School of Computer Science

University of St Andrews 600th Anniversary PhD Scholarships in Computer Science

As part of the University of St Andrews 600th Anniversary celebrations, we are able to offer six PhD Scholarships in Computer Science for 2013, including fees and a stipend.

Human version of the St Andrews University crest, organised in part by Yi Yu, one of our PhD students

This celebrates a great moment in the life of the University, and the Scholarships may be held in any research area of the School. Our only requirements are that the proposed research would be good, we have staff to supervise it, and that you would be good at doing it.

You can see our
advert at jobs.ac.uk
and also our local page with further information on postgraduate study in Computer Science.
Informal enquiries can be directed to pg-admin-cs@st-andrews.ac.uk or to potential supervisors.
Formal application is through our normal applications process, mentioning that you wish to be considered for the 600th Anniversary Scholarships.
The closing date for applications is February 4th, 2013.

CS3102 Data Communications & Networks

The CS3102 students have been working on a variety of OpenSim projects and produced some interesting and original interactive simulations.

Imaginative virtual environments were used to explain a variety of topics including cellular networks, wireless networks, cloud computing, network topologies and denial of service. We caught up with them last week as they finalised their practical work.

Great work everyone.

The MSc Experience at Computer Science

After a year of hard work our MSc students 2011/12 finished their dissertations in August. Graduation on Friday gave them time to reflect on their MSc experience. Here’s what they said.

Still Images from the Graduation Video Room

Students representing the many MSc courses within Computer Science, stopped by the video room yesterday, to provide a short snippet of their MSc experience. Excellent work everyone. Videos will follow in due course. A bit of reflection and much hilarity ensued but here is a clue as to the personalities involved.

St Andrews Day Graduation 2012

Congratulations to the Masters Class of 2012, and our PhD students, who graduated yesterday. Students were invited to a reception in the school to celebrate their achievement with staff, friends and family. Our graduates have moved on to a wide variety of interesting and challenging employment and further study opportunities, and we wish them all well with their future careers.

Best Student Paper Award for iSCAN

Congratulations to Per Ola and colleagues Ha Trinh, Annalu Waller, Keith Vertanen and Vicki L. Hanson. Their paper “iSCAN: a phoneme-based predictive communication aid for nonspeaking individuals” received the ACM SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012) earlier this year.

Bake Sale for Children in Need

It’s Children In Need this Friday.

Well done to Sophie Gent, who raised £133 for children in need in October. The delicious cakes were the result of 3 days hard baking in the Gent household. They proved to be very popular and were certainly a welcome addition during coffee time in the school.



Find out more about fundraising for Children in Need at the BBC website