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Spring in the Edible Campus à la Computer Science

Spring has arrived in the School garden as work begins growing “rabbit tolerant” spuds, carrots and onions as well as salad ingredients and herbs in preparation for our summer BBQs. Staff and students are pictured contributing towards Computer Science’s Edible Campus.

April in Computer Science: Poster Presentations and World Domination

The Senior Honours students presented their posters and final year software artifacts to staff and students last week. The best poster accolade and associated amazon voucher was presented to Callum Hyland for his poster – Android: Smoking Cessation, behavioural pattern prediction through spatial and temporal modelling. We wish them well with exam revision and look April in Computer Science: Poster Presentations and World Domination

Computer Science Distinguished Lectures 2015

Earlier this month Prof. Mothy Roscoe from ETH Zürich delivered the first set of distinguished lectures for 2015 in the Byre Theatre. The three highly accessible, well attended and engaging lectures centred around the question “What’s happening to computer hardware, and what does it mean for systems software?” Images courtesy of Saleem Bhatti. Lecture materials Computer Science Distinguished Lectures 2015

DVF: Professor David Kaufman

Professor David Kaufman of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver will be visiting the School between May 7th and May 21st. Prof. Kaufman is a world leading expert on Computer Supported Education, Educational Technologies and Digital StoryTelling. See: http://www.sfu.ca/education/faculty-profiles/dkaufman.html He will be hosted by Ishbel and working with the Virtual Worlds research group. Prof. Kaufman will DVF: Professor David Kaufman

LitLong launches from AHRC funded project

The Palimpsest project involving the University of St Andrews’ SACHI group collaborating with the University of Edinburgh’s English literature and text-mining group launched LitLong Edinburgh on 30th march 2015. Lit Long: Edinburgh features a range of maps and accessible visualisations, which enable users to interact with Edinburgh’s literature in a variety of ways, exploring the LitLong launches from AHRC funded project

Another Successful PhD Viva

Congratulations to To Masih Hajiarabderkani, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Pictured celebrating with supervisor Dr Graham Kirby and Internal examiner Dr John Thomson.

PhD Viva Success

Congratulations to Ruth Hoffmann and Jonathan Ward who passed their PhD vivas earlier this week. Ruth is pictured with Dr Tom Kelsey (internal examiner) and Jonathan (top left) with his PhD supervisor Dr Adam Barker. We look forward to celebrating their achievements at June Graduation.

Mario Kart Around the World

The School recently hosted “Mario Kart Around the World” for students from Newport Primary. All versions of Mario Kart with the exception of arcade versions were available for the youngsters to play. Our visitors had access to a range of consoles and games ranging from Vectrex to Leap Motion and a great opportunity to see Mario Kart Around the World

Torchlit Procession

The Torchlit Procession and Rectorial Drag are historic university traditions, in February the soon-to-be-installed Rector Catherine Stihler addressed all students in St Mary’s Quad. The Torchlit Procession later in the evening left from Sallies Lawn where students collected and lit their torches. The walk continued down to the pier offering some fabulous photographic opportunities. Stunning Torchlit Procession