A project funded by the Undergraduate Research Assistant Scheme has successfully completed the first stage of interdisciplinary work, between the Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the School of Computer Science. The long-term aim is to digitise and analyse early French bibles. In this pilot project, undergraduate student Gregor Haywood, under the supervision of Prof. Clive Sneddon … Old French Bible Project
Alex Voss from the School of Computer Science and Anna Clements and Eva Borger from the University Library have been awarded funding by OCLC for a 1-year project titled “Characterizing the adoption of ORCID ID in academic communities”. ORCID iDs are persistent digital identifiers that distinguish researchers and, through integration in key research workflows such … Funding success for characterizing the adoption of ORCID ID in academic communities
The University of St Andrews and Primorska are soon to agree to award a joint degree with the title of Doctor of Philosophy (on condition that the joint PhD study programme in Computer Science will gain accreditation of the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education). This represents the culmination of many months of effort … St Andrews – University of Primorska co-tutelle in Computer Science
Aaron will be a keynote speaker at the IEEE VISSOFT 2018 conference later this year. “The sixth IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2018) builds upon the success of the previous four editions of VISSOFT, which in turn followed after six editions of the IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis … VISSOFT 2018 Keynote by Professor Aaron Quigley
Professor Aaron Quigley will be a keynote speaker at the Mensch-und-Computer conference 2019 in Hamburg Germany in September of 2019. This series of symposia takes place each year in different German-speaking countries. This is one of the largest HCI conferences in Europe each year with over 700 delegates from industry and academia. Usability Professionals and … Mensch-und-Computer 2019 Keynote by Professor Aaron Quigley
Abstract This talk is in two parts, in the first of which Adriana will focus on her experiences in assessment and feedback in large classes, and in the second part on her work in encouraging gender diversity in computer science. The focus of the first part will be on her involvement in redesigning an undergraduate … Adriana Wilde (St Andrews): Rising to challenges in assessment, feedback and encouraging gender diversity in computing (School Seminar)
Congratulations to Adam Barwell, who successfully defended his thesis yesterday. Adam’s thesis was supervised by Professor Kevin Hammond. He is pictured with second supervisor Dr Christopher Brown, Internal examiner Dr Susmit Sarkar and external examiner Professor Susan Eisenbach from Imperial College, London.
The iVoLVER system, created by Gonzalo Méndez and Miguel Nacenta from the SACHI group at the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, received Best Demo Jury Award at the ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS) conference last week. ACM ISS 2017, took place in Brighton, UK and selects a different location each … iVoLVER receives Best Demo Jury Award at ACM ISS
ACM SIGPLAN has judged Ott: Effective Tool Support for the Working Semanticist, by Peter Sewell, Francesco Zappa Nardelli, Scott Owens, Gilles Peskine, Thomas Ridge, Susmit Sarkar, and Rok Strniša, to be the recipient of the Most Influential ICFP Paper Award for 2017. From the citation: “Over the past ten years, ICFP researchers have benefitted tremendously … Ott: Effective Tool Support for the Working Semanticist
Update, 2021 Over the years since we published this research, many people have approached us having solved the n queens puzzle, either for one n like 8 or 1000, or having written an algorithm to solve it for different sizes. Unfortunately this is not a major result in Computer Science and does not make one … n-Queens Completion is NP-Complete