Tristan Henderson has been awarded £4,700 from the EPSRC’s FRRIICT (Framework for Responsible Research & Innovation in ICT) project to investigate ethical issues in online social network research. The grant will fund a summer research internship which will build a framework for investigating ethical concerns using real online social network data.
New MSci (Hons) in Computer Science (5 years)
MSci (Hons) in Computer Science (5 years)
The MSci (Honours) in Computer Science is an exciting new integrated masters degree that is being introduced for 2013 entry. It takes place over five years, with an option for direct entry into the second year. Qualified students can therefore graduate with a Masters degree in four years.
The first three years of the MSci are shared with the BSc programmes. In the final two years, you can choose among modules at 4000 and 5000 (Masters) level, enabling both breadth and depth across the discipline.
The final year is spent in 5000 level modules as well as an advanced project. This may take the form of a project within the School, an industrial placement or a research internship, enabling MSci students to build skills that are useful for both academic and industrial careers.
Further information is available through the School Website.
hci2012 People & Computers XXVI
HCI 2012 will be held between the 12th and the 14th of September 2012 in Birmingham.
The Programme Committee includes Aaron and Per Ola as short paper chairs and Miguel in Interactive Demos.
Information available online at hci2012 submissions.
Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise
This month’s IEEE Computing Now features the paper “Decision Support Tools for Cloud Migration in the Enterprise” written by Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Ian Sommerville, Jurgen Bogaerts, and Pradeep Teregowda.
UKCISA grant
Ishbel, Alan & Janie Brooks of ELT have been awarded £8000 from UKCISA (Council for International Student Affairs) to build a virtual St Andrews to aid international student orientation.
Crowdsourcing research featured in the New Scientist
The latest issue of the New Scientist magazine writes about Per Ola Kristensson‘s work on using crowdsourcing and online web sources to create better statistical language models for AAC devices: Crowdsourcing improves predictive texting.
The research paper was published in the Association for Computational Linguistics’ 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. It is published using the open access model and can be read here. The language models are publicly released and can be found here.
Saturday visiting day
UCAS applicants are welcomed to the School of Computer Science for an Undergraduate visiting day.
Event details
- When: 3rd March 2012 11:00 - 21:00
- Format: Visiting Day
Special software to trawl thousands of historic archives to uncover Empire trade boom
Professor Aaron Quigley’s research on exploratory visualisation allows historians to trace the flow of a wide range of natural resources around the globe.
By working with world experts in text mining within the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance and domain experts in York University, Canada, we can bridge the research divide and answer historical questions on trading
Principal’s visit
Event details
- When: 11th May 2012 10:00 - 11:30
- Where: Cole 0.35 - Subhons Lab
School Seminar by Eoin Woods
The Role of the Software Architect in Industry
Eoin Woods is a professional software architect and amateur software architecture researcher, having spent over 20 years in software engineering practice and contributed a number of papers and a co-authored book to the research literature on software architecture. In this talk, he will discuss how the two worlds relate to each other, the context for software architecture provided by enterprise software development and what software architects actually spend their days doing. The aim of the talk is to provide an honest insight into the day-to-day work of an industrial software architect, while still inspiring people to become one!
Event details
- When: 8th May 2012 15:00 - 16:00
- Where: Phys Theatre C
- Series: CS Colloquia Series
- Format: Colloquium