Alistair Lawson's Home Page
Employment:
Lecturer: School of Computing, Napier University, Merchiston Campus, Colinton Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH10 5DT
Room: C62
Tel: 0131 455 2730 (use +44 131 455 2730 if phoning from outside the UK)
Email: al.lawson(at)napier.ac.uk
SOC Webpages: Alistair Lawson's School of Computing Webpages
Present Teaching:
Network Programming: co72053
Honours Project: co42019 Project - 4
Real Time Software Engineering co42018
Individual Project Supervisions
First Year Undergraduate Tutor Group
Previous Teaching:
Visual Components & Systems Integration co32011
HND2 EDL (Event Driven Language: Visual Basic) coh8412625
Honours Project Module: CO42019 Project - 4
Individual Project Supervisions
Group Project
Knowledge Transfer Projects:
High.St
Air Iomlaid
Deiseal
PEPS-C
Current Research Interests
Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) and other Biologically Inspired Computing (for more details on AIS see ARTIST)
Computational techniques for supporting Medical Decision Making
Computational techniques for supporting Minority Language Learning (well any language but in particular Gaelic)
Previous Research
SIGNAL: 01/10/2001 to 31/12/04 collaborator on European project IST-2000-29225 (Napier funding awarded to Prof P. Ross with partner institutions in Bonn, Geneva, and Vienna)
Award Winning KTP: Member of Academic Supervision Team for award winning Napier/Cānan Ltd. KTP scheme 2001 2004 Associate: Evan Brown, Lead Academic: Dr. W Buchanan, SOC, Napier)
InterPHACE: (Internetworked links for Phonetic Analysis & Clinical Education) in collaboration with Speech & Language Sciences Department , Queen Margaret University College Edinburgh. Research funded by BT's UDA scheme (University Development Award) to establish links between QMUC and external speech and language therapy clinics
Gait Analysis: 7-year longitudinal analysis of gait and how it matures in children age 5 - 12. Anderson Gait Analysis Laboratory, Bioengineering Centre, Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital. Research funded by The James and Grace Anderson Trust
Professional Membership
MIPEM: Member of the Institute of Physics & Engineering in Medicine
Some Publications:
Gerst,A., Lawson, A., MacCallum, M.,Dickhaus,H. (2005) Automatic sleep stage decision support: the use of fuzzy sets based on amplitude statistics of electrophysiological signals.Signal Processing Applications in Clinical Neurophysiology, BIR, London, February 2005
A. Webb, E. Hart, P. Ross, and A. Lawson. (2004) An investigation into immunological robot controllers. In Proceedings of AISB 2004 Symposium on The Immune System and Cognition, March 2004
Smith S., Lawson S. W. and Lawson, A. (2004). Can Real-time Software Engineering be Taught to Java Programmers? 17th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2004) Norfolk, Virginia (USA), March 1-3, 2004
Bhardwaj, J. Bruce Cowan, B., Crerar, A. and Lawson, A (2004). An initiative to improve teaching practice in project supervision in the School of Computing, Napier University: An interim view. Learning & Teaching Support Network Business Education Support Team Conference on Reflection on Teaching: The Impact on Learning, Edinburgh 14-16 April 2004. 4
E. Hart, P. Ross, A. Webb, and A. Lawson (2003). A role for immunology in `next generation' robots. In J. Timmis, P. Bentley, and E. Hart, editors, Proceedings of ICARIS 2003, volume 2787 of LNCS, pages 48- 60. Springer, 2003.
Webb, A., Hart, E., Ross, P., Lawson, A. (2003) Controlling a Simulated Khepera with an XCS Classifier System with Memory. In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 14 - 17 September 2003. Springer-Verlag, 2003.
P. M. Ross, E. Hart, A. Lawson, A. Webb, E. Prem, P. Poelz, and V. Morgavi. (2003) Requirements for getting a robot to grow-up. In Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 14 - 17 September 2003. Springer-Verlag, 2003.
Stansfield B. W., Hillman S. J., Hazlewood M. E., Lawson A. M., Mann A. M., Loudon, I. R., Robb, J. E. (2003). Normalisation of gait data in children. Gait and Posture 17 81-87
Stansfield BW, Hazlewood ME, Hillman SJ, Lawson AM, Loudon IR, Mann AM, Robb JE (2001), Sagittal joint angles, moments and powers are predominantly characterised by speed of progression, not age, in 7 to 12 year old normal children walking at self selected speeds, Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics, Vol.21, No.3, pp403-411.
Stansfield BW, Hazlewood ME, Hillman SJ, Lawson AM, Loudon IR, Mann AM, Robb JE (2001), Normalised speed, not age, characterises ground reaction force patterns in 5 - 12 year old children walking at self selected speeds, Journal of Paediatric Orthopaedics, vol.21, No.3, pp395-402.
Beck, J. M., Lawson, A. M., Mennen, I., Cowen, S. (2000) InterPHACE: extending clinical access to phonetic analysis procedures, ICPLA 2000: 7th Meeting of International Clinical Phonetics & Linguistics Association, Edinburgh, 2000,
Beck, J M, Lawson A. M., Mennen I.,(1999) InterPHACE - internetworked links for phonetic analysis in clinical education. In Valerie Hazan and Martyn Holland (Eds.) Proceedings of the ESCA/SOCRATES Tutorial and Research Workshop on Method And Tool Innovations for Speech Science Education (MATISSE), 29-32.