Ramp up for Business: accessing leading edge computing science research

21 October 2010 | Location: The Barn,  Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London | 4:00pm – 8pm


Middlesex University, School of Engineering and Information Sciences invites you to attend a knowledge dissemination event that will provide you with an excellent opportunity to meet with local business people, company directors, leading academics as well as colleagues from across London.

Why attend?

  • Hear from leading academics about cutting edge research that will shape tomorrow’s knowledge economy in fields such as: Visual analytics, interactive collaborative design environments, semantic web technologies, enterprise architecture and much more.
  • Understand how academic consultants can advise your business for the future. Benefit from recent case studies where Middlesex academics have made a real difference to London based businesses.
  • Find out how you can access Government funds to add research and development capabilities to your organization using agencies such as the Knowledge Transfer Programme.
  • Find out how you can influence and shape tomorrow’s graduates by participating in our Industrial liaison forum.
  • Meet and develop new business links.

Guest Speaker

During Karren Brady’s highly successful tenure as Managing Director of Birmingham City FC between 1993 and 2009, Karren increased the average gate sale from 6,000 to a sell-out capacity of over 30,000, selling her business for £82 million in 2009. In 2010, Karren was appointed Vice Chairman of West Ham United FC and chosen as Lord Sugar’s assistant on Series 6 of BBC1’s The Apprentice, to be aired in the autumn. Find out more at: www.mdx.ac.uk/wbl/karrenbrady

Programme

4:00 Registration and Networking with tea, coffee and refreshments
4:30 Welcome Address by Prof. Martin Loomes, Dean and Pro-Vice Chancellor
4:45 Visual Analytics Research: Prof. William Wong
5:00 Software Engineering Research: Prof. Balbir Barn
5:15 Telecommunications Research: Dr Jonathan Loo
5:30 RedLoop Innovation Centre: Dr Andy Bardill
5:45 BarnetWorks: A brokerage service bringing students and business closer together
6:00 Access knowledge and money! The Knowledge Transfer Programme Scheme: Dr Mark Gray
6:15: Join main Employer Engagement Event
6:30 Guest Speaker: Karren Brady - Entrepreneur
7:00 Buffet Dinner and Networking
8:00 Event closes

RSVP: business@mdx.ac.uk

Research

Visual Analytics
Visual Analytics is a multi-disciplinary research field that brings together the sciences of analytical reasoning, visual presentations, interaction techniques and data manipulation. The key emerging applications of this new field arise in those domains that are characterized by large complex data gathered from a variety of sources.
A snapshot of some of the current projects include: An EU funded project aimed at developing a training platform for crisis management based on serious games technology; An EPSRC funded project aimed at developing a visual analytics technical architecture and platform specifically designed for security services. The US (Dept of Homeland Security and UK government (Home Office) are also both funding the UK Visual Analytics Consortium led by Middlesex and including partners: Imperial College, UCL, Bangor and Swansea Universities. Other related work includes algorithms for data mining.
http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/idc/

Software Process Practice and Design
The software and systems engineering research at Middlesex addresses areas such as methodologies and tools for software development notably in executable business process management and enterprise architecture, model driven engineering, specification of systems using techniques such as domain specific languages. Other related work undertaken includes research on project management and ethical and legal implications of ICT. Much of the problems being addressed are those that are immediately relevant to business.

Engineering Systems and Telecommunications
This is a broad research area and includes robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles (for which Middlesex has recently received a patent), simulation and fault tolerance in complex multi-server systems, and protocols to optimize network performance across heterogeneous networks.

Algorithms and Architecture
Work in this area ranges form complex algorithms: to solve NP-hard problems, network security, image processing and genetic algorithms. A recently completed EPSRC project explored the use of cell assemblies for simulating neural networks. Middlesex is leading a major EPSRC project is modeling evolution as an information dynamic system in partnership Manchester and Warwick Universities.

Business

Academic colleagues have lead or are currently active on a number of consultancy engagements. A subset of activity has included:

  • Blow Inc. to develop an RFID garment tracking system
  • Teapod – to develop new packaging concepts
  • iPhone application for the Tour De France
  • Beeveejay Ltd – a review of business processes for E-commerce
  • Drake Music – to propose new concepts for collaborative music design
  • JISC – consultancy to advise on a new Service based framework for delivering University administration systems in the UK.

 

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