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 … Best student poster award at IWSOS
Systems Seminar – by John Thomson All wecome. The Results Delusion Abstract: It is often said that any subject which requires the word ‘science’ to be placed somewhere in its name, is unlikely to be very scientific. This is unfortunately far too true for systems research in general. Every systems conference, papers are presented which … The Results Delusion – Systems Seminar by John Thomson
The Jack Cole building was officially 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 … One from the archives: The Jack Cole Building
Weekend at Sensation It’s been a busy weekend for the virtual worlds group. The reconstructed St Andrews Cathedral and other ongoing projects, were on display at Sensation in Dundee as part of the “Create and Inspire” initiative. Friday involved organised school visits and Saturday and Sunday proved busy with members of the public entering the … Virtual Worlds at Sensation
Tristan Henderson has been awarded £4,700 from the EPSRC’s FRRIICT (Framework for Responsible Research & Innovation in ICT) project to investigate ethical issues in online social network research. The grant will fund a summer research internship which will build a framework for investigating ethical concerns using real online social network data.
MSci (Hons) in Computer Science (5 years) The MSci (Honours) in Computer Science is an exciting new integrated masters degree that is being introduced for 2013 entry. It takes place over five years, with an option for direct entry into the second year. Qualified students can therefore graduate with a Masters degree in four years. … New MSci (Hons) in Computer Science (5 years)
HCI 2012 will be held between the 12th and the 14th of September 2012 in Birmingham. The Programme Committee includes Aaron and Per Ola as short paper chairs and Miguel in Interactive Demos. Information available online at hci2012 submissions.
This month’s IEEE Computing Now features the paper “Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise” written by Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Ian Sommerville, Jurgen Bogaerts, and Pradeep Teregowda.
Ishbel, Alan & Janie Brooks of ELT have been awarded £8000 from UKCISA (Council for International Student Affairs) to build a virtual St Andrews to aid international student orientation.