School of Computer Science

Join us for June Graduation Reception

The School will be celebrating more student successes and accomplishments next week, when our Senior Honours and PhD students graduate. We look forward to toasting their success at our Graduation reception next Wednesday. The occasion is a great opportunity for staff to meet family and friends and, for us to keep some photographic memories. Over Join us for June Graduation Reception

Computer Science Interns Accelerate Impact

Congratulations to Computer Science Interns Gergely Flamich, Jack Cargill, Iveta Dulova, Tatiana Tay and Finlay Marno for designing a prize winning poster, and providing an excellent demonstration session at the recent EPSRC Impact Showcase held in the School of Medicine. The research presented, focuses on biomedical data science by identifying, integrating and simulating data from Computer Science Interns Accelerate Impact

End of Semester Round up

We have reached the end of semester 2 and so many events, activities and accomplishments have taken place, it’s worth reflecting on all the hard work and enthusiasm demonstrated by our talented students. As stated previously the School is rated highly for student satisfaction, which echoes the continued strong student staff community cultivated by all. End of Semester Round up

PhD Studentship: Reasoning about Racy Programs under Relaxed Consistency

A PhD studentship on “Reasoning about Racy Programs under Relaxed Consistency” is available in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews, funded by Microsoft Research and EPSRC. The project will involve developing reasoning principles and tools for relaxed memory consistency settings. This is a key problem in shared-memory concurrency at the PhD Studentship: Reasoning about Racy Programs under Relaxed Consistency

School Seminar: Efficient Privacy Preserving Data Mining via Secure Computation by Dr Changyu Dong

The School of Computer Science welcomes the opportunity to hear from Dr Changyu Dong, from the Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Strathclyde, who will be delivering his talk on ‘Efficient Privacy Preserving Data Mining via Secure Computation’. Abstract: Loosely speaking, secure computation allows parties to compute a function jointly while keeping their School Seminar: Efficient Privacy Preserving Data Mining via Secure Computation by Dr Changyu Dong

June 2nd, Seminar by John Stasko: “New Approaches for Information Visualization: Rethinking Existing Notions”

The School of Computer Science welcomes the opportunity to hear from Professor John Stasko of Georgia Tech,who will be delivering his talk on “New Approaches for Information Visualization: Rethinking Existing Notions” remotely. Abstract: As the field of information visualization matures, researchers are able to reflect on, and perhaps even question,     some long-accepted notions from the June 2nd, Seminar by John Stasko: “New Approaches for Information Visualization: Rethinking Existing Notions”

PhD Viva Success

Congratulations to To Chris Schneider, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Chris is pictured celebrating with supervisor Prof Simon Dobson, external examiner Dr Radu Calinescu from the University of York, and internal examiner Dr Graham Kirby.

Scottish Programing Languages Seminar

The School of Computer Science of the University of St Andrews is organizing the next Scottish Programing Languages Seminar which will be held on Monday 15th June 2015 in Lecture Room 2 of the Gateway. In the meantime you can keep up-to-date by following the SPLS website. For further enquiries please contact Frantisek Farka.

June 26, Andruid Kerne, The Future of Human Expression: Ideation − Play − Body-based Interaction

Speaker: Andruid Kerne, Texas A&M, USA Date/Time: 2-3pm June 26, 2015 Location: CS1.33a, University of St Andrews   Andruid is research scientist-artist investigating how people experience personal expression, creative ideation, and social engagement. He develops and evaluates expressive interfaces, computational architectures, and distributed systems that support creative processes of knowledge production and interpersonal communication. For June 26, Andruid Kerne, The Future of Human Expression: Ideation − Play − Body-based Interaction

May 19, Tom Rodden, On lions, impala, and bigraphs: modelling interactions in Ubiquitous Computing.

Speaker: Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham Date/Time: 2-3pm May 19, 2015 Location: CS1.33a, University of St Andrews As ubiquitous systems have moved out of the lab and into the world the need to think more systematically about how there are realised has grown. This talk will present intradisciplinary work I have been engaged in with May 19, Tom Rodden, On lions, impala, and bigraphs: modelling interactions in Ubiquitous Computing.