IDIR

The Melville Trust for the Care and Cure of Cancer PhD award

The Melville Trust for the Care and Cure of Cancer have funded a PGR Studentship relative to the project entitled ‘Detecting high-risk smokers in Primary Care Electronic Health Records: An automatic classification, data extraction and predictive modelling approach’. The supervisors are Prof. Frank Sullivan of the School of Medicine and Prof. Tom Kelsey of the The Melville Trust for the Care and Cure of Cancer PhD award

IDIR Summer Workshop 2018

The St Andrews Institute for Data-Intensive Research (IDIR) was set up in September 2014 to provide a focus for research and teaching activities across the University driven by access to “big data”. IDIR does not directly sponsor or manage any research of its own: rather, we help researchers to collaborate within and beyond their home IDIR Summer Workshop 2018

Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in Computer Science

The School of Computer Science is excited to announce Scotland’s first Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in Computer Science. The innovative research apprenticeship in partnership with The Data Lab, was launched on Monday in Edinburgh and featured in The University News earlier today. Prospective research engineers and industry sponsors can find essential information and application forms on Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in Computer Science

Are there still two cultures?

This Friday the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland is hosting a panel discussion and debate to celebrate the 60th anniversary of one of the most influential essays of all time. CP Snow’s “The two cultures” has passed into popular culture as the idea that arts and sciences are separated by an almost Are there still two cultures?

Success at the Undergraduate Awards

Congratulations to recent graduate Aleksejs Sazonovs on winning the gold medal in the computer science category at the Undergraduate Awards.

First IDIR Summer of V’s workshop

Computer Science was well represented at a workshop on the challenges of variability in data-driven research that was held earlier this week.