INVITATION TO ATTEND PROGRAMS WITH VISITING PROFESSOR (OCTOBER 2014)

[Rabiul Awal]

Assalam Br(s)/Sr,

Kulliyyah of ICT is planning a few programs for our postgraduate students with our visiting professor, Prof. Alistair Sutcliffe.  We would really appreciate if you could disseminate the following information to all KICT PG students.  

Details as follows:-

Public Seminar on Current Research Trend – Social Computing/Big Data

Day/Date:Friday, 24 October 2014

Time: 10am-12pm

Venue: LT1, Level 1 KICT

Workshop on Research Method – Experimental Design

Day/Date:Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Time: 2pm-4pm

Venue: LT1, Level 1 KICT

Admission is free.  Your participation is most appreciated.

Kindly email me if you need further information.

Other than the above mentioned events, there are another 2 programs scheduled with Prof Alistair in November 2014.  We'll keep you updated.

About Prof Alistair Sutcliffe:

Originally an ethologist, Prof. Alistair Sutcliffe (MA Cantab-Natural Sciences, PhD Wales) has worked in the IT and finance industry, the civil service and City and Manchester Universities. His publications include 9 books and 250 articles, of which 105 are in software engineering and 145 in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). He currently holds visiting Professorships at University College London and the University of Lancaster, and also employed part time as research Fellow on the EPSRC SAMS project.  His recent research in social computing has applied evolutionary psychology theory (Dunbar’s Social Brain Hypotheses) and psychological theories of social relationships to investigate the impact of social mediating technologies (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) on relationship development and the impact of technology on social change. The project, carried out in collaboration with Professor Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford, was funded by the EPSRC/ESRC Foresight Cognitive Systems Project Developing Theory for Evolving Social Technical Systems. This research had advanced theory of the evolution of social behaviour as well as producing models of social affordances to guide the design of the socio-technical systems, and configurations of new social media.

Yours sincerely,  

Md Rabiul Awal
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Information and Communication Technology
International Islamic University Malaysia