Masters CS

PGT Social Event

The School held an informal social event for PGT students and staff on Monday 9th June in the Jack Cole coffee area to mark the dissertation period. Those attending enjoyed pizzas, snacks and drinks.

Distinguished Lecture Series 2025

This years Distinguished Lecture series was delivered yesterday ( Tuesday 1st April) by Professor Arthur Zimek, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. In his talk on, ‘Data Mining and the “Curse of Dimensionality”’ he considered the challenges of the “curse” from the perspective of data mining. In Talk 1, he discussed the “curse” in Distinguished Lecture Series 2025

Week 1 Social Events

The following social events are being held in the School this week in the Jack Cole coffee area:- Monday 16 September – 17:00 – 18:00 – MSc and MSci welcome reception (TODAY) Wednesday 18 September – 16:00 – 17:00 – Honours (Junior & Senior) welcome reception Friday 20 September – 17:00 – 18:00 – Sub-honours Week 1 Social Events

STACS Welcome BBQ 🍔

If you are a new Undergraduate or Postgraduate Taught student to the School of Computer Science, you are invited to the STACS Welcome BBQ outside the Jack Cole Coffee Area on Friday 13th September 5.30pm-7.30pm. The usual BBQ favourites will be available from the grill and refreshments will be provided. We look forward to seeing STACS Welcome BBQ 🍔

Welcome Events

We were pleased to host a number of in person welcome events for our students for the first time in 2 years. Thank you to everyone who came along and to those who helped out!

MSc student participates in CERN School of Computing and the ACM Europe Summer School

MSc student Saad Memon participated in the CERN School of Computing 2019 and the ACM Europe Summer School 2019 in HPC Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications. CERN School of Computing (CSC 2019) involved a series of lectures and practical exercises over a two-week period. The Summer School is open to postgraduate students and research MSc student participates in CERN School of Computing and the ACM Europe Summer School

Best paper finalist award for Xingzhi Yue and Neofytos Dimitriou

A paper describing the work of our MSc student Xingzhi Yue and PhD student Neofytos Dimitriou, supervised by Oggie Arandjelovic and in collaboration with the School of Medicine, gets the best paper finalist award at the latest International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB 2019). The key contribution of the work is a novel Best paper finalist award for Xingzhi Yue and Neofytos Dimitriou

December Graduation 2018

Congratulations to the Masters Class of 2018, and PhD students Dr Daniel Rough and Dr Adeola Fabola who graduated last week. The School also celebrated the Installation of Professor Adam Barker. Students and guests were invited to a reception in Computer Science after the ceremony to celebrate their achievement and reflect on their time in December Graduation 2018

DLS: Scalable Intelligent Systems by 2025 (Carl Hewitt)

Venue: The Old Course Hotel (Hall of Champions) Timetable: 9:30 Lecture 1 10:30 Break with Coffee 11:15 Lecture 2 12:15 Break for Lunch (not provided) 14:15 Lecture 3 15:15 Discussion Lecture 1: Introduction to Scalable Intelligent Systems Lecture 2: Foundations for Scalable Intelligent Systems Lecture 3: Implications of Scalable Intelligent Systems Speaker Bio: Professor Carl DLS: Scalable Intelligent Systems by 2025 (Carl Hewitt)