Work continues in the new Comp Sci Garden. It’s not Blue Peter or Beechgrove status yet, but look out Chelsea 2014.
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Carnegie-Cameron Taught Postgraduate Bursaries 2013
Congratulations to Alice Herbison who has been selected to receive a Carnegie-Cameron Taught Postgraduate Bursary. Alice has studied a number of undergraduate modules in the school and will begin her postgraduate studies in September on our new MSc in Human Computer Interaction. We look forward to seeing her in the department again soon.
The Carnegie Trust For The Universities Of Scotland, supports the bursaries, which were established by Andrew Carnegie in 1901.
Computing Reviews’ Notable Books and Articles 2012
ACM Computing Reviews has selected a recent survey paper written by Per Ola Kristensson and colleagues as one of the Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2012.
The list consists of nominations from Computing Reviews reviewers, Computing Reviews category editors, the editors in chief of journals covered by Computing Reviews, and others in the computing community.
The selected survey paper is entitled “Foundational Issues in Touch-Surface Stroke Gesture Design — An Integrative Review” and it was published by the journal Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction in 2012.
What Next for Senior Honours?
As the exam diet draws to a close for another year, our final year students are considering their next step after graduation. Stephen Haley will join PlanForCloud in August as a Software Engineer, working alongside Alistair Scott, another graduate from the school.
PlanForCloud, originally ShopForCloud, was established by Hassan and Ali Khajeh-Hosseini and acquired by RightScale in 2012. While studying for his PhD in Computer Science at St Andrews, Ali worked as a software engineering intern at RightScale. Their continued success means that they are actively recruiting, visit the PlanForCloud recruitment page for further information.
More next steps to follow…
Alumni Numbers Increase in New York City
We like to share success stories, especially when they relate to our Alumni. Congratulations to Greg Bigwood who recently joined AetherWorks LLC. as Senior Software Architect. AetherWorks LLC. is a Software Engineering, Research & Development lab in New York City.
Computer Science Graduates Robert MacInnis, Allan Boyd and Angus Macdonald launched software company AetherStore™ earlier last year. Visit their websites at www.AetherWorks.com and www.AetherStore.com to read more about their journey. We wish them continued success as they approach the anniversary of their launch.
Cuboid Aquarium Repopulation
CS1006 AI Competition
The annual CS1006 challenge took place yesterday in the subhonours lab. Students had been designing AIs to play John Nash’s game, Hex, this year.
Congratulations to the competition winners –
Team – “Vanilla Dynamite’s Nuclear Computer Posse”
Students – Chris Lamb, Maria McParland and Robin Nabel.
An abundance of healthy foodstuff and some rather unique team names reflect the ingenuity and creativity of our first year students.
It’s always a fun session to end semester 2.
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- Chris and Robin
Graduates Return to Computer Science
Three of our alumni Andrew McCarthy, Adam Copp and James Smith, dropped by to say hello last week. They were visiting the University to represent Google at the Tech Talk by Google engineers held in the University Gateway Building.
Many will remember Adam, now a software engineer working at Google in London, as the IT and Computer Science Undergraduate of the Year in 2011. The award, sponsored by BT, was launched to find Britain’s most promising IT student securing him a summer placement at BT’s Research and Development site and a week at a BT European office.
It’s always fantastic to see our alumni and we wish them continued success at Google.
Alumni from left: Andrew, James and Adam
MIT Technology Review – Jakub Dostal
MIT Technology Review has written a comprehensive article about Jakub Dostal’s Diff Displays that track visual changes on unattended displays. Jakub presented the work two weeks ago at the 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces in Santa Monica, California, USA. The Diff Displays project is part of Jakub’s PhD thesis on proximity-aware user interfaces. His PhD is supervised by Prof. Aaron Quigley and Dr Per Ola Kristensson.
School Seminar: Neil Moore
Neil Moore obtained his PhD in Computer Science at St Andrews a couple of years ago, and is now working for Abobe.
He’ll be giving a technical talk, and describing internship opportunities at Adobe.
Title: Mutualism in software development
Abstract:
Computers are designed to be extensible at different levels: hardware can run different operating systems and operating systems are designed to expose functionality to allow third parties to write applications. It is easy to overlook extensibility at the level of application software: functionality can be added to or extracted from existing applications by third parties with no access to the source. For example: plugins, scripting environments, APIs, web services, etc.
I will talk about ways that this can benefit both the application publisher as well as third parties. I will also give practical information and examples of how this can be achieved based on my experience in working in this area for Adobe, who are heavily invested in extensibility in their products.
Event details
- When: 1st April 2013 15:00 - 16:00
- Where: Phys Theatre C
- Series: CS Colloquia Series
- Format: Seminar