Junior and Senior Honours were provided with milk based food products, nibbles and fermented fruit juice during their reception.
Various attempts to look studious were captured for posterity.
Junior and Senior Honours were provided with milk based food products, nibbles and fermented fruit juice during their reception.
Various attempts to look studious were captured for posterity.
Another BBQ in the School is underway. An opportunity to welcome the new undergraduates and allow them to meet other Comp Sci students. A great turnout from 2nd yr, JH and SH.
A small Gamefest in the sub honours lab on Wednesday proved successful and attracted some of our new undergraduate students.
Comp Sci staples Pizza and Irn Bru provided sustenance for the afternoon session of Mario Kart and Call of Duty.
The Scottish weather proved favourable for the MSc barbecue yesterday. An excellent turn out with over 50 MSc students sampling burgers, sausages and the local delicacy Irn Bru. Photographic evidence provided.
Despite the weather conditions, the end of summer BBQ went ahead, on Friday.
It provided the perfect opportunity to welcome new members of staff and newly arrived PhD students. Congratulations also to Greg on submitting his thesis, and farewell to Angus who will be starting work in New York soon.
Software Freedom Day is an annual event held by communities who are passionate about free and open-source software (FOSS).
The event programme includes a talk by Dr Markus Tauber from the School, titled Expectations, Requirements and Survival when
Starting with Linux.
Markus has provided a short overview of his talk for those interested in attending:
“The talk is about some work I did with friends from an Austrian CS
society as a spare time activity about 2 years ago. We
semi-scientifically looked into the relation of what experts expect
Linux newbies to do when starting with Linux and what newbies expect or
what they are happy to do. The talk is for both, newbies who want to get
some guidelines and for experts to give them an idea about the
expectations of newbies.”
Software Freedom Day will be held on Saturday 17th September from 10am until 5pm in Abertay’s Hannah Maclure Centre. The event is hosted by Abertay’s Open Society in partnership with TayLUG, Dundee’s local Linux user group.
The annual welcome reception for the new evening degree students took place last night in the Gateway brasserie. The familiar but extremely useful Meet Your Tutor session followed shortly afterwards. Tuesday evening sessions for IT begin next week.
Graduate Claire Gorgan was singled out for her achievements. Congratulations Claire.
Evening Degree Programme website
After much anticipation and excitement, the School welcomes 12 new African Cichlids for the start of a new semester.
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.