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.

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 several Algorithm Selection problems from the literature.

More information, including the paper, can be found on Lars’ website here.

St Andrews Computer Science PhD student Greg Bigwood has won the Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize at the 2011 Multi-Service Networks meeting in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Multi-Service Networks (MSN) is an annual meeting of network researchers that mainly revolves around talks from PhD students. The Brendan Murphy Prize is given for the best presentation and is in memory of Brendan Murphy, an outstanding researcher and mountaineer known to many in the communications and distributed systems research community, and a regular participant at MSN since its inception. Greg received the prize for his talk Incentives for Opportunistic Networks.

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