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The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. Sharing news, opportunities and events for students, staff, alumni and friends - https://www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/
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Today is Week One of the 6-wk @qmuleecs.bsky.social Royal Inst Masterclasses in Computer Science @qmul.ac.uk We (~20 fourteen year olds) are popping balloons for science, recording the sound, manipulating it & basically pretending to be sound designers :) github.com/iranroman/RI... #RiMasterclasses

#DIVERSITY Day by Day-TODAY Feb 28 2002 Mary Coombs died A QMUL French, History alumni,she was the first female commercial programmer working for J Lyons & Co programming their Leo computer in the 1950s including payroll for their chain of tea shops. cs4fn.blog/2022/06/17/m... @qmuleecs.bsky.social

What is next for Risk and Decision-Making (for Data Science and AI)? Dr Michael Schlichtkrull shares his insights on the module he teaches and gives advice to anyone considering a degree in #AI and Data Science: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/postgra...

Prof. Shalom Lapin from EECS recently took part in a panel exploring the role of the social sciences, humanities and the arts in delivering evidence, methods and insights that can help ensure AI policies are aligned with the public interest. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s1v...

Turing AI Fellowship Showcase & AdSoLve Co-Creation Workshop: join us on March 6th for a showcase event with presentations from Prof. Liakata's Turing AI fellowship team and a workshop themed around mental health: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/turing-ai-...

🎻Join us for the first-ever Queen Mary Music Festival on the Mile End Campus. Enjoy orchestral performances by Royal Holloway, Imperial, QM, & Cambridge Orchestras, conducted by Britten Sinfonia & Frank Zielhorst. Pay what you can – book now: www.qmul.ac.uk/music/concer...

It is LGBTQ+ month. More on the contributions of @qmuleecs.bsky.social Professor Peter Landin: The logic behind syntactic sugar. Find out about the phrase, why he invented it and learn a little about lambda calculus cs4fn.blog/2025/02/16/t...

What is next for Artificial Intelligence? Iran Roman, from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science shares his insights on the module he teaches and gives advice to anyone considering a degree in #AI. Read the full interview here: lnkd.in/gXAahVGc

Valentine’s Day @qmuleecs.bsky.social

Ahead of the AI Paris Summit which took place earlier this week, Simon Colton, Professor of Computational Creativity, Games and AI, was featured on France 24 Live News to discuss the potential impact of the DeepSeek model on AI costs and funding. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l81...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Below are recent highlights from our inspiring staff. #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

As global AI leaders convene in Paris for the AI Action Summit, here's how we're using AI to serve the public interest.

It is LGBTQ+ month. Elegance from logic. @qmuleecs.bsky.social Professor Peter Landin was an LGBTQ+ Computer Science Great. Read about his contributions to programming languages and the link to logic helping programs be elegant on the new CS4FN blog post cs4fn.blog/2025/02/08/p...

What's next for Natural Language Processing? Prof. Juntao Yu from EECS shares his insights on the module he teaches and how it is critical for students to learn it. Read the full interview here: lnkd.in/gEtEe6Ep

From the 25th February to 4th March 2025, two C4DM researchers will participate at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025). More info at: www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-02...

👏Congratulations to our two researchers who won prestigious AI Benchmark competition! Find out more here: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

🤖Queen Mary University of London hosted the world’s first Children’s AI Summit yesterday, bringing together over 100 children aged 8-18, to discuss and explore how AI impacts them and how they can shape its future. Find out more here: www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...

The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships are now open for applications. These fellowships are for non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more, including how to apply: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

What's next for Machine learning? Prof. Ioannis Patras shares his insights on the module he teaches and what students can gain from it. Read the full interview here: shorturl.at/dayo0

A sound social venture: recognising birds Dan Stowell was a researcher at @qmuleecs.bsky.social when he founded an early version of a Social Venture: a company created to do social good. With Florence Wilkinson, he turned birdsong into a tech-based version of social good. cs4fn.blog/2025/01/28/a...

Paul Curzon's (@cs4fn.bsky.social) magic / computing book with Peter McOwan now out in PAPERBACK :) Conjuring with Computation: A manual of magic and computing for beginners (~£30, e-Book also available) teachinglondoncomputing.org/2025/01/28/%... cc @qmuleecs.bsky.social

Into cutting-edge tech and electromagnetic wizardry? Don’t miss EECS' Antennas and Electromagnetics Group Seminar this Thursday. Dive into innovative research and explore fascinating developments in the field: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

Find out more about how computer scientists work with and help clinicians in our new CS4FN "machines and medicine" portal. cs4fn.blog/machines-and...

Did Starter Packs turbocharged @bsky.app growth? Yes, but... We analyse it in the paper quoted in @nature.com article below:🧵 bsky.app/profile/harn...

