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 […]

  Event Title: How to make sure your programming language will become popular Speaker: Paul Jansen Dates: Tuesday, 17th March 2026 Time: 11am (GMT) Location: Edinburgh Bayes Coffee House (4th floor Bayes Center, EH8 9BT) Join Online：https://app.huawei.com/wmeeting/join/98886016/pfZV4BbHyL4FRbteGLwJ8sqon0XhgVG2t Meeting ID：98886016 Passcode：574528 Abstract: During this presentation, Paul Jansen, CEO of TIOBE Software, will explore the evolution of programming […]

  Date: 10 March 2026 Time: 11 AM (GMT) Join Online: https://app.huawei.com/wmeeting/join/99929826/eUCUm7VD5Hca9IkxlqmDguXqr04EHhPwl Abstract Personalisation in language models is often operationalised by assigning a persona or giving stylistic instructions via prompting. Yet, successful adaptation requires models to adjust both to who they represent and who they are interacting with, often from sparse or implicit signals. In […]

  Event Title: Towards an End-to-End Tensor Compiler Speaker: Nachiappan (Nachi) Valliappan Dates: Thursday, 12th February 2025 Time: 11am (GMT) Location: MR1, 5th Floor, Boole Research Center Join Online：https://app.huawei.com/wmeeting/join/98629112/x8nxVMaRb1ZsYk9kzYcCo6ethoLXhbBpM Meeting ID：98629112 Passcode：502526 Talk Abstract A tensor compiler translates high-level representations of neural networks into efficient code that runs on diverse architectures such as CPUs, GPUs, or TPUs. […]