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PhD positions at KTH Speech, Music and Hearing

KTH copyThe KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm is looking for  PhD students in “Social Robotics” and related areas.

The positions are hosted by the department of Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH).
TMH is an internationally distinguished group within speech technology and associated fields dating back to the 1950s. Research at the department is truly multi-disciplinary including linguistics, phonetics, auditory perception, vision and experimental psychology. Rooted in an engineering modeling approach,its research forms a solid base for developing multimodal human-computer interaction systems in which speech, music, sound and gestures combine to create human-like communication.

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Seminar on a Simulated Banking System

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The University of Essex.

IIIM Research Scientist Dr. Jacky Mallett will speak in an Expert Seminar Series on Economic Policy and Financial Regulation and Governance at the University of Essex, England, tomorrow the fifth of February. The seminar is held as part of the course MSc Computational Economics, Financial Markets and Policy.

Dr. Mallett will speak of her unique economic simulation, Threadneedle, which is a simulation framework that allows the behaviour of banking systems and their influence on the macroeconomy to be explored in an experimental fashion. Continue reading Seminar on a Simulated Banking System