Multimedia Information Systems

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Welcome to the University of Greenwich Dr
Mohammad Dastbaz Head of Dept, Information
Systems and Multimedia
the UNIVERSITY of GREENWICH
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The University

• Originally Woolwich Polytechnic - founded in the
  late 19th century
• 24,000 undergraduates and postgraduate

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The University of Greenwich
Medway
Avery Hill
Maritime Greenwich

• 10 Schools and over 24,000 Students

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Old Royal Naval College History

• King Henry VIIIs favourite Palace
• The birthplace of Elizabeth I
• Baroque buildings designed by Sir Christopher
  Wren late 1600s, completed around 1750.
• Originally a hospital for retired seamen, it
  closed in 1869.
• Became a Royal Naval College in 1873 until 1998.
• One of the top 20 film locations in London. Films
  e.g. The Mummy Returns, Tomb Raider, Shanghai
  Knights, The Four Feathers etc.

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Historical Greenwich

• Greenwich Park
• A Royal Park, 183 acres. Will hold the 2012
  London Olympic Equestrian and Modern Pentathlon
  events
• The Royal Observatory at the top of the park.
  Contains exhibits on the search for longitude and
  latitude, history of time navigation. You can
  also straddle the prime meridian line.
• National Maritime Museum tells the story of
  Britain at Sea and contains Nelsons coat when he
  was killed, complete with the bullet hole that
  killed him.
• The Queens House contains a selection of the
  Museums fine art collection.
• Cutty Sark Victorian ship built to be the
  fastest tea clipper. Now in dry dock being
  restored with the help of one of our research
  groups.

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Maritime Greenwich

• Computing and Mathematical Sciences
• PCET (Education and Training)
• Humanities
• Business

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School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

• 65 Academic Staff
• 30 Research Staff
• 15 Technical Support Staff
• 16 Administrative Staff

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Schools Research

• International leading edge with an industry focus
• Grade 4 in last Research Assessment Exercise
  (RAE)
• Various EU, EPSRC, Industry and DTI funded
  projects supporting research staff and PhD
  students
• Approx 3.5 million in grant funding for the
  period March November
• Postgraduate and undergraduate programme features
  research led teaching

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Schools Research

• Applied statistics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomic Computing
• Case-based reasoning
• Data Mining
• E-learning
• Fire Safety Engineering
• Information Integrity
• Information Systems
• Intelligent Scheduling
• Knowledge Management
• Mobile Networks
• Multi-physics Modelling
• Network optimisation

• Network Security Audit
• Numerical Modelling
• Parallel Computing
• Systems Modelling
• Temporal Logic

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Research Awards

• European 1st Prize
• Queens Anniversary Prize for Higher Education
• British Computer Society IT Award Winners

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Our Research Strength Fire Safety

• Award winning Evacuation modelling software

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School Structure

• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Information Systems
• Department of Mathematics

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What next?

• We have a diverse staff and student population
  hope you will welcome it and make the most of the
  unique environment here to broaden your
  intellectual horizons
• We will do our best to support you but are
  looking for a commitment from you to succeed
• We want you to succeed!
• Good Luck!