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The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) is a "research pool" funded by the Scottish Funding Council. A research pool is a collaboration of Scottish university departments whose broad objective is to create a coherent research community that will improve the quality of research carried out in Scotland in the pool-related discipline.〔(Research Pools ) Scottish Funding Council, Edinburgh, Scotland. 3 November 2011.〕〔(A collective ambition that builds up to a critical mass ). Times Higher Education, 12 June 2008.〕 SICSA's goals are to improve the quality of research in informatics and computer science across universities in Scotland, to promote the transfer of research results to benefit companies and the public sector in Scotland and to create a university community that represents all aspects of Scottish Informatics and Computer Science.〔(The net worth of networks ) Science Scotland 10, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. January 2011.〕〔(SICSA's objectives ) 3 November 2011.〕 SICSA was launched in December 2008 and is funded with an award of £14.5 million from the Scottish Funding Council with SICSA member universities providing matching funding.〔(SFC Press Release ) SFCPR/38/08, Scottish Funding Council, Edinburgh. 5 December 2008.〕 It is managed by the SICSA Executive which is composed of: Director of Research (who is also the SICSA Director), the Director of the SICSA Graduate Academy, the Director of Knowledge Exchange, the Director of Education, the SICSA Executive Officer and the SICSA Executive Assistant.〔(SICSA people and governance ) 3 November 2011.〕 == Membership == SICSA has adopted an inclusive membership policy and all universities in Scotland that have computer science or informatics departments/schools are eligible to be members of SICSA. , the following departments/schools were SICSA members.〔(SICSA members ) 17 April 2013.〕 #University of Aberdeen. Department of Computing Science #University of Abertay. School of Computing and Engineering Systems & Institute of Arts, Media and Computer Games #University of Dundee. School of Computing #University of Edinburgh. School of Informatics #Edinburgh Napier University. Institute for Informatics & Digital Innovation #University of Glasgow. School of Computing Science #Glasgow Caledonian University. School of Engineering and Computing #Heriot-Watt University. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences #The Robert Gordon University. School of Computing #University of St Andrews. School of Computer Science #University of Stirling. Department of Computer Science and Mathematics #University of Strathclyde. Department of Computer and Information Sciences #University of the West of Scotland. School of Computing #University of the Highlands and Islands. School of Computing 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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