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in a nutshell

Jon OberlanderDirector of SICSA

sicsa* Structure of this presentation

1. Why?2. Who?3. What?

What’s going on?What’s going on?

How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow?

– Distributed, pervasive, varied …• sometimes big and powerful, sometimes small and low power

How can we “right-scale” in the petabyte age?

– Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering

How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow?

– Distributed, pervasive, varied …• sometimes big and powerful, sometimes small and low power

How can we “right-scale” in the petabyte age?

– Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering

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Starting pointStarting point

StrathclydeStrathclyde EdinburghEdinburgh

GlasgowGlasgow

StirlingStirlingSt AndrewsSt Andrews

AbertayAbertay

DundeeDundee

Robert GordonRobert GordonAberdeenAberdeen

Heriot WattHeriot Watt

9% of UK population16% of UK 4* output20% of RC grants

9% of UK population16% of UK 4* output20% of RC grants

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Plans for growth: £29M investment

Governing BoardGoverning Board

AdvisoryCommittees

AdvisoryCommittees

ResearchCommittee

ResearchCommittee Graduate

Academy

GraduateAcademy

SecuringSecuring

•Practical networking

•Performance analysis

•Network security formalisms

•Web languages

InterfacingInterfacing ModellingModelling

•Computational group theory

•System and performance modelling

•Model checking

•Applications

EngineeringEngineering

•Socio-technical systems

•Agents and autonomics

•Complex interactions

•Speech and language

•HCI•Information retrieval

•Machine learning

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sicsa* Who’s here? Academics

1. Edin Vincent Danos2. StA Simon Dobson3. Stir Marwan Fayed4. Edin Sharon Goldwater5. Strath Eva Hornecker6. Edin Elham Kashefi7. Edin Victor Lavrenko8. HW Oliver Lemon9. HW H-W Loidl10. Edin Richard Mayr11. Edin Iain Murray12. StA Mirco Musolesi13. Gla Gethin Norman14. Gla Dimitrios Pezaros15. Gla Simon Rogers16. Strath Dimitri Roussinov17. Edin Guido Sanguinetti18. Abd Advaith Siddharthan19. Edin Charles Sutton20. Gla Alessandro Vinciarelli

sicsa* Who’s here? Advanced Fellows

StA Edwin Brady Strath Andrew Coles Edin Robin Milner StA Alex Voss

On target for academic recruitment – 10 more to recruit & confirm

On target for advanced fellow recruitment– 3 more to recruit & confirm

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Securing the NGI: Research challenges

Future architecture:– Naming, addressing

& routing– Security and resilience– Converged services– Ubiquitous access– Network defence -

resilience Issues:

– Understanding network evolution

– Heterogeneity– Current ossification due

to CNI dependencies– Research issues “masked”

by commercial drivers

sicsa* Securing: Strength in Scotland

Applications

Security services &

protocols Protocols

and systemsNetwork management

Network measurement, monitoring & analysis

New paradigms and system architecture

Networked Games.Abertay, Glasgow.

Measurement & monitoring.Glasgow, St Andrews.

Security. Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews

New architecture. Glasgow, St Andrews

Mobile & wireless. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Strathclyde

Protocol analysis and testing. Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews

WWW Info Sys. RGU, St Andrews, Stirling

Distributed applications.Strathclyde, St Andrews,Stirling

sicsa* Multimodal Interfacing: Research challenges

Modality: narrow to broad– Speech, gesture, touch, face, body– Interpreting & generating multimodal communication

scenes Frequency: discrete to continuous

– Interaction loops, ambient networks, evidential reasoning

Flexibility: impersonal to personal– Dialogue, context, affect, history– User modelling, inference, privacy

Intelligence: explicit to implicit– Intention recognition, assistiveness, very large

scale NLP

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Information retrievalHCI

Natural language processing

applications: Ubiquitous computing, dialogue systems, healthcare, knowledge engineering, machine translation, autonomous robotics

Visualisation

- Glasgow, Strathclyde, RGU

- Glasgow, Dundee, Heriot-Watt

- Glasgow, Abertay, Heriot-Watt, RGU

- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde

- Aberdeen, Dundee, Abertay, RGU, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde

Interfacing: Strength in Scotland

Speech

Cognitive systems

- Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews

- Edinburgh, Stirling

Machine learning - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling

sicsa* Modelling and Abstraction: Research challenges

Predictive abstract models for analysis of complex,interacting systems

Languages, abstractions and mappings– discrete/continuous state/time, deterministic/stochastic,

individual/population Effective algorithms

– scalable tools Scalable analysis

– large scale, reductions and abstractions Query languages

– for analysis New application domains

sicsa* Modelling and Abstraction: Strength in Scotland

types and logics

process algebras

automated reasoning

applications:

neuroinformatics, mathematical biology, networked systems

machine learning

- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews

- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt

- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling

- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling

- Abertay, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling

sicsa* Complex Systems Engineering: Research challenges

Scope– Modelling– Evolution– Socio-technical

Issues– Socio-technical systems

engineering– Novel computing

paradigms– Trusted software– Reducing time to value

sicsa* Complex Systems Engineering: Strength in Scotland

Complexity in OrganisationsSocio-technical systems

Software engineering

Novel computation

Predictable software systems

Mathematical foundations

Accident analysis. Glasgow

LSCITS. St AndrewsResponsibility and trust. St Andrews, EdinburghAgents. Aberdeen, EdinburghAdaptive Computation. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Abertay, Stirling, Dundee, Robert GordonsModel-driven development. EdinburghFunctional systems. St Andrews, Heriot Watt

