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 in regular laboratory sessions; in addition students had input from experts in the history and architecture of the cathedral and direct access to the physical site.
A key innovative aspect of this project was to situate the reconstruction within the immersive 3D virtual world OpenSim. This allows visitors to explore the reconstruction through the proxy of an avatar.

Haribo – By David Letham

A small celebratory cake for Angus.

: Haribo

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!

Event details

When: 31st August 2011 14:00 - 16:00
Where: Honey 110 - MSc Lab

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 several Algorithm Selection problems from the literature.

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

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.

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

Greg Bigwood receives the Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize

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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