2018-19

This is an archive of the 2018/19 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? Usually Tuesday from 12pm till 2pm for the first six weeks of the Autumn and Spring term. To launch the series there will be additional talks on Tuesday and Wednesday of week 1, in the Spring and Autumn terms. Occasionally there may be ad hoc presentations at other times. For more detailed information on times, please view the below table.

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 and students from relevant departments. 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, 2016-2017, 2017-2018.

Spring Term 2018-2019

Company	Date	Time	Title and speaker	Venue
	8 January 2019	12pm	Fine-tuning your work: A Balanced Approach to Working in Tech Emmanouil Kiagas & Sarah Connor	HXLY LT308
	8 January 2019	1pm	Gather your loads and scatter around this scalable vector extension Roxana Rusitoru	HXLY LT308
‌	15 January 2019	12pm	Case Study: A new fund accounting system Jessy Liu	HXLY LT308
‌‌‌	15 January 2019	1pm	The Cloud and Real-Time Media: Uneasy Bedfellows Robert Hanton	HXLY LT308
	22 January 2019	12pm	The day in the life of a SOC Analyst leveraging Splunk Haider Al-Seaidy	HXLY LT308
	22 January 2019	1pm	Deep Learning - Accelerating the NLP Journey Toby Leheup, Shahzad Chohan, Jenny Chong	HXLY LT308
	29 January 2019	12pm	Our Journey to Microservices Mariano Korman	HXLY LT308
	29 January 2019	1pm	Software development at Palantir Nic Prettejohn	HXLY LT308
	5 February 2019	12pm	AI delivery David Sharp	HXLY LT308
	12 February 2019	12pm	Automated Victim: Final Year Projects at Internet Scale Tom Szyszko	HXLY LT308
	12 February 2019	1pm	Work on Blockchain Jack Tanner	HXLY LT308

 

Autumn Term 2018-2019

Summary of the table's contents

Company	Date	Time	Title and speaker	Venue
	2 October 2018	1pm	An Introduction to Electonic Market Making in Foreign Exchange Daniel Livesley	HXLY LT308
	2 October 2018	1:45pm	Trading, AI and augmenting behaviour Tom Dorris	HXLY LT308
	2 October 2018	3:15pm	Software automation and flight safety Yin Yee Kan	HXLY LT308
	2 October 2018	4pm	Engineering at Scale: The Challenges of Predicting Queries in Web Search Engines Paul Baecke	HXLY LT308
	3 October 2018	1pm	Machine Learning at J.P. Morgan Biko Agozino	HXLY LT308
	3 October 2018	1:45pm	Our experience with building an original game app company Dr Shohreh Blank	HXLY LT308
	3 October 2018	3:15pm	SpatialOs: Scaling Games Bill Granfield	HXLY LT308
	3 October 2018	4pm	Aggregating the world's knowledge of computing: from classical to quantum Dr Anton Lokhmotov	HXLY LT308
	09 October 2018	12pm	Creating the Real-Time Internet Matt Beal	HXLY LT308
	09 October 2018	1:10pm	Virtualisation and Storage Performance Dr Felipe Franciosi	HXLY LT308
	16 October 2018	12pm	Crush your code Marcus do Nascimento	HXLY LT308
	16 October 2018	1:10pm	Embracing the volatility of AWS Spot Fleet Matthew Mead-Briggs	HXLY LT308
	23 October 2018	12pm	The King Rules and the Data Governs	HXLY LT308
	23 October 2018	1.10pm	Operating a Betting Exchange at Scale Michael Funnell	HXLY LT308
	30 October 2018	12pm	Clinical Diagnostics for Computer Scientists Giovanni Charles	HXLY LT308
	30 October 2018	1:10pm	Evolution of Technology in Trading Jacob Bevan	HXLY LT308
	6 November 2018	12pm	Technical challenges in e-commerce Phil Wilson	HXLY LT308
	6 November 2018	1:10pm	Prime Video in the Living Room Stephen Kennedy	HXLY LT308