Congratulations to the Masters Class of 2013, and PhD student Galhenage Perera, who graduated today. Students were invited to a reception in the school to celebrate their achievement with staff, friends and family. Our graduates have moved on to a wide variety of interesting and challenging employment and further study opportunities, and we wish them … November Graduation 2013
Dear Students, As you probably know, all three main University trades unions have called for a second strike day on 3 December. Since it’s revision period, not much teaching is scheduled for that day. If you do have a revision tutorial, catch-up lecture or meeting with your supervisor scheduled, we would expect it to go … Industrial Action Next Week
Over the past three years the School has been involved in the Sapere project, funded by the European Commission. Sapere has been looking at new ways to build large-scale pervasive systems, moving away from traditional client/server approaches to explore biochemically-inspired system models in which services and users can “bond” spontaneously as they encounter each other … Sapere project comes to a successful end
A team of Computer Science students from the University of St Andrews came first in the J.P.Morgan Code for Good Competition 2013 The Coding Challenge was open to all students enrolled fulltime at a university located in the United Kingdom, who are under-graduates or post-graduates and are 18 years of age or over. Teams of … Success in J.P.Morgan Code for Good Competition 2013
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 … Tales from the Real World
Dear Students, As you probably know, all three main University trades unions have called for a withdrawal of labour on 31 October. In the School of Computer Science, we expect that most teaching scheduled that day will take place, and would advise all students to turn up for their lectures as normal, or even better, … Industrial Action Today
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.
In response to student interest, the Open Virtual Worlds group are seeking students interested in making things on a school hosted Minecraft server (accessible from both inside & outside the school). If interested, please get in contact with CJ on cjd44@st-andrews.ac.uk.
These are words used by the Co-Chair of UIST 2013, Dr Shahram Izadi of Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK), to describe one of the prestigious conferences taking place in St Andrews this week. “UIST is the leading conference on new user interface trends and technologies. Some of the most influential and ground breaking work on graphical … ITS & UIST 2013: “Influential and Ground Breaking”
A survey article written by Jonathan Ward and Adam Barker has been featured in the MIT Technology Review. Undefined By Data: A Survey of Big Data Definitions surveys the various definitions of big data offered by the world’s biggest and most influential high-tech organisations. The article then attempts to distill from all this noise a … Big Data Research Featured in MIT Technology Review