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 first of this academic year’s distinguished lectures will be given by Prof Luca Cardelli of Microsoft Research and the University of Oxford, 0930–1600 on Tuesday 25 November in Lower College Hall.
Yesterday evening, in front of a crowd of about 750 people (as part of ScotSoft, the largest yearly Software and IT meeting in Scotland), one of our School graduates received the Lockheed Martin Software Engineering Award, for an outstanding project demonstrating excellent software engineering skills. Simone was awarded this prestigious award for his Senior Honours … Simone Conte: Lockheed Martin Software Engineer of 2014
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
A Multi-display exhibit that enables visitors to explore The Old Course and photographs of Lawrence Levy, and to quiz their golf knowledge was developed by Julian Petford. The display was developed during his Senior Honours Project which was supervised by Miguel Nacenta. Great job Julian. We look forward to hearing more about the event in … Senior Honours Project Success
Neil Moore obtained his PhD in Computer Science at St Andrews a couple of years ago, and is now working for Abobe. He’ll be giving a technical talk, and describing internship opportunities at Adobe. Title: Mutualism in software development Abstract: Computers are designed to be extensible at different levels: hardware can run different operating systems … School Seminar: Neil Moore
Prof Simon Dobson will be giving a lecture for CS3053 about his experience as founder and CEO of a start-up company spun-out of a university. This will focus on the business aspects — getting the company started, running it, growing, funding it, and eventually winding it down — rather than on the technology, and try … Confessions of a start-up founder
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
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