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.
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
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 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
Another internship is available this summer, working with Ian Miguel on scheduling astronomical observations for detecting exoplanets. Details here: Internship ad The deadline for applications is Friday 6th May.
Two internships will be available this summer working with Dharini Balasubramaniam and Uta Hinrichs on developing an interactive teaching resource for learning programming language concepts. Further details are available here. The deadline for applications is Friday 22 April.
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Dr Maria Klawe, the first woman president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California delivered the first set of Distinguished Lectures for 2016, in the Byre Theatre. Given the decline in female participation in the tech industry, the three highly relevant, moving, well attended and thought-provoking lectures centred around Computer Science for All. The three … Distinguished Lecture Series 2016: Dr Maria Klawe
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
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