Dr Simon Harper - ACM Distinguished Scientist 2014 Dr Simon Harper has been recognised as a Distinguished Scientist in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2014 scheme. Dr Harper was one of 49 distinguished members designated in New York in December 2014 and the only one from the UK, with other recipients from universities, leading international corporations and research institutions worldwide. ACM President Alexander Wolf hailed these ACM members as: "drivers of the advances and inventions that are propelling the information revolution in new directions. Their creativity and commitment to their craft ensures that we will benefit as a society in the digital age." ACM distinguished scientists are recognised for their individual contributions and their singular impacts on the vital field of computing, including Dr Harper’s area of research, human-computer interaction. The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes members with at least 15 years of professional experience who have made significant accomplishments or achieved a significant impact on the computing field. Read more through The "Dawn of Cognition" is part of the daily "Digital Minds for a New Europe" series Professor Steve Furber’s article included within a special EC series. Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission, article by Professor Steve Furber (3rd November 2014), looks recently solicited articles on Digital Minds for a New at breakthroughs in science and technology, and at how digital Europe for her website, which publishes a series of articles by advances are transforming our lives. - in her words - "the world's best digital minds", as a daily The full article is available at digital coffee-break piece to promote digital Europe. Patent for PhD student Toshiba Research Europe Ltd has filed a patent application for part of the work produced by Mustafa A. Mustafa, an Industrial CASE Study PhD student supervised by Dr Ning Zhang and jointly sponsored by Toshiba and EPSRC. The title of the patent is “Method for distributing data from one or more metering devices to two or more third parties”. Mustafa is the primary inventor of the patent and Ning is the secondary inventor. Manchester Keynote at Ada Lovelace Day Professor Sophia Ananiadou, Director of NaCTeM, gave programmer and highlighted the achievements of women a keynote talk as part of the Ada Lovelace day at The in science, engineering and technology. University of Manchester on 15th October 2014. The event celebrated the life of Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and the world's first computer Feature: Software on the Red Planet
Dr Simon Harper - ACM Distinguished Scientist 2014 Dr Simon Harper has been recognised as a Distinguished Scientist in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2014 scheme. Dr Harper was one of 49 distinguished members designated in New York in December 2014 and the only one from the UK, with other recipients from universities, leading international corporations and research institutions worldwide. ACM President Alexander Wolf hailed these ACM members as: "drivers of the advances and inventions that are propelling the information revolution in new directions. Their creativity and commitment to their craft ensures that we will benefit as a society in the digital age." ACM distinguished scientists are recognised for their individual contributions and their singular impacts on the vital field of computing, including Dr Harper’s area of research, human-computer interaction. The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes members with at least 15 years of professional experience who have made significant accomplishments or achieved a significant impact on the computing field. Read more through The "Dawn of Cognition" is part of the daily "Digital Minds for a New Europe" series Professor Steve Furber’s article included within a special EC series. Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission, recently solicited articles on Digital Minds for a New Europe for her website, which publishes a series of articles by - in her words - "the world's best digital minds", as a daily digital coffee-break piece to promote digital Europe. article by Professor Steve Furber (3rd November 2014), looks at breakthroughs in science and technology, and at how digital advances are transforming our lives. The full article is available at Patent for PhD student Toshiba Research Europe Ltd has filed a patent application for part of the work produced by Mustafa A. Mustafa, an Industrial CASE Study PhD student supervised by Dr Ning Zhang and jointly sponsored by Toshiba and EPSRC. The title of the patent is “Method for distributing data from one or more metering devices to two or more third parties”. Mustafa is the primary inventor of the patent and Ning is the secondary inventor. Manchester Keynote at Ada Lovelace Day Professor Sophia Ananiadou, Director of NaCTeM, gave a keynote talk as part of the Ada Lovelace day at The University of Manchester on 15th October 2014. The event celebrated the life of Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and the world's first computer programmer and highlighted the achievements of women in science, engineering and technology. Feature: Software on the Red Planet