School of Computing News

Dr Jason R.C. Nurse, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Computing and Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), will take part in Sophos' Security SOS Week, which runs from Monday 13 to Thursday 16 September 2021. During Security SOS Week, four top security experts will share their expertise in a series of daily 40-minute podcast interviews by Sophos Senior Technologist, Paul Ducklin. On Wedne...

Research from the University of Kent and Aalto University, Finland, has concluded with four key guidelines for how society should view and utilise Artificial Intelligence (AI), based on fictional scenarios in 18th Century literature. The paper, 'Embodiment in 18th Century Depictions of Human-Machine Co-Creativity', notes that AI is viewed broadly as a tool to enhance creativity, but is actually...

A financial chatbot designed to support understanding and engagement with the stock market has been developed by School of Computing students Suraj Sharma and Joseph Brennan. The artificial intelligence (AI)-driven conversational agent, titled StockBabble, is built to empower retail investors, many of whom may be new to investing, and supplement their informational needs. Users can benefit from the chatbot application ...

We're so looking forward to welcoming you to the School of Computing at the University of Kent that we've put together a User Interface Challenge to keep your user design skills up to speed. You might be wondering 'so what's in it for me?'. Well, you'll be pleased to know those of who can complete this challenge in the fastest time can win a School of Computing hoodie*. If you're sharp-eyed and nimble-fingered, you won&apos...

A new educational serious game will help undergraduates learn about cyber security, thanks to innovative work by students at the School of Computing. Cyber security expertise is in high demand, as new technologies continue to emerge, and cybercrime becomes a growing threat to society. The serious game titled SherLOCKED was created in the style of a 2D top-down puzzle adventure and is designed to consolidate studen...

A group of undergraduate students from the School of Computing have submitted an algorithm that they have created to the Generative Design in Minecraft Competition 2021. The competition involves writing an algorithm that can create a settlement for a given, unknown Minecraft map. The challenge is to produce an algorithm that is adaptive towards the provided map, creates a settlement that satisfies a range of functional requ...

Three members of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) at the University of Kent, Dr Virginia Franqueira and Professor Shujun Li from the School of Computing, and Dr Vince Miller from the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR), have been awarded funding for a new project that aims to understand how cyber security skills development is currently covered...

A new research report by the University of Kent and the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) has found that the contribution of the insurance sector to improving cyber security practice is 'more limited than policymakers and businesses might hope' and recommends action by government and industry. Identified along climate change and pandemics as 'one of the most challenging r...

On what would have been Alan Turing's 109th birthday (23 June), Dr Fernando Otero, Deputy Head of School (Medway) at the University's School of Computing and an expert in machine learning algorithms, has commented on the legacy he has left. He said: 'While Alan Turing is probably most known for his contributions to code-breaking during the Second World War, his work had, and continues to h...