Month: October 2012

Computer Gaming Industry careers: Aardvark Swift presentation – Get in the Game

Tuesday 27 November, 1400-1500, 1.33a Jack Cole building (Computer Science) Aardvark Swift, recruitment agents for the gaming industry, will be talking about how to break into the sector. Get advice from those in the know on the key skills you will need, the common pitfalls, and how to maximise your chances. Ideal for programming enthusiasts … Computer Gaming Industry careers: Aardvark Swift presentation – Get in the Game

Google

At 2pm today there will be a series of talks in Physics Lecture Theatre B by Google engineers and myself. Event details here: https://plus.google.com/events/cugartcmak5aabt8a91q6kfb0h8 “Ryan Shatford, a senior engineering manager from California who has been with Google since 2001 will talk about his experiences of Google as it grew from a silicon valley startup to … Google

Lab PC upgrade

The School has started the tender process for replacement of our Lab PCs. The new PCs will have a similar form-factor to the current PCs but will have faster more power efficient CPUs, more memory, quieter cooling and twin HDDs for simpler dual boot configuration. We will be replacing the current displays with LED back-lit … Lab PC upgrade

Bake Sale for Children in Need

It’s Children In Need this Friday. Well done to Sophie Gent, who raised £133 for children in need in October. The delicious cakes were the result of 3 days hard baking in the Gent household. They proved to be very popular and were certainly a welcome addition during coffee time in the school. Find out … Bake Sale for Children in Need

Four Geeks and an Entrepreneur

We were privileged today to hear three lectures from Monty Widenius, main author of the MySQL database system.   His main focus was on entrepreneurship and being an entrepreneur while giving away source code on an open source basis. Three staff members from St Andrews are pictured with Monty before the first lecture, in St … Four Geeks and an Entrepreneur

Adobe Prize Bursaries

The School of Computer Science is delighted to announce two Adobe prize bursaries available this year. The bursaries are open to students currently in their first year at St Andrews with a degree intention of Computer Science or any joint honours combination involving Computer Science who are eligible for the full means-tested loan or grant … Adobe Prize Bursaries

School Seminar – Mari Ostendorf

Professor Mari Ostendorf of the University of Washington is visiting Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews as part of a SICSA Distinguishing Fellowship. Title: Rich Speech Transcription for Spoken Document Processing Abstract: As storage costs drop and bandwidth increases, there has been rapid growth of spoken information available via the web or in online archives — … School Seminar – Mari Ostendorf

School Seminar – Kevin Miller

Kevin is the founder and CEO of RunRev, overseeing a global team and development of the Rev programming language. This seminar has been postponed due to Kevin’s work commitments. A new date will be announced in due course.

Distinguished Lecture Series: MySQL and Open Source Business, by Monty Widenius

Monty Widenius delivered the Semester 1 Distinguished Lecture Series on Monday 15th October 2012, from 10am to 3.30pm, in Upper College Hall. Monty is CEO & CTO at Monty Program Ab, and is perhaps best known as founder of MySQL, the world’s most used open source. Monty delivered three lectures on MySQL and Open Source … Distinguished Lecture Series: MySQL and Open Source Business, by Monty Widenius

Professor Aaron Quigley Inaugural lecture

Professor Aaron Quigley will be giving his Inaugural Lecture in School III on Wednesday 31st October at 5:15 p.m. Billions of people are using interconnected computers and have come to rely on the computational power they afford us, to support their lives, or advance our global economy and society. However, how we interact with this … Professor Aaron Quigley Inaugural lecture