New research on 3D RNA folding in the context of gene editing (using CRISPR/Cas9) has been published by Professor Andreas Albrecht in Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group): CRISPR/Cas9 editing reveals novel mechanisms of clustered microRNA regulation and function. The following are examples of 3D RNA structures from the paper: Movie 1 – Mutant Structure Mut […]
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The department has two research positions available: Research Assistant on the EU project SUCCESS: https://jobs.mdx.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=SCT194 (deadline 03/08/2017). Please contact Florian Kammueller for more information. Research Fellow on the EU project DREAMS4CARS: https://jobs.mdx.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=SCT196 (deadline 20/08/2017). Please contact David Windridge for more information.
The London Hopper Colloquium is an annual one day event for researchers across the UK who are building a career in computing. It is modelled on the American Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which aims to bring the research and career interests of women in the spotlight. These annual American meetings are held […]
The Women in Computing group at Middlesex, coordinated by Kelly Androutsopoulos, was founded in 2014 . The purpose of this group is to bring together Middlesex-affiliated women who are studying or interested in Computing and to share common interests, concerns and ambitions. We have over 40 members. We post events or interest and communicate via the […]
Professor Samson Abramsky FRS was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Middlesex University. Samson is the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He has local connections. Samson grew up in Golders Green and went to school in Hendon. His PhD supervisor was Richard Bornat, and Samson was the […]
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Quality awards for two papers!
Second Best full paper at the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Environments: “Assessing Real World Imagery in Virtual Environments for People with Cognitive Disabilities” by Alexandra Covaci, Dean Kramer, Juan Carlos Augusto (Middlesex University), Silvia Rus, and Andreas Braun (Fraunhofer) Best Short Paper at the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Environments: “Developing Navigational Services for […]
Professor Juan Carlos Augusto has been elected senior member of AAAI. As mentioned on the nomination page, “Senior Member status is designed to recognize AAAI members who have achieved significant accomplishments within the field of artificial intelligence“, http://www.aaai.org/Awards/senior.php. Juan is the Head of the research group on Intelligent Environments; additional details are available on his […]
A new journal proposed by Juan Carlos Augusto and titled “Reliable Intelligent Environments” has officially been accepted by Springer. More details to appear soon.
Barnaby Martin has been awarded an EPSRC First Grant worth £125k for “Infinite-domain Constraint Satisfaction Problems”. He will shortly be advertising for a year’s postdoctoral amanuensis.
The Neuromorphic Embodied Agents that Learn project (NEAL) is part of the The Human Brain Project funded by the EU. This project builds on our earlier Cell Assembly Robot (CABot) work and extends it. NEAL will translate the Java based fatiguing leaky integrate and fire neural model and system to PyNN, which in turn will […]