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BU Professor amongst elite in lecture series

BU Professor amongst elite in lecture series

Sam Jamieson reports Bournemouth University Professor Bogdan Gabrys, Chair in Computational Intelligence and Director of Smart Technology Research Centre within DEC, is taking part in a series of lectures as part of a cross-European Masters/PhD programme. Professor Gabrys is one of 17 external experts worldwide to be invited to the programme on Soft Computing and [...]

Lecturers sweep prizes in International Predictive Modelling Competition

Lecturers sweep prizes in International Predictive Modelling Competition

Sam Jamieson reports The School of Design, Engineering and Computing’s Amanda Schierz, Lecturer in Databases/Data Mining and Marcin Budka, Associate Lecturer in Computing have won the data mining contest associated with the 19th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2011). As Amanda explains: “the task was to recognise different properties of music samples [...]

BU lecturer in ‘best thesis’ nomination

BU lecturer in ‘best thesis’ nomination

Sam Jamieson reports Bournemouth University’s Dr Indrė Žliobaitė, Lecturer in Computational Intelligence in the School of Design, Engineering and Computing, was recently nominated for the prestigious title of ‘Best PhD Thesis in Lithuania’. Dr Žliobaitė received the nomination within the ‘science’ category, whilst another award was given for humanities theses. “My PhD thesis was in [...]