Congratulations to Alice Herbison who has been selected to receive a Carnegie-Cameron Taught Postgraduate Bursary. Alice has studied a number of undergraduate modules in the school and will begin her postgraduate studies in September on our new MSc in Human Computer Interaction. We look forward to seeing her in the department again soon.
The Carnegie Trust For The Universities Of Scotland, supports the bursaries, which were established by Andrew Carnegie in 1901.
ACM Computing Reviews has selected a recent survey paper written by Per Ola Kristensson and colleagues as one of the Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2012.
The list consists of nominations from Computing Reviews reviewers, Computing Reviews category editors, the editors in chief of journals covered by Computing Reviews, and others in the computing community.
The selected survey paper is entitled “Foundational Issues in Touch-Surface Stroke Gesture Design — An Integrative Review” and it was published by the journal Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction in 2012.
As the exam diet draws to a close for another year, our final year students are considering their next step after graduation. Stephen Haley will join PlanForCloud in August as a Software Engineer, working alongside Alistair Scott, another graduate from the school.
PlanForCloud, originally ShopForCloud, was established by Hassan and Ali Khajeh-Hosseini and acquired by RightScale in 2012. While studying for his PhD in Computer Science at St Andrews, Ali worked as a software engineering intern at RightScale. Their continued success means that they are actively recruiting, visit the PlanForCloud recruitment page for further information.
More next steps to follow…
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 last year. Visit their websites at www.AetherWorks.com and www.AetherStore.com to read more about their journey. We wish them continued success as they approach the anniversary of their launch.
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 gestures need the personal touch to make them more effective.
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.
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 team names reflect the ingenuity and creativity of our first year students.
It’s always a fun session to end semester 2.
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! Enjoy the Cakes.
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 and Computer Science Undergraduate of the Year in 2011. The award, sponsored by BT, was launched to find Britain’s most promising IT student securing him a summer placement at BT’s Research and Development site and a week at a BT European office.
It’s always fantastic to see our alumni and we wish them continued success at Google.
Alumni from left: Andrew, James and Adam
