Finding New Dogs using Old Tricks
Imagine you want to search for a picture of your dog on the internet. There are a million million images to search, but you have only one dog. If you have an automated way of comparing images (that’s almost solved,…
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What can Constraint Programming do for you?
Constraint Programming (CP) is a general purpose decision making and optimisation method. At St Andrews we have developed and maintain a CP toolkit. In this exhibit we will use 4 demonstrator applications to showcase…
Virtualising the Internet-of-Things
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a rapidly growing technology that is changing the way we interact with the world. From medical sensors to agriculture to personal fitness trackers, the IoT underpins modern life in many…
Using hardware to create debug information faster in an emulator
Modern Intel processors have a unique hardware feature that lets programmers get a continuous stream of information about what is happening inside the CPU. This incredibly useful feature allows programmers to figure…
Optimising Task Placement for High Performance Computing
When a complex computation is split up into work for different processors these processors often have to share data and communicate results as the computation progresses. The current state of the art doesn’t consider…
Improving Digital Literacy in Older Adults
How accessible is the technology we use today? After assessing modern interfaces, we have found that many design choices are not made with consideration of the elderly demographic. In a society with an aging…
BRIO train track generation
The aim of this project is to create an application for automatically generating BRIO railway layouts containing closed loops. The track-generating algorithm works in a depth-first-search manner, positioning pieces one…
A dependently typed system for the Hash programming language
What is the difference between math and programming? This project is an implementation of a dependent type system for an imperative programming language called Hash. Beyond standard programming language features, it…
Mini Machines, Mega Brains
Artificial neural networks are computer science-based representations of the biological brain. These networks can usually only be run on huge supercomputers with millions of processors that consume a lot of…
FPF: Fantastic Puzzles Fife
This is part of a year long module where the 3rd year students are split into groups of 5 and work on a larger software engineering project. This year the students are instructed to create a website to host puzzles…