7th China – Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Orientated Education: 23-24th May 2011, University of Northampton

The 7th China – Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Orientated Education is to be hosted by the School of Science and Technology, University of Northampton on 23-24th May 2011. 


This is only the third time the symposium has been held in Europe. Previous locations:

• 1st China-Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Oriented Education was held in HIT, Harbin.
• The 2nd  was again held in HIT, Harbin.
• The 3rd CIES-SIOE was held in DIT, Dublin, in Feb. 2007.
• The 4th CEISIE  was held in Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China in January 2008.
• The 5th CEISIE was held in University of Bordeaux, France in May 2009.
• The 6th CEISIE was held in Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China in May 2010.

The theme is Green Computing but the following topics are appropriate.

• Ethos for industry oriented software education
  
• Model for industry oriented software education
  
• Curriculum for industry oriented software education
  
• Quality assurance and evaluation in industry oriented
  
• Software education
  
• E-Learning and support tools
  
• Internationalization of software education
  
• Cooperation model for industries and software education
  
• Green computing and the role of higher education
  
• Behavioural and technological aspects of green IT
  
• Innovation and evaluation of software education.

To support potential Chinese participants, given that the costs of travel to Europe are not cheap the School of Science and Technology has offered to sponsor China based delegates by paying 50% of their registration fee. 

The symposium website has further details.

BCS Northampton: 3D Immersive Environment Event

The Northampton branch on the British Computer Society (BCS) on 7th December 2010 is running an event-  3D Immersive Environment presented by members of NVision at The University of Northampton.

This an opportunity to look at a state-of-the-art technology centre designed to help businesses create better value propositions by developing and promoting products and services, using 3D immersive stereo visualisation and computational modelling. The facilities include a 4m fully tracked ActiveWall, 512 Core High Performance Computational (HPC) Cluster and the UK's most accessible 5 sided High Definition ActiveCube (CAVE).

Open to members and the general public,  at no cost.

NVision (part of the School of Science and Technology, University of Northampton, UK) is a unique 3D immersive technology centre whose remit is to work with businesses to design better products at a lower cost. This is achieved by using the latest visualisation technologies to build greater communication with project teams and reduce the number of physical prototypes required to achieve the desired solution. Virtual prototyping is a proven method of reducing the number of design errors taken forward, improving market acceptance and shortening the overall project lead time. We have a suite of high-end facilities to help your business including a 5-sided HD ActiveCube (CAVE), a 6m wide fully-tracked ActiveWall and a High Performance Computational cluster for image rendering and complex calculations. NVision has been made possible by a £3m funding package from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Speakers: Karl Downing and Stuart Wayne

Location: Newton Grand Hall, Newton Building, Avenue Campus, University of Northampton, St Georges Avenue, Northampton, NN2 6JD

Time: 7.00 for 7.30pm, teas and coffees on arrival

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