After the success of the Christmas Cyber lecture for Schools last year, SICSA, the Scottish Government, Police Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University, University of Abertay, and other collaborators are hosting one of the Christmas Cyber lectures.
The overall aim is to inform pupils on the opportunities and risks that exist in the Cyber Age, and some of the ways that attackers can be detected and defeated.
This year there will be two sessions with 400 places at each, and there are plans to run it in other cities in Scotland.
There will a range of prizes donated by sponsors, including Cyber Pupil of the Year. More details will follow on how schools can enter for the competition.
The security research team[*] at Edinburgh Napier University are hosting the yearly security symposium on Tuesday 10 December 2013 at Craiglockhart, Edinburgh. This year it will focus on Cyber Risks, Governance and Privacy:
Overall it is supported by a range of collaborators, and will host some of the leading speakers in the areas related to cyber risk, governance and privacy. This includes Prof John Howie (Cloud Security Alliance), Scott Chase, and Alan Jewsbury (PwC). More will be announced soon.
Reserve a place on Eventbright: http://cyberrisks.eventbrite.co.uk
Tech-Talk: Design By Contract Speaker: Dr Kevin Chalmers
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As object-orientation has matured it has become the de facto standard for developing modern software. Object-orientation as it stands has its merits, enabling us to build larger systems than standard structural approaches did. However, we still seem to be in a software crisis – projects are still delivered late and over budget. We obviously haven’t got it right yet.
This talk will look at Design by Contract and how it can be used to augment your object-oriented design and development. Anyone interested in software engineering will find the talk interesting, especially those interested in software correctness and modelling.
This talk will take place in Room F12 at Edinburgh Napier University's Merchiston Campus.
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre - operations, HPC services & placements
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The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the University of Edinburgh operates the current UK national High Performance Computing (HPC) Service, a Cray XE6 system called HECToR at a datacenter outside of Edinburgh. In this seminar
James will talk about several areas the EPCC is involved in. Firstly the technologies involved in powering and cooling of the datacentre where HPC services are hosted. Secondly the HPC services we offer, their architectures and connectivity. Lastly the day to day jobs of a Linux system administrator maintaining these systems at the datacentre. After the main presentation James will outline our placement scheme and also the EPCC's MSc in High Performance computing.
Speaker: James Sweet - Systems Developer, EPCC, University of Edinburgh, has worked for the EPCC for 4 years now during and after graduating from the Embedded Systems course at Napier University, Edinburgh. His main interests are in data centre energy efficiency, plant monitoring/automation and various aspects of Linux Administration (Security/Storage/Authentication).
The talk will take place in room F12 or Edinburgh Napier University's Merchiston Campus
The security research team[*] at Edinburgh Napier University are hosting the yearly security symposium on Tuesday 10 December 2013 at Craiglockhart, Edinburgh. This year it will focus on Cyber Risks, Governance and Privacy:
Overall it is supported by a range of collaborators, and will host some of the leading speakers in the areas related to cyber risk, governance and privacy. This includes Prof John Howie (Cloud Security Alliance), Scott Chase, and Alan Jewsbury (PwC). More will be announced soon.
Reserve a place on Eventbright: http://cyberrisks.eventbrite.co.uk
University to host major Cyber Risks and Governance Symposium
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The <a href="http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/c/areas/areaid/1011">security research team</a> at Edinburgh Napier University are hosting the yearly security symposium on Tuesday 10 December 2013 at Craiglockhart, Edinburgh. This year it will focus on Cyber Risks, Governance and Privacy:
Overall it is supported by a range of collaborators, and will host some of the leading speakers in the areas related to cyber risk, governance and privacy. This includes Prof John Howie (Cloud Security Alliance), Scott Chase, and Alan Jewsbury (PwC). More will be announced soon.
Reserve a place on Eventbright: http://cyberrisks.eventbrite.co.uk
Talks and other events hosted by the Institute of Informatics and Digital Innovation. Venues vary, though they're mostly at our campus at Merchiston, Edinburgh.
After the success of the Christmas Cyber lecture for Schools last year, SICSA, the Scottish Government, Police Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University, University of Abertay, and other collaborators are hosting one of the Christmas Cyber lectures.
The overall aim is to inform pupils on the opportunities and risks that exist in the Cyber Age, and some of the ways that attackers can be detected and defeated.
This year there will be two sessions with 400 places at each, and there are plans to run it in other cities in Scotland.
There will a range of prizes donated by sponsors, including Cyber Pupil of the Year. More details will follow on how schools can enter for the competition.
We begin pretending very early in childhood and continue uninterrupted throughout adult life and technology in itself is able to bring this into sharp focus. For example, pretending figures prominently in the design and evaluation of digital technologies. Pretending lets us imagine that these technologies have personalities, agency and dispositions. We also pretend when we watch a movie, play a game and experience virtual reality. Pretending is how we feel present, transported and immersed by technology. It will be argued that cognition begins and ends with pretending and that recent research is now beginning to identify the neural bases of this ability.
Commercialising ICT@EdinburghNapier - what's happening, getting involved and the benefits
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Roger Ashworth, Business Development Executive for the Institute for Informatics and Digitial Innovation will give an overview of some of the commercial work undertaken by the Institute, giving a flavour of what we commercialise and how we go about doing it. As well as covering a number of case-studies, he will talk about what's in for both students and staff, how you can get involved what ever stage of your degree or career you are at, and show some examples the kind of things you might end up doing.
Talks and other events hosted by Institute of Informatics and Digital Innovation. Venues vary, though they're mostly at our campus Merchiston, Edinburgh.
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