Software Freedom Day is an annual event held by communities who are passionate about free and open-source software (FOSS). The event programme includes a talk by Dr Markus Tauber from the School, titled Expectations, Requirements and Survival when Starting with Linux. Markus has provided a short overview of his talk for those interested in attending: … Software Freedom Day
The annual welcome reception for the new evening degree students took place last night in the Gateway brasserie. The familiar but extremely useful Meet Your Tutor session followed shortly afterwards. Tuesday evening sessions for IT begin next week. Graduate Claire Gorgan was singled out for her achievements. Congratulations Claire. Evening Degree Programme website
After much anticipation and excitement, the School welcomes 12 new African Cichlids for the start of a new semester.
Students undertaking the pre-sessional language course before entering our taught Masters programme, had the opportunity to try out their programming skills this afternoon, in a fun and enjoyable context using Java to write programmes that control robots. Jan de Muijnck-Hughes and Lars Kotthoff led the session in the John Honey Building.
The Basilica reconstruction was a collaborative project between the School of Classics and the School Computer Science. Research Blog A reconstruction of St Andrews Cathedral has also taken place. The reconstruction was a research topic for successful computer science and information technology MSc. dissertations in the summer of 2010 and 2011. Technical support was available … Virtual reconstruction of the Acropolis Basilica
A small celebratory cake for Angus.
The MSc poster presentations and project demonstrations took place this afternoon. We wish all of our MSc students good luck as they finish their dissertations and move closer to graduation!
Mirco Musolesi leaves the School today to start his new post in Birmingham. Thank you for the cakes from a local Royal supplier. Good luck and we will hopefully see you in St Andrews in the future.
Calculator that returns chances of a live birth for a planned IVF cycle. IVF-Predict Support. IVFpredict was developed by Professor Scott Nelson and Professor Debbie Lawlor and published in PLOS Medicine. In conjunction with Dr Tom Kelsey they have transformed this complex formula into a simple online and smartphone based calculator. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ivf-predict/id447793863?mt=8