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. … New MSci (Hons) in Computer Science (5 years)
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.
This month’s IEEE Computing Now features the paper “Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise” written by Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Ian Sommerville, Jurgen Bogaerts, and Pradeep Teregowda.
Ishbel, Alan & Janie Brooks of ELT have been awarded £8000 from UKCISA (Council for International Student Affairs) to build a virtual St Andrews to aid international student orientation.
The latest issue of the New Scientist magazine writes about Per Ola Kristensson‘s work on using crowdsourcing and online web sources to create better statistical language models for AAC devices: Crowdsourcing improves predictive texting. The research paper was published in the Association for Computational Linguistics’ 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. It … Crowdsourcing research featured in the New Scientist
Professor Aaron Quigley’s research on exploratory visualisation allows historians to trace the flow of a wide range of natural resources around the globe. By working with world experts in text mining within the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance and domain experts in York University, Canada, we can bridge the research divide and answer historical … Special software to trawl thousands of historic archives to uncover Empire trade boom
As Muffy Thomas, she was awarded her PhD, in Computational Logic, in this School in 1988. Details are at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/02/scientific-adviser14022012
Posters from our recent PhD poster session are now available online.
The PhD poster session took place today in the Jack Cole coffee area. Ron Morrison awarded Amazon vouchers to the three best posters. Congratulations to Lakshitha, Yi and Ali. 3rd place to System Deployment Costs in Public Clouds – Ali Khajeh-Hosseini 2nd place to Building Energy Awareness into ICT Systems (complete with magnifying glass) – … PhD Poster Session 2012
Alex Voss was part of the team investigating the role of social media during the English Riots. The study was highlighted in the University news today, and the Guardian this morning. Update The results of the study will also be presented at the Reading the Riots conference, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/dec/14/reading-the-riots-conference-live-blog which also features a range of other … Twitter Innocent in English riots