School of Computing News

Today we updated the School of Computing students with the latest information on how the Covid-19 virus will affect their  studies. The email was sent from the Head of School and School Administration Manager and is repeated here. Dear Computing Student, We are writing to provide you with further information and guidance to support you and your studies in light of the University's move to online teaching and assessment as a consequence of the gover...

School of Computing Lecturer Jason Nurse has received an Above and Beyond Award from Kent Union for going 'above and beyond' expectations in his role. Students have said 'Jason is very good at explaining things, has a good sense of humour and is very easy to talk to.' Kent Union Above and Beyond Awards are nominated by students and conferred on good staff to recognise and encourage student-centric practices which encourage and support lea...

The School of Computing hosted a hub for the Google Hash Code 2020 challenge on Thursday 20 February 2020. Hash Code is a team programming competition, organized by Google, for students and professionals around the world. Participants work in teams and choose a programming language to solve an engineering problem. Congratulations to the top teams from the University hub: Globetrotters – 1st \/\/ /\ |\| `|` | |\|  – 2nd Lefoot  – 3...

Computer Science Alumna, Alex Cachia has made it to the finals of the Digital Women Awards in two categories: Digital Women for Good award and Community Leader of the Year award. Digital Women celebrates women working in digital and digital business from the community and beyond, who are doing the most incredible work in the digital space they operate in, those who are making the right moves and going beyond and above what is usually expected. Alex has been ...

The Computer Science Society at Canterbury took part in Advent of Code in the run up to Christmas. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language. Over 40 staff and students were pitched against each other in a series of programming tasks. The winners were presented with specially designed badges, made in the school’s makerspace The Shed, at a...

James Pearson, a final year Computer Science with a Year in Industry student, won US $150 in Amazon vouchers as part of a global creative coding challenge. James was one of the first 100 entries in the LEGO MINDSTORMS Voice Challenge: Powered by Alexa competition, sponsored by Amazon. James identified that approximately 15% of people have some trouble hearing (according to a 2012 study of US adults) and  Alexa’s audible alarms and timers may ...

It’s #saferinternetday on 11 February, a day which aims to make sure that anyone using the internet feels safe online, whether they are browsing, banking, sharing information about themselves, giving an opinion or posting photos. Dr Jason Nurse, Lecturer in Cyber Security and Director of Public Engagement at the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre, has some great tips on how you and your students can stay safe online which he has rele...

Colin Johnson has won a prestigious BCS prize for his research in the field of artificial intelligence. He was presented with the award for one of the three best papers at the annual BCS AI conference in December run by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. The paper entitled Stepwise Evolutionary Learning using Deep Learned Guidance Functions discussed the design of a new approach to artificial intelligence, where the comp...

Academics in the School of Computing will be working with a local finance company to help them apply machine learning to their processes. The University of Kent has securing funding to work with Rochester based Fintech company, Portafina Investment Management Ltd, on a two year Knowledge Transfer Partnership project. The project will enable Portafina, a specialist pension advice firm, to apply state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to improve workflow ...

Dr Sanjay Bhattacherjee has joined the University of Kent as a Lecturer in the School of Computing. Sanjay has strong inter-disciplinary research interests around the theme of cyber security. He has been working on problems in cryptology, voting games and blockchains. Sanjay joins Kent from the University of East London, where he was a Lecturer in Computer Science and Informatics at the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering (ACE). Sanjay’s ...