The Subhonours Lab was in full swing yesterday afternoon, with staff and students enjoying the challenge of the 2014 St Andrews Programming Competition.
Participants and winners are pictured below along with some of the prizes and merchandise. Winners, prizes and teams to be announced once confirmed. We believe the Head of School, Steve Linton, did rather well.
The event, prizes and refreshments sponsored by:
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Students undertaking CS5042 User Centred Interaction Design are pictured prototyping their design ideas during creative thinking, and hands-on sessions in the Morrison Suite.
The module delivered by Miguel Nacenta is a compulsory element for students studying on our new MSc in Human Computer Interaction, a popular addition to our MSc Portfolio.
Images courtesy of Miguel Nacenta
Emeritus Professor and former Head of School Ron Morrison visited us earlier this week to officially open The Morrison Suite.
A Christmas Hog Roast in Computer Science
School merchandise increases in popularity
Good summer weather pays dividends in the School Garden
A round up of research activities, including some of the SACHI group testing out visibility, affordance and feedback for steering mechanisms in Dundee 🙂
An opportunity to celebrate with our students at Graduation
Posters, prizes and competitions throughout the year
Catching up with recent graduates, established alumni and great ambassadors for the School
Breaking away from the CS coffee machine at last. Academics from the School subtly advertise Costa sponsorship deal at November Graduation? Surely not!
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School President James Anderson and Careers Adviser Ben Carter invited recent graduates Matt Hailey, Ali Scott, Craig Garrigan and Steve Lowson back to the School yesterday to share their experience of working in the real world since graduating, with our final year students.
They have been successful in securing positions at highly regarded companies including Sky Scanner, PlanForCloud, NCR and NCC Group. Talks described career paths, roles and responsibilities, professional development and current employment opportunities.
Find out more about using your Computer Science degree and read student case studies on the careers website. Thanks to all for a great afternoon. Yes, cakes were consumed.
Clockwise from top left:
Steve, Ali and Craig prepare to give their talk.
Matt and Ali reminisce in the coffee area.
James, Craig, Stephen, Ben, Ali and Matt joined our final year students for cake and questions.
Well done to Sarah and Sophie Gent, who have been busy selling delicious home baking in the coffee area. The money raised will go to Children in Need.
The bake sale pictured below is in full swing. Stocks are almost depleted.
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.
At the annual conference on Constraint Programming, CP 2013, Ian Gent and Ian Miguel were members of the winning team in the “First International Lightning Model and Solve” competition. Many thanks to the organisers of the event and especially to Allen van Gelder of UCSC for having the idea of entering a manual team and for inviting us to join in.
This was a quick event – just two hours – and the team’s strategy was to solve problems by hand, using pen and paper. Â This was reflected in their team name, “Mano”.
Ian Gent has written a much longer blog post about the experience, why the team won, and why it is not bad news for constraint programming.
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!
