Month: April 2016

Alex Bain completes 2016 London Marathon

Congratulations to School Administrator Alex Bain, who completed the London Marathon for worldwide cancer research. Alex, runner no 5089 is pictured below with his finisher’s medal. Donations to recognise his achievement and preparatory training, can still be made via his Justgiving page.

Senior Honours: Poster Presentation and Demo Session 2016

Our talented industrious senior honours students presented their posters and final year software artifacts to staff and students last week. The best poster accolade and coveted amazon voucher was presented to Thomas Morrell for his poster – Emotion Recognition from Gait Using Smartphone Accelerometer Data, supervised by Erica . As Illustrated in the many pictures, Senior Honours: Poster Presentation and Demo Session 2016

Junior Honours: Software Team Projects 2016

Our hard working and creative Junior Honours students finalised their team projects last week, and showcased the results of their year long endeavors at a project demo afternoon. This year’s JH projects involved implementing a system for online collaborative editing. Staff and students are pictured discussing the projects and testing out the various text, graphics Junior Honours: Software Team Projects 2016

Two more Internship Opportunities

Two new internships for summer 2016 are available in the Artificial Intelligence Research Group. Internship 1: “What did I just do and how can I do it again?” Supervisors: Ian Gent & Chris Jefferson Internship 2: “Mixed Integer Programming Backend for Savile Row” Supervisors: Chris Jefferson & Peter Nightingale The deadline for applying is Wednesday Two more Internship Opportunities

Tristan Henderson appointed as ACM SIGCOMM Education Director

Congratulations to Dr Tristan Henderson who has been appointed to the ACM SIGCOMM Executive Committee, to serve as the SIGCOMM Education Director. SIGCOMM is the ACM’s Special Interest Group on communications and computer networks, and provides a forum for computer scientists, engineers, educators and students to discuss these topics. Amongst the SIG’s activities are the Tristan Henderson appointed as ACM SIGCOMM Education Director

CodeFirst:Girls final presentations 2016

Congratulations to our St Andrews Computer Science Code First Girls, for completing the 2016 course and staging their final projects. Earlier this week they presented their distinct and impressive projects to staff and students here in the School. Prizes were awarded for overall winner to Naomi McReynolds, for No Clucks Given and runner up to CodeFirst:Girls final presentations 2016

Elise van den Hoven : Materialising Memories: a design research programme to study everyday remembering

Abstract Perhaps the term computer ‘memory’ has led people to believe that human memory has to be perfect and infallible. Many people worry when they realise they forget and some turn to recording and collecting as much as they can, e.g. photos or videos through life logging. Some people assume that by collecting they can Elise van den Hoven : Materialising Memories: a design research programme to study everyday remembering

Daniel Archambault : Effective Visualisation of Static and Dynamic Graphs

Abstract Visualising dynamic graphs is important for many application areas.  For social media networks, they can help us understand the interaction and interests of users online.  In biology, they can illustrate the interactions between genes and biological processes.  Understanding and designing effective visualisation methods for dynamic network data is fundamental to these areas as well Daniel Archambault : Effective Visualisation of Static and Dynamic Graphs