SherlockML will demonstrate their Development Environment for Data Science to MSc Data Science students on Wednesday Feb. 14th in Labs 404+405, from 6PM to 7:30PM.

Birkbeck (Department of Computer Science and Information Sytems, School of Business, Economics and Informatics) has been chosen as one of the UK universities to form the new Institute of Coding announced by the Prime Minister at the World Economic Forum 2018, where she pledged £20m from HEFCE together with £20m in matched funding.The IoC consortium is formed of 25 universities, businesses including IBM, Cisco, BT and Microsoft, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and professional bodies such as the British Computer Society and CREST and will teach digital skills such as artificial intelligence and cyber security. Birkbeck was chosen together with the Open University because of our specialist skills in widening participation and outreach.

Prime Minister announces £20m Institute of Coding

Birkbeck part of major new UK skills initiative

Institute of Coding website

We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated manager to work closely with staff in the Department and School in co-ordinating the activities of Birkbeck’s contribution to the Institute of Coding (IoC). Full details

Michael J. Fox Foundation, the world’s largest non-profit funder of Parkinson’s research, has awarded George Roussos more than £100,000 to enable analysis of data from people with Parkinson’s Disease. Prof. Roussos from Birkbeck's Department of Computer Sceince and Information Systems, will use the money to help build on smartphone and wearable-device apps that record information on a patient’s motor symptoms of PD, including tremors, rigidity and posture instability. As reported in Metro. Further details.

The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems is seeking to appoint one full-time and one part-time post-doctoral researchers on an externally funded interdisciplinary project to develop a scalable computational Data Science Toolbox for the high-frequency assessment of Parkinson’s Disease. Full details are here

The Department and School are among the proponents for a UKs first Data Scientist Integrated Degree Apprenticeship.

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The paper IRGAN: A Minimax Game for Unifying Generative and Discriminative Information Retrieval Models co-authored by Dell Zhang and his collaborators from University College London, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tianjin University, and Alibaba Inc. received the Best Paper Award (Honourable Mention) in this year's ACM SIGIR conference, the most prestigious conference in information retrieval and text analytics.

http://sigir.org/sigir2017/program/awards/

We are pleased to be able to offer a full-time permanent Lecturership B in Computer Science.

Closing date for applications is 15th September 2017.

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RuleML+RR: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning will take place at Birkbeck, University of London from 12 - 15 July 2017.

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