Month: October 2013

Industrial Action Today

Dear Students, As you probably know, all three main University trades unions have called for a withdrawal of labour on 31 October. In the School of Computer Science, we expect that most teaching scheduled that day will take place, and would advise all students to turn up for their lectures as normal, or even better, Industrial Action Today

StACS Hackathon hosted by Witlr

StACS will be holding its first big event of the year! It will take place in the MSc Lab in the John Honey building between 7pm and 2am on November 14th. The topic will be data visualization and will be sponsored by Witlr (http://witlr.com/). There will be free pizza, free hard and soft refreshments, a StACS Hackathon hosted by Witlr

BBC Children in Need Bake Sale

Well done to Sarah and Sophie Gent, who have been busy selling delicious home baking in the coffee area. The money raised will go to Children in Need. The bake sale pictured below is in full swing. Stocks are almost depleted.

Calling All Minecraft Users

In response to student interest, the Open Virtual Worlds group are seeking students interested in making things on a school hosted Minecraft server (accessible from both inside & outside the school). If interested, please get in contact with CJ on cjd44@st-andrews.ac.uk.

The Interaction of Representation and Reasoning by Professor Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh

These lectures will take place in Lower College Hall, North Street. The lectures will discuss the close relationship between how knowledge and problems may be represented and how people and computers use these representations to guide their reasoning about the problems. 10.00 1. Title: The Interaction of Representation and Reasoning Abstract: Successful reasoning is dependent The Interaction of Representation and Reasoning by Professor Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh