MSc student participates in CERN School of Computing and the ACM Europe Summer School

MSc student Saad Memon participated in the CERN School of Computing 2019 and the ACM Europe Summer School 2019 in HPC Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications. CERN School of Computing (CSC 2019) involved a series of lectures and practical exercises over a two-week period. The Summer School is open to postgraduate students and research … MSc student participates in CERN School of Computing and the ACM Europe Summer School

DLS: Multimodal human-computer interaction: past, present and future

Speaker: Stephen Brewster (University of Glasgow) Venue: The Byre Theatre Timetable: 9:30: Lecture 1: The past: what is multimodal interaction? 10:30 Coffee break 11:15 Lecture 2: The present: does it work in practice? 12:15 Lunch (not provided) 14:15 The future: Where next for multimodal interaction? Speaker Bio: Professor Brewster is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction … DLS: Multimodal human-computer interaction: past, present and future

Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois): Parsl: Pervasive Parallel Programming in Python

Please note non-standard date and time for this talk Abstract: High-level programming languages such as Python are increasingly used to provide intuitive interfaces to libraries written in lower-level languages and for assembling applications from various components. This migration towards orchestration rather than implementation, coupled with the growing need for parallel computing (e.g., due to big data … Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois): Parsl: Pervasive Parallel Programming in Python

Software Carpentry Workshop

Registration is open for the next Software Carpentry workshop in St Andrews on September 23-24 in the Parliament Hall. We will teach UNIX shell, version control with Git and programming with Python. Please see the workshop page for further details and the link to registration via PDMS.

PhD viva success: Ilia Lvov

Congratulations to Ilia Lvov, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured with (from left to right): supervisor Dr Alex Voss, internal examiner Prof Tom Kelsey and Prof David De Roure from Oxford University.

Donald Robertson awarded Brendan Murphy Prize at MSN/Cosener’s 2019!

Each year in July, the (broadly-defined) computer networking community converges at Cosener’s House for the MSN workshop. The workshop is an informal gathering where attendees – students in particular – are encouraged to present on-going work and/or crazy ideas. From among the  presentations, the Brendan Murphy Award is given to the best student presentation, generally … Donald Robertson awarded Brendan Murphy Prize at MSN/Cosener’s 2019!

The Melville Trust for the Care and Cure of Cancer PhD award

The Melville Trust for the Care and Cure of Cancer have funded a PGR Studentship relative to the project entitled ‘Detecting high-risk smokers in Primary Care Electronic Health Records: An automatic classification, data extraction and predictive modelling approach’. The supervisors are Prof. Frank Sullivan of the School of Medicine and Prof. Tom Kelsey of the … The Melville Trust for the Care and Cure of Cancer PhD award

A First – CodeFirst:Girls courses recognised on academic transcript at the University of St Andrews

CodeFirst:Girls is an organisation which runs free coding courses for young women, with partner universities and companies across the UK. The University of St Andrews, School of Computer Science has been a keen supporter of CodeFirst:Girls for the past 5 years. We run their community courses in our premises with our students and staff volunteering … A First – CodeFirst:Girls courses recognised on academic transcript at the University of St Andrews