The subhonours lab was busy with the Connect 4 challenge this morning. Students taking
CS1006 Programming Projects worked in pairs in a round-robin format, in which every duo plays every other once. Congratulations to Hamish and Mariya who won today’s challenge and received Amazon Vouchers as a reward.
The School of Computer Science are seeking applications for a Lecturer in Computer Science
We seek lectureship applications from researchers who have a strong research background and excellent publication record in any area of functional programming, complementing and enhancing the existing research team, which has a strong focus on parallel programming models and implementation, resource-aware functional programming, dependent type systems, refactoring, static analysis, and performance modelling, and deep connections with the Haskell community. The candidate should be able to form links with and work collaboratively with other research groups in the school, and contribute to teaching and course design across functional programming and theoretical computer science, especially logic and semantics.
Information on how to apply.
FatFonts, a visualisation technique invented by Miguel Nacenta, lecturer at the School is featured in this week’s issue of the New Scientist.
You can learn more about the technique
here and read the preview of the article
here.
The Brazilian Government has decided to support a programme of scholarships to promote the consolidation and expansion of science, technology and innovation in Brazil through ‘Science without Borders’. Science and technology scholarships will be made available to support tuition fees, travel and living costs.
Background information and programme details can be located at
Brazil Science Without Borders and includes a list of
project areas relating to Computer Science.
The School of Computer Science remains 7th in the UK (and top in Scotland) in the 2013
Complete University Guide. The University as a whole came 6th.
The dedicated and talented final year Computer Science students presented their projects yesterday. Short presentations were followed by demonstrations and a poster session.
We wish them every success as they approach graduation.
Best Poster: Isobel Hale
Multiple Intrusion Detection System Testing Suite (MISTY)
Best Project Madness Presentation: Thomas Nicholson
Cross-Modal Interactive World Builder
Graeme Stevenson, who’s finishing his PhD funded by the Sapere EU project, is
this week’s featured researcher from the EU’s
Awareness initiative. Awareness brings together the project consortia for a number of EU projects in self-awareness, autonomic computing and pervasive systems.
Per Ola Kristensson has two recent papers published in top
ACM conferences that have received honourable mentions:
- Kristensson, P.O. and Vertanen, K. 2012. The potential of dwell-free eye-typing for fast assistive gaze communication. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA 2012). ACM Press: 241-244.
- Coyle, D., Moore, J., Kristensson, P.O., Fletcher, P. and Blackwell, A. 2012. I did that! Measuring users’ experience of agency in their own actions. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012). ACM Press: forthcoming.
Congratulations to Lei Fang, one of our SICSA postgrads, on winning the best student poster award at the recent
International Workshop on Self-Organising Systems (IWSOS) in Delft NL.
The poster (
PDF), entitled “Towards self-management in WSNs by exploiting a spatio-temporal model”, presents early work on using statistical methods to find and exploit correlations between the observations made by nodes in a wireless sensor network. The aim is to use these correlations to detect errors, improve calibration and reduce data traffic.
The Jack Cole building was officialy opened by the then First Minister Jack McConnell on the 18th March 2005. The building was named after the founder of Computer Science at St Andrews. Read more about the opening in the
university news archives.
Read more about Jack Cole and view pictures of the reception held after the opening.
Unveiling the Plaque
