Congratulations to Computer Science undergraduates Elliot Davies and Sam Elliott who, along with Andrei Mustata from the University of Glasgow, won the DevXS “hackathon” at the University of Lincoln. Their team used datasets from the Guardian to develop a university guide.
Throughout St Andrews Week the University opens its doors, and invites members of the public, students and staff to attend lectures. Ian Gent’s CS1005 lectures, Computer Science and Video Games, will feature in the event. A timetable of events and location details can be found on the University website.
Another successful and well-attended Wednesday visiting day took place yesterday. Prospective undergraduates had the opportunity to meet staff, current students, eat cake and view the School facilities. The familiar but extremely useful events are organised by Tristan, Adam and Saleem with help from volunteer students. Isabel, Jesal, Anastasia and Thomas were the student volunteers undertaking … Undergraduate Visiting Day
Life in the Comp Sci Labs The MSc lab in the John Honey building was busy with IT students holding initial group work meetings, for their next assignment. The advanced network students were networking, in a virtual sense, using WI-FI island. Yemliha and Umer looked occupied in the HCI lab. A number of 3rd and … Thursday Afternoon In Computer Science
St Andrews student Thomas Grimes won 3rd prize in the Scottish Software Engineer of the Year Award 2011. He received a trophy and a cheque for £1500. Tom graduated from Computer Science from St Andrews in 2011 and currently studying in America towards a Masters in Computer Forensics. Tom’s project involved creating screen replication software … St Andrews Student wins prize in Scottish Software Engineer of the Year Awards
Junior and Senior Honours were provided with milk based food products, nibbles and fermented fruit juice during their reception. Various attempts to look studious were captured for posterity.
A small Gamefest in the sub honours lab on Wednesday proved successful and attracted some of our new undergraduate students. Comp Sci staples Pizza and Irn Bru provided sustenance for the afternoon session of Mario Kart and Call of Duty.
Computer Science student wins University prize for Science One of our graduating students, Joe Schaul, has been awarded the University’s “Miller Prize”. The Prize is awarded to the best final-year undergraduate in the Science Faculty. As well has having an excellent academic record throughout his 4 years in the School, Joe also produced an exceptional … Miller Prize for Joe Schaul
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 … The 2010/11 CS1006 Othello competition
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 … St Andrews student wins undergraduate of the year award