The HEA has recently funded 20 scholarships which are aimed at helping HEIs work with partner schools and consider the impact of CfE on future higher education content and delivery when school-leavers enter higher education from 2015/16. Lisa Dow has been awarded a scholarship to develop the use of virtual environments in Social Science and … HEA ‘Curriculum for Excellence Scholarship Scheme’
It’s a little busier in the fish tank this week. 20+ new fish have joined the established Cichlid and Catfish population.
The annual CS1006 challenge took place yesterday in the subhonours lab. Students had been designing AIs to play John Nash’s game, Hex, this year. Congratulations to the competition winners – Team – “Vanilla Dynamite’s Nuclear Computer Posse” Students – Chris Lamb, Maria McParland and Robin Nabel. An abundance of healthy foodstuff and some rather unique … CS1006 AI Competition
Juliana Bowles, the School Disability Coordinator, was runner-up for the new Frotscher Helping Hands Medal for Excellence in Supporting Students. This recognises her selfless commitment to providing support to students at St Andrews. In the current academic year, we have been very happy to welcome our first totally blind student, Saad Attieh. Juliana has coordinated … Frotscher Medal Runner-Up
SACHI the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction research group and the Big Data Lab St Andrews are pleased to announce they will jointly run a SICSA supported “Big Data Information Visualisation” summer school in 2013. This summer school is concerned with the processing, management and hence presentation of “big data”, in an intelligible form with … Summer School – Big Data Information Visualisation
The Honours Lab proved rather lively this afternoon as the JH team projects draw to a close. The students have been exploring OpenSimulator with a view to creating a 3D Interactive St Andrews. Demonstrations highlighted a variety of research areas ranging from social media scraping to NPCs conversing about historical St Andrews. Good effort everyone! … Junior Honours Team Project
Three of our alumni Andrew McCarthy, Adam Copp and James Smith, dropped by to say hello last week. They were visiting the University to represent Google at the Tech Talk by Google engineers held in the University Gateway Building. Many will remember Adam, now a software engineer working at Google in London, as the IT … Graduates Return to Computer Science
Abstract: Contemporary ICT infrastructures are trending towards a pervasive substrate of internet-connected sensors, actuators and human interfaces. Effective use of this pervasive infrastructure is key to solving 21st century challenges such as: mass transportation, energy conservation and environmental monitoring. Building effective applications that execute on this infrastructure requires advanced middleware support that respects the resource … System Seminar: Middleware support for wireless sensor network, by Prof. Danny Hughes, KU Leuven, Belgium
The recipient of the 2012 award for the best doctoral dissertation completed at a Canadian university in the field of Human-Computer Interaction is Dr. Uta Hinrichs. Uta is a postdoc in the SACHI Group with us here. Canadian Human Computer Communications Society Société canadienne du dialogue humain-machine Uta Hinrichs 2012 Bill … 2012 Bill Buxton Best Canadian HCI Dissertation Award
Abstract Wireless sensor networks are attracting increasing interest but suffering from severe challenges such as power constraints and low data reliability. Sensors are often energy-hungry and cannot operate over a long period, and the data they collect are frequently erroneous due to complex causes. Thus a challenging research question is how to optimise energy consumptions … System Seminar: Unifying sensor fault detection with energy conservation, on 23 April, by Lei Fang, University of St Andrews