Undergraduate

The 2010/11 CS1006 Othello competition

On Wednesday 11th of May 2011 the first year module CS1006: Programming Projects finished with its traditional competition. The competition centres around a 2-player strategy game (Othello this year) for which the students have developed an Artificial Intelligence player as part of the last of the four projects on the module. These AI players are pitted against each other in order to determine the champion AI of the year.
Here are the competitors (plus a few hangers-on and referees):

CS1006 Othello Competitors

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St Andrews student wins undergraduate of the year award

Adam Copp, a Junior honours Computer Science student won the TARGET jobs IT and Computer Science Undergraduate of the Year Award for 2011. The award was sponsored by BT and, through a series of online tests, application forms, interviews and assessment exercises, Adam emerged as winner. BT only targeted a relatively small number of universities and so he beat off competition from other excellent students from other excellent universities.

Adam collecting the award from Michael Portillo (who hosted the awards) and Andy Skingley, Director of IP, Media and Mobility Platforms at BT.

Honours Class Photographs

The collection of class photographs is now up on the school website here. Unfortunately we are missing a few years. If anyone has photographs of the missing years then please get in touch, or just post a comment with an appropriate URL.

We have a couple of photographs that I am struggling to date. Does anyone know the years in which the photographs below were taken? Answers on a postcard please. I’m thinking 2007 or 2008 for the first one and sometime around the development of colour photography for the second.

Maybe 2007 or 2008?

Maybe 2007 or 2008?


Who wears short shorts? (front, third from left)

Who wears short shorts? (front, third from left)