Connecting Families over Distance Families often have a real need and desire to stay connected with their remote family members and close friends. For example, grandparents want to see their grandchildren grow up, empty-nest parents want to know about the well being of their adult children, and parents want to be involved in their children’s … Seminar – Connecting Families over Distance – Dr. Carman Neustaedter
The subhonours lab was busy with the Connect 4 challenge this morning. Students taking CS1006 Programming Projects worked in pairs in a round-robin format, in which every duo plays every other once. Congratulations to Hamish and Mariya who won today’s challenge and received Amazon Vouchers as a reward.
FatFonts, a visualisation technique invented by Miguel Nacenta, lecturer at the School is featured in this week’s issue of the New Scientist. You can learn more about the technique here and read the preview of the article here.
The dedicated and talented final year Computer Science students presented their projects yesterday. Short presentations were followed by demonstrations and a poster session. We wish them every success as they approach graduation. Best Poster: Isobel Hale Multiple Intrusion Detection System Testing Suite (MISTY) Best Project Madness Presentation: Thomas Nicholson Cross-Modal Interactive World Builder
Per Ola Kristensson has two recent papers published in top ACM conferences that have received honourable mentions: Kristensson, P.O. and Vertanen, K. 2012. The potential of dwell-free eye-typing for fast assistive gaze communication. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA 2012). ACM Press: 241-244. Coyle, D., Moore, J., Kristensson, … Honourable mentions for two ACM research papers
The Jack Cole building was officially opened by the then First Minister Jack McConnell on the 18th March 2005. The building was named after the founder of Computer Science at St Andrews. Read more about the opening in the university news archives. Read more about Jack Cole and view pictures of the reception held after … One from the archives: The Jack Cole Building
Weekend at Sensation It’s been a busy weekend for the virtual worlds group. The reconstructed St Andrews Cathedral and other ongoing projects, were on display at Sensation in Dundee as part of the “Create and Inspire” initiative. Friday involved organised school visits and Saturday and Sunday proved busy with members of the public entering the … Virtual Worlds at Sensation
MSci (Hons) in Computer Science (5 years) The MSci (Honours) in Computer Science is an exciting new integrated masters degree that is being introduced for 2013 entry. It takes place over five years, with an option for direct entry into the second year. Qualified students can therefore graduate with a Masters degree in four years. … New MSci (Hons) in Computer Science (5 years)
HCI 2012 will be held between the 12th and the 14th of September 2012 in Birmingham. The Programme Committee includes Aaron and Per Ola as short paper chairs and Miguel in Interactive Demos. Information available online at hci2012 submissions.
This month’s IEEE Computing Now features the paper “Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise” written by Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Ian Sommerville, Jurgen Bogaerts, and Pradeep Teregowda.