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.
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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.
Best student poster award at IWSOS
Congratulations to Lei Fang, one of our SICSA postgrads, on winning the best student poster award at the recent International Workshop on Self-Organising Systems (IWSOS) in Delft NL.
The poster (PDF), entitled “Towards self-management in WSNs by exploiting a spatio-temporal model”, presents early work on using statistical methods to find and exploit correlations between the observations made by nodes in a wireless sensor network. The aim is to use these correlations to detect errors, improve calibration and reduce data traffic.
One from the archives: The Jack Cole Building
The Jack Cole building was officially opened by the then First Minister Jack McConnell on the 18th March 2005. The building was named after the founder of Computer Science at St Andrews. Read more about the opening in the university news archives.
Read more about Jack Cole and view pictures of the reception held after the opening.
Unveiling the Plaque
Virtual Worlds at Sensation
Weekend at Sensation
It’s been a busy weekend for the virtual worlds group. The reconstructed St Andrews Cathedral and other ongoing projects, were on display at Sensation in Dundee as part of the “Create and Inspire” initiative.
Friday involved organised school visits and Saturday and Sunday proved busy with members of the public entering the reconstruction to speak to Robert the Bruce and take a guided tour.
The visitors book recorded some great comments, extracts from this will be posted shortly, on the Virtual Worlds Blog.
Ethics in online social network research
Tristan Henderson has been awarded £4,700 from the EPSRC’s FRRIICT (Framework for Responsible Research & Innovation in ICT) project to investigate ethical issues in online social network research. The grant will fund a summer research internship which will build a framework for investigating ethical concerns using real online social network data.
New MSci (Hons) in Computer Science (5 years)
MSci (Hons) in Computer Science (5 years)
The MSci (Honours) in Computer Science is an exciting new integrated masters degree that is being introduced for 2013 entry. It takes place over five years, with an option for direct entry into the second year. Qualified students can therefore graduate with a Masters degree in four years.
The first three years of the MSci are shared with the BSc programmes. In the final two years, you can choose among modules at 4000 and 5000 (Masters) level, enabling both breadth and depth across the discipline.
The final year is spent in 5000 level modules as well as an advanced project. This may take the form of a project within the School, an industrial placement or a research internship, enabling MSci students to build skills that are useful for both academic and industrial careers.
Further information is available through the School Website.
hci2012 People & Computers XXVI
HCI 2012 will be held between the 12th and the 14th of September 2012 in Birmingham.
The Programme Committee includes Aaron and Per Ola as short paper chairs and Miguel in Interactive Demos.
Information available online at hci2012 submissions.