We congratulate our Director of Teaching Dr Graham Kirby on being rewarded for championing ‘learning by doing’ at The University Teaching Awards held in Parliament Hall. The School is rated highly for student satisfaction, which echoes the great teaching and strong student staff community sustained here in Computer Science. Graham is pictured below participating in … Graham Kirby: Excellence in Teaching Award
The impressive ParaPhrase project which commenced in October 2011, brought together a world-leading team of academic and industrial experts to improve the programmability and performance of modern parallel computing technologies. The consortium consisted of 7 academic and 3 industrial partners from 6 countries and was coordinated by Prof. Kevin Hammond here in the School of … €4.2M ParaPhrase Project Concludes
Spring has arrived in the School garden as work begins growing “rabbit tolerant” spuds, carrots and onions as well as salad ingredients and herbs in preparation for our summer BBQs. Staff and students are pictured contributing towards Computer Science’s Edible Campus.
The Senior Honours students presented their posters and final year software artifacts to staff and students last week. The best poster accolade and associated amazon voucher was presented to Callum Hyland for his poster – Android: Smoking Cessation, behavioural pattern prediction through spatial and temporal modelling. We wish them well with exam revision and look … April in Computer Science: Poster Presentations and World Domination
Earlier this month Prof. Mothy Roscoe from ETH Zürich delivered the first set of distinguished lectures for 2015 in the Byre Theatre. The three highly accessible, well attended and engaging lectures centred around the question “What’s happening to computer hardware, and what does it mean for systems software?” Images courtesy of Saleem Bhatti. Lecture materials … Computer Science Distinguished Lectures 2015
Primary School pupils from across Fife take part in fun, hands-on activities themed around Computer Science and Space. They will have the opportunity to use online resources to explore the solar system, program their own Lunar Lander game in Scratch, and guide a Lego Mindstorm robot around a track. This session is part of Space School … Space School @ Computer Science
Professor David Kaufman of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver will be visiting the School between May 7th and May 21st. Prof. Kaufman is a world leading expert on Computer Supported Education, Educational Technologies and Digital StoryTelling. See: http://www.sfu.ca/education/faculty-profiles/dkaufman.html He will be hosted by Ishbel and working with the Virtual Worlds research group. Prof. Kaufman will … DVF: Professor David Kaufman
Short term Virtual Worlds internships are available for students wishing to work with Alan Miller on virtual museums or with Ishbel Duncan, Janie Brooks (ELT) and Paula Miles (Psychology) on the Virtual St Andrews project. Each project has 60 hours notational funding attached (£50 per 6 hours). Please contact Alan or Ishbel in the first … UG short internships
A required project for the SICSA Athena SWAN initiative is to create a repository (website, resource centre, database of statistics) for the SICSA universities ASWAN submissions. The Athena SWAN awards are to do with encouraging more women into the CS area from schools up to senior staff. This work will help CS Schools gather statistics … Short UG internship: Athena Swan repository
Potential PhD students with a strong background in Computer Science are encouraged to apply for this three-year studentship funded by the Research Council of the European Commission (ERC). The student will work within an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Computer Science and Geography in the WORKANDHOME project (ERC Starting Grant 2014), which investigates how home-based … PhD Scholarship in Data Science