Undergraduate Visiting Day

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

Thursday Afternoon In Computer Science

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

2011 Frontiers in Education Conference

Colin and Alan’s paper, The Third Dimension in Open Learning will feature in the T2E Technical Session Engineering Frontiers of Instructional Technologies, today. The Frontiers in Education Conference taking place in South Dakota has become the premiere conference for innovative curricula made possible by three sponsoring professional societies. ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division, IEEE … 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference

Sword Ciboodle presentation

Sword Ciboodle will be visiting the University of St. Andrews on Tuesday 1st November between 1pm and 2pm. Come and join us in Jack Cole 1.33A to gain an insight into the Company and for information about graduate opportunities within the Research & Development and Professional Services teams. Opportunities exist for summer placements and full … Sword Ciboodle presentation

Beacon Series 2011-2012

A series of talks by Post-doctoral researchers from a number of academic schools across the University begin on the 20th October. The first lecture by Edwin Brady from Computer Science, will be introduced by Al. Chris Jefferson will be giving a talk in early March. The talks will take place on Thursday evenings from 6 … Beacon Series 2011-2012

Augmentative and Alternative Communication across the Lifespan of Individuals with Complex Communication Needs

Speaker: Annalu Waller, University of Dundee Abstract: Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) attempts to augment natural speech, or to provide alternative ways to communicate for people with limited or no speech. Technology has played an increasing role in AAC. At the most simplest level, people with complex communication needs (CCN) can cause a prestored message … Augmentative and Alternative Communication across the Lifespan of Individuals with Complex Communication Needs

Amazon presentation

Amazon is looking for outstanding software developers to join their development centre in Edinburgh. Come and learn about the company, and about our work in Scotland, devising, creating and growing major features and websites for Amazon worldwide. Our developers, designers and leaders work in small teams across the company, contributing to Amazon’s systems which are … Amazon presentation

Challenges in Social Network Visualisation

Aaron Quigley the Chair of Human Computer Interaction in the School and Director of SACHI, the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction research group gave a seminar this morning in Edinburgh at the School of Informatics.

Evolution of Radio Access Networks: Lighting up IQ by Francisco J. Garcia, Agilent Technologies

In this talk we will introduce how new mobile base station architectures are evolving not only to meet demand but also to become “greener” since at current rates of deployment, mobile networks are becoming very large CO2 contributors. These new base station architectures are also becoming enablers for new Radio Access Networks (RANs) where the … Evolution of Radio Access Networks: Lighting up IQ by Francisco J. Garcia, Agilent Technologies