School of Computer Science

School Seminar by Eoin Woods

The Role of the Software Architect in Industry Eoin Woods is a professional software architect and amateur software architecture researcher, having spent over 20 years in software engineering practice and contributed a number of papers and a co-authored book to the research literature on software architecture. In this talk, he will discuss how the two School Seminar by Eoin Woods

Seminar, An Overview of the AspeKT Project – Turning Academic Excellence into Gold by Colin Adams

An Overview of the AspeKT Project – Turning Academic Excellence into Gold Abstract The talk will give an overview of the major elements of the AspeKT project a 3 year program funded by Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Funding Council dedicated to improving the flow of ideas between the research excellence and talent pool produced Seminar, An Overview of the AspeKT Project – Turning Academic Excellence into Gold by Colin Adams

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) – PhD Poster Session 2012

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 Twitter Innocent in English riots

Hats off and congratulations to…

Tom, who is now an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Greg and Vladimir on their recent PhD success. Alan, Colin and Ishbel on their successful FILTA bid for Blended Learning with Open Virtual Environments (BeLove).

Open Minds Lecture Series 2011

Throughout St Andrews Week the University opens its doors, and invites members of the public, students and staff to attend lectures. Ian Gent’s CS1005 lectures, Computer Science and Video Games, will feature in the event. A timetable of events and location details can be found on the University website.

Electronic Voting System

An electronic voting system, developed by Ross and Stuart, was used to conduct the election for the new Rector. Full results are available in the University News.

Personalisation In Mobile Applications

Fehmi and Tristan’s paper, Context-based Personalised Settings for Mobile Location Sharing, featured in the PeMA 2011: Personalization in Mobile Applications Workshop. The 5th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, took place in Chicago, Illinois from the 23rd until the 27th October.