Congratulations to School Manager Alex Bain, who completed the London Marathon for the third time earlier this month. Alex, runner no 32993, is pictured below with his finisher’s medal. Alex also completed the London Marathon in 2017 and 2016 raising funds for Guide dogs and worldwide cancer research.
This week members of the SACHI research group are in Canada for the annual CHI conference where they are presenting 8 papers and other research work. Their research papers have been attracting media interest this week. The Times has covered their paper on Change blindness in proximity-aware mobile interfaces quoting Professor Quigley. App … SACHI research group in Canada for the annual CHI conference
Peter Cushley (MSci) brilliantly sang the part of Hilarion in the Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s Princess Ida performance at the Byre on the 20th and 21st April. Two other Computer Scientists were in the cast; Joanna Moreland and Simon Cadge, both in 2nd year. The performances were well received with great applause. Some of the … Students perform in G&S’s Princess Ida
Congratulations to Percy Perez, who successfully defended his thesis yesterday. He is pictured with supervisor Dr Alex Voss, Internal examiner, Dr Marwan Fayed and external examiner Dr Gareth Tyson, from Queen Mary University of London. Image courtesy of Ryo Yanagida
The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) series of academic conferences is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of human-computer interaction. It is hosted by ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. CHI has been held annually since 1982 and attracts thousands of international attendees. Next week members … SACHI at CHI 2018 in Montreal next week
A project funded by the Undergraduate Research Assistant Scheme has successfully completed the first stage of interdisciplinary work, between the Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the School of Computer Science. The long-term aim is to digitise and analyse early French bibles. In this pilot project, undergraduate student Gregor Haywood, under the supervision of Prof. Clive Sneddon … Old French Bible Project
Congratulations to Gonzalo Mendez, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with supervisor Dr Miguel Nacenta, Internal examiner, Dr Tristan Henderson and external examiner Associate Professor Samuel Huron, from Télécom ParisTech. Image courtesy of Annemarie Paton.
Alex Voss from the School of Computer Science and Anna Clements and Eva Borger from the University Library have been awarded funding by OCLC for a 1-year project titled “Characterizing the adoption of ORCID ID in academic communities”. ORCID iDs are persistent digital identifiers that distinguish researchers and, through integration in key research workflows such … Funding success for characterizing the adoption of ORCID ID in academic communities
The University of St Andrews and Primorska are soon to agree to award a joint degree with the title of Doctor of Philosophy (on condition that the joint PhD study programme in Computer Science will gain accreditation of the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education). This represents the culmination of many months of effort … St Andrews – University of Primorska co-tutelle in Computer Science
Aaron will be a keynote speaker at the IEEE VISSOFT 2018 conference later this year. “The sixth IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2018) builds upon the success of the previous four editions of VISSOFT, which in turn followed after six editions of the IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis … VISSOFT 2018 Keynote by Professor Aaron Quigley