The CompSci Visiting Speaker Series begins again this autumn. These talks will be held monthly with a regular time of Wednesday 1 pm to 2 pm, and there will be light refreshments provided afterwards in The Hub.
Please make a note of these dates in your diary:
Wednesday 11 June 2014, 1 pm-2pm – Exchange Building LT1 – hosted by Computer Vision Lab Speaker: Dr Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London
Dr Yiannis Demiris is a Reader (US: Associate Professor) in human-centered robotics at Imperial, where he established the Personal Robotics Laboratory. Dr Demiris' research interests include active perception, machine learning, user modelling, and cognitive control architectures in order to determine how intelligent robots can generate personalised assistance to humans in order to improve their physical, cognitive and social well being.
Wednesday 18 June 2014, 2pm-3pm – Exchange Building LT1 – hosted by Agents Lab
Speaker: Prof Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool
Prof van der Hoek is a member of the Agent ART Group, whose research in agents concentrates on Logics for Agent Systems, Cooperation, Negotiation, Games and Agents, Data Mining and the Semantic Web. He is currently working on logics for games, or, put more generally, logics for cooperation.