2016-17

This is an archive of the 2016/17 Applications of Computing in Industry: Lecture Series

We have joined with our Corporate Partners to bring you an exciting lecture series of technical presentations called 'Applications of Computing in Industry'.

The technical presentations are designed to complement your studies by showing how theory is applied in practice and by describing interesting technical challenges in industry and how our partner organisations are addressing them. Learning more about how computing is applied in industry will also support you with your career choices and the insights you gain will give you a competitive edge in applications/interviews.

When? Tuesday from 12.00 and Wednesday from 13.00 in Week 1, and on Tuesday 12.00 to 14.00 in Weeks 2 to 6 of the Autumn and Spring Terms. Occasionally there may be ad hoc presentations at other times.

Where? Usually Lecture Theatre 308, Huxley Building - but see programme below for precise dates and details.

Who? Applications of Computing in Industry is open to all DoC students. Places are allocated on a first come first served basis.

Please note that some presentations may assume prior knowledge of a technology/area and as such may be more suitable for students on certain courses or at certain stages in their study - where this is the case it will be noted in the presentation details provided below.

For details of previous years talks, see: 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016.

Autumn term 2016-2017

Summary of the table's contents

Company	Date	Time	Title and speaker	Venue
	4 October 2016	12:00	Nutanix and the Acropolis Hypervisor Felipe Franciosi	HXLY LT308
	4 October 2016	12:45	Developing “Vulkan”, a new graphics and compute API  Alon Or-bach	HXLY LT308
	4 October 2016	14:15	Little black dresses, stripey tops, Machine Learning and large databases John Spicer & Paulo Sampaio	HXLY LT308
	4 October 2016	15:00	Building and scaling an OS for wearables David Singleton	HXLY LT308
	5 October 2016	13:00	Aria: A platform for Real-time analytics at scale Raul da Silva Martins	HXLY LT308
	5 October 2016	13:45	Programming by Teaching (Bloomsbury AI) Guillaume Bouchard	HXLY LT308
	5 October 2016	15:15	Changing the universe without breaking it – technology change in massive environments Matt Johnson	HXLY LT308
	5 October 2016	16:00	The Great Challenges of Scale Fernanda Weiden	HXLY LT308
	11 October 2016	12:00	Being a superstar engineer on your first day of work Bryan Dove	HXLY LT308
	11 October 2016	13:10	Optimized rendering techniques based on local cubemaps: The evolution of the standard cubemap Roberto Lopez Mendez	HXLY LT308
	17 October 2016	13:00	How Data is Transforming Advertising Alex Silk and Gabriel Moosman	HXLY LT308
	18 October 2016	12:00	Follow the Money – Tech-powered investing Ivan Tsenkov	HXLY LT308
	18 October 2016	13:10	Challenges in datapath verification Dr. Sam Elliott	HXLY LT308
	25 October 2016	12:00	Data Science at ASOS.com Ben Chamberlain	HXLY LT308
	25 October 2016	13:10	Building a Modern Bank Backend Matt Heath	HXLY LT308
	1 November 2016	12:00	Topic Streams of Financially Important News  Miles Osborne	HXLY LT308
	1 November 2016	13:10	Application Performance: Avoiding a Massive Flop Matthew Churcher	HXLY LT308
	8 November 2016	12:00	Big Data at King Vince Darley	HXLY LT308
	8 November 2016	13:10	Introduction to Yelp's Internal Platform-as-a-Service: PaaSTA Robert Johnson	HXLY LT308

 

Spring term 2016-2017

Summary of the table's contents

Company	Date	Time	Title and speaker	Venue
	10 January 2017	12:00	Smart contract and real world data: decentralized applications that matter Thomas Bertani	HXLY LT308
	10 January 2017	12:45	Securing the Software Defined Network Mark Jackson	HXLY LT308
	10 January 2017	14:15	Functional Javascript in the real world Francisco M.S. Ferreira	HXLY LT308
	10 January 2017	15:00	The challenge of Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs) with distributed intelligence for an automated warehouse Alex Harvey	HXLY LT308
	11 January 2017	13:00	Evolution of Crime: From Street to Boardroom Edward Cowen	HXLY LT308
	11 January 2017	13:45	Fast-paced multiplayer: an introduction to client-side prediction and server reconciliation Gabriel Gambetta	HXLY LT308
	11 January 2017	15:15	Making a Difference with ML at Amazon Gheorghe Postelnicu	HXLY LT308
	11 January 2017	16:00	Man and Machine – Exploiting the Formula One Digital Journey Dr Andy Cheadle	HXLY LT308
	17 January 2017	12:00	Computing In Space Georgi Gaydadjiev	HXLY LT308
	17 January 2017	13:10	Big data and its applications in healthcare Amir Hashmi	HXLY LT308
	23 January 2017	13:00	Infosys-ATP: Technology employed to digitize the Tennis ecosystem & InStep (Infosys' Flagship Global Internship Program) Mr. Mohamed Anis	HXLY LT308
	24 January 2017	12:00	Introduction to Cloud Foundry: the multi-cloud PaaS George Lestaris	HXLY LT308
	24 January 2017	13:10	Don't put all your eggs in the same cloud Eric Mountain	HXLY LT308
	31 January 2017	12:00	Virtualising the world  Andrew Halley	HXLY LT308
	31 January 2017	13:10	Data Visualisation democratising data in all organisations Carl Allchin	HXLY LT308
	7 February 2017	12:00	The Power of Creative Ignorance David Harrington	HXLY LT308
	7 February 2017	13:10	Agility and Safety at Bats Global Markets Alexander Zawadzki	HXLY LT308
	8 February 2017	12:00	Creating IoT Ecosystems Dr Mike Fisher	HXLY LT308
	8 February 2017	13:10	Real-Time Internet Monitoring Nelson Rodrigues	HXLY LT308
	14 February 2017	12:00	Successful cloud adoption through agile software delivery Emma Hammond	HXLY LT308
	14 February 2017	13:10	Large-scale Technology Operations  Pete Rose	HXLY LT308