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 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
Dr Alan Boyd and Dr Nicholas Malden, D Young & Co LLP (Patent Attorneys) Intellectual Property – What, why, and how? In many technological fields, especially computer science, output isn’t a physical object that can be sold, but is an idea or an expression of an idea that comes from your mind. But how can … Intellectual Property – What, why, and how?
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.
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.
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
Show your spots let’s raise lots!
These are words used by the Co-Chair of UIST 2013, Dr Shahram Izadi of Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK), to describe one of the prestigious conferences taking place in St Andrews this week. “UIST is the leading conference on new user interface trends and technologies. Some of the most influential and ground breaking work on graphical … ITS & UIST 2013: “Influential and Ground Breaking”
A survey article written by Jonathan Ward and Adam Barker has been featured in the MIT Technology Review. Undefined By Data: A Survey of Big Data Definitions surveys the various definitions of big data offered by the world’s biggest and most influential high-tech organisations. The article then attempts to distill from all this noise a … Big Data Research Featured in MIT Technology Review