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Thursday Seminar from Japan – Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura – Interactive Content Design and 3D Interactions

Date: 2014-11-13 Time: 14:00 to 15:00 Location: Maths Lecture Theatre A, North Haugh, University of St Andrews. Title: Interactive Content Design and 3D Interactions Abstract: Good media content has the power to enrich our lives. We focus on non-traditional content other than movies, music and games, conducting comprehensive research on a variety of interactive content … Thursday Seminar from Japan – Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura – Interactive Content Design and 3D Interactions

Computer Science: Semester One

Semester one so far has seen new arrivals in the fish tank, great minds at the think tank, a thank you from MacMillan and a cake for Ada Lovelace Day (supplied by Ishbel Duncan).

Fun and Fireworks

Some stunning pictures of the North Haugh and recent Guy Fawkes Night fireworks at the East Sands. Images courtesy of MSc student Xu Zhu.

The Design and Implementation of Feldspar

By: Josef Svenningsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Feldspar is a domain specific language with the goal of raising the level of abstraction for performance sensitive, low-level code. Feldspar is a functional language embedded in Haskell, which offers a high-level style of programming. The key to generating generating efficient code from such descriptions is to … The Design and Implementation of Feldspar

J.P. Morgan Code for Good 2014

J.P. Morgan Code for Good 2014: Applications Now Open   We are inviting talented technologists like you to join Code for Good 2014 in London, where you will compete in teams to code for a good cause over two days and one night.  You will be challenged to use your vision, imagination and expertise as you creatively … J.P. Morgan Code for Good 2014

Talk: Internship Experiences 2014

Many St Andrews CS students do internships in the summer, but we very rarely get the opportunity to learn about them. If you are interested in what some outstanding fourth year students did this summer, including tips and hints on how to do this yourself, you cannot miss this! Hear them talk at 2:00pm on … Talk: Internship Experiences 2014

Simone Conte: Lockheed Martin Software Engineer of 2014

Yesterday evening, in front of a crowd of about 750 people (as part of ScotSoft, the largest yearly Software and IT meeting in Scotland), one of our School graduates received the Lockheed Martin Software Engineering Award, for an outstanding project demonstrating excellent software engineering skills. Simone was awarded this prestigious award for his Senior Honours … Simone Conte: Lockheed Martin Software Engineer of 2014

Accelerating Datacenter Services with Reconfigurable Logic

by Aaron Smith, Microsoft Research Datacenter workloads demand high computational capabilities, flexibility, power efficiency, and low cost. It is challenging to improve all of these factors simultaneously. To advance datacenter capabilities beyond what commodity server designs can provide, we have designed and built a composable, reconfigurable fabric at Microsoft to accelerate portions of large-scale software … Accelerating Datacenter Services with Reconfigurable Logic

Computer Science supports Macmillan

Another successful Coffee Morning organised by Ishbel Duncan has raised in excess of £170. Today is 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. There are still some cakes on offer in the coffee area. … Computer Science supports Macmillan