Congratulations to first year student Silvia Nepšinská, who has successfully secured a STEP Internship with Google in Zurich. Her success after one semester in computer science is exceptional, given the highly sought after places and competitive process. Silvia first heard about Google STEP internships from a friend and applied to get real-life programming experience with … Silvia Nepšinská: Google STEP Internship
Building the news search engine, by Ramkumar Aiyengar, Bloomberg Abstract: This talk provides an insight into the challenges involved in providing near real-time news search to Bloomberg customers. Our News team is in the process of migrating to using Solr/Lucene as its search and alerting backend. This talk starts with a picture of what’s involved … School Seminars: Building the News Search Engine – Bloomberg
The timetables for Semester 1 2014-2015 are available here: Honours and MSc Timetable Sub-Honours Timetable
The St Andrews Programming Competition 2014 is a friendly programming contest organised by the School of Computer Science for students belonging to all levels, coming from any background with any amount of programming experience. Team up with up to 3 members per team, compete for 3 hours by solving a set of programming problems using … St Andrews Programming Competition 2014
The annual CS1006 challenge took place yesterday in the subhonours lab. Students had been designing AIs to play John Nash’s game, Hex, this year. Congratulations to the competition winners – Team – “Vanilla Dynamite’s Nuclear Computer Posse” Students – Chris Lamb, Maria McParland and Robin Nabel. An abundance of healthy foodstuff and some rather unique … CS1006 AI Competition
It was great to see so many undergraduate computer science students at the Orientation Barbecue yesterday. New and returning students had the opportunity to discuss the merits of studying computer science, eat burgers and consume the traditional Irn Bru in a friendly setting. The Gaming/Programming Competition winners also received their prize in the form of … Orientation Week BBQ
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.
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.
Life in the Comp Sci Labs The MSc lab in the John Honey building was busy with IT students holding initial group work meetings, for their next assignment. The advanced network students were networking, in a virtual sense, using WI-FI island. Yemliha and Umer looked occupied in the HCI lab. A number of 3rd and … Thursday Afternoon In Computer Science
A small Gamefest in the sub honours lab on Wednesday proved successful and attracted some of our new undergraduate students. Comp Sci staples Pizza and Irn Bru provided sustenance for the afternoon session of Mario Kart and Call of Duty.