2020 events

Monday 14 December 2020

Join us for this year’s virtual Karen Spärck Jones lecture where our three speakers will talk about their recent areas of research and answer your questions.

YorRobots Summer Internship Virtual Poster Session

Monday 7 December 2020

YorRobots host a poster session showcasing the work of Undergraduates from various departments.

Embedding artificial intelligence on chips

Wednesday 11 November 2020

Themis Prodromakis will present the challenges in manufacturing and using new AI technologies and examples on how these can be used in practical applications: from bio-electronic medicines to 'AI on a chip' solutions.

Unsupervised Bayesian and Deep Learning Models of Morphology

Wednesday 4 November 2020

Burcu Can will present her work.

Celebrating Black History Month in Computer Science

Wednesday 28 October 2020

In celebration of Black History Month, the Department of Computer Science invites staff and students to join us for a virtual discussion of the film Hidden Figures.

Hate Detection in COVID-19 Tweets in the Arab Region using Deep learning and Topic Modeling

Wednesday 28 October 2020

The massive scale of social media platforms requires an automatic solution for detecting hate speech.

Digital twins powered by IIOT and industrial AI: a co-creation between data scientists and engineers

Wednesday 21 October 2020

The technology and operation of assets are complex, but the adoption of IIoT in and its use with IT/OT platforms enables the use of ‘digital twins’ to manage, monitor and maintain assets in a totally different way.

Flattening the curve of the COVID-19 infodemic

Wednesday 14 October 2020

The World Health Organization acknowledged that “The 2019-nCoV outbreak and response has been accompanied by a massive ‘infodemic’ … that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it”. We will discuss the tools developed at QCRI to provide support towards addressing this problem and information manipulation in general in the context of social media and traditional media outlets.

Chord Signaling

Wednesday 7 October 2020

Professor Amin Shokrollahi introduces a new modulation scheme for chip-to-chip communication known as 'chordal codes'.

York Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security inaugural event

Wednesday 18 March 2020

In this free event, all members of the Centre present short talks on their research.

Introduction to System Safety training course

Monday 16 March 2020

A five-day primer course in system safety engineering.

Advances in Parallel Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems

Wednesday 11 March 2020

This talk will describe a series of recent advances in parallel real-time systems research, including both theoretical and practical results.

YorRobots Exhibition

Friday 28 February 2020

This event consists of talks and show-and-tell activities shared between academic staff from the University of York and potential industrial collaborators.

Material appearance constancy across different rendering platforms

Wednesday 26 February 2020

This talk will discuss a genetic algorithm-based approach to derive a perceptually accurate mapping between the parameter spaces of parametric Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions.

On hyper-bent Boolean functions

Wednesday 19 February 2020

This talk will give a complete survey on hyper-bent Boolean functions and present very recent results.