Programme

The programme for YDS 2015 is as follows:

08:30 Conference Registration
09:00 Welcome
09:15 Session 1
09:15 Keynote: Kevin Warwick (Deputy Vice Chancellor Coventry University)
Cyborgs, Robots with Brains and the Turing Test
10:00 Matt Dale
Unconventional Reservoir Computers: Exploiting Materials to Perform Computation
Extended Abstract
10:15 Tea & Coffee Break
10:45 Session 2
10:45 Mustafa Aydin and Jeremy Jacob
Adapting the Cloud-COVER Threat Modelling Tool to Cover Threats for the Internet of Things
Full Paper
11:15 Anna Bramwell-Dicks, Helen Petrie and Alistair Edwards
The Effect of Vocals and Music Volume on Transcription Typing Speed
Full Paper
11:45 Keynote: Gordon Hollingworth (Raspberry Pi, UK)
Hardware and Software: Better Together?
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Session 3
13:30 Q&A
Panel: Keynotes, Lecturers and Industrial Partners
14:00 Fatma Layas, Helen Petrie, and Christopher Power
A Study of Students’ Motivations to Participate in a Crowdsourcing Project to Support Their Disabled Peers
Full Paper
14:30 Michael Davies and Jassim Happa
A Pilot Study Investigating the Process of Risk Assessment and Re-Accreditation in UK Public Sector System
Full Paper
15:00 Afternoon Coffee Break
15:30 Session 4
15:30 Matt Windsor and Mike Dodds
Verifying a Very Racy Stack
Full Paper
16:00 Sahar Arshi and Darryl Davis
Towards a Fitness Function for Musicality using LPM
Full Paper
16:30 Keynote: James Ravenscroft (IBM, UK)
IBM Watson, Partridge and the Importance of Natural Language Processing for Scientific Discovery
17:15 Closing Remarks
17:20 Poster Session & Networking
18:45 Conference Close
19:30 Conference Banquet
YDS Reception & Banquet Meal Hilton Hotel, York