{"id":1586,"date":"2017-04-22T13:12:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T13:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2017-04-22T13:12:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T13:12:52","slug":"the-bcswomen-lovelace-colloquium-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 10th BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium was held on April 12th, at\r\nAberystwyth University. Around 200 attendees enjoyed a day of inspiring talks,\r\nfascinating student posters, careers advice, employers fair, lots of\r\nnetworking and too much cake. Our headline sponsor this year was Google, who\r\ncovered loads of the student travel and also sent a speaker along. \r\n\r\n

As we pay\r\nfor travel for all the poster contest finalists and as we were in Aberystwyth\r\nthis year, we paid for 2 nights for everyone. This enabled us to have a social\r\nthe night before, with Scott Logic providing a hackathon activity which got\r\npeople talking and coding (and eating pizza).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Our keynote was Dr Sue Black OBE, founder of BCSWomen and general awesome\r\nperson, who talked about her life and career to date, with PhD, Bletchley\r\nPark, Stephen Fry and the Queen. At the end of Sue’s talk she actually had a\r\nqueue of people waiting for selfies. Then we had Carrie Anne Philbin of\r\nRaspberry Pi, who gave a fab talk about using your powers for good. If you\r\nhaven’t seen her yet check out her youtube<\/a> channel.\r\nUnfortunately she had to dash off which was a shame as people were so inspired\r\nby her talk that they kept asking me where she was for pretty much the rest of\r\nthe day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

As usual the core of the day was an extended lunch and poster session. This\r\nyear lunch was sponsored by GE, who also had a stand and helped out in lots of\r\nother ways.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Best First Year Student, sponsored by Google<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

1st: Frida Lindblad (Edinburgh Napier) – Making complexity simple in the world of technology<\/p>\r\n\r\n

2nd: Aliza Exelby (Bath) – An examination of the effects of growing up in a\r\ndigital age<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Best Second Year Student, sponsored by JP Morgan<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

1st: Elise Ratcliffe (Bath) – Cryptography for website design<\/p>\r\n\r\n

2nd: Rachael Paines (Open) – Where’s all the kit gone? Developing a bespoke\r\nequipment management system<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Best Final Year Student<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

1st: Iveta Dulova (St Andrews) – Mobile device based framework for the prediction of\r\nearly signs of mental health deviations \/ Hannah Khoo (Greenwich) – Analysing attacks on\r\nthe CAN bus to determine how they can affect a vehicle <\/p>\r\n\r\n

2nd: Louise North (Bath) – Optimising the energy efficiency of code using static\r\nprogram analysis techniques \/ Anna Rae Hughes (Sussex) – Safeguarding homelessness in a\r\ncashless society<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Best MSc Student, sponsored by Amazon<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

1st: Caroline Haigh (Southampton) – Nul points and null values: using machine learning techniques to model\r\nEurovision song contest outcomes <\/p>\r\n\r\n

2nd: Isabel Whistlecroft (Southampton) – Can algorithms emulate abstract art?<\/p>\r\n\r\n

People’s choice<\/h2>\r\n\r\n

First year<\/b> Annette Reid (Bath) – “Ada Loved Lace”: how computer science and\r\nthe textile industry influence each other<\/p>\r\n

Second year<\/b> Emma James (Bath) – Can machine learning trump hate?<\/p>\r\n

Final year<\/b> Rosie Hyde (Middlesex) – Can stress and anxiety be tracked through\r\nwearable technology?<\/p>\r\n

MSc<\/b> Leah Clarke (Durham) – Who will win Wimbledon 2017? Using deep\r\nlearning to predict tennis matches<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

After the poster contest we had two more talks. The first was from Milka\r\nHorozova, of Google, who’s been in Google for just a few months. She met\r\nGoogle recruiters at the Lovelace in Edinburgh a few years ago so is a real\r\nLovelace Colloquium success story. Our last speaker was Christine Zarges of\r\nAberystwyth Computer Science, who talked about nature-inspired computing –\r\nartificial immune systems, neural networks, evolutionary systems. Interesting\r\nstuff.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

One cake break later (we have a lot of cake, thanks to our CAKE SPONSOR,\r\nBloomberg – yes we have a cake sponsor) and we finished off with the panel\r\nsession and prizegiving. On the panel was Dominika Bennani of JP Morgan, Carol\r\nLong from Warwick and a BCSWomen founder member, Milka Horozova from Google\r\nand Claire Knights from UTC Aerospace. And me. The idea of the panel is that\r\nall the students can ask any question they like, on anything to do with\r\ncomputing and computing careers, and it’s often my favourite part of the\r\nday.<\/p> \r\n\r\n

After the close of the panel, we stopped for a group photo on the big\r\nsteps. Once I get the official photos back I’ll post the big picture, but for\r\nnow here’s a selfie:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

And then the last part of the day was the social, sponsored by\r\nThoughtWorks – with more cake, and some drinks to help the networking go\r\nsmoothly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

This was my last event as chair: I started it in 2008, and have run it for 10\r\nyears, and now it’s time to pass it on. So at the end of the day I handed over\r\nto Helen Miles, who’s going to take the Lovelace forward (with me as deputy\r\nfor a couple of years to ease the transition – I’m still going to be there,\r\nwhatever!). Helen is also Aberystwyth, and has an office just downstairs from\r\nme, which makes the handover easy. Next year, we’re going to Sheffield.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 10th BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium was held on April 12th, at Aberystwyth University. Around 200 attendees enjoyed a day of inspiring talks, fascinating student posters, careers advice, employers fair, lots of networking and too much cake. Our headline sponsor this year was Google, who covered loads of the student travel and also sent a speaker along. As we pay for travel for all the poster contest finalists and as we were in Aberystwyth this year, we paid for 2 nights for everyone. This enabled us to have a social the night before, with Scott Logic providing a hackathon activity which got people talking and codingRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,5],"tags":[64,43,45,42],"class_list":["entry","author-handee","post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-bcs","category-wic","tag-bcswomen","tag-computing","tag-lovelace","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}