Undergraduate

Zoë Nengite awarded Principal’s Medal

Congratulations to Zoë Nengite who has been awarded The Principal’s Medal in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and exceptional activities within the University and the wider St Andrews community. The Medal is awarded to students who have both excellent academic accomplishments and those who have inspired and supported their peers and who have often undertaken Zoë Nengite awarded Principal’s Medal

Winnability of Klondike Solitaire research featured in New Scientist

Research carried out by Charlie Blake and Ian Gent to compute the approximate odds of winning any version of solitaire featured in New Scientist last week (print edition November 23rd ). Ian emphasised the calibre of research carried out by our undergraduate students and his early interaction with card games. “This research has been hugely Winnability of Klondike Solitaire research featured in New Scientist

Daria Savanovich wins the Principal’s Medal

Congratulations to our graduating student Daria, who was awarded the Principal’s medal during this year’s graduation ceremony in recognition of her outstanding achievements. Only two medals were awarded in 2019, one in the sciences, and one in humanities. https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/graduation/2019/daria-savanovich/

Graduation Reception: Wednesday 26th June

The School of Computer Science will host a graduation reception on Wednesday 26th June, in the Jack Cole building, between 11.00 and 13.00. Graduating students and their guests are invited to the School to celebrate with a glass of bubbly and a cream cake. Computer Science degrees will be conferred in an afternoon ceremony in Graduation Reception: Wednesday 26th June

DLS: Scalable Intelligent Systems by 2025 (Carl Hewitt)

Venue: The Old Course Hotel (Hall of Champions) Timetable: 9:30 Lecture 1 10:30 Break with Coffee 11:15 Lecture 2 12:15 Break for Lunch (not provided) 14:15 Lecture 3 15:15 Discussion Lecture 1: Introduction to Scalable Intelligent Systems Lecture 2: Foundations for Scalable Intelligent Systems Lecture 3: Implications of Scalable Intelligent Systems Speaker Bio: Professor Carl DLS: Scalable Intelligent Systems by 2025 (Carl Hewitt)

MSc and Honours receptions 2018

After a busy week of orientation, advising and module talks, MSc and Honours students are pictured socialising during their welcome receptions on Tuesday and Thursday evening last week. The popular and lively events highlight the friendly student community within the School and provide a chance to chat to staff and students before a semester of MSc and Honours receptions 2018

Graduation Reception June 2018

Congratulations to our Senior Honours Class of 2018, MSci Honours students and our PhD students Dr Adam Barwell, Dr Martin McCaffery, Dr Gonzalo Mendez and Dr Long Thai, who graduated last month. Students were invited to a reception in the School prior to the ceremony, to celebrate their achievement with staff, friends and family. Our Graduation Reception June 2018

Senior Honours Poster and Demo Sessions

Our talented Senior Honours students are pictured presenting posters and software artefacts to second markers, interested staff and students last week. The impressive range of year-long projects included, plagiarism detection tools, augmented books with AR Visualsiation, Network science in GPUs, evaluating Full coverage display, a Blockchain construction toolkit, Intrusion detection systems evaluation and many more Senior Honours Poster and Demo Sessions