School of Computer Science

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 CS3102 Data Communications & Networks

Passport to Environmental Excellence

Congratulations to David on receiving an early Christmas present from CAPOD. He is pictured receiving his Passport to Environmental Excellence.

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 St Andrews Day Graduation 2012

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 Bake Sale for Children in Need

School Seminar – Mari Ostendorf

Professor Mari Ostendorf of the University of Washington is visiting Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews as part of a SICSA Distinguishing Fellowship. Title: Rich Speech Transcription for Spoken Document Processing Abstract: As storage costs drop and bandwidth increases, there has been rapid growth of spoken information available via the web or in online archives — School Seminar – Mari Ostendorf

School Seminar – Kevin Miller

Kevin is the founder and CEO of RunRev, overseeing a global team and development of the Rev programming language. This seminar has been postponed due to Kevin’s work commitments. A new date will be announced in due course.