The School hosted a hugely successful StacsHack last month. We congratulate Stacs St Andrews Computing Society for organising and running a fantastic event. Hackathons allow students with a range of talents and aptitudes to form groups and create innovative projects in 24hrs. It’s clear from the many photos that great fun was had by all. … School Hosts StacsHack 2015
Speaker: Nick Taylor, University of Dundee Date/Time: 2-3pm March 10, 2015 Location: CS1.33a, University of St Andrews Abstract: Engagement with local issues is typically very low, despite digital technologies opening up more channels for citizens to access information and get involved than ever before. This talk will present research around the use of simple physical … March 10th, seminar by Nick Taylor: Sustaining Civic Engagement in Communities
The first real test of the CNC Router milling a printed circuit board took place this week and the results so far are very encouraging. The PCB design is part of a suite of hardware required for a research project. This involves the development of a Science grade Arduino we have called Scienceduino , it … CNC Router Test PCB Made
Building the news search engine, by Ramkumar Aiyengar, Bloomberg Abstract: This talk provides an insight into the challenges involved in providing near real-time news search to Bloomberg customers. Our News team is in the process of migrating to using Solr/Lucene as its search and alerting backend. This talk starts with a picture of what’s involved … School Seminars: Building the News Search Engine – Bloomberg
The Scottish ADRC is led by Chris Dibben at the University of Edinburgh, and is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council. The ADRC – Scotland: Brings together major Scottish centres of research, and builds on predecessor organisation structures, involving secondary analysis of public-sector data in order to create a common framework for research … Administrative Data Research Centre – Scotland, St Andrews team
Steve Linton and Alexander Konovalov were successful in the application for the EPSRC-funded Collaborative Computational Project called CoDiMa (CCP in the area of Computational Discrete Mathematics): CoDiMa (CCP in the area of Computational Discrete Mathematics) CoDiMa is centred on two open source software systems: GAP and SAGE which are already widely used for research and … CoDiMa (CCP in the area of Computational Discrete Mathematics)
Reasoning about Racy Programs under Relaxed Consistency A PhD studentship, in collaboration with MSR (Cambridge) http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/global/apply-europe.aspx> Each Microsoft scholarship consists of an annual bursary up to a maximum of three years. The amount varies in different countries and may depend on specific arrangement with public research funding agencies. The bursary continues automatically the following years, … A PhD studentship, in collaboration with MSR (Cambridge)
The first set of Computer Science Distinguished Lectures in 2015 will be given by Prof Mothy Roscoe of ETH Zurich, 09:15–15:30 on Thursday 2nd April in the Byre Theatre. Computer systems are not what they used to be, and the days when a machine could be described as a processor, some memory, and some I/O … What’s happening to computer hardware, and what does it mean for systems software?
A new CNC Router has just been undergoing its initial testing and calibration procedures. Its purchase was jointly funded by the School and the Research Groups of Professor Al Dearle , Professor Simon Dobson and Dr Miguel Nacenta. The router will be used for the manufacture of printed circuit boards , it can also be … A New CNC Router
Available on a coffee table (Jack Cole) near you: Notable Women in Computing playing card deck featuring 54 notable women in computer science. Play your favourite card game and learn more about the history and future of women in computer science. Read more about the KickStarter and Wiki Project.