WICS hosted another coffee break today in the School Coffee Area, It was great to see lots of interest! WICS are also hosting a blog competition, sponsored by Google. Your blog post submission has the chance to be featured on our website as well as shared on our social media pages. There will be … WICS Coffee Break
Dr Alan Miller and Catherine Anne Cassidy of the Open Virtual Worlds research group have been successful in funding from the Impact Innovation Fund for their project “Evidencing and Amplifying Impact of Immersive Exhibits in Highlands and Islands Museums”. The project will evaluate the value of digital heritage engagement with virtual reality exhibitions and further … Open Virtual Worlds Impact Innovation Funding Success
We had our first School seminar of the semester today. The speaker was André G. Pereira visiting Scotland on a SICSA DVF Fellowship. André is working on AI Planning problems, an area that is closely related to the work of our own Constraint Programming research group. Title: Understanding Neuro-Symbolic Planning Abstract: In this seminar, we … SICSA DVF Seminar – Dr André G. Pereira
Alan Miller and The Virtual Open Worlds team appeared in The Herald earlier this month promoting their digital reconstruction of Fort William for the West Highland Museum Using VR headsets, the team created a fully immersive virtual reality model of the old fort in Fort William in the days leading up to the Battle of … Virtual Open Worlds appear in The Herald
Congratulations to all our students who recently graduated, We wish you all the very best of luck! Congratulations also go to Chris Jefferson and Juliana Bowles in their professorships
Thanks to everyone who attended the school Research away day. The day was very informative and lots of ideas were created. It was lovely to meet our Ukrainian Visiting Academics Maryna Novozhylova and Olga Chub. We would also like to thank our guests, Ricky Shek from careers, Kirsty Ross from RIS, Adeel Shafi and Jayshree … Research Away Day October 2022
Congratulations to School Manager Alex Bain, who completed the Virtual London Marathon on Sunday 4th October. Alex runner number 7584 has completed five London Marathons (5 years in a row). Alex, t-shirts and medals are pictured below.
This Week Dr Juliana Bowles brought together nine leading academic and industry partners for the 4th Consortium meeting for the Serums project. The project aims to produce tools and technologies to support future-generation healthcare systems that will integrate home-based healthcare into a holistic treatment plan, reducing cost and travel-associated risks and increasing quality of healthcare … The Serums Project Consortium meeting
Rewind to November 2002, and plans were unveiled in the university news, for a new computer science building. Stages of the build were photographed for posterity.
The Jack Cole building was officially opened by the then First Minister Jack McConnell in March 2005. The building was named after the founder of Computer Science at St Andrews. Read more about the opening in the university news archives. Read more about Prof Jack Cole and view pictures of the reception held after the … One from the archives: The Jack Cole Building