School of Computer Science

Arrival of Tony’s Cichlids

After much anticipation and excitement, the School welcomes 12 new African Cichlids for the start of a new semester.

Robocode Session

Students undertaking the pre-sessional language course before entering our taught Masters programme, had the opportunity to try out their programming skills this afternoon, in a fun and enjoyable context using Java to write programmes that control robots.

Jan de Muijnck-Hughes and Lars Kotthoff led the session in the John Honey Building.

Virtual reconstruction of the Acropolis Basilica

The Basilica reconstruction was a collaborative project between the School of Classics and the School Computer Science. Research Blog

A reconstruction of St Andrews Cathedral has also taken place.
The reconstruction was a research topic for successful computer science and information technology MSc. dissertations in the summer of 2010 and 2011.
Technical support was available in regular laboratory sessions; in addition students had input from experts in the history and architecture of the cathedral and direct access to the physical site.
A key innovative aspect of this project was to situate the reconstruction within the immersive 3D virtual world OpenSim. This allows visitors to explore the reconstruction through the proxy of an avatar.

MSc Poster Presentations 2011

The MSc poster presentations and project demonstrations took place this afternoon. We wish all of our MSc students good luck as they finish their dissertations and move closer to graduation!

Event details

  • When: 31st August 2011 14:00 - 16:00
  • Where: Honey 110 - MSc Lab

Mirco’s Last Day

Mirco Musolesi leaves the School today to start his new post in Birmingham. Thank you for the cakes from a local Royal supplier. Good luck and we will hopefully see you in St Andrews in the future.

Honours Class Photographs

The collection of class photographs is now up on the school website here. Unfortunately we are missing a few years. If anyone has photographs of the missing years then please get in touch, or just post a comment with an appropriate URL.

We have a couple of photographs that I am struggling to date. Does anyone know the years in which the photographs below were taken? Answers on a postcard please. I’m thinking 2007 or 2008 for the first one and sometime around the development of colour photography for the second.

Maybe 2007 or 2008?

Maybe 2007 or 2008?


Who wears short shorts? (front, third from left)

Who wears short shorts? (front, third from left)

les nouveaux poissons sont arrivés

Here are some photos of the new cichlids that we purchased on the 3rd November 2009. They are all Pseudotropheus zebra from Milawi.