News

Arrival of Tony’s Cichlids

After much anticipation and excitement, the School welcomes 12 new African Cichlids for the start of a new semester.

Robocode Session

Students undertaking the pre-sessional language course before entering our taught Masters programme, had the opportunity to try out their programming skills this afternoon, in a fun and enjoyable context using Java to write programmes that control robots. Jan de Muijnck-Hughes and Lars Kotthoff led the session in the John Honey Building.

Virtual reconstruction of the Acropolis Basilica

The Basilica reconstruction was a collaborative project between the School of Classics and the School Computer Science. Research Blog A reconstruction of St Andrews Cathedral has also taken place. The reconstruction was a research topic for successful computer science and information technology MSc. dissertations in the summer of 2010 and 2011. Technical support was available … Virtual reconstruction of the Acropolis Basilica

MSc Poster Presentations 2011

The MSc poster presentations and project demonstrations took place this afternoon. We wish all of our MSc students good luck as they finish their dissertations and move closer to graduation!

Mirco’s Last Day

Mirco Musolesi leaves the School today to start his new post in Birmingham. Thank you for the cakes from a local Royal supplier. Good luck and we will hopefully see you in St Andrews in the future.

St Andrews research featured in media reports

Research by Tom Kelsey and colleagues from Glasgow and Edinburgh into normative models of hormone levels has been featured in the Daily Telegraph, the Scotsman, and the Express. Read the original paper here.

Lars Kotthoff wins Best Student Paper award

St Andrews PhD student Lars Kotthoff has won the Best Student Paper award at the Fourth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search. His paper, co-authored by Ian Gent and Ian Miguel, has the title “A Preliminary Evaluation of Machine Learning in Algorithm Selection for Search Problems” and compares the performance of different Machine Learning techniques on … Lars Kotthoff wins Best Student Paper award

St Andrews research featured on HPC in the cloud

Research by Ian Gent and Lars Kotthoff into the suitability of virtualised hardware for computational experiments is featured in a recent article of the HPC in the cloud site. The article contains a description of the research and an interview with Lars Kotthoff. Read more at HPC in the cloud.

Dr Tom Kelsey launches iPhone app for IVF-Predict

Calculator that returns chances of a live birth for a planned IVF cycle. IVF-Predict Support. IVFpredict was developed by Professor Scott Nelson and Professor Debbie Lawlor and published in PLOS Medicine. In conjunction with Dr Tom Kelsey they have transformed this complex formula into a simple online and smartphone based calculator. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ivf-predict/id447793863?mt=8