How to make AI work for the public good? Professor Maria Liakata explores the opportunities and challenges associated with the large-scale deployment of #AI across public services in the UK in this comment: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

A special shoutout to the technical lead of this project, Dr William Marsh of @qmuleecs.bsky.social! He says: "This project exemplifies the power of bringing together engineering innovation and clinical expertise to tackle urgent real-world problems.”

Free event from @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social for Computer Science and STEM (CS focus) teachers tomorrow at 5.30pm UK time, on teaching WITH artificial intelligence and teaching ABOUT AI. With Shuchi Grover. www.raspberrypi.org/research/sem...

Celebrated UNESCO World Logic Day 2025 at QMUL with enlightening talks on logic's role in modern research. Grateful to our speakers from QMUL, Oxford, and Birkbeck for sharing their insights! Find out more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

Congratulations to Dr. Mona Jaber from EECS who has been elected as the 2025–2026 Secretary for IEEE UK & Ireland! Dive into the details here: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an... #TechLeadership #IEEE #WomenInSTEM #Innovation #Engineering

Diversity Day By Day January 4 1809 Louis Braille born First major use of letters represented in binary cs4fn.blog/2021/11/22/b...

Netball to knitting, F1 to fencing, @qmul.ac.uk has over 300 clubs, societies, and sports teams. Our lively campuses and vibrant community make your time at uni so much more than a degree. #qmul #studentlife #studyinlondon #university #queenmaryuniversity www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-D8...

🚨 Spread the word! 🚨 Queen Mary Futures is a FREE 4-week program designed to help Year 12 Students prep for university, build skills, and connect with amazing mentors. Find out more about it entails here: www.qmul.ac.uk/outreach/stu...

🤖 If you missed Prof. Shalom Lappin's insightful lectures series on the core ideas of his forthcoming book, 'Understanding #AI: Neither Catastrophe nor Redemption', you can catch up and watch the recordings on our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@QMEECS/videos

Diversity day by day (and Entrepreneurship) January 8, 1889 Herman Hollerith patented Electric Tabulating System 1st use of punch cards for data. From an immigrant family he struggled with spelling and then bookkeeping but founded the company that went on to become IBM. cs4fn.blog/2025/01/08/h...

We start the year with great news here at EECS! 3 papers from our Centre of Multimodal AI have been accepted and will be presented at the 39th Annual Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference next month. Take a look at our papers: lnkd.in/gk8yxCPQ

Will do my Conjuring with Logic in coffee breaks at QMUL World Logic Day event 14th Jan. You wouldn't do a trick for an audience unless you were sure it ALWAYS works, but how to be sure? The same way you check an algorithm is correct by using logic (not just testing) sites.google.com/view/wld25/h...

Congratulations to all of our students graduating today 🎆

✨ Love logic? Celebrate UNESCO's World Logic Day at Queen Mary University of London on 14th January 2025. Explore how logic shapes our understanding of AI, math, & philosophy. Come and get inspired: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an... #AI #EduSky

My colleague Paulo, from @qmuleecs.bsky.social, is giving this public / science outreach talk on Logic on 14 Jan, 6pm - part of a whole day event. You can attend in person or online, it's free, no need to register :) A bit of CompSci #SciComm for World Logic Day sites.google.com/view/wld25/h...

A standout moment from our #AI Horizon event: an insightful panel discussion on how diversity and inclusivity drive innovation in AI. Key takeaway: collaboration across disciplines and cultures is essential to shaping a better future for AI in education and society. Thank you to our panel!

Highlights of our AI Horizon event so far: 💡 Keynote speech on AI shaping education and society 🌍 Discussions on diversity and inclusivity in AI 🚀 Showcasing student achievements and collaborative research projects #AI #EduSky

Today, we are thrilled to host 'AI Horizons: honouring our journey, forging the future' where we will be reflecting on our industry collaborations and the future of AI in education. Follow along for highlights throughout the day!

🌱 Explore innovative advancements in shrink polymer sensors in a seminar with Dr. Tianhong Cui on Tuesday 10th December. Discover how polymer shrinkage is revolutionising nanoscale fabrication and biosensors for medical and environmental applications. Book here: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

Why do computer scientists get confused between Halloween and Christmas? ANSWER: Because Oct 31 = Dec 25

The slightly-tenuous links between the picture on the @cs4fn.bsky.social Christmas Computing Advent Calendar window and the post's content continues :) Day 4 has an ice skate and the post is about detecting neutrinos at the South Pole & figure-skating motion capture cs4fn.blog/2023/12/04/c...

We've created our first Starter Pack, collecting accounts from the brilliant researchers and staff who are working at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. We'll keep adding to this list as our Bluesky community grows: go.bsky.app/45VsoiD #EduSky #AI #ComputerSkyence

DMRN+19 workshop registration has opened! Keynote speakers: Stefan Lattner (Research Leader at Sony CSL Paris): Models of Musical Signals: Representation, Learning & Generation www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn19/