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Business success for former PhD Student Ali Khajeh-Hosseini

Congratulations to Hassan and Ali Khajeh-Hosseini on their ShopForCloud business, which has just been sold to RightScale. Ali worked as a software engineering intern at RightScale while studying for his PhD in computer science. Read more in Scotsman business article and on the ShopForCloud Blog.

Computer Science Graduates

Congratulations to Comp Sci grads Robert MacInnis, Allan Boyd and Angus Macdonald who are launching their software company AetherStoreā„¢ this week at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference. Read about their new business in the press release and in the University Alumni Network. Visit their websites at www.AetherWorks.com and www.AetherStore.com. We wish you every success in Computer Science Graduates

Graduation 2012

Congratulations to our PhD students Lars, Angus, Vladimir, Greg and Devan pictured at graduation.

Data Journalism Award

Alex Voss and researchers from Manchester, Leicester and the Guardian Newspaper were awarded first place in the Data Visualisation and Storytelling category at the Global Editors Networks World News summit in Paris yesterday. Riot Rumours featured in the Reading the Riots study published by the Guardian newspaper last December. More information in the University News Data Journalism Award

Funded Research Studentships

The School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews has funding for students to undertake PhD research in any of the general research areas in the school: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/research We are looking for highly motivated research students with an interest in these exciting research areas. Our only requirements are that the proposed research would Funded Research Studentships

Connect 4 anyone?

The subhonours lab was busy with the Connect 4 challenge this morning. Students taking CS1006 Programming Projects worked in pairs in a round-robin format, in which every duo plays every other once. Congratulations to Hamish and Mariya who won today’s challenge and received Amazon Vouchers as a reward.