PhD Research featured in Poster Session

Last week we had a very successful poster session for PhD students to feature their research in the School of Computer Science.  As previously blogged, three prizes were awarded by Professor Emeritus and former head of School, Ron Morrison.

Many of the posters featured at this session, including all the prizewinners, are now available for everyone to look at.

Competition entrants included:

Many thanks to all the students for their hard work in creating such interesting posters, and to Ron for his very careful prizegiving.

PhD Poster Session 2012

The PhD poster session took place today in the Jack Cole coffee area.

Ron Morrison awarded Amazon vouchers to the three best posters. Congratulations to Lakshitha, Yi and Ali.

3rd place to System Deployment Costs in Public Clouds – Ali Khajeh-Hosseini

2nd place to Building Energy Awareness into ICT Systems (complete with magnifying glass) – Yi Yu

1st place to Monitoring Architectural Conformance through Runtime Event Interpretation – Lakshitha De Silva

Many of the posters featured at this session, including all the prizewinners, are now available for everyone to look at.

Competition entrants included:

Twitter Innocent in English riots

Alex Voss was part of the team investigating the role of social media during the English Riots. The study was highlighted in the University news today, and the Guardian this morning.

Update


The results of the study will also be presented at the Reading the Riots conference,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/dec/14/reading-the-riots-conference-live-blog
which also features a range of other speakers including Ed Miliband, the leader of the opposition, Theresa May,
the home secretary and Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary.


The study was led by Professor Rob Procter, of the University of Manchester, and funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee).

One from the archives: Plans for new computer science building

November 2002, and plans were unveiled in the university news, for a new Computer Science Building. Stages of the build were photographed for posterity.

Continued Success For MSc Students

Work carried out by Mary Steele, Titilayo Adegbamiye (both supervised by Gordon) and Shangyi Jiang (supervised by Ishbel), in fulfilment of their MSc, has continued success.

Mary’s dissertation focus, promoting public awareness of the links between lifestyle and cancer A controlled study of the usability of health information leaflets, has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.

Titilayo’s disssertation focus, evaluating the Usability of Home Blood Pressure Monitors, featured in Workshop Proceedings at INTERACT 2011. Final proceedings are now available.

Charlie’s (Shangyi Jiang) focus on virtual worlds contributed to Ishbel’s Paper, A taxonomy of virtual worlds usage in education, recently accepted by the British Journal of Educational Technology.

Undergraduate Visiting Day

Another successful and well-attended Wednesday visiting day took place yesterday. Prospective undergraduates had the opportunity to meet staff, current students, eat cake and view the School facilities.

The familiar but extremely useful events are organised by Tristan, Adam and Saleem with help from volunteer students.

Isabel, Jesal, Anastasia and Thomas were the student volunteers undertaking yesterday’s tour and answering general questions.