Outreach and PE 2022
School of Informatics Outreach and Public Engagement in 2022
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| Name | Activity | Date | Venue/Platform | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Tate |
AI and Robotics @ Edinburgh - six decades ... and beyond |
06/01/2022 |
Hybrid: New Club Edinburgh and Zoom |
50 adults |
| Barbara Webb | India Science Festival: What can insects teach us about robots? (talk) | 12/01/2022 | Online | 16+ year-olds |
| Sethu Vijayakumar | WIRED: The Future of Robotics (4-part video) | 18/01/2022 | YouTube | General public: YouTube viewers |
| Sethu Vijayakumar | India Science Festival: Future of automated robots - how far have we come? (talk) | 21/01/2022 | Online | 16+ year-olds |
| Kianoush Nazarpour | MIT Technology Review: comment on the role of neuroprosthetic solutions in regaining choice and control for patients in a locked-in state | 22/03/2022 | Online | Average monthly views approx 10 million users |
| Sethu Vijayakumar | BBC Scotland News: comment on how British Sign Language is changing to aid students from the deaf community to access education and jobs in Computer Science. | 28/03/2022 | Online |
Viewers of BBC lunchtime and evening news: approx. 20,000 |
| Elham Kashefi | Yahoo!Finance: comment on the prospect of building a reliable quantum computer and the applications of quantum computing to developing quantum devices | 31/03/2022 | Online | Average monthly active users approx 75 million |
| Chris Heunen, Nuiok Dicaire | Edinburgh Science Festival: Quantum Spies | 09-13/04/2022 | National Museum of Scotland (drop-in) | 8-12-year-olds (1250) |
| Luca Arnaboldi (+ colleagues from HWU) |
National Robotarium Daytime Demo Exhibition: Autonomous Racing Car |
14/04/2022 |
National Museum of Scotland |
Primary school children (families) |
| Kob Gal (+ Barbara Grosz) | Dædalus, the journal of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, issue topic:
AI & Society - article: Multi-Agent Systems: Technical & Ethical Challenges of Functioning in a Mixed Group |
26/04/2022 | Online, open access | TBC |
| Diego Oyarzun | Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Is Understanding Life a Bad idea? | 28/04/2022 | The Stand, Edinburgh | General, 90 adults |
| Michael Rovatsos | Copernicus Festival public talk: Computation, Intelligence, and Society (In English, live translated to Polish and Ukrainian) | 19/05/2022 | Engineering and Technology Museum, Krakow, Poland | General public |
| Matthias Henning | Interviewed by Spektrum.de (German version of the Scientific American) for the article: Clear-cutting in the neuron forest | 31/05/2022 | Online/paywalled | Subscribed readers |
| Arno Onken | Glasgow Science Festival online - Science on the Sofa: Brain Wave Cruise Photo Tour | 2-12/06/2022 | Online | Families |
| Ursula Martin | Making Machines: Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace - Webinar | 13/06/2022 | Online | 125 registered online attendees |
| Kartic Subr | Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition | 04-10/07/2022 | Royal Society London | Families |
| Heather Yorston |
UKMT National Mathematics Summer School |
01/08/2022 | Woodhouse Grove School, Leeds | 48 ( 2 groups of 24) UK pupils aged 14-16 |
| Heather Yorston |
National Mathematics Summer Schools UKMT Seniors Workshop |
02/08/2022 |
Woodhouse Grove School, Leeds |
8 16-18 sixth form students |
| Jane Hillston | BBC Radio Scotland’s Lunch Time Live (interview on women in the tech industry) | 27/09/2022 | Online | up to 900,000 adults (over 15) |
| Barbara Webb | The Scotsman editorial: How engineers are learning from the powerful circuits of an insect's brain - Prof Barbara Webb | 26/10/2022 | Online/print | average monthly reach: adult 5M readers |
| Douglas Armstrong, Andrew Wood | Explorer Scouts: Hunted! with GPS (and accompanying activities introducing scouts to GPS tracking devices, calculating route time using traditional vs online methods, introduction to data collection and hypothesis testing) | Ongoing | In person | Explorer Scouts (~25 at age 14-17yrs) occasionally junior sections (~60 at age 11-13yrs) |
| Fiona McNeill, Kasia Kokowska | Informatics Tutoring Scheme | Ongoing | Online | Nat5-Highers/Advanced Higher pupils |
| Shay Cohen | Informatics Circle | Ongoing | Online | 7-14-year-olds |