June 2011 | Computer Science Blog

Professor Ian Sommerville receives teaching awards

June 30, 2011

Professor Ian Sommerville has been honoured for his work in software engineering education. The distinguished researcher has received the 2011 SIGSOFT Influential Educator award from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the 2011 Outstanding Educator award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The awards recognise Professor Sommerville’s work in developing software … Professor Ian Sommerville receives teaching awards

Arduino workshop

June 22, 2011

The School will hold an all day Arduino workshop on Sunday the 26th of June hosted by Dr David McKeown from UCD in Ireland. Thanks also to Ben Arent, an interaction designer based in Dublin for his help in supporting this. The Arduino workshop preceeds the Summer School on Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism that … Arduino workshop

Summer School on Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism

June 22, 2011

The focus of this summer school is to introduce a new generation of researchers to the latest research advances in multimodal systems, in the context of applications, services and technologies for tourists (Digital Tourism). Where mobile and desktop applications can rely on eyes down interaction, the tourist aims to keep their eyes up and focussed … Summer School on Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism

Storage Server Protype

June 9, 2011

Our storage server prototype build is now complete and we have moved on to configuration, tuning and testing. After some delays in sourcing components the build is now complete and everything appears to be working. The server will run BSD with ZFS. The chassis holds 24 3.5″ HDDs in hot-swap bays. These are connected to … Storage Server Protype

St Andrews Computer Science is first in Scotland in Good University Guide

June 6, 2011

St Andrews Computer Science rated 6th in the UK and 1st in Scotland in the 2012 Good University Guide. The School of Computer Science is placed sixth in the UK and first in Scotland in the latest Times Good University Guide. The University as a whole also came sixth in the UK and first in … St Andrews Computer Science is first in Scotland in Good University Guide

Miller Prize for Joe Schaul

June 6, 2011

Computer Science student wins University prize for Science One of our graduating students, Joe Schaul, has been awarded the University’s “Miller Prize”. The Prize is awarded to the best final-year undergraduate in the Science Faculty. As well has having an excellent academic record throughout his 4 years in the School, Joe also produced an exceptional … Miller Prize for Joe Schaul

The 2010/11 CS1006 Othello competition

June 2, 2011

On Wednesday 11th of May 2011 the first year module CS1006: Programming Projects finished with its traditional competition. The competition centres around a 2-player strategy game (Othello this year) for which the students have developed an Artificial Intelligence player as part of the last of the four projects on the module. These AI players are … The 2010/11 CS1006 Othello competition