Congratulations to To Chris Schneider, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Chris is pictured celebrating with supervisor Prof Simon Dobson, external examiner Dr Radu Calinescu from the University of York, and internal examiner Dr Graham Kirby.
The School of Computer Science of the University of St Andrews is organizing the next Scottish Programing Languages Seminar which will be held on Monday 15th June 2015 in Lecture Room 2 of the Gateway. In the meantime you can keep up-to-date by following the SPLS website. For further enquiries please contact Frantisek Farka.
The School is welcoming teachers and representatives of Local Education Authorities to a departmental visit as part of the Teachers Together Conference. Attendees will hear about our computer science degree programmes, access routes and outreach activities.
Secondary School pupils from across Fife are given a taste of what studying computer science at university involves. They will take part in an interactive lecture and a programming activity. These sessions are part of First Chances at St Andrews.
S4 pupils take part in fun, hands-on activities themed around Computer Science and Medicine. They will have the opportunity to work in groups to build and deploy their own Android application. This session is run in collaboration with Reach Scotland, Access for Rural Communities (ARC), and the Academic Mentoring Project (AMP).
Computer Science was well represented at a workshop on the challenges of variability in data-driven research that was held earlier this week.
Abstract: Representing argument binding in compositional relational programs is an issue due to the syntactic problems. We first present our former research on using visualization to overcome this problem, and relevant user studies, and go on to discuss our recent work on syntactic improvements in solving the same problem. We are looking forward to feedback … Visualizing and writing variable-free compositional relational programs
Peter Redford Scott Lang (1850-1926) was a Professor of Mathematics at St Andrews University from 1879 until his retirement in 1921. He had studied at Edinburgh University, and taught there before being appointed to St Andrews. Having seen the “ordinary student fare of the mid nineteenth century and menus of term time dinners” he instigated … Scott Lang Dinner 2015
The Summer of V’s is an exciting series of four events on the Four V’s of Data Science: Veracity, Variety, Velocity and Volume. The series is coordinated by the new Institute of Data Intensive Research at the University of St Andrews. However, these events don’t simply target groups in Science, Medicine or the Humanities but … May 18th, Data Science Seminar Series or “a Summer of V’s”
Speaker: Andruid Kerne, Texas A&M, USA Date/Time: 2-3pm June 26, 2015 Location: CS1.33a, University of St Andrews Andruid is research scientist-artist investigating how people experience personal expression, creative ideation, and social engagement. He develops and evaluates expressive interfaces, computational architectures, and distributed systems that support creative processes of knowledge production and interpersonal communication. For … June 26, Andruid Kerne, The Future of Human Expression: Ideation − Play − Body-based Interaction