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
Congratulations to second year students Katerina Saranti and Tatiana Matejovicova, both have successfully secured Google STEP Internships with Google, in Zurich. A fantastic achievement given the highly sought after summer engineering projects and the competitive process involved. Katerina had originally applied for a Google Anita Borg scholarship last year. She had intended Interning at a … Katerina Saranti and Tatiana Matejovicova: Google STEP Internships
The School hosted another hugely successful StacsHack last month. We congratulate the St Andrews Computing Society (Stacs) for running a fantastic event. Earlier in February they also coordinated and participated in Google HashCode, a team-based programming competition aimed at solving real-life engineering problems selected by Google. Hackathons allow students with a range of talents and … Computer Science hosts StacsHack and Google HashCode
Congratulations to first year student Silvia Nepšinská, who has successfully secured a STEP Internship with Google in Zurich. Her success after one semester in computer science is exceptional, given the highly sought after places and competitive process. Silvia first heard about Google STEP internships from a friend and applied to get real-life programming experience with … Silvia Nepšinská: Google STEP Internship
Congratulations to Jan, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured below celebrating with supervisor Dr Ishbel Duncan and internal examiner Dr Juiliana Bowles. Dr Shamal Faily from Bournemouth University acted as external examiner.
In 10 weeks time Alex Bain will be running the London Marathon for worldwide cancer research. As part of the fundraising he is having a charity bake sale in the school common area in the Jack Cole building today. He has raised in excess of £325 so far. Help reward his training and support his … Worldwide Cancer Research: Charity Bake Sale
The School of Computer Science in the University of St Andrews is pleased to announce the next set of Distinguished Lectures (DLS) leading up to the 50th anniversary of the series in 2019. The next DLS will be delivered by Maria Klawe the president of Harvey Mudd College and former president of the ACM (Association … School of Computer Science: Distinguished Lecture Series
Congratulations to the Open Virtual Worlds Group on reaching the final of a digital competition launched by VisitScotland, Scotland’s national tourism organisation. They presented their final product idea ‘Taste From Afar’ a collection of immersive tours, to a panel of judges in the final stages.
Alex Voss has completed a January Dryathlon for Cancer Research UK. Read about his recent exploration of mocktails and smoothies, and help him reach his target through justgiving. https://www.justgiving.com/Alexander-Voss-dryathlete2016 Alex Bain will be running the London Marathon this year, for wordwide cancer research and has been busy fundraising with a car wash, calendars and a … Computer Science fundraisers: Dryathlons and Marathons