On Tuesday the 5th of October we were pleased to host our new Principal and Vice-Chancellor ‌Professor Sally Mapstone to visit the School of Computer Science. During this visit she was able to meet with staff and students, visit our teaching spaces and visit some of our research labs. We discussed our new Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in Computer Science, our PhD programme, our new and existing MSc programmes, our growth in undergraduate single, joint and MSci degree programmes along with changes to our teaching and research space over the past few years.

From left to right, Simon Dobson, Ruth Letham, Steve Linton, Sally Mapstone, Aaron Quigley, Robin Nabel and Dharini Balasubramaniam

We were also able to showcase some of our ongoing research which included a short talk from Adam Barker, on Distributed Systems and his recent time with Google, and demonstrations from Chris Jefferson, on visualisation of constraints, Vinodh Rajan Sampath, on Scribal Behaviour and Digital Palaeography, Gonzalo Mendez, on iVolver, Gergely Flamich and Patrick Schrempf, on RadarCat,  Hui-Shyong Yeo on WatchMi and David Morrison, on Beyond Medics.

We thank all the staff and students who made our new Principal feel welcome here in Computer Science.