Talks & Seminars

Next generation data centres: the key to business advantage?

26 May, 2010 - 16:00

PTS Consulting will consider the impact on the business of the next generation Data Centre including: best practice; cost control; energy efficiency; carbon reduction; cooling and power; and technology trends such as virtualisation and convergence. The Carbon Trust will provide the opening session and set the scene on the Government’s carbon reduction and energy efficiency agenda. Senior Executives from PTS' client and partner organisations will share views and experience on these strategically important topics

Database Seminar: MayBMS - A Database Management System for Uncertain and Probabilistic Data

13 December, 2007

Dan Olteanu, Oxford University, present ed "MayBMS - A Database Management System for Uncertain and Probabilistic Data" at 4.00pm as part of the Scottish Database Interest Group [external] seminar season. The DCC was a co-sponsor of this event.

Database Group Lab Lunch with Stephen Lawrie

29 November, 2007

Stephen Lawrie talked about his work in the Division of Psychiatry Brain Imaging group at this informal (and free) lab lunch which started at 1.15pm. The DCC was a co-sponsor of this event.

Database Group Lab Lunch with Limsoon Wong

16 October, 2007

Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore, talked about the inference of the function of a protein in computational biology at this informal (and free) lab lunch which started at 12.45pm. The DCC was a co-sponsor of this event.

Database Seminar: Logic, Automata, Games, and Algorithms

4 September, 2007

Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, presented "Logic, Automata, Games, and Algorithms" at 3.00pm as part of the Scottish Database Interest Group [external] seminar season. The DCC was a co-sponsor of this event.

Database Group Lab Lunch with Gerald Weber

29 August, 2007

Gerald Weber, University of Auckland, New Zealand, talked about "Enterprise modelling: challenges and opportunities" at this informal (and free) lab lunch which started at 1.00pm. The DCC was a co-sponsor of this event.

Database Seminar: Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges

25 July, 2007

Dan Suciu, University of Washington Seattle, WA USA, presented "Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges" at 4.10pm as part of the Scottish Database Interest Group [external] seminar season at the University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower 2nd floor seminar room (2.02). The DCC was a co-sponsor of this free event.

Database Seminar: John L Faundeen, US Geological Survey Archivist

19 July, 2007

John L Faundeen, US Geological Survey Archivist, talked about his work at USGS at 4.00pm as part of the Scottish Database Interest Group [external] seminar season at the University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower 2nd floor seminar room (2.02). This event was webcast live. The DCC was a co-sponsor of this free event.

DCC Guest Lecture: Appraisal of Data as a Precursor to Digital Curation

17 July, 2007

John Faundeen, Archivist, U.S. Geological Survey, Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science, talked about the reasons for appraising data as well as reviewing processes developed for scientific records by the U.S. Geological Survey Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science. A tool developed to support the process has been considered a best practice by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and has been successfully applied to 24 scientific collections. The Library and Archives of Canada also requested the tool.

Database Seminar: Operators on Schema Mappings

27 June, 2007

Ronald Fagin, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, presented "Operators on Schema Mappings" at 4.10pm as part of the Scottish Database Interest Group [external] seminar season at the University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower 2nd floor seminar room (2.02). The DCC was a co-sponsor of this event.

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