UCL Financial Industry Series Hackin’ The City Hackathon April 6 – 7 2013 Organised by the UCL Financial Industry Series (UCL FIndS) in partnership with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Financial Services Knowledge Transfer Network, SWIFT and Level39 Technology Accelerator at Canary Wharf, the Hackin’ The City Hackathon brought together 55 … Students placed third in Hackin’ The City Hackathon
Q: What do the words in the tag cloud have in common? A: They all relate to research happening in the School of Computer Science. Some are conference contributions coming to a conference near you soon, and some will appear as forthcoming journal articles. The University research portal features publications and awards, and can be … Computer Science Research 2013 & Beyond
Work continues in the new Comp Sci Garden. It’s not Blue Peter or Beechgrove status yet, but look out Chelsea 2014.
Teaching discussion on assessment, feedback and moderation.
Congratulations to Alice Herbison who has been selected to receive a Carnegie-Cameron Taught Postgraduate Bursary. Alice has studied a number of undergraduate modules in the school and will begin her postgraduate studies in September on our new MSc in Human Computer Interaction. We look forward to seeing her in the department again soon. The Carnegie … Carnegie-Cameron Taught Postgraduate Bursaries 2013
ACM Computing Reviews has selected a recent survey paper written by Per Ola Kristensson and colleagues as one of the Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2012. The list consists of nominations from Computing Reviews reviewers, Computing Reviews category editors, the editors in chief of journals covered by Computing Reviews, and others in the computing … Computing Reviews’ Notable Books and Articles 2012
As the exam diet draws to a close for another year, our final year students are considering their next step after graduation. Stephen Haley will join PlanForCloud in August as a Software Engineer, working alongside Alistair Scott, another graduate from the school. PlanForCloud, originally ShopForCloud, was established by Hassan and Ali Khajeh-Hosseini and acquired by … What Next for Senior Honours?
We like to share success stories, especially when they relate to our Alumni. Congratulations to Greg Bigwood who recently joined AetherWorks LLC. as Senior Software Architect. AetherWorks LLC. is a Software Engineering, Research & Development lab in New York City. Computer Science Graduates Robert MacInnis, Allan Boyd and Angus Macdonald launched software company AetherStore™ earlier … Alumni Numbers Increase in New York City
Research into personalised gestures for user interfaces carried out by Miguel Nacenta, Per Ola Kristensson and two of our recent MSc students, Yemliha Kamber and Yizhou Qiang featured in the University News last week. You can read more about their research in the MIT Technology Review, and Fast Company’s Co.DESIGN. Their results question whether pre-programmed … Gesture-based Natural User Interfaces
Per Ola Kristensson and researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Montana Tech have created a new keyboard that enables faster thumb-typing.Their research featured in the University News, Techcrunch, The Guardian, The Independent and in the BBC News. Read the articles and follow the ongoing discussion online.