On August 29th Gordon Baxter, Derek Wang and Ian Sommerville (St Andrews), along with Ian Allison (RGU) manned the stand for the SFC funded project “Creating High Value Cloud Services” at Scotland IS’s annual ScotSoft Forum. There were over 500 people at the event which was held in Edinburgh’s Sheraton Grand Hotel. The programme of … Creating High Value Cloud Services at ScotSoft Forum
Another year, another successful Coffee Morning organised by Ishbel Duncan in aid of MacMillan Cancer care. Friday was the UK’s annual biggest coffee morning in aid of MacMillan Cancer care. Staff and students are pictured sampling the home baking on offer and participating in the Raffle.
Limits of language can be studied from various perspectives such as morphology, syntax, and semantics, among others. At the syntactic level, one direction that has been pursued very actively is via the theory of formal languages, beginning with the so-called Chomsky hierarchy. In this hierarchy, the finite state languages (regular languages) and the context free … Some Limits of Language: A Perspective from Formal Grammars and Languages by Prof Arvind Joshi, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Internships are fantastic opportunities to gain some practical experience as well as find out what is happening the real world of computer science! Come and hear some our UG students share their experiences of their 2013 summer internships. Melissa Mozifian: Adobe Waqas Arshad: AIG Mariya Hristova: Google STEP Sam Koch: Facebook
Welcome to the first presentation in the School of Computer Science’s Seminar Series. Please join us on for a seminar on Skyscanner’s technology this Tuesday (September 24) at 14:00 in Purdie Lecture Theatre C. The two talks combined will take about 50 minutes with time for questions, and combine two topics presented by Skyscanner experts: … Scaling Skyscanner’s Flight Search & Making Mobile Applications at Skyscanner
At the annual conference on Constraint Programming, CP 2013, Ian Gent and Ian Miguel were members of the winning team in the “First International Lightning Model and Solve” competition. Many thanks to the organisers of the event and especially to Allen van Gelder of UCSC for having the idea of entering a manual team and for inviting us … Constraint Modelling Winners
Welcome to our new postgraduate taught and research students, some of whom are pictured enjoying a social event before teaching commences on Monday. Yes, there has been a lot of Pizza consumed in the School this week!
Professor Alan Dearle from the School of Computer Science, and Dean of Science at the University, has the honour of acting as Laureator for Sir Tim Berners-Lee today, one of the international scholars and thinkers awarded an Honorary Degree as part of the University’s 600th Anniversary celebrations. Join Professor Dearle and Sir Tim Berners-Lee and … Creator of the World Wide Web Honoured
After a welcome talk by Head of School Steve Linton, orientation 2013 is underway in the School. Monday and Tuesday offered various overviews, module talks and academic briefings. Anyone who missed these events will find related material on the School Homepage. School President James Anderson represented the School at Academic Fayre. Student activity was observed … Computer Science Orientation Week 2013
The 2013 PhD Reading Party was held last month at the Burn House, just outside Edzell in the North East of Scotland. It was an opportunity for research students to give a talk in a relaxed atmosphere, about their research interests. It also allowed for some socialising while wandering through the nearby woods and rivers. … PhD Reading Party 2013