Congratulations to our recent graduate Sam Elliott, who has won the Lockheed Martin Award for Best Engineered Project at the Young Software Engineer awards. The Young Software Engineer of the Year Awards are given for the best undergraduate software projects drawn from across all students studying computer science and software engineering in Scotland. Sam’s project, … Lockheed Martin Award
Congratulations to our recent graduate Aleksejs Sazonovs, who’s won a Highly Commended place at this year’s Undergraduate Awards. The Undergraduate Awards are an international and cross-disciplinary prize that aims to recognise highly creative individuals at undergraduate level. Typically this is demonstrated through excellent project work, and Aleks’ project on “A metapopulation model for predicting the … A highly commended project
On July 24th, Dr Vinton Cerf was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by the University of St Andrews. Dr. Vint Cerf, a founding father of the Internet, graduated alongside our new PhD and Honours graduates. In his Laureation address, Professor Saleem Bhatti highlighted to the audience that, “The internet is mankind’s … Staff and Students with Dr Vint Cerf
The Senior Honours students presented their posters and final year software artifacts to staff and students last week. The best poster accolade and associated amazon voucher was presented to Callum Hyland for his poster – Android: Smoking Cessation, behavioural pattern prediction through spatial and temporal modelling. We wish them well with exam revision and look … April in Computer Science: Poster Presentations and World Domination
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.
Many St Andrews CS students do internships in the summer, but we very rarely get the opportunity to learn about them. If you are interested in what some outstanding fourth year students did this summer, including tips and hints on how to do this yourself, you cannot miss this! Hear them talk at 2:00pm on … Talk: Internship Experiences 2014
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