The School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews has funding for students to undertake PhD research in any of the general research areas in the school: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/research We are looking for highly motivated research students with an interest in these exciting research areas Our only requirements are that the proposed research would … Funded PhD Research Studentships
Abstract: In the UK, more than 70% of mobile users now own a smartphone. These increasingly powerful, sensor-rich, and personal devices present an immense opportunity to monitor health-related behaviours and deliver digital behaviour-change interventions at unprecedented scale. However, designing and building systems to measure and intervene on health behaviours presents a number of challenges. These … Emotion Sense: From Design to Deployment by Neal Lathia, Cambridge University.
By: Josef Svenningsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Feldspar is a domain specific language with the goal of raising the level of abstraction for performance sensitive, low-level code. Feldspar is a functional language embedded in Haskell, which offers a high-level style of programming. The key to generating generating efficient code from such descriptions is to … The Design and Implementation of Feldspar
J.P. Morgan Code for Good 2014: Applications Now Open We are inviting talented technologists like you to join Code for Good 2014 in London, where you will compete in teams to code for a good cause over two days and one night. You will be challenged to use your vision, imagination and expertise as you creatively … J.P. Morgan Code for Good 2014
Many St Andrews CS students do internships in the summer, but we very rarely get the opportunity to learn about them. If you are interested in what some outstanding fourth year students did this summer, including tips and hints on how to do this yourself, you cannot miss this! Hear them talk at 2:00pm on … Talk: Internship Experiences 2014
Yesterday evening, in front of a crowd of about 750 people (as part of ScotSoft, the largest yearly Software and IT meeting in Scotland), one of our School graduates received the Lockheed Martin Software Engineering Award, for an outstanding project demonstrating excellent software engineering skills. Simone was awarded this prestigious award for his Senior Honours … Simone Conte: Lockheed Martin Software Engineer of 2014
Abstract: The process of learning to write is both cognitive and motoric. Forming symbols into words and committing them to a surface is a process laden with complexity; creating the meaning that will be represented by these words is even more complex. Digital technologies provide opportunities and insights for the study of writing processes. With … Children, Text Input – and the Writing Process by Professor Janet C Read, University of Central Lancashire