CS@Manchester Podcast

Episode 37 of the CS@Manchester podcast features an interview with students from Imago, a student software company sponsored by the Institute of Coding, which is part of their student enterprise project.

This is designed to provide the opportunity for students to engage with industry practise whilst studying at a Higher Education Institution.

We speak to some of our undergraduate students from the Department of Computer Science who have been part of the Student Software Company over the summer. These are Karam Agha, Phoebe Evason and Albert Viliick.

We find out about the different projects they worked on, the clients they delivered to and the positive experiences they found being part of the company.

Dr Gareth Henshall, the department's First Year Tutor and one of our academic leads for the programme also joins us for the discussion, to talk about the aims of the initiative in general and the benefits to both students, clients and potential employers.

You can find out more about the Imago Student Software company at:

https://imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk/

The student enterprise:

https://www.studententerprise.org.uk/

The Institute of Coding:

https://instituteofcoding.org/

Our latest episode of the Cs@Manchester podcast features BSc Computer Science graduate, Amelia Huang.

Amelia graduated last year and we caught up with her just before graduation. She's now working full time as a software developer at Skyscanner.

We talk about why she chose to come to Manchester from Singapore, her experiences on the Computer Science course, why she dislikes scruffy code, the behaviour of Bees and why romanesco cauliflowers are used to explain computer science techniques.

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The second part of our PG Research Symposium features an interview with winner of the Professor Carole Goble award for Best Doctoral Paper Alaa Alamahdi.

Alaa's paper is titled:

Evaluating the Impact of Pseudo-Colour and Coordinate System on the Detection of Medication-Induced ECG Changes.

We talk to both Alaa and her supervisor, Dr Caroline Jay about the challenges of the research behind the paper, and also joining us for the discussion is Dr Bijan Parsia, one of the academics on the judging panel for the award.

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Episode 34 of the CS@Manchester podcast features and interview with Dr Henry Reeve, who recently won the 'Prof Steve Furber Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis' in Computer Science at the PG Research Symposium in the Department of Computer Science.

Together with a member of the judging panel, Dr Bijan Parsia, we talk to Henry about his thesis titled LEARNING IN HIGH DIMENSIONS WITH ASYMMETRIC COSTS and what he is now working on at The University in Birmingham as a Post Doc.

Read Henry's thesis:

https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/85713292/FULL_TEXT.PDF

Find out more about Henry:

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~reevehwj/

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Today's episode of the CS@Manchester podcast features interviews with a range of students who graduated last month at our ceremony on 15 July 2019. We ask them what their highlights have been, what they'll take away from their experiences and where their joinery will take them to next, now they're leaving the University of Manchester!

We speak to (in order)

Will Davidson (Computer Science with Ind Exp)

Richa Shah (Computer Science with Ind Exp)

Ben Lister (Computer Science & Maths with Ind Exp)

Aidan Abbott (Human Computer Interaction with Ind Exp)

Prof Simon Harper (HCI Programme Director)

Hendrik Mölder (Computer Science)

Danielle Holliday (Computer Science & Maths with Ind Exp)

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Episode 32 of the CS@Manchester features an interview with Prof Daniel Dresner, who is the Academic Cyber Secutiry Lead at The University of Manchester.

Daniel is THE expert for all things Cyber Security, often featured on the BBC to explain risk and opportunities of information systems to the wider community. He was also voted the UK's second top influencer in cyber security in the 2017.

Find out more about Daniel and his research and other projects and ventures here:

https://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/about/people/?ea=daniel.dresner

https://twitter.com/danielgdresner?lang=en

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Ever wondered what it's really like settling into a new city and undertaking the first year of an undergraduate degree in Computer Science?

Join us for a really insightful reflection as we talk to Anna McCartain who, after moving to Manchester from Brighton in September, is just coming to the end of her first year here.

We talk about why she chose CS, how she found moving and settling in her new surroundings and what she's enjoyed and found challenging about the different elements of the course.

We also discuss her interests outside the subject area, including her musical projects and how she grown to love the city of Manchester.

Featured in this episode are tracks from Anna's musical artist name 'Paper Swan'. You can find and listen to her EP here on her youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIX6UOugcF0D3NUlo7UQWpA

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Episode 30 of the CS@Manchester podcast features an interview with Prof Angelo Cangelosi.

Angelo Cangelosi is Professor of Machine Learning and Robotics at the University of Manchester (UK). He also is Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. Previously Angelo was Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognition, and founding director, at the Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth University (UK). Cangelosi studied psychology and cognitive science at the Universities of Rome La Sapienza and at the University of Genoa, and was visiting scholar at the University of California San Diego and the University of Southampton. Cangelosi's main research expertise is on language grounding and embodiment in humanoid robots, developmental robotics, human-robot interaction, and on the application of neuromorphic systems for robot learning.

We catch up with Angelo and ask him about moving to Manchester, his research areas and also the future of AI and Robotic learning.

Here's a recent talk from Angelo on Developmental Robotics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXdPLnfB1Xs

Today's episode features an episode with final year student Teo Stoleru, who during her time as a student here as been working for Google for her placement year and also, applied and was succesful in achieving a place on the prestigious global @womentechmakers scholarship program.

We talk about the process of getting onto the scholarship, her experiences at the retreat and who she met.

We also discuss her time working at google, and how she is finding the course here at Manchester, and what she gets up to when not studying - plenty of hackathons!

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http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/

Today's episode of the CS@Manchester podcast features an interview with three academics who are the course module leaders of the brand new elective and cross-discplinary module - AI: Robot Overlord, Replacement or Colleague.

Artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of machines to learn from data, make decisions and perform actions, is now creeping into every aspect of our lives. This unit explores the mechanisms, implications and ethics of an environment where AI plays an increasingly important role.

The academics we speak to are Andy Brass, Professor in Bioinformatics, Dr Caroline Jay, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Dr Iliada Eleftheriou, a Lecturer in Health Sciences.

Find out more about the programme at these links below:

http://www.college.manchester.ac.uk/units/?year=2018&semester=2&course=288

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZlom-G_3Ns