Honours

From Honours Project to Open-Source Application: Developing a Wireshark ILNP Dissector

Wireshark is one of the world’s most widely used network analysis tools, and it comes with great pride that recent graduate Shubh Sinhal’s CS4099 Project “Wireshark and ILNP” has been included within the tool’s official codebase. Shubh developed a Wireshark ILNP dissector that could be used for the ease of study for researchers and students From Honours Project to Open-Source Application: Developing a Wireshark ILNP Dissector

Honours Welcome Reception

Drinks and nibbles were on offer for our very well attended Honours Welcome Reception in the Jack Cole coffee area this week. Good luck to all of our returning students for the coming academic year!

Nomination to Young Software Engineering of the Year Awards 2025

Congratulations to our Senior Honours student, Verity Powell, who is nominated for the Young Software Engineering of the Year Awards 2025. She is invited to attend the awards dinner, taking place at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Thursday 25th September. Verity is a Computer Science graduate, and played for the University’s Women’s 1XV Rugby Nomination to Young Software Engineering of the Year Awards 2025

Distinguished Lecture Series 2025

This years Distinguished Lecture series was delivered yesterday ( Tuesday 1st April) by Professor Arthur Zimek, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. In his talk on, ‘Data Mining and the “Curse of Dimensionality”’ he considered the challenges of the “curse” from the perspective of data mining. In Talk 1, he discussed the “curse” in Distinguished Lecture Series 2025

Week 1 Social Events

The following social events are being held in the School this week in the Jack Cole coffee area:- Monday 16 September – 17:00 – 18:00 – MSc and MSci welcome reception (TODAY) Wednesday 18 September – 16:00 – 17:00 – Honours (Junior & Senior) welcome reception Friday 20 September – 17:00 – 18:00 – Sub-honours Week 1 Social Events

Congratulations to all our Graduating Students!

Thank you to all our students who came along to our graduation reception on Wednesday 14 June. On behalf of all staff, we hope you had a lovely day and would like to wish you all the very best in the future. Please Keep in touch!

End of term BBQ

Some of our Students held a BBQ to lighten the mood in the run up to assignment deadlines. Findlay Sloan the 5th year rep and Georgia Chiswick 2nd year student and CS ball president were the grill masters for the BBQ.  

Welcome Events

We were pleased to host a number of in person welcome events for our students for the first time in 2 years. Thank you to everyone who came along and to those who helped out!

Graduation Reception

The School of Computer Science will host a graduation reception at Beacons Bar in the students Union on Wednesday 15th June between 10:00 – 13.00. Graduating students and their guests are invited to come along and celebrate with a glass of bubbly. Computer Science degrees will be conferred in an afternoon ceremony in the Younger Graduation Reception