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.

By Nahla, from Sierra Leone and Scotland, studying MA Social Anthropology with Development  Year of study: Second year undergraduate Accommodation type: Private Part-time job: waitress and Student Ambassador I feel that most people worry about budgeting in Edinburgh, where student living isn’t cheap, and stress that they won’t have fun. However, if you know roughly […]

The saying “It takes a village…” is probably the best description for what it feels like to work in research. Without the support of my mentors and the Medical Research Foundation, the present project would not exist. Creating meaningful change is only possible if we connect with lived experience experts, clinicians, policy makers, and other […]