School of Computing News

David Chadwick, Professor of Information Systems Security in the School of Computing is raising money for King's College Hospital after their excellent care for him following a severe cycling accident. David was cycling down St Thomas' Hill, Canterbury in January when he was knocked off his bike by another cyclist, resulting in extensive injuries. He is currently on a phased return to work afte...

Eerke Boiten, University of Kent Google has some of the most powerful computers and smartest algorithms in the world, has hired some of the best brains in computing, and through its purchase of British firm Deepmind has acquired AI expertise that recently saw an AI beat a human grandmaster at the game of go. Why then would we not want to apply this to potentially solving medical problems – something Google's gra...

Two student teams from the School of Computing won prizes at an annual University innovation event. The ICE (Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise) Showcase 2016 on 28 April brought together academics, students and business owners from across the South East to learn more about issues, hot topics and cutting-edge innovation. The Student Knowledge Exchange winners were final year students based at the Medway campus who have been working as KITC ...

A team of students, representing Kent, competed in an ethical hacking event for the 13 UK Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSRs). The first Inter-ACE Cyberchallenge at the University of Cambridge intended to promote interest in practical cyber security and to foster links between the students at the ACE-CSRs. The main competition was a team-based Capture The Flag challenge, with one team per ACE facing ...

Final year School of Computing student, Rhys Harris, has been shortlisted for a Kent Student Award. Rhys has been nominated for ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community’ for devoting his time to distribute aid at the refugee camps in the ‘Calais Jungle’. The Kent Student Awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding contribution students make. The Local Community award recognises a student