Empirical SE. Strathclyde

Modelling and Abstraction

Social informatics. Edinburgh, Napier

sicsa* Graduate Academy

Prize Studentships– 20 international studentships p.a.

International Summer Schools– 2009:

• Pervasive adaptation• Homecare systems• Programming languages: Concurrency, distribution, multicore

National Graduate Symposium– 2009 - June

Visiting Fellowships– 12 p.a.– You are cordially invited to apply

sicsa* Activities

Next generation internet (SCONE) meeting - 12 March 2009

sicsa* Commercialisation: The Four Pillars of Informatics Ventures

• Practitioner led entrepreneurship education• Silicon Valley Speaker Series

• MIT Entrepreneurship Center workshops

• SICSA entrepreneurship summer school / bootcamps

• Innovative use of the web• www.entrepedia.org

• www.informatics-ventures.com/initiatives/podium

• www.techmeetup.co.uk

• Connecting the community • Engage | Invest | Exploit & Lifting the Lid

• Mobile Application Group

• Microsoft / RBS Surface Table Competition

• Special support for potential winners• Entrepreneurs in Residence

• Ignite and MIT EDP

sicsa* Delivered in six months Feb – Aug 2009

• Engage | Invest | Exploit, April 2009: http://www.informatics-ventures.com/eie09

• Reality Check with Guy Kawasaki for SICSA students, April 2009

• MIT Entrepreneurship Center workshops:o Global Sales Strategies, 25th-26th Feb 2009 (with Hillington Park Innovation Centre)

o Entrepreneurial Operational Excellence, 27th-28th Feb 2009

o Financing for Growth, 20th-21st May 2009

• 11 enterprises to Cambridge “Ignite” Programme, June 2009

• 12 student enterprises to Cambridge “Enterprisers” Programme, May 2009

• School for Startups with Doug Richard:o Aberdeen, 1st June 2009: “The Six Rules for Startups”

o Edinburgh, 2nd June “Zero Cost Marketing for Startups

• Development of web projects: pod.ium, techmeetup.co.uk, entrepedia

sicsa* Reporting:

• Review meeting with ESEP / Scottish Government 30th July

• Very positive. ESEP / Scottish Government feel we are on track.

• 18 months ‘formally’ into project, 12 months actual.

• One of only two projects selected for audit (due to readiness & progress)

• Possibility that IV will be used as exemplar Priority 1 for other EU countries.

• Article 60b review on 8th September, 2009.

sicsa* Ignite @ University of Cambridge.

Edinburgh:Dot Red Games Ltd QUAIDAffect Labs Ltd Spinsight Ltd WikiJob LtdQUAIDHoodeasy Ltd

GlasgowBrainwave Discovery LtdRobomotic x2

RGUOncology Workbench

NapierInquisitive Systems

SEJohn Murray

sicsa* Schedule for next 6 months:

August: TechMeetup, 12th

New Approaches to Leadership for Aspiring Women Managers 31st

September: Leadership: managing growth and change 1st & 2nd

International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference (sponsoring) 2nd – 4th

John Logie Baird Awards (hosting) 3rd

TechMeetup, 9th

October: Cambridge/Scotland entrepreneur forum 21st & 22nd

November: Lifting the Lid 2009

December: Global Sales Strategies (tbc)

Engage | Invest | Exploit roadshow - Investor Showcase in London (tbc)

January: MIT EDP

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ConclusionConclusion

SICSA is about people:– 4 themes

• CSE Greg Michaelson• NGI Saleem Bhatti• MAA Jane Hillston• MMI Steve Brewster

– 7 research fellows– 30 new academics– 60+ international visitors– 80 international students

Knowledge transfer a central priority– Business Development Executive - Alan Settery

Links:– sicsa.ac.uk

Website, plus link to social network– informatics-ventures.com

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SICSA is about people:– 4 themes

• CSE Greg Michaelson• NGI Saleem Bhatti• MAA Jane Hillston• MMI Steve Brewster

– 7 research fellows– 30 new academics– 60+ international visitors– 80 international students

Knowledge transfer a central priority– Business Development Executive - Alan Settery

Links:– sicsa.ac.uk

Website, plus link to social network– informatics-ventures.com

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