1 in a nutshell Jon Oberlander Director of SICSA

Structure of this presentation 1. Why? 2. Who? 3. What?

What’s going on?  How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow? –Distributed, pervasive, varied … sometimes big and powerful, sometimes small and low power  How can we “right-scale” in the petabyte age? –Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering  How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow? –Distributed, pervasive, varied … sometimes big and powerful, sometimes small and low power  How can we “right-scale” in the petabyte age? –Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering

4 Starting point Strathclyde Edinburgh Glasgow Stirling St Andrews Abertay Dundee Robert Gordon Aberdeen Heriot Watt 9% of UK population 16% of UK 4* output 20% of RC grants 9% of UK population 16% of UK 4* output 20% of RC grants

5 Plans for growth: £29M investment Governing Board Advisory Committees Advisory Committees Research Committee Research Committee Graduate Academy Graduate Academy Securing Practical networking Performance analysis Network security formalisms Web languages Interfacing Modelling Computational group theory System and performance modelling Model checking Applications Engineering Socio-technical systems Agents and autonomics Complex interactions Speech and language HCI Information retrieval Machine learning

Who’s here? Academics 1. EdinVincent Danos 2. StASimon Dobson 3. StirMarwanFayed 4. EdinSharon Goldwater 5. StrathEva Hornecker 6. EdinElham Kashefi 7. EdinVictor Lavrenko 8. HWOliver Lemon 9. HWH-W Loidl 10. EdinRichard Mayr 11. EdinIain Murray 12. StAMirco Musolesi 13. GlaGethin Norman 14. GlaDimitrios Pezaros 15. GlaSimon Rogers 16. StrathDimitri Roussinov 17. EdinGuido Sanguinetti 18. AbdAdvaith Siddharthan 19. EdinCharles Sutton 20. GlaAlessandro Vinciarelli

Who’s here? Advanced Fellows  StAEdwinBrady  StrathAndrew Coles  EdinRobin Milner  StAAlexVoss  On target for academic recruitment –10 more to recruit & confirm  On target for advanced fellow recruitment –3 more to recruit & confirm

Securing the NGI: Research challenges  Future architecture: –Naming, addressing & routing –Security and resilience –Converged services –Ubiquitous access –Network defence - resilience  Issues: –Understanding network evolution –Heterogeneity –Current ossification due to CNI dependencies –Research issues “masked” by commercial drivers

Securing: Strength in Scotland Applications Security services & protocols Protocols and systems Network management Network measurement, monitoring & analysis New paradigms and system architecture Networked Games. Abertay, Glasgow. Measurement & monitoring. Glasgow, St Andrews. Security. Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews New architecture. Glasgow, St Andrews Mobile & wireless. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Strathclyde Protocol analysis and testing. Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews WWW Info Sys. RGU, St Andrews, Stirling Distributed applications. Strathclyde, St Andrews, Stirling

Multimodal Interfacing: Research challenges  Modality: narrow to broad –Speech, gesture, touch, face, body –Interpreting & generating multimodal communication scenes  Frequency: discrete to continuous –Interaction loops, ambient networks, evidential reasoning  Flexibility: impersonal to personal –Dialogue, context, affect, history –User modelling, inference, privacy  Intelligence: explicit to implicit –Intention recognition, assistiveness, very large scale NLP

Information retrieval HCI Natural language processing applications: Ubiquitous computing, dialogue systems, healthcare, knowledge engineering, machine translation, autonomous robotics Visualisation - Glasgow, Strathclyde, RGU - Glasgow, Dundee, Heriot-Watt - Glasgow, Abertay, Heriot-Watt, RGU - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde - Aberdeen, Dundee, Abertay, RGU, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde Interfacing: Strength in Scotland Speech Cognitive systems - Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews - Edinburgh, Stirling Machine learning - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling

Modelling and Abstraction: Research challenges Predictive abstract models for analysis of complex, interacting systems  Languages, abstractions and mappings –discrete/continuous state/time, deterministic/stochastic, individual/population  Effective algorithms –scalable tools  Scalable analysis –large scale, reductions and abstractions  Query languages –for analysis  New application domains

Modelling and Abstraction: Strength in Scotland types and logics process algebras automated reasoning applications: neuroinformatics, mathematical biology, networked systems machine learning - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling - Abertay, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling

Complex Systems Engineering: Research challenges  Scope –Modelling –Evolution –Socio-technical  Issues –Socio-technical systems engineering –Novel computing paradigms –Trusted software –Reducing time to value

Complex Systems Engineering: Strength in Scotland Complexity in Organisations Socio-technical systems Software engineering Novel computation Predictable software systems Mathematical foundations Accident analysis. Glasgow LSCITS. St Andrews Responsibility and trust. St Andrews, Edinburgh Agents. Aberdeen, Edinburgh Adaptive Computation. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Abertay, Stirling, Dundee, Robert Gordons Model-driven development. Edinburgh Functional systems. St Andrews, Heriot Watt Empirical SE. Strathclyde Modelling and Abstraction Social informatics. Edinburgh, Napier

Graduate Academy  Prize Studentships –20 international studentships p.a.  International Summer Schools –2009: Pervasive adaptation Homecare systems Programming languages: Concurrency, distribution, multicore  National Graduate Symposium – June  Visiting Fellowships –12 p.a. –You are cordially invited to apply

Activities  Next generation internet (SCONE) meeting - 12 March 2009

Commercialisation: The Four Pillars of Informatics Ventures Practitioner led entrepreneurship education Silicon Valley Speaker Series MIT Entrepreneurship Center workshops SICSA entrepreneurship summer school / bootcamps Innovative use of the web Connecting the community Engage | Invest | Exploit & Lifting the Lid Mobile Application Group Microsoft / RBS Surface Table Competition Special support for potential winners Entrepreneurs in Residence Ignite and MIT EDP

Delivered in six months Feb – Aug 2009 Engage | Invest | Exploit, April 2009: Reality Check with Guy Kawasaki for SICSA students, April 2009 MIT Entrepreneurship Center workshops: o Global Sales Strategies, 25 th -26 th Feb 2009 (with Hillington Park Innovation Centre) o Entrepreneurial Operational Excellence, 27 th -28 th Feb 2009 o Financing for Growth, 20 th -21 st May enterprises to Cambridge “Ignite” Programme, June student enterprises to Cambridge “Enterprisers” Programme, May 2009 School for Startups with Doug Richard: o Aberdeen, 1 st June 2009: “The Six Rules for Startups” o Edinburgh, 2 nd June “Zero Cost Marketing for Startups Development of web projects: pod.ium, techmeetup.co.uk, entrepedia

Reporting: Review meeting with ESEP / Scottish Government 30 th July Very positive. ESEP / Scottish Government feel we are on track. 18 months ‘formally’ into project, 12 months actual. One of only two projects selected for audit (due to readiness & progress) Possibility that IV will be used as exemplar Priority 1 for other EU countries. Article 60b review on 8 th September, 2009.

University of Cambridge. Edinburgh: Dot Red Games Ltd QUAID Affect Labs Ltd Spinsight Ltd WikiJob Ltd QUAID Hoodeasy Ltd Glasgow Brainwave Discovery Ltd Robomotic x2 RGU Oncology Workbench Napier Inquisitive Systems SE John Murray

Schedule for next 6 months: August: TechMeetup, 12 th New Approaches to Leadership for Aspiring Women Managers 31 st September: Leadership: managing growth and change 1 st & 2 nd International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference (sponsoring) 2 nd – 4 th John Logie Baird Awards (hosting) 3 rd TechMeetup, 9 th October:Cambridge/Scotland entrepreneur forum 21 st & 22 nd November:Lifting the Lid 2009 December:Global Sales Strategies (tbc) Engage | Invest | Exploit roadshow - Investor Showcase in London (tbc) January:MIT EDP

23 Conclusion  SICSA is about people: –4 themes CSEGreg Michaelson NGISaleem Bhatti MAAJane Hillston MMISteve Brewster –7 research fellows –30 new academics –60+ international visitors –80 international students  Knowledge transfer a central priority –Business Development Executive - Alan Settery  Links: –sicsa.ac.uk Website, plus link to social network –informatics-ventures.com KT features  SICSA is about people: –4 themes CSEGreg Michaelson NGISaleem Bhatti MAAJane Hillston MMISteve Brewster –7 research fellows –30 new academics –60+ international visitors –80 international students  Knowledge transfer a central priority –Business Development Executive - Alan Settery  Links: –sicsa.ac.uk Website, plus link to social network –informatics-ventures.com KT features