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Professor Ian Sommerville receives teaching awards

June 30, 2011

Professor Ian Sommerville has been honoured for his work in software engineering education. The distinguished researcher has received the 2011 SIGSOFT Influential Educator award from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the 2011 Outstanding Educator award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The awards recognise Professor Sommerville’s work in developing software … Professor Ian Sommerville receives teaching awards

Storage Server Protype

June 9, 2011

Our storage server prototype build is now complete and we have moved on to configuration, tuning and testing. After some delays in sourcing components the build is now complete and everything appears to be working. The server will run BSD with ZFS. The chassis holds 24 3.5″ HDDs in hot-swap bays. These are connected to … Storage Server Protype

St Andrews Computer Science is first in Scotland in Good University Guide

June 6, 2011

St Andrews Computer Science rated 6th in the UK and 1st in Scotland in the 2012 Good University Guide. The School of Computer Science is placed sixth in the UK and first in Scotland in the latest Times Good University Guide. The University as a whole also came sixth in the UK and first in … St Andrews Computer Science is first in Scotland in Good University Guide

Miller Prize for Joe Schaul

June 6, 2011

Computer Science student wins University prize for Science One of our graduating students, Joe Schaul, has been awarded the University’s “Miller Prize”. The Prize is awarded to the best final-year undergraduate in the Science Faculty. As well has having an excellent academic record throughout his 4 years in the School, Joe also produced an exceptional … Miller Prize for Joe Schaul

St Andrews student wins undergraduate of the year award

April 18, 2011

Adam Copp, a Junior honours Computer Science student won the TARGET jobs IT and Computer Science Undergraduate of the Year Award for 2011. The award was sponsored by BT and, through a series of online tests, application forms, interviews and assessment exercises, Adam emerged as winner. BT only targeted a relatively small number of universities … St Andrews student wins undergraduate of the year award

From Recommendation to Reputation: Information Discovery Gets Personal

April 5, 2011

Speaker: Barry Smyth Affiliation: University College Dublin Biography: Prof. Barry Smyth holds the Digital Chair of Computer Science in University College Dublin.He is the Director of CLARITY These lectures will focus on how personalization techniques and recommender systems are being used in response to the information overload problem that face web users everyday. Personalization research … From Recommendation to Reputation: Information Discovery Gets Personal

Towards Pervasive Personal Data

March 28, 2011

This talk will outline an embryonic project to develop a software infrastructure supporting pervasive data, in which file data will flow automatically to the places that it is needed.