Congratulations to Computer Science Interns Gergely Flamich, Jack Cargill, Iveta Dulova, Tatiana Tay and Finlay Marno for designing a prize winning poster, and providing an excellent demonstration session at the recent EPSRC Impact Showcase held in the School of Medicine. The research presented, focuses on biomedical data science by identifying, integrating and simulating data from … Computer Science Interns Accelerate Impact
On Monday June 22nd we are organising a one day symposium entitled “The Internet at 100”. This event features a host of distinguished speakers and culminates with a talk by Dr Cerf, one of the “fathers of the internet” and now vice-president and chief internet evangelist at Google. The Internet is, of course, not 100 … June 22nd: Internet at 100 Symposium with Dr Vint Cerf
We have reached the end of semester 2 and so many events, activities and accomplishments have taken place, it’s worth reflecting on all the hard work and enthusiasm demonstrated by our talented students. As stated previously the School is rated highly for student satisfaction, which echoes the continued strong student staff community cultivated by all. … End of Semester Round up
A PhD studentship on “Reasoning about Racy Programs under Relaxed Consistency” is available in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews, funded by Microsoft Research and EPSRC. The project will involve developing reasoning principles and tools for relaxed memory consistency settings. This is a key problem in shared-memory concurrency at the … PhD Studentship: Reasoning about Racy Programs under Relaxed Consistency
CodeBase Open Day Friday 5 June 2015 – Friday 5 June 2015 13:00 – 16:00 Edinburgh The CodeBase Open Day gives a chance for students, professionals and would-be developers and designers to learn more about amazing companies housed within the UK’s largest technology incubator. It’s a chance to roam our corridors and drop in on … Codebase Open day
Congratulations to To Chris Schneider, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Chris is pictured celebrating with supervisor Prof Simon Dobson, external examiner Dr Radu Calinescu from the University of York, and internal examiner Dr Graham Kirby.
Computer Science was well represented at a workshop on the challenges of variability in data-driven research that was held earlier this week.
Peter Redford Scott Lang (1850-1926) was a Professor of Mathematics at St Andrews University from 1879 until his retirement in 1921. He had studied at Edinburgh University, and taught there before being appointed to St Andrews. Having seen the “ordinary student fare of the mid nineteenth century and menus of term time dinners” he instigated … Scott Lang Dinner 2015
We congratulate our Director of Teaching Dr Graham Kirby on being rewarded for championing ‘learning by doing’ at The University Teaching Awards held in Parliament Hall. The School is rated highly for student satisfaction, which echoes the great teaching and strong student staff community sustained here in Computer Science. Graham is pictured below participating in … Graham Kirby: Excellence in Teaching Award
The impressive ParaPhrase project which commenced in October 2011, brought together a world-leading team of academic and industrial experts to improve the programmability and performance of modern parallel computing technologies. The consortium consisted of 7 academic and 3 industrial partners from 6 countries and was coordinated by Prof. Kevin Hammond here in the School of … €4.2M ParaPhrase Project Concludes