信息科学技术学院计算机科学系学术讲座（五）

  
题  目：Enriching the Student Experience: How Research and Industrial Practice bring Real-World Software Engineering to Life
讲座摘要：Software engineering is a difficult skill to teach in university. While it is straightforward to read books about software engineering, practicing the skills is difficult in an academic environment. At Aston we have developed a number of ways of bringing industrial practice into the class room. In particular, our student software company, Aston Active Software Engineering, enables students at all stage of their studies to carry out and manage projects for real clients. He will also describe how research carried out by academics is used to enhance the curriculum.
报告人：Prof. Ian T. Nabney Aston University England
报告人简介：After studying maths at Oxford, Prof. Nabney then went to Cambridge to do his PhD, which was in abstract algebra. He then spent five years with Logica (a UK software house) at their research lab, where he developed a wide range of neural network applications and also carried out research in formal methods.
In 1995 he was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Maths at Aston University. In 2004 he was promoted to a Chair in Computer Science. He was the Associate Dean for Research for the School of Engineering and Applied Science (2006-8) and prepared the School's submission for the 2008 RAE and since then he has been the Head of the Computer Science group.
His research spans both the theory and applications of neural networks and other pattern recognition techniques, with a special focus on data visualisation and probabilistic modelling. Much of his work is inspired, directly or indirectly, by industrial problems in bioinformatics, biosignal processing, condition monitoring, remote sensing and financial forecasting. He has put his experience of software engineering to good use through developing the Netlab toolbox for neural networks and related techniques.
Externally, he is the Chair of the Natural Computing Applications Forum (NCAF).
时 间：2011年12月20日（周二）下午3：00
地 点：教学大楼A416室
 
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信息科学技术学院
2011年12月19日

作者：吉念宁