A project funded by the Undergraduate Research Assistant Scheme has successfully completed the first stage of interdisciplinary work, between the Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the School of Computer Science. The long-term aim is to digitise and analyse early French bibles.
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Funded PhD places in data science at the University of Edinburgh
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Data Science is now inviting applications for 10 fully-funded PhD studentships at the University of Edinburgh, to start in September 2017. Students with a strong background in computer science, mathematics, physics, or engineering are particularly encouraged to apply.
Women in Data Science
A Women in Data Science event is being held at the Isaac Newton Institute on Wednesday 7 December within the New Developments in Data Privacy workshop, part of the current INI programme on Data Linkage and Anonymisation.
The Six Pillars for Building Big Data Analytics Ecosystems
A paper that may be of general interest.
IDIR seminar: Biology Network Alignment Comes of Age
Dr Wayne Haynes will be visiting St Andrews on Wed 28 September; his talk (abstract below) will take place at 3pm in Maths lecture theatre C — Please note the change of venue.
Research data survey
For St Andrews researchers, were currently surveying our research data management tooling and requirements. Please take a moment to fill in the survey: details are available here.
PPSN 2016 – Call for Participation
The 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XIV), is organised by Edinburgh Napier University and will be held at the John McIntyre Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK from 17-21 September 2016.
World’s Richest Source of New in-Water Oceanographic Data Now Operational
The data center for the pioneering Ocean Observatories Initiative, which collects and shares data from more than 800 sophisticated instruments and a transmission network across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is now operating at Rutgers University.
Text mining and copyright law
Does copyright law pose problems for research that makes use of text mining?
Do you write software for research?
If so, the Library want to hear from you.