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Greg Bigwood receives the Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize

July 8, 2011

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 … Greg Bigwood receives the Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize

News & events

July 1, 2011

The system for posting news and events has been replaced with a combination of the School blog and an RSS feed to the School web site. For more information, follow the links at the foot of the School home page.

Professor Ian Sommerville receives teaching awards

June 30, 2011

Professor Ian Sommerville has been honoured for his work in software engineering education. The distinguished researcher has received the 2011 SIGSOFT Influential Educator award from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the 2011 Outstanding Educator award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The awards recognise Professor Sommerville’s work in developing software … Professor Ian Sommerville receives teaching awards

St Andrews Computer Science is first in Scotland in Good University Guide

June 6, 2011

St Andrews Computer Science rated 6th in the UK and 1st in Scotland in the 2012 Good University Guide. The School of Computer Science is placed sixth in the UK and first in Scotland in the latest Times Good University Guide. The University as a whole also came sixth in the UK and first in … St Andrews Computer Science is first in Scotland in Good University Guide

Miller Prize for Joe Schaul

June 6, 2011

Computer Science student wins University prize for Science One of our graduating students, Joe Schaul, has been awarded the University’s “Miller Prize”. The Prize is awarded to the best final-year undergraduate in the Science Faculty. As well has having an excellent academic record throughout his 4 years in the School, Joe also produced an exceptional … Miller Prize for Joe Schaul

The 2010/11 CS1006 Othello competition

June 2, 2011

On Wednesday 11th of May 2011 the first year module CS1006: Programming Projects finished with its traditional competition. The competition centres around a 2-player strategy game (Othello this year) for which the students have developed an Artificial Intelligence player as part of the last of the four projects on the module. These AI players are … The 2010/11 CS1006 Othello competition

St Andrews student wins undergraduate of the year award

April 18, 2011

Adam Copp, a Junior honours Computer Science student won the TARGET jobs IT and Computer Science Undergraduate of the Year Award for 2011. The award was sponsored by BT and, through a series of online tests, application forms, interviews and assessment exercises, Adam emerged as winner. BT only targeted a relatively small number of universities … St Andrews student wins undergraduate of the year award

PhD Reading Party 2010

June 1, 2010

The 2010 PhD reading party trip took us to Lochearnhead on the banks of Loch Earn. Each of the twelve PhD students attending gave a talk on their current work, before taking off for a spot of mountain biking in nearby Comrie. Talks Each student gave a 15 minute talk on their work, with time … PhD Reading Party 2010