Undergraduate

Distinguished Lecture Series: Reminder of next event – ‘CS for All’ by President Maria Klawe

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

Katerina Saranti and Tatiana Matejovicova: Google STEP Internships

Congratulations to second year students Katerina Saranti and Tatiana Matejovicova, both have successfully secured Google STEP Internships with Google, in Zurich. A fantastic achievement given the highly sought after summer engineering projects and the competitive process involved. Katerina had originally applied for a Google Anita Borg scholarship last year. She had intended Interning at a Katerina Saranti and Tatiana Matejovicova: Google STEP Internships

Computer Science hosts StacsHack and Google HashCode

The School hosted another hugely successful StacsHack last month. We congratulate the St Andrews Computing Society (Stacs) for running a fantastic event. Earlier in February they also coordinated and participated in Google HashCode, a team-based programming competition aimed at solving real-life engineering problems selected by Google. Hackathons allow students with a range of talents and Computer Science hosts StacsHack and Google HashCode

WWWho do you trust?

  Who do you trust online? Come and help us to work out how you decide to trust web sites! You will need to complete a computer-based survey (in the Physics Library or in the School of Computer Science) in which you will rate how you perceive the trustworthiness of several websites. Total participation time is less WWWho do you trust?

Silvia Nepšinská: Google STEP Internship

Congratulations to first year student Silvia Nepšinská, who has successfully secured a STEP Internship with Google in Zurich. Her success after one semester in computer science is exceptional, given the highly sought after places and competitive process. Silvia first heard about Google STEP internships from a friend and applied to get real-life programming experience with Silvia Nepšinská: Google STEP Internship

Spot the difference?

Do you have a discerning eye for video? If so, we need your help as a volunteer in our study! Volunteers will be asked to watch 7 video clips of 10 seconds each. Each clip will be viewed 3 times, and then again at a different distance. After each video clip, you will choose which clip (if any) you perceived Spot the difference?

Success at the Undergraduate Awards

Congratulations to recent graduate Aleksejs Sazonovs on winning the gold medal in the computer science category at the Undergraduate Awards.

Laidlaw Undergraduate Internships

The Laidlaw Undergraduate Internship Programme in Research and Leadership 2016 The Laidlaw Undergraduate Internship Programme in Research and Leadership is an exciting opportunity which aims to equip students with the skills and values to become leaders in their chosen occupations beyond University. Students will design, pursue and report on a research question with an academic Laidlaw Undergraduate Internships

Distinguished Lecture: ‘Scalability and Fault-tolerance, are they the same?’ by Joe Armstrong

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