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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 […]

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Professor Juan Augusto named senior member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

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 […]

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New Journal: “Reliable Intelligent Environments”

A new journal proposed by Juan Carlos Augusto and titled “Reliable Intelligent Environments” has officially been accepted by Springer. More details to appear soon.

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New EPSRC-funded project: “Infinite-domain Constraint Satisfaction Problems”

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.

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New EU-funded project NEAL: Neuromorphic Embodied Agents that Learn

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 […]

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EU funds project on inclusion with Middlesex University participation

Researchers from our department attracted funding from the EU through the call “ICT for smart and personalised inclusion” (Objective ICT-2013.5.3). The project title is: PersOnalized Smart Environments to increase Inclusion of people with DOwn’s syNdrome (POSEIDON). The Middlesex University team is a multi-disciplinary team with including colleagues from other departments of our S&T School.  The […]

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New EPSRC grant

Franco Raimondi has been awarded an EPSRC grant in collaboration with Natasha Alechina (School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham) for the Verification of Resource-Bounded Multi-Agents Systems (VRBMAS). More details about the project can be found at the project’s web site: http://www.vrbmas.org.

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Congratulations to Dr Pratap Chillakanti

Pratap Chillakanti has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Secure Collaboration in Onboarding”. His supervisory team included Dr Geetha Abeysinghe, Ms Elli Georgiadou, Prof C V Ramamoorthy (external supervisor from UC Berkeley) and the late Prof Colin Tully. The external examiner was  Prof Keith Phalp, from Bournemouth University and the internal examiner was Dr Nawaz Khan.

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91% overall satisfaction: Thank you!

Thank you to all our students for this excellent result! You can see additional details at this link: http://unistats.direct.gov.uk/Compare-Courses/List/10004351FT-144I102K3,10007788FT-UG_CSTX_KIS,10007774FT-G400,10007784FT-UBSCOMSING05,10003645FT-UBSH3CSCS

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Papers accepted at AAMAS 2013 and TACAS 2013

Papers by department members have been accepted at AAMAS 2013 and TACAS 2013, both very good conferences in Computer Science. For details, see this link.