1998 Events Archives

Conferences, Lectures and Workshops

Constraints: The Key Questions
6 May
The second event in the series of one-day colloquia organised by research groups in the Department, it attracted 50 delegates from the UK constraints community.

Computational Intelligence: The Importance of Being Learnable
9 September
The third in a series of one-day colloquia organised by the research groups in the Department, this very successful event attracted 100 delegates from the international machine learning community.

Royal Holloway Science Lecture
9 March
John Naughton
Faculty of Technology, Open University
WHERE IT'S @ (AND HOW WE GOT HERE): A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

30th Anniversary Departmental Lecture and Dinner
19 March 1998
Professor Donald Davies, FRS, Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
THE BLETCHLEY PARK BOMBE - A REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM MACHINE

 

Seminars

28 January
Professor Nikolai Vereshchagin, Moscow State University
LOWER BOUNDS FOR COMPLEXITY OF PERCEPTRONS AND OTHER THRESHOLD CIRCUITS OF BOUNDED DEPTH

18 February
Dr Ted Briscoe, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
CURRENT ISSUES IN PARSING NATURAL LANGUAGE

11 March
Dr Edward Tsang, Department of Computer Science, University of Essex
GUIDED LOCAL SEARCH AND ITS APPLICATIONS

13 March
Professor Arthur Dempster, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
LOGICIST STATISTICS

25 March
Professor Alexei Chervonenkis, Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow
THE HISTORY OF THE SUPPORT VECTOR METHOD

7 May
Dr David Gilbert, Department of Computer Science, City University
Dr David Westhead, EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute
CONSTRAINT-BASED PROTEIN TOPOLOGY PATTERN SEARCHING

12 May
Professor David Balding, Department of Applied Statistics, University of Reading
LEARNING VIA BAYES THEOREM IN CRIMINAL LEGAL CASES

20 May
Professor Florin Popentiu Vladicescu, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, City University, London
SOFTWARE RELIABILITY FORECASTING FOR ADAPTED FAULT TOLERANCE ALGORITHMS

10 June
Professor Glenn Shafer, Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Faculty of Management, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
STILL WORKING ON CAUSAL LOGIC

22 June
Dr Andrew Nobel, Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina
SOME LIMITS AND POSITIVE RESULTS ON ESTIMATION FROM ERGODIC DATA

23 June
Professor Leonid Levin, Computer Science Department, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, USA
KOLMOGOROV'S THEORY OF RANDOMNESS (on the occasion of Kolmogorov's 95th anniversary)

23 June
Dr Vladimir V'yugin, Institute of Problems of Information Transmission, Moscow
NON-STOCHASTIC INFINITE AND FINITE SEQUENCES

24 June
Professor Bob Williamson, Department of Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra
ENTROPY NUMBERS OF OPERATORS AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES

2 July
Dr Richard Gault, Department of Maths and Computer Science, University of Leicester
PLAYING GAMES WITH TRANSITIVE CLOSURE

6 July
Dr Lloyd Allison, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Monash, Victoria, Australia
THE RELATIONSHIP OF COMPRESSION WITH APPROXIMATE MATCHING

7 July
Dr Andrew Martin, Biomolecular Structure and Modelling Unit, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London
BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE AND STRUCTURE: CROSSING BOUNDARIES IN THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION

7 July
Dr Anna Fukshansky, Institute for Algebra and Geometry, University of Halle, Germany
SUMS OF LOCALLY NILPOTENT ALGEBRAS

28 August
Professor Donato Malerba, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' degli Studi, Bari, Italy
LEARNING RECURSIVE THEORY WITH ATRE

7 September
Dr Ron Meir, Department of Computer Science, Technion, Israel
(1) NONPARAMETRIC TIME SERIES PREDICTION THROUGH ADAPTIVE MODEL SELECTION
(2) NEARLY OPTIMAL NEURAL NETWORK APPROXIMATION USING INCREMENTAL ALGORITHMS

10 September
Dr Graeme Mitchison, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Cambridge
PROBABILISTIC MODELS OF SEQUENCE EVOLUTION AND ALIGNMENT

16 September
Dr Carlos Domingo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
PRACTICAL ON-LINE SAMPLING METHODS FOR HYPOTHESIS SELECTION

21 September
Dr Oleg Verbitsky, Mathematical Institute, Prague (on leave from Lviv University, Ukraine)
ERROR REDUCTION IN PROBABILISTIC PROOF SYSTEMS

22 September
Professor Alexei Chervonenkis, Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow
BAYESIAN AND COMBINED BAYESIAN - MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD FOR FUNCTION RECONSTRUCTION

23 September
Professor Janet Thornton, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UCL Medical School
BIOINFORMATICS IN BIOLOGY TODAY

2 October
Professor Ming-Yang Kao, Department of Computer Science, Yale University, U.S.A.
EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS FOR CONSTRUCTING AND COMPARING EVOLUTIONARY TREES

16 October
Dr Andrei Grigoriev, Genome Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Martinsried, Germany
TWO FACES OF BIOINFORMATICS

21 October
Dr David Lesaint, Intelligent Systems Research, BT Laboratories, Ipswich
ENGINEERING CONSTRAINT OPTIMISATION SOLUTIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS

25 November
Dr Peter Cowley, Strategic Research Centre, Rolls-Royce plc
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, APPLICATIONS AND CURRENT RESEARCH AT ROLLS-ROYCE

2 December
Mr Harold Brown, Head of Technology, IFR ETM Division
IFR PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGY FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS TEST AND ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURING TEST

7 December
Dr Alex Shafarenko, Computer Systems Research Group, Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Surrey
COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH AT SURREY

17 December
Dr Chris Watkins, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
SV KERNELS FROM HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS AND PROBABILISTIC CONTEXT-FREE GRAMMARS