In express agreement with Computer Science Law, a new supply of Toblerone arrives just in time for semester one, courtesy of Ruth Hoffmann.
Images courtesy of Al Dearle
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MSc Poster Demo Session 2013
After a summer of hard work, our MSc students submitted their final dissertations last week. Earlier today they had an opportunity to present their posters and demonstrate their project artefacts.
MSc students complete with poster.
With prizes for the top 3 posters and cakes for all, the session was very busy and provided the perfect occasion to reflect upon their own dissertation journey and appreciate the projects completed by their peers. Congratulations to Ilya Lvov, Oleg Iliev and Olalekan Baruwa who received the coveted amazon vouchers for best poster.
Main image from left to right: Ilya Lvov, Oleg Iliev and Olalekan Baruwa complete with Amazon Vouchers
Poster Titles
- Ilya Lvov, Data Journalism: Tools and Practices
- Oleg Iliev, Exploration of QoS and QoE using radar charts
- Olalekan Baruwa, IVF-predict and MyOvaries: An exploration, implementation and deployment of Bio-Medical Mobile Software Applications.
We wish them every success as they approach graduation and look forward to seeing them again in November!
New BYOD Protocol Revealed
Bring your own device (BYOD) coffee time sessions increase in popularity as staff and students are pictured getting to grips with some of the new Nexus 7 tablets.
On a more practical note they’ll be used on the Video Games and HCI Practice modules in semester one.
School of Computer Science: Living the Brand
Staff and students model the latest CS merchandise created by David Letham and Masih Hajiarabderkani at our compulsory Friday BBQ. Stop Press! After weeks of anticipation, the new mugs have finally arrived.
Ambitious, entrepreneurial, innovative, employable and highflying…
Words we use to describe our alumni, who work in New York, Switzerland, London and Edinburgh amongst other places.
Whether working for established companies such as Adobe and Google or in their own business start-ups such as AetherWorks LLC. and PlanForCloud (formerly ShopForCloud) our graduates continue to flourish. And rumour has it more of our talented CS graduates will be joining some of them shortly. The suspense! They are all exemplars of why St Andrews is the only Scottish university to feature in the 2013 High Fliers, a report about the graduate market in 2013.
Clockwise from top left:
Rob, Angus and Greg from AetherWorks LLC., who took time out to capture a photo of themselves outside their offices in New York.
Ali at graduation, sporting a colour-co-ordinated Google Glass (who knew!). Listen to Ali discuss his career at the SICSA PhD conference careers panel.
We caught up with Adam, Andrew and James earlier this year when they represented Google at the Tech Talk by Google engineers.
Neil (complete with sunglasses) visited the school last week, on an unusually sunny day, with colleagues from Adobe.
Thanks to:
AetherWorks LLC.: Robert MacInnis, Angus MacDonald, Allan Boyd and Greg Bigwood.
PlanForCloud: Ali Khajeh-Hosseini and Alistair Scott.
Adobe: Neil Moore.
Google: James Smith, Adam Copp and Andrew McCarthy.
Editorial Support: Anne Campbell
The 11th International Conference on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP 2013)
The 11th International Conference on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP 2013) was held in the Gateway in St Andrews on July 15-17,2013. Presented were 17 peer-reviewed papers on natural language processing applications, language resources, and theoretical and implementational issues with relevance to finite-state methods. In addition, there were two keynote lectures, by Alexander Clark (King’s College London) and Bill Byrne (University of Cambridge), and three tutorials, by Ruth Hoffmann (University of St Andrews), Bevan Keeley Jones (University of Edinburgh) and Kousha Etessami (University of Edinburgh).
The conference was attended by 34 researchers and students from three continents. It also hosted a business meeting of SIGFSM (ACL Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods). The social programme included a reception on July 14th, and a guided walk, a conference dinner in Lower College Hall and a concert in St Salvator’s Chapel on July 16th.
Accommodation in Agnes Blackadder Hall was arranged for non-local delegates, and lunches were served in the Gateway. Coffee breaks could be used for informal demos in the smaller seminar rooms of the Gateway.
Sponsored student places were available thanks to support from SICSA. Further support was received from VisitScotland and the University of St Andrews.
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- Alexander Clark
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- Bill Byrne
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- The conference chair introducing Kousha Etessami
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- Conference audience
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- SIGFSM business meeting
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- Lunch in the Gateway
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- Line-up
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- Guided walk
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- Conference dinner in Lower College Hall
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- Concert in St Salvator’s Chapel
The full programme, with links to the proceedings, can be found from the website: http://fsmnlp2013.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Images and text courtesy of Mark-Jan Nederhof (conference chair), Anssi Yli-Jyrä and Shyam Reyal.
Summer Days in Computer Science
Students and staff took advantage of the Scottish weather on Friday and held a BBQ to mark the anniversary of these events.
- The Great Fire of Rome
- Birth of Computer Scientist Mark Crispin
- The Opening of the StACS Garden
Organised by Jan de Muijnck-Hughes and David Letham. Cooked by Jan de Muijnck-Hughes and Masih Hajiarabderkani. Salad ingredients from the StACS Garden. Enjoyed by all (including Pippa the dog).
Senior Honours Project Success
A Multi-display exhibit that enables visitors to explore The Old Course and photographs of Lawrence Levy, and to quiz their golf knowledge was developed by Julian Petford. The display was developed during his Senior Honours Project which was supervised by Miguel Nacenta. Great job Julian. We look forward to hearing more about the event in due course.
The exhibition officially opens on Saturday, although visitors to The University Library can view the exhibit from today. Read more about the showcase on Echoes From The Vault, a blog from Special Collections, the University 600th news or view some of the images on display via the BBC website.
Here Comes Summer
Work continues in the new Comp Sci Garden. It’s not Blue Peter or Beechgrove status yet, but look out Chelsea 2014.
