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- May 2019
ACL publication success
A UoL paper addressing gender-related stereotype biases in machine learning models has been accepted at ACL-2019 - the premiere venue for Natural Language Processing research
- April 2019
ICML 2019
Two papers have been accepted at the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning. These include one by an undergraduate AI student, based on his final year project.
- April 2019
Publication success at ICALP'19
The CS department has had five papers accepted for presentation at ICALP'19, to be held 8-12 July in Patras, Greece
- March 2019
BCS Dissertation Award
Alkmini Sgouritsa was the highly-commended runner up for the prestigious BCS Distinguished Dissertation award, for her thesis Algorithms for Game-Theoretic Environments.
- February 2019
2019 Modern Law Awards
A team from CS won 'Best use of technology' prize for their work in developing AI systems to analyse legal cases.
- February 2019
Unilever Innovation Challenge
Nachi Kaluba was the winner of the inaugural Unilever/University of Liverpoool "Getting Rid of Plastics" competition
- November 2018
Best paper award at ICFEM 2018
Members of the Autonomy and Verification Lab won best paper award at International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods
- June 2018
Best Paper at ICALP
Darek Kowalski and Miguel Mosteiro (Pace University) have been awarded the Best Paper (Track C) at ICALP 2018.
- May 2018
Publication Success at IJCAI-ECAI 2018
Research staff at the University of Liverpool have again had a large number of accepted papers at the 2018 IJCAI-ECIA joint conference, to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, on the July 13-19, 2018.
- May 2018
Publication Success at ICALP 2018
Five papers have been accepted at the 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) - the main conference of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
- April 2018
REF 2021 CS panel
Professor Katie Atkinson has been appointed to the Computer Science and Informatics sub-panel for REF 2021
- March 2018
Faculty Learning and Teaching Award
Dave Shield has won one of the 2018 Faculty Learning and Teaching Awards, for his work with electronic assessment and feedback.
- January 2018
Article in VentureBeat
Dr. Louise Dennis was quoted in an article in VentureBeat on `The Development of AI Ethics must keep pace with Innovation' talking about the work of the Autonomy and Verification Laboratory on the development of ethical reasoning for autonomous sys
- January 2018
Communications of the ACM
Othon Michail and Paul Spirakis have had their review article titled “Elements of the Theory of Dynamic Networks” published in the February issue of Communications of the ACM. The article is accompanied by a video.
- January 2018
Funded PhD Studentships available for start date Oct 2018
The University of Liverpool’s Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design has funding available for PhD positions from October 2018
- January 2018
Nature Scientific Reports
Karl Tuyls and Rahul Savani. together with collaborators at Google DeepMind and the University of Oxford, have had their paper Symmetric Decomposition of Asymmetric Games published in the prestigious journal Nature, Scientific Report
- November 2017
Staff Awards 2017
Dr Louise Dennis is the winner of the University's Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement Award
- November 2017
Logic Conferences at the University of Brasilia
Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS), Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX) and Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP). Clare Dixon was the programme co-chair of FroCoS.
- November 2017
Discussing semantic technologies in Vienna
Dr Valentina Tamma was one of the three Programme Chairs at the 16th International Semantic Web Conference in Vienna
- April 2017
Best Paper nomination
Daniel Claes, Frans Oliehoek, Hendrik Baier and Karl Tuyls have been nominated for the Best Paper Award at AAMAS2017
- March 2017
Logic in CS 2017
Liverpool will be strongly represented at the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, with four papers being presented there.
- March 2017
- December 2016
Best Student Paper at AI 2016
Abdullah Alshehri was awarded the best student paper prize in the application stream of the 2016 BCS SGAI conference on AI.
- September 2016
- September 2016
Student paper at COMMA 2016
James Butterworth, recently presented a paper based on his final year project at the 2016 Computational Models of Argument conference, in Potsdam.
- August 2016
Best Student Paper at TAROS 2016
Eric Schneider has won the Best Student Paper prize at TAROS 2016 for his paper Evaluating Multi-Robot Teamwork in Varied Environments
July 2016
New EATCS President
Professor Paul Spirakis has been appointed President of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
July 2016
Best paper award at SEFM 2016
PhD student Idress Husien, together with Sven Schewe, won the best paper award at SEFM 2016, for their paper Program Generation using Simulated Annealing and Model Checking
April 2016
Lovelace Colloquium prizewinner
Jessica Lettall won first prize at this year's BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium.
February 2016
SET for Britain 2016
PhD student Reino Niskanen will be displaying his research at the House of Commons in March, having reached the final of the 2016 SET for BRITAIN poster competition
November 2015
smARTLab wins RoCKIn@Work
The smARTLab@Work team from Liverpool won the RoCKIn@Work robot competition in Lisbon.
September 2015
TAROS 2015
The Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) conference was held over 8th-10th September
June 2015
Dinosaurs over Cheltenham
Lego Robot Dinosaurs have been revealing ideas from AI, robotics and space science at the Cheltenham Science Festival
April 2015
IJCAI 2015
Liverpool CS have had 15 papers accepted for IJCAI 2015 - confirming our position as one of the leading departments for AI within the UK
April 2015
Athena SWAN
The School of EEE and Computer Science has been granted Athena SWAN Bronze Award status.
March 2015
smARTLab wins RoCKIn@work competition
smARTLab@Work win best demo award at the RoCKIn Camp 2015 @work challenge.
January 2015
Computer Science Ranked Highly in REF2014
Ranked 1st in the UK for 4* & 3* research, with 97% of our research rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.
September 2014
Researchers win best paper award at TAROS conference
' "The fridge door is open" - Temporal Verification of a Robotic Assistant's Behaviours' wins best paper.
August 2014
IMA Conference on Game Theory and its Applications
Rahul Savani from our Economics and Computation Research group is organizing the IMA Conference on Game Theory and its Applications at St. Anne's College Oxford, 8 – 10&
July 2014
smARTLab@work wins world title at RoboCup 2014
The smARTLab@work team has won the world title at RoboCup 2014 in Brazil - the 2nd win for the team this year.
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