Outreach and PE 2019
School of Informatics Outreach and Public Engagement in 2019
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| Name | Activity | Date | Venue | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perdita Stevens | Founders4Schools: Skills 4.0 - How languages have helped my career | 09/01/19 | Online | School kids |
| Heather Yorston | Maths workshop for S3 pupils (co-ordinated by the School of Maths) | 14-15/01/19 | 36 S3 pupils from around Edinburgh | |
| Hsiu-Chin Lin | Science Saturday at the National Museum of Scotland | 19/01/19 | NMS | general |
| EdIntelligence, Kami Vaniea | We Need to Talk about AI: AI, Big Data and Me | 24/01/19 | Informatics Forum | General |
| Naomi Saphra | The Bright Club: Paying the Panopticon | 26/02/19 | The Stand | General |
| EdIntelligence, Ram Ramamoorthy | We Need to Talk about AI: Future of Work | 12/03/19 | Informatics Forum | General |
| Austin Tate | Invited talk for the Robots Exhibition | 28/03/19 | National Museum of Scotland | NMS Patrons |
| Sabine Weber | Stand up set at the PyData MeetUp | 04/04/19 | Solar Winds Offices | Industry Data Scientists |
| Kate McCurdy | ChatSci: informal talk about NLP | 10/04/19 | The Raging Bull Pub | General |
| Larisa Stoltzfus | EISF: Build a computer workshop (organised by EPCC) | 17-20/04/19 | National Museum of Scotland | Ages 8-12 |
| Zhibin (Alex) LI | EISF: The Robotarium - drop-in | 11-15/04/19 | National Museum of Scotland | All Ages |
| D K Arvind | EISF: Every Breath You Take | 07/04/19 | NMS, Auditorium | Ages 14+ |
| James Garforth | EISF: Where the Hell is My Hoverboard? | 08/04/19 | Pleasance: Cabaret Bar | Ages 14+ |
| Adam Lopez | EISF: Inside Google Translate | 10/04/19 | Pleasance: Lomond Room | Ages 14+ |
| Paul Patras | EISF: Health Trackers: Help Or Hindrance | 13/04/19 | Pleasance: Quaker Studio | Ages 14+ |
| Aciel Eshky | Women in Data Science (WiDs) conference: panel discussion | 15/04/19 | Amazon Development centre | General (64 attendees) |
| Kami Vaniea |
How Smart are Smart Devices? |
21/04/19 | NMS, The Auditorium | Ages 14+ |
| EdIntelligence, Ram Ramamoorthy | We Need to Talk about AI: Autonomous weapons | 29/04/19 | Informatics Forum/online stream | General |
| Perdita Stevens | Talk about software engineering | 01/05/19 | St John's Primary, Portobello | P6-P7 pupils |
| Various | Robots Exhibition | 18/01-05/05 | National Museum of Scotland | General |
| Volker Seeker, Heather Yorston | Informatics module in S1 programme for pupils (with the Widening Participation team) | 03/05/19 | Informatics Forum/Appleton Tower | S1 pupils from Leith Academy and Liberton High |
| Dave Robertson, Alan Bundy | Pint of Science: How AI became Seriously Useful and not a Threat to Humanity | 21/05/19 | 32 Below | General |
| Barbara Webb, Ram Ramamoorthy, Vaishak Bell | Pint of Science: Adventures with a robot | 22/05/19 | 32 Below | General |
| Kami Vaniea, Perdita Stevens, Adam Lopez, Guido Sanguinetti, Heather Yorston | Sutton Trust Summer School | 25-28/06/19 | Informatics Forum/Appleton Tower | S5/Y11 pupils |
| Ram Ramamoorthy | Manchester International Festival: Interdependence | 20/07/19 | Home, Manchester | General |
| Pavlos Andreadis, Kobi Gal | Edinburgh University Debates Union's Chamber Debate: Should we fear AI? | 08/09/19 | Teviot Debating Hall | General, mostly University of Edinburgh students |
| Artemis Livingstone | Teaching P7s basic computing skills | 09/09/19 | George Heriot School | 22 P7s |
| Amna Shahab | Explorathon 2019 | 28/09/19 | Whale Arts | General |
| Kasia Kokowska, UG Student Ambassadors | Doors Open Day | 28/29/09/19 | Appleton Tower/Informatics Forum | General (~500 attendees) |
| Ursula Martin | Ada Lovelace Day talk: The scientific life of Ada Lovelace | 08/10/19 | Informatics Forum | General |
| Amos Storkey, Robin Hill | We Need to Talk about AI: Fears and Dreams of Intelligent Machines | 09/10/19 | Appleton Tower | General |
| Ram Ramamoorthy | New Scientist Live | 10-13/10/19 | ExCel London | General |
| Julian Bradfield | Studium Day at Winchester College: Turing and the Halting Problem talk | 16/10/19 | Winchester College | Pupils |
| Vaishak Belle | Academics Unplugged: Artificial Intelligence versus Us: building explainability and ethical responsibility into automated systems | 24/10/19 | JCMB, King's Buildings | Staff and students on KB campus |
| Phil Wadler | A Profound Pun, The Bright Club | 29/10/19 | The Stand, Edinburgh | General |
| John Longley |
School maths club talk: The Theory of Dobble |
07/11/19 |
Boroughmuir School (after-school maths club) |
25 secondary school children |
| James Owers | Social Mobility Foundation | Ongoing | - | Mentoring a student with a disadvantaged background |
| Kartic Subr | Tomorrow's Computer Scientists | Ongoing | - | Project aimed at target schools students includes: workshops for teachers, demos for students |
| Ursula Martin | Ada Lovelace Project | Ongoing | - | Various events around the book about Ada Lovelace that Ursula co-authored |