
Matthew Barr
@hatii_matt
Head of @UofGlasgowEAP & Director of @UofGGAs at @UofGlasgow. Education Director @SICSA_Scotland. Founder @adascot. Editor @openSoTL. Co-director @UofGGamesLab.
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The 5th Ada Scotland Festival festival is right around the corner! There are some great live lessons and teacher CLPL to take part in! Find out more ... blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/digiโฆ

Over 100 high school pupils represented at the ADA Scotland launch brilliantly hosted by Barclays. Great to see so many girls inspired by the tech activities ๐ช Computing Science Scotland Scottish Teachers Advancing Computing Science Education Scotland

We'll post a full update in due course but I wanted to share this photo from today's launch of the Ada Scotland Festival Ada Scotland Festival, hosted by Barclays UK. A brilliant start to our fifth year of championing #genderbalance in #computingscience and #tech. ada.scot


Ada Spotlights on: Computing Science teacher Fiona Sabba bit.ly/4eMQVoc And Strategic Client Lead at AND Digital , Laura Davis bit.ly/4ePkwNN



We are so fortunate to be working with an organisation like Tech She Can - thank you so much!

Celebrating #AdaLovelaceDay with our inspiring Women In Computer Science seminar series Delighted to have Oana Andrei from UofG Computing Science share her research in algorithmic thinking. Thank you Matthew Barr for connecting us to an inspirational academic & fantastic role model


Happy #AdaLovelace Day.. Equate Scotland presents: Returning to Work? Know Your Rights! 11am 8 Oct online ENU Computing, Engineering & Built Environment & Equate Scotland present: Building networks for inclusion 3pm 9 Oct at Napier Uni ada.scot #gender #equality #STEM #computing


Thanks to @morganstanley for hosting last night's Cyber Heist event as part of the Ada Scotland Festival Ada Scotland Festival. Great energy in the room, brilliant volunteers, and a rare photo of festival manager, Anna Doyle of UofGGAs University of Glasgow


We are all set for the Annual UK & Ireland Programming Contest #ukiepc here at University of Glasgow! UK & Ireland Programming Contest UofG Computing Science


Many thanks to all staff and students who helped with managing the stands, giving talks and lab tours! Mathieu Chollet Mireilla Bikanga Ada Debasis Ganguly Jeremy Singer Chris McCaig, Tim Storer, Matthew Barr Oana Andrei Claire Johnston UofGGAs


Check out the academic supervisors from Computing Science and their excellent range of research topics: Chris Anagnostopoulos Matthew Barr Ornela Dardha Fani Deligianni Xianghua (Sharon) Ding Jake Lever Zaiqiao Meng Sofiat Olaosebikan Jeremy Singer Lauritz Thamsen Wim Vanderbauwhede A.Vinciarelli Yutian Tang ๐ป๐

Find out how you can fast track your #SoftwareEngineering career with a University of Glasgow #graduateapprenticeship. Join us on 18 Nov online to hear from our partners & gain top tips ๐vacancies bit.ly/UofGGASE2025 ๐18 Nov webinar bit.ly/4hDIRYQ


๐ขSICSA are excited to announce our new Talk Series of events๐ ๐The series is launching with an AI Online Workshop with Leo Porter ๐๏ธ26th Nov, 4-5.30pm ๐Online and in-person discussion meetings Find out more details and register โฌ๏ธ sicsa.ac.uk/event/sicsa-aiโฆ

Looking forward to the first seminar I have been organizing with the good people of Glasgow Women in Computer Science Seminar Series for a joint session on effectively managing all the things, with talks by @DrSimoneStumpf and Matthew Barr. Come join us if you are around at UofG Computing Science next week Wednesday! ๐๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ

Our book, ๐ผ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐๐๐๐๐จ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ค๐ง๐ -๐ฝ๐๐จ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐ช๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ: ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ช๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ก๐ค๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ฎ, is now available in electronic form, with the print version out on 16 December! doi.org/10.4324/978100โฆ