I'm told there are still a few places left for Jane
Hillston's lecture on 8th Dec at the Royal Society,
as first winner of the Roger Needham award.
This event also sees the formal launch of [log in to unmask] Our first women@CL
regional event, a research workshop for AI, natural language processing
and
information retrieval, is on 20th Dec, at Queen Mary University of
London -
free but registration required by 10 December.
http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/women/LondonHopper.html
Ursula
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> The BCS Roger Needham Lecture
>
> Tuning Systems: From Composition to Performance – Dr Jane Hillston
>
> 8 December 2004, The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London
>
> I am delighted to invite you to the first BCS Roger Needham Lecture,
> which will take place on
> 8 December 2004. The speaker at the event will be Dr Jane Hillston,
> who is the winner of
> the first Roger Needham Award. She has created a new software
> modelling
> language that predicts performance related problems at software design
> stage.
>
> Dr Hillston’s lecture will explain how the compositional stochastic
> process algebra
> PEPA may be used to investigate and enhance the performance of
> software,
> hardware and other dynamic systems.
>
> The Roger Needham Award, sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge and
> established in memory of the late Roger Needham, is for a distinguished
> research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher
> within ten years of their PhD.
>
> On this occasion the BCS will also be presenting other awards
> including a
> Distinguished Fellowship to Professor Peter Kirstein, and Distinguished
> Dissertations for 2004. The awards will be presented at the start of
> the evening.
>
> The event commences with registration and refreshments from 6.30pm.
> The formal part of the proceedings will begin at 7pm with the
> presentation
> of awards, followed by the lecture. After the lecture there will be a
> reception and buffet and we expect the event to close around 9.30/10pm.
>
> Further details are available on the BCS website at:
> www.bcs.org/events/needham.
>
> To book your place, please reply to Darren Brazier by email at
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