 19-Dec-2005
The Department is a partner in the Robotic Feral Public Authoring project funded by the EPSRC Culture & Creativity Programme. George Roussos, Dima Diall and Dimitris Airantzis are working on the project which aims to design and create practical applications from commercially available technologies for social and cultural public benefit such as adapting a remote control toy car into a powerful sensing device for locating and identifying chemical pollution and radiation.
New Book - 'Ubiquitous and Pervasive Commerce' edited by George Roussos
Posted: 18-Dec-2005
Ubiquitous and Pervasive Commerce edited by George Roussos has recently been published by Springer.
New Staff
Posted: 3-Oct-2005
Welcome to all the staff, researchers and students who have joined us at the start of the new academic year. We are please to welcome two new lecturers, Dr Sven Helmer and Dr Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo. A warm welcome to Professor Michael Zakharyaschev who has joined us from King's College. Dr Roman Kontchakov and Dr Mikhail Sheremet will also be joining us as Research Associates working with Prof Zakharyaschev. Two new faces at Emerald Street - Dr Alexandre Guitton (Research Assistant) and Mr Adonis Skordilis (PhD student) will be working with Niki Trigoni on the TIME-EACM project mentioned below. Last but not least, Ming Tso (Mark) Chiang, Chunhua (Jenny) Hu and Zhu Zheng have recently started their PhD studies with us.
BAIT Award (Birkbeck Award In Teaching)
Posted: 28-Sep-2005
Sara de Freitas has won a BAIT Award (Birkbeck Award In Teaching) for her role in developing the PLATO module (Planning Learning And Teaching Online).
New Staff
Posted: 20-Sep-2005
We are please to welcome Dr Dell Zhang who joined the department on 1st September as a Lecturer.
New Book - 'An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation' by Prof Mark Levene
Posted: 19-Aug-2005
A new book by Prof Mark Levene entitled "An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation" has been published by Pearson Education. Full details.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Posted: 11-May-2005
Steve Maybank have been appointed a member of the Academic Committee of State Key Laboratory for Image Processing and Intelligent Control, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, with effect form April 2005. A delegation from Huazhong University visited Birkbeck College on 3 May 2005 to present him with a certificate.
eDIPED
Posted: 1-Mar-2005
Ian Harrison is Birkbeck's representative on the eDIPED project which aims to provide a digital appraisal tool for the collection and presentation of portfolio evidence of European educators' competencies.
New Book - 'Clustering for Data Mining - A Data Recovery Approach' by Prof Boris Mirkin
Posted: 19-Feb-2005
A new book by Prof Boris Mirkin entitled "Clustering for Data Mining - A Data Recovery Approach" has been published by Chapman & Hall. Full details are here.
£132,000 award from JISC
Posted: 1-Feb-2005
George Magoulas, Alex Poulovassilis, Sara de Freitas and Ian Harrison have been awarded £132,000 from JISC for a project entitled: L4All: Lifelong learning in London for all as part of the Distributed e-Learning Programme.
£207,830 award from EPSRC
Posted: 1-Feb-2005
Niki Trigoni has been awarded £207,830 from EPSRC for a project entitled: A Transport Information Monitoring Environment (TIME): Event Architecture and Context Management (TIME-EACM)
£3,500 award from the Nuffield Foundation
Posted: 1-Feb-2005
Niki has also been awarded £3,500 from the Nuffield Foundation for a project entitled: Fault-tolerant data management for sensor networks.
