School of Computing News

Every department in every university in the country has its research evaluated by its peers every six years, under the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The results were released on 18 December and it is very good news indeed for the School of Computing at Kent. Not only have we maintained our position in the top 25 departments, but we’ve also been recognised for the public impact of our research work. This is the first time that ‘impact&...

The School of Computing staff party looked to the past as staff said goodbye to a Professor Peter Welch and found out more about the ‘father of computer science’ Alan Turing. Staff gathered in the Gulbenkian for a drinks reception followed by a viewing of The Imitation Game, a biopic of Alan Turing, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Fifty-six people attended, including the Dean and the Head of Sports. Head of School, Frank Wang said, ‘Two year...

More than 60 people gathered at Woolf College at the University of Kent last weekend for the Kent Connects Transformed by you Innovation Day to find the final winner of this year's challenge. There was a strong field of competition and very innovative ideas so the judges had a tough decision to make. The winning idea is an app called MyCycle and the winning team had three Computer Science students, Max Harris, Matthew Boakes and Jamie Pont, assisting with the development.The MyCycle ...

Kent is hosting an Innovation Day open to anyone with a good idea to improve their neighbourhood with technology. The Innovation Day, on Saturday 29 November, is a culmination of the 'Embrace Your Space' challenge,  run by the Kent Connects partnership and co-sponsored by the University of Kent. The challenge has already caught the imagination of local people and University students, who have posted over 100 ideas onto the Transforme...

Master's student Hannah Ellerby has been awarded a scholarship from the FindAMasters.com and FindAPhD.com 2014 Postgraduate Scholarships scheme. Hannah who is studying MSc Computer Science at the University of Kent received the Engineering, Maths and Computing Masters Scholarship worth £500. Hannah responded to the open ended challenge of ‘Tell us why you deserve to win a scholarship’ with an innovative website. Hannah said: ‘I d...

Four members of staff from the School of Computing have had their success recognised with an academic promotion. Andy King has been promoted to Professor and Fred Barnes, Dominique Chu and Scott Owens have all been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Professor Andy King is one of five new professors at the University of Kent. 'My recent focus has been on cyber-security, with two threads of work. Firstly, I have been developing techniques for automating the classification of malware samples. Tho...

Professor Leon Chua, an EC Marie Curie Fellow at the School of Computing, was invited to  talk at an EC Research Day in Prague, together with Prof Peter Higgs, a Nobel Prize winner. Professor Leon Chua formulated theories behind the memristor, a new electrical component which will in the near future replace current transistor based digital memories. Professor Peter Higgs was awarded by Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for theoretical discovery of a n...

Jan Vitek (Northeastern University, formerly Purdue University) has been appointed as an Honorary Professor at the University of Kent starting from November 2014 until October 2019. The title of Honorary Professor is conferred upon distinguished individuals from related fields of academic research. Jan is very well known for his research in programming languages. His work has included type theory (ownership types, confined types); dynamic languages...

If you’re looking for careers inspiration or practical advice on how to get your dream job, Employability Week has something for you. Students looking to make the most of their skills and qualifications are invited to Employability week which is being held on the Canterbury campus from Monday 3 – Friday 7 November. This university-wide week of events will showcase all the ways in which you can get experience and gain skills whilst study...