Seminars

IRAC hosts a range of seminars which reflect the research and teaching interests of staff, research fellows and research students. Seminars are presented by the Institute's members and invited speakers from institutions both in the UK and abroad.

The Cyborg Experiments
Prof Kevin Warwick
University of Reading
9th June, 2010

Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Era
Huseyin Seker
De Montfort University
20th May, 2010

Insight into Open Source Software for cognitive robotics
Paul Osmialowski
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw
12th May, 2010

An Overview of Hyper-heuristics
Ender Özcan
University of Nottingham
24th February, 2010

Energy-time Efficient Algorithms for Reactive Route Discovery in MANETs
Ida Pu, Goldsmiths
University of London
17th February, 2010

Understanding the dynamics and challenges of global identity policies
Edgar A. Whitley
Reader in Information Systems, London School of Economics and Political
Science 10th February, 2010

From Multi-Core to Many-Core - The Architecture's Impact on Parallel Programming
Carsten Trinitis
Technical University of Munich
22nd January, 2010

Formal Verification of Complex and Critical Systems
Franco Raimondi
Middlesex University
25th November, 2009

SmartGRID -- Ongoing research work in University of Fribourg and Univ. Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HES-SO)
Ye Huang
University of Fribourg
18th November, 2009

Living in a Smart Environment
Elena Mugellini and Omar Abou Khaled
University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland
11th November, 2009

Using Grid Services to Parallelize IBM's Generic Log Adapter
Fatos Xhafa
Technical University of Catalonia
28th October, 2009

Message Oriented Middleware and Web 2.0
Prof Thomas Preuss
Fachhochschule Brandenburg (University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg), Germany
1st May, 2009
(ERASMUS exchange programme)

Semi-automatic Assessment of Student Conceptual Database Diagrams
Firat Batmaz
Loughborough University
18 March, 2009

Video Compression Using Color Transfer based on Motion Estimation
Dr Suman Mitra
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
5th Sept, 2008

The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
Professor Song Yan
University of Bedfordshire
30th May, 2008

Coping with Missing Levels in Multilevel Modelling
Dr Neil Spencer
Statistical Services and Consultancy Unit, University of Hertfordshire
7th May, 2008

Only Usable Security is Effective Security
Professor Angela Sasse
University College London
30th April, 2008

Human-Computer Interaction and the Origins of the User Interface
Dr Alan Blackwell
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
23rd April, 2008

P = NP problem
Dr Alpar Juttner
University of Bedfordshire
5th March, 2008

Graphics Hardware Programming Principles - an application-oriented approach
Olivier Nocent
University of Reims
21st January, 2008

Authentication techniques (plus a little about cryptography!)
Professor Fred Piper
Director of Information Security, Royal Holloway, University of London
21st November 2007

HTTP Streaming and Browser Databases - New Trends in Web applications
Prof Thomas Preuss
Fachhochschule Brandenburg (University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg), Germany
16th November, 2007
(ERASMUS exchange programme)

ID-based Cryptography using Semantic Primitives
Prof Peter Wild
Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London
9th May, 2007

Web Information Retrieval: Search Engines
Dr Marcin Sydow
Assistant Professor Web Mining Lab, Department of Intelligent Systems, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw
27th April, 2007

Offshoring: Challenge or Opportunity?
Elizabeth Sparrow
Chair, BCS working Party on Offshoring & Chair, BCS Government relations Group, British Computer Society
27th March, 2007

Genesis Machines - the New Science of Biocomputing
Dr Martin Amos
Manchester Metropolitan University
22nd March, 2007

Computer Science Education - Teaching recursion
Prof Ian Sanders
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
24th January, 2007

How do they do that?: Computer Forensics and Ethical Hacking
Geraint Williams
University of Bedfordshire
17th January, 2007

UMTS-WCDMA Planning and Optimisation
Dr Di Yuan
Linköping Institute of Technology, Finland
10th January, 2007

Identification of Robot Mathematical Model with Neural Networks
MSc. Eng. Jakub Filip Mozaryn
Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
6th December, 2006

How Secure is RSA?
Professor Song Yan
University of Bedfordshire
25th October, 2006