School of Computer Science

Curious Workshop Success

On Saturday 13th September, the Royal Society of Edinburgh hosted a workshop titled: “Your Data, Your Story” as part of their Curious festival of knowledge. The event was led by a group of experts in data visualisation and data ethics, including three of our own, Dr Areti Manataki, Dr Tristan Henderson and Tilcia Woodville-Price. The Curious Workshop Success

School Seminar – Peter Macgregor “Fast Dynamic Algorithms for Modern Clustering”

You are warmly invited to the second School Seminar: Speaker: Peter Macgregor Title: Fast Dynamic Algorithms for Modern Clustering Abstract: Spectral clustering and DBSCAN both have long histories as theoretically grounded, general-purpose clustering algorithms. However, they face practical challenges when scaling to large datasets which have limited their adoption in practice. In recent work, we School Seminar – Peter Macgregor “Fast Dynamic Algorithms for Modern Clustering”

Honours Welcome Reception

Drinks and nibbles were on offer for our very well attended Honours Welcome Reception in the Jack Cole coffee area this week. Good luck to all of our returning students for the coming academic year!

The St Andrews Global Research Centre for Changing Climates Science, Society, Solutions

The next 600 years of St Andrews history will be set against a radically altered climate. The St Andrews Centre for Changing Climates, initiated this September, will leverage insights from climate change past and present, spanning science and society, to better understand the diverse array of challenges posed by a changing climate, and the solutions required to The St Andrews Global Research Centre for Changing Climates Science, Society, Solutions

St Andrews Computer Science makes big splash at Digital Heritage 2025

Sharon Pisani, Maria Andrei, Junyu Zhang and Alan Miller travelled to Siene for Digital Heritage 2025. Four paper presentations, project workshops and much networking later we reflect on a successful conference. We are proud to announce that Sharon Pisani from Open Virtual Worlds has received the Best Paper Award for her wonderful work “Introducing Sociodata St Andrews Computer Science makes big splash at Digital Heritage 2025

Board Games Afternoon

Thanks to all who attended the Board Games afternoon on Wednesday. There was a great turnout and it was good to see everyone enjoying themselves before teaching begins next week!

Retirement of Professor Alan Dearle

Colleagues gathered recently to wish a happy retirement to Professor Al Dearle at the end of August. Having received both a BSc and a PhD from St Andrews, Al has spent most of his career here, interrupted by sojourns in Adelaide and Stirling. His research has cut across several themes, beginning with persistent programming (still Retirement of Professor Alan Dearle

PhD Viva Success: Yaxiong Lei

Congratulations to Yaxiong Lei (supervised by Dr Juan Ye) who has passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Yu Guan (University of Warwick) for serving as the external examiner.