School of Computer Science graduate Robert MacInnis visited the New York Stock Exchange with the Principal and Sir Sean Connery as part of the 600th Anniversary celebrations
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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 be good, we have staff to supervise it, and that you would be good at doing it. We have up to 5 funded studentships available for students interested in working towards a PhD. The studentships offer costs of fees and an annual tax-free maintenance stipend of about £13,590 per year for 3.5 years. Exceptionally well qualified and able students may be awarded an enhanced stipend of an additional £2,000 per year. Students should normally have or expect at least an upper-2nd class Honours degree or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
For further information on how to apply, see our postgraduate web pages. The closing date for applications is July 20th 2012 and we will make decisions on studentship allocation by September 1st 2012. (Applications after July 20th may be considered, at our discretion.) Informal enquiries can be directed to pg-admin-cs@st-andrews.ac.uk or to potential supervisors.
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.
Lectureship in Computer Science
The School of Computer Science are seeking applications for a Lecturer in Computer Science
We seek lectureship applications from researchers who have a strong research background and excellent publication record in any area of functional programming, complementing and enhancing the existing research team, which has a strong focus on parallel programming models and implementation, resource-aware functional programming, dependent type systems, refactoring, static analysis, and performance modelling, and deep connections with the Haskell community. The candidate should be able to form links with and work collaboratively with other research groups in the school, and contribute to teaching and course design across functional programming and theoretical computer science, especially logic and semantics.
Information on how to apply.
New visualisation technique by STACS lecturer featured in the New Scientist
Brazilian “Science without Borders” studentships
The Brazilian Government has decided to support a programme of scholarships to promote the consolidation and expansion of science, technology and innovation in Brazil through ‘Science without Borders’. Science and technology scholarships will be made available to support tuition fees, travel and living costs.
Background information and programme details can be located at Brazil Science Without Borders and includes a list of project areas relating to Computer Science.
St Andrews CS is 7th in Complete University Guide
The School of Computer Science remains 7th in the UK (and top in Scotland) in the 2013 Complete University Guide. The University as a whole came 6th.
Senior Honours Project Madness
The dedicated and talented final year Computer Science students presented their projects yesterday. Short presentations were followed by demonstrations and a poster session.
We wish them every success as they approach graduation.
Best Poster: Isobel Hale
Multiple Intrusion Detection System Testing Suite (MISTY)
Best Project Madness Presentation: Thomas Nicholson
Cross-Modal Interactive World Builder
AWARE featured researcher of the week
Graeme Stevenson, who’s finishing his PhD funded by the Sapere EU project, is this week’s featured researcher from the EU’s Awareness initiative. Awareness brings together the project consortia for a number of EU projects in self-awareness, autonomic computing and pervasive systems.
Honourable mentions for two ACM research papers
Per Ola Kristensson has two recent papers published in top ACM conferences that have received honourable mentions:
- Kristensson, P.O. and Vertanen, K. 2012. The potential of dwell-free eye-typing for fast assistive gaze communication. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA 2012). ACM Press: 241-244.
- Coyle, D., Moore, J., Kristensson, P.O., Fletcher, P. and Blackwell, A. 2012. I did that! Measuring users’ experience of agency in their own actions. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012). ACM Press: forthcoming.