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Hi! My name’s Corrie, I study Classics, and I went on a year abroad to Milan for my third year, spending the year at Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, going to lectures at the central campus in Via Festa del Perdono, which is nestled behind the Duomo of Milan. Academics in Italy I met […]
Student Storyteller, Mona Eskandaripour provides an insight into the very first Edinburgh Medical School 300 event of 2026. On 15 January 2026, 300 students and staff, alongside our special guests and industry collaborators, gathered against the commanding backdrop of the Large Event Space at the Edinburgh Futures Institute to launch our commemoration of three centuries […]
Event Title: Reconciling Strict Latency SLOs with Low Cost in Cloud-based Services Speaker: Prof. Boris Grot Dates: Thursday, 26th March 2026 Time: 11:00-12:00 Location: 2 Semple Street Join Online:https://www.chaspark.com/#/live/1247985124369801216?multi=en Abstract: Cloud-based online services must contend with a load that exhibits significant fluctuations at sub-second granularity. Despite such load volatility, services must meet strict Service Level Objectives […]
by Mingxi Li, Psychotherapy and Counselling January brought a wave of “New Year, New Me” energy, and I decided to try something new. I needed something embodied – something to pull me out of my head and break the cycle of endless rumination at my desk. I’ve always wanted to try bouldering. I booked my […]
After Stratos’s blog post last week, I revisited Joshua Mitchell’s experiment asking an AI to simulate what using a screen reader actually feels like, not to replace proper testing, but to generate a transcript of the experience that could be shared with stakeholders who had never encountered one. The results were striking: skip links that […]
Hear about the experiences and career paths of six alumni, while also discovering the role the University has played in their lives.