Congratulations to our student representatives for 2017/8, elected by their peers last month. Our Reps are integral to the proactive communication channel between staff and the students and also chair and run the Staff-Student Consultative Committee (SSCC) held each semester within the School. The reps are pictured outside the Jack Cole Building, after this semester’s … Computer Science Student Representatives 2017
Postgraduate students, led by Paul Dobra, organised the first ever CS Ball in August. The celebration coincided with finishing summer dissertations and the annual poster and demo session. The school sponsored Smurfalicious Blue Ball proved very popular and sold out of tickets earlier in August. The theme was blue and the location was The old … Computer Science Ball 2017
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Computer History Prof Ursula Martin Update: Lectures will be live streamed at this link. Distinguished Lecture Series, Semester 1, 2017-18 Biography: Professor Ursula Martin CBE FREng FRSE joined the University of Oxford as Professor of Computer Science in 2014, and is a member of the Mathematical Institute. She holds … DLS: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Computer History
Congratulations to our Senior Honours Class of 2017, MSci Honours students and our PhD students Dr Anne-Marie Mann, Dr Ildiko Pete, Dr Yuchen Zhao and Dr Michael Mauderer, who graduated on Wednesday. Students were invited to a reception in the School prior to the ceremony, to celebrate their achievement with staff, friends and family. We … Computer Science: June Graduation 2017
We are delighted to congratulate the student representatives for 2016/7, elected by their peers. Reps play a very important part in the life of the school by providing a healthy communication channel between staff and the students they represent, and also by chairing and running the Staff-Student Consultative Committee, amongst many other roles. The reps … Computer Science Student Reps 2016
Tell us what you think of our videos and you could win a £20 Netflix or Amazon voucher! You will be asked to watch and assess the video quality of four 1-minute online video clips, as well as complete a short questionnaire related to your regular video usage and your energy-saving awareness and preferences. Your participation should take around … Watch some video, win a Netflix or Amazon voucher
Reminder that President Maria Klawe will be speaking at our Distinguished Lecture Series on March 31st 2016 in St Andrews. During this event Maria will discuss the challenges in CS for all, including CS education in K-12, computing for all in undergraduate education, and CS research aimed at people with accessibility challenges and creating educational … Distinguished Lecture Series: Reminder of next event – ‘CS for All’ by President Maria Klawe
The first of this academic year’s distinguished lectures will be given by Professor Joe Armstrong, co-inventor of Erlang, on Monday 16th November 2015 at The Byre Theatre. Abstract: To build a scalable system the important thing is to make small isolated independent units. To scale up we just add more units. To build a fault-tolerant … Distinguished Lecture: ‘Scalability and Fault-tolerance, are they the same?’ by Joe Armstrong
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