In response to student interest, the Open Virtual Worlds group are seeking students interested in making things on a school hosted Minecraft server (accessible from both inside & outside the school). If interested, please get in contact with CJ on cjd44@st-andrews.ac.uk.
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BBC Children in Need Bake Sale
Show your spots let’s raise lots!
Event details
- When: 17th October 2013 10:30 - 12:00
- Where: Cole Bldg
ITS & UIST 2013: “Influential and Ground Breaking”
These are words used by the Co-Chair of UIST 2013, Dr Shahram Izadi of Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK), to describe one of the prestigious conferences taking place in St Andrews this week.
“UIST is the leading conference on new user interface trends and technologies. Some of the most influential and ground breaking work on graphical user interfaces, multi-touch, augmented reality, 3D user interaction and sensing was published at this conference.
It is now in its 26th year, and the first time it has been hosted in the UK. We are very excited to be hosting a packed program at the University of St Andrews. The program includes great papers, demos, posters, a wet and wonderful student innovation competition, and a great keynote on flying robots.”
Ivan Poupyrev, principal research scientist at Disney Research in Pittsburgh, described hosting UIST in St Andrews as “an acknowledgment of some great research in human-computer interaction that is carried out by research groups in Scotland, including the University of St Andrews.”
Two major events taking place this week are the 8th ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS), and the 26th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), hosted by the Human Computer Interaction Group in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews.
Read more about the events in the University News and local media.
Creating High Value Cloud Services at ScotSoft Forum
On August 29th Gordon Baxter, Derek Wang and Ian Sommerville (St Andrews), along with Ian Allison (RGU) manned the stand for the SFC funded project “Creating High Value Cloud Services” at Scotland IS’s annual ScotSoft Forum. There were over 500 people at the event which was held in Edinburgh’s Sheraton Grand Hotel. The programme of talks that took place throughout the afternoon included presentations by Larry Cable (Salesforce) and a keynote by Vint Cerf (Google).
Find out more about the project on Services to the Cloud and The Cloudscape blog
Computer Science Supports MacMillan
Another year, another successful Coffee Morning organised by Ishbel Duncan in aid of MacMillan Cancer care.
Friday was the UK’s annual biggest coffee morning in aid of MacMillan Cancer care. Staff and students are pictured sampling the home baking on offer and participating in the Raffle.
Postgraduate Pizza Fest
Welcome to our new postgraduate taught and research students, some of whom are pictured enjoying a social event before teaching commences on Monday.
Yes, there has been a lot of Pizza consumed in the School this week!
Creator of the World Wide Web Honoured
Professor Alan Dearle from the School of Computer Science, and Dean of Science at the University, has the honour of acting as Laureator for Sir Tim Berners-Lee today, one of the international scholars and thinkers awarded an Honorary Degree as part of the University’s 600th Anniversary celebrations.
Join Professor Dearle and Sir Tim Berners-Lee and watch the Honorary Graduation Live on the University website.
Computer Science Orientation Week 2013
After a welcome talk by Head of School Steve Linton, orientation 2013 is underway in the School. Monday and Tuesday offered various overviews, module talks and academic briefings. Anyone who missed these events will find related material on the School Homepage.
School President James Anderson represented the School at Academic Fayre. Student activity was observed in the honours lab and that’s before the official start of semester. We are particularly pleased to welcome the first intake of Gateway students.
A Gaming afternoon for first year students proved popular on Wednesday with Halo, Fifa and Lego Star Wars in operation. An undergraduate pizza fest followed later in the afternoon with an excellent turn out demonstrating the friendly supportive nature of our returning cohort. It’s great to see them back for another year of hard work.
The student experience is paramount here in the school, so we take this opportunity to thank our recent graduates for the NSS 2013 results, where they rated individual subjects for student satisfaction. St Andrews was number one in the UK for Computer Science. We aim to keep it that way.
PhD Reading Party 2013
The 2013 PhD Reading Party was held last month at the Burn House, just outside Edzell in the North East of Scotland.
It was an opportunity for research students to give a talk in a relaxed atmosphere, about their research interests. It also allowed for some socialising while wandering through the nearby woods and rivers.
Each student gave a 5 minute talk with time for questions and discussions. Additionally, to encourage them to make the presentation of their research industry-friendly, a pitching competition was set up. The top three were: Shantanu Pal, Dean Phoomikiattisak and Shyam Reyal. The whole academic part of the trip was rounded off by a talk by Tom Kelsey on ‘Academic Careers’.
In the free time some went off to explore the nearby forest and salmon rich river while others decided to play football or volleyball, enjoy the quiet surroundings or build the highest Jenga tower at the Burn, so far.
Text and Images courtesy of Ruth Hoffmann, Jamie Carson and Shyam Reyal.
Toblerone Treaty
In express agreement with Computer Science Law, a new supply of Toblerone arrives just in time for semester one, courtesy of Ruth Hoffmann.
Images courtesy of Al Dearle