Dear Students, As you probably know, all three main University trades unions have called for a second strike day on 3 December. Since it’s revision period, not much teaching is scheduled for that day. If you do have a revision tutorial, catch-up lecture or meeting with your supervisor scheduled, we would expect it to go … Industrial Action Next Week
Over the past three years the School has been involved in the Sapere project, funded by the European Commission. Sapere has been looking at new ways to build large-scale pervasive systems, moving away from traditional client/server approaches to explore biochemically-inspired system models in which services and users can “bond” spontaneously as they encounter each other … Sapere project comes to a successful end
A team of Computer Science students from the University of St Andrews came first in the J.P.Morgan Code for Good Competition 2013 The Coding Challenge was open to all students enrolled fulltime at a university located in the United Kingdom, who are under-graduates or post-graduates and are 18 years of age or over. Teams of … Success in J.P.Morgan Code for Good Competition 2013
Anna Clements, Head of Research Data and Information Services, University of St Andrews. Open Science’ seems to be one of the hottest topics around with organisations and funders from the G8 downwards stressing the importance of open data in driving everything from global innovation through to more accountable governance; not to mention the more direct … Evolution of our existing institutional research information infrastructure : a facilitator for Open Science?
School President James Anderson and Careers Adviser Ben Carter invited recent graduates Matt Hailey, Ali Scott, Craig Garrigan and Steve Lowson back to the School yesterday to share their experience of working in the real world since graduating, with our final year students. They have been successful in securing positions at highly regarded companies including … Tales from the Real World
Dear Students, As you probably know, all three main University trades unions have called for a withdrawal of labour on 31 October. In the School of Computer Science, we expect that most teaching scheduled that day will take place, and would advise all students to turn up for their lectures as normal, or even better, … Industrial Action Today
StACS will be holding its first big event of the year! It will take place in the MSc Lab in the John Honey building between 7pm and 2am on November 14th. The topic will be data visualization and will be sponsored by Witlr (http://witlr.com/). There will be free pizza, free hard and soft refreshments, a … StACS Hackathon hosted by Witlr
Dr Alan Boyd and Dr Nicholas Malden, D Young & Co LLP (Patent Attorneys) Intellectual Property – What, why, and how? In many technological fields, especially computer science, output isn’t a physical object that can be sold, but is an idea or an expression of an idea that comes from your mind. But how can … Intellectual Property – What, why, and how?
Well done to Sarah and Sophie Gent, who have been busy selling delicious home baking in the coffee area. The money raised will go to Children in Need. The bake sale pictured below is in full swing. Stocks are almost depleted.
In response to student interest, the Open Virtual Worlds group are seeking students interested in making things on a school hosted Minecraft server (accessible from both inside & outside the school). If interested, please get in contact with CJ on cjd44@st-andrews.ac.uk.