Can a Chess Computer Play Poker and Deliver Groceries?
January 9, 2014
We have just had a piece published in TheConversation (other posts featuring TheConversation can be seen here) that discusses more general algorithms. Using Chess and Poker to draw people in is a good way to generate interest, but the real story is about hyper-heuristics, an area that the ASAP research group has pioneered in recent …
A good start to 2014 for UNMC publications
January 7, 2014
As we have been collecting the MyRA data, many people have been keen to tell us that they already have paper in 2014. I thought it would be interesting to look at how many papers we have, just a couple of weeks into the new year. Below I list the Scopus and the ISI papers. …
UPM/UNMC hold first workshop for their dual PhD programme
December 11, 2013
In May 2013 UNMC (University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus) signed an MOA (Memorandum of Agreement) with UPM (Universiti Putra Malaysia) for a Dual PhD programme.. The MOA is a development of the Malaysian Nottingham Doctoral Programme (MNDP) which enabled Malaysian academics to do their PhD at the University of Nottingham. The requirements for Malaysia have …
Where we drive affects how we drive
December 2, 2013
“For the first time a team of experts have been looking at the cross-cultural effect on drivers’ hazard perception and their research has shown that compared to British drivers, Malaysian motorists are less likely to identify situations as dangerous and also react to them later…” … so starts a piece recently published in phys.org. The …
Research Leaders Programme: Visit to UNMC
November 22, 2013
It was our pleasure this week to host a group of our UK based colleagues who are participating in the Research Leaders Programme. This programme is designed to identify and develop promising individuals with the University via a twelve month training programme. As part of that training, they have to visit one of the international …
UNMC Publication Status: Nov 2013
November 14, 2013
Every so often we publish the current status of our publications. This is useful to see how we are doing against previous years, but it might also be useful to people from outside the University to see what areas where we are currently publishing. I have extracted the publications listed on Web of Knowledge and …
Computer Science at the University of Nottingham is Influential
November 4, 2013
The Journal of the Opertaional Research Society (JORS) is one of the most respected journals in Operational Research. They editors recently picked the ten most inflential articles, as a reprsentative sample of the quality of the articles that they publish. In their remarks they say: “Tom Archibald and Jonathan Crook, the Editors of the Journal …
UNMC Pubication Record – 25 Oct 2013
October 25, 2013
In a previous post, we suggested that you should check your pubications, as some might be misclassified. Hopefuly you have done this. … and it’s been a while since we looked at how we are doing with UNMC publications in 2013. In fact the last time was 23 July (previous to that it was 03 …
How international are our publications?
October 10, 2013
I saw an interesting article (International research coauthorship – trends and implications) recently from blog.universitiesuk.co.uk, which discusses how collabotaion with international partners has changed over the past few years. I thought it might be interesting to see how we do, and compare ourselves against another well known institution in the UK. It shoud be noted …
CEPB Blogs
October 7, 2013
This post was contributed by Asgar Ali. The following blogs might be of interest to those working in Food Security or Post Harvest Technology: http://www.ng.hu/Tudomany/2012/12/elelmiszerbevonatok_uj_korszaka http://earthsky.org/feeding-the-future/asgar-ali-edible-coatings-keep-fruits-and-vegetables-fresh-2 http://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/blog/index.php/2012/03/grow-not-waste-not/#more-785 http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?sec=education&file=/2012/1/29/education/10538865 http://www.farminguk.com/News/Making-sure-the-food-we-grow-is-good-enough-to-eat_22647.html
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