The Interaction of Representation and Reasoning by Professor Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh

These lectures will take place in Lower College Hall, North Street. The lectures will discuss the close relationship between how knowledge and problems may be represented and how people and computers use these representations to guide their reasoning about the problems. 10.00 1. Title: The Interaction of Representation and Reasoning Abstract: Successful reasoning is dependent … The Interaction of Representation and Reasoning by Professor Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh

Computer Science Supports MacMillan

Another year, another successful Coffee Morning organised by Ishbel Duncan in aid of MacMillan Cancer care. Friday was the UK’s annual biggest coffee morning in aid of MacMillan Cancer care. Staff and students are pictured sampling the home baking on offer and participating in the Raffle.

Some Limits of Language: A Perspective from Formal Grammars and Languages by Prof Arvind Joshi, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Limits of language can be studied from various perspectives such as morphology, syntax, and semantics, among others. At the syntactic level, one direction that has been pursued very actively is via the theory of formal languages, beginning with the so-called Chomsky hierarchy. In this hierarchy, the finite state languages (regular languages) and the context free … Some Limits of Language: A Perspective from Formal Grammars and Languages by Prof Arvind Joshi, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA

St Andrews Students – Experience with Industrial Internships

Internships are fantastic opportunities to gain some practical experience as well as find out what is happening the real world of computer science! Come and hear some our UG students share their experiences of their 2013 summer internships. Melissa Mozifian: Adobe Waqas Arshad: AIG Mariya Hristova: Google STEP Sam Koch: Facebook

Scaling Skyscanner’s Flight Search & Making Mobile Applications at Skyscanner

Welcome to the first presentation in the School of Computer Science’s Seminar Series. Please join us on for a seminar on Skyscanner’s technology this Tuesday (September 24) at 14:00 in Purdie Lecture Theatre C. The two talks combined will take about 50 minutes with time for questions, and combine two topics presented by Skyscanner experts: … Scaling Skyscanner’s Flight Search & Making Mobile Applications at Skyscanner

Constraint Modelling Winners

At the annual conference on Constraint Programming, CP 2013, Ian Gent and Ian Miguel were members of the winning team in the “First International Lightning Model and Solve” competition. Many thanks to the organisers of the event and especially to Allen van Gelder of UCSC for having the idea of entering a manual team and for inviting us … Constraint Modelling Winners