24 hours student Hackathon event. Venue: Henley Business School Building. More details please visit: https://www.ruhacking.me/?no-cache=1

We are hosting a Data Science Hackathon event from 9:30-16:30 in the Polly Vacher building.  There will be a team event to analyse a data set, an extreme programming competition, workshop sessions for beginners, and a poster and demo session in the afternoon. Morning Session, 9:30-13:00: Track 1:  Data Science Hackathon. (You will choose a …

We are arranging a day trip to Bletchley Park (https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk) during on Friday 8th Nov 2019 (week 6). Bletchley Park is also call Station X, fame as the central site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II, and where  Alan Turing worked as a codebreaker during that time period. The department will pay for the travel and tickets (It will cost you more than £30 …

The 3rd data science club will be at 12:30-1:30 this Friday (15 Nov), G45. We will talk about neural networks. Here is the referred material.    Video lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5Mr93E-2c practice tutorial: https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/neural_networks_supervised.html#

CS Seminar: “Delay-Resistant Geo-Distributed Analytics” by Dr. Habib Mostafaei, Eindhoven University of Technology Abstract: Big data analytics platforms have played a critical role in the unprecedented success of data-driven applications. However, real-time and streaming data applications, and recent legislation, e.g., GDPR in Europe, have posed constraints on exchanging and analyzing data, especially personal data, across geographic …

The Rise of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) Bala Amavasai, Global Technical Director at Databricks Venue Van Emden Theatre, Edith Morley Building, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading Lecture starts at 19:30, tea/coffee available from 19:00.   Generative AI creates new outputs from existing data. It has taken the world by storm. Large language …

The SKAO Observatory: how to deliver transformational science Luca Stringhetti, Head of Engineering - Square Kilometre Array Observatory Venue Van Emden Theatre, Edith Morley Building, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading Lecture starts at 19:30, tea/coffee available from 19:00. The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) is the next-generation radio astronomy-driven facility that will transform our understanding

This IET lecture is being given by one of our former UoR students. All are welcome to attend. Emil Jonasson, Senior Robotics Research Engineer (Rad-hard and Resilient systems) RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments), United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. More than 80 per cent of the world’s energy still comes from fossil fuels. Climate change

Our next department seminar will be on June 11th from 12:00 to 12:45.  The guest speaker is Dr Sukhpal Singh Gill, Assistant Professor of Cloud Computing with the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, U.K. Abstract: Over the past six decades, the computing systems field has experienced significant transformations,