We like to share success stories, especially when they relate to our Alumni. Congratulations to Greg Bigwood who recently joined AetherWorks LLC. as Senior Software Architect. AetherWorks LLC. is a Software Engineering, Research & Development lab in New York City. Computer Science Graduates Robert MacInnis, Allan Boyd and Angus Macdonald launched software company AetherStore™ earlier … Alumni Numbers Increase in New York City
Research into personalised gestures for user interfaces carried out by Miguel Nacenta, Per Ola Kristensson and two of our recent MSc students, Yemliha Kamber and Yizhou Qiang featured in the University News last week. You can read more about their research in the MIT Technology Review, and Fast Company’s Co.DESIGN. Their results question whether pre-programmed … Gesture-based Natural User Interfaces
Per Ola Kristensson and researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Montana Tech have created a new keyboard that enables faster thumb-typing.Their research featured in the University News, Techcrunch, The Guardian, The Independent and in the BBC News. Read the articles and follow the ongoing discussion online.
It’s a little busier in the fish tank this week. 20+ new fish have joined the established Cichlid and Catfish population.
The annual CS1006 challenge took place yesterday in the subhonours lab. Students had been designing AIs to play John Nash’s game, Hex, this year. Congratulations to the competition winners – Team – “Vanilla Dynamite’s Nuclear Computer Posse” Students – Chris Lamb, Maria McParland and Robin Nabel. An abundance of healthy foodstuff and some rather unique … CS1006 AI Competition
The Honours Lab proved rather lively this afternoon as the JH team projects draw to a close. The students have been exploring OpenSimulator with a view to creating a 3D Interactive St Andrews. Demonstrations highlighted a variety of research areas ranging from social media scraping to NPCs conversing about historical St Andrews. Good effort everyone! … Junior Honours Team Project
Three of our alumni Andrew McCarthy, Adam Copp and James Smith, dropped by to say hello last week. They were visiting the University to represent Google at the Tech Talk by Google engineers held in the University Gateway Building. Many will remember Adam, now a software engineer working at Google in London, as the IT … Graduates Return to Computer Science
Congratulations to Per Ola Kristensson who has been appointed a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland. You can read more about the appointments announced yesterday in RSE News.
The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) have confirmed that the Scottish Funding Council have approved funding for six new initiatives that will provide new placements, exchanges and internships with Scottish and overseas businesses. Read more in the University News and in Latest news from SICSA
The School of Computer Science is 2nd in the Guardian 2013 University Guide: league table for computer sciences and IT. Read more about using your Computer Science Degree and Graduate Employment Case Studies on the University Careers Wiki.