Month: September 2014

Class Rep Elections

Elections for student class representative positions will take place online during Week 3, with nominations in Week 2. See the Students’ Association website for details.

Tales from the Burn

The PhD Reading Party of 2014 took place in the serene Burn House, outside Edzell bordering on the Cairngorms. The PhD students had the opportunity to talk about their research, hear talks from staff as well as socialise with all other participants outside the academic work environment. The lovely Scottish weather permitted everyone to explore Tales from the Burn

Tick Tock – Time is running out

Twas the week before orientation, when all through the labs not a student was stirring. We are looking forward to welcoming our new students next week, and seeing the labs bustling with creativity once again. Find out all you need to know about Orientation 2014 on the School homepage.

PhD Viva Success

Congratulations to Dr Graeme Stevenson, who passed his PhD viva earlier today. He is pictured below with supervisor Professor Simon Dobson and Internal Examiner Dr Graham Kirby. Professor Julie McCann from Imperial College, acted as External Examiner.

Enterprise NoSQL in the BBC

Hear why MarkLogic was chosen as the 2012 Olympic website content store to ingest, store and deliver the data and content assets to the BBC¹s mobile app and thousands of web pages.Speaker: Paul Preuveneers, Director, Sales Engineering, MarkLogicPaul Preuveneers has more than 9 years of development experience with MarkLogic, with expertise in running software teams as well as spearheading the European office Enterprise NoSQL in the BBC