Building the news search engine, by Ramkumar Aiyengar, Bloomberg Abstract: This talk provides an insight into the challenges involved in providing near real-time news search to Bloomberg customers. Our News team is in…
Matching in Practice: Junior Doctor Allocation and Kidney Exchange by Dr. David Manlove Abstract: Matching problems typically involve assigning agents to commodities, possibly on the basis of ordinal preferences or…
Statistically Consistent Estimation and Efficient Inference for Natural Language ParsingBy Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh. Abstract: In the past few years, there has been an increased interest in the machinel…
Title: Cloud Platform in Financial Services Presenter: Allan Beck, Cloud Platform and Strategy Lead from JPMorgan Chase Abstract: Cloud Computing is revolutionising the delivery of compute services and driving the next…
Simon Dobson, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews Abstract: Complex networks provide a way of modelling systems with lots of dependent elements, such as traffic networks or social networks. By running…
By: Josef Svenningsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Feldspar is a domain specific language with the goal of raising the level of abstraction for performance sensitive, low-level code. Feldspar is a…
Many St Andrews CS students do internships in the summer, but we very rarely get the opportunity to learn about them. If you are interested in what some outstanding fourth year students did this summer, including tips…
by Aaron Smith, Microsoft Research Datacenter workloads demand high computational capabilities, flexibility, power efficiency, and low cost. It is challenging to improve all of these factors simultaneously. To advance…
Hear why MarkLogic was chosen as the 2012 Olympic website content store to ingest, store and deliver the data and content assets to the BBC¹s mobile app and thousands of web pages.Speaker: Paul Preuveneers, Director,…
Abstract: We live in an information society, with cloud computing is changing the way we live, work and play in a world of devices and services. In this talk we’ll explore what, why and how this new era of computing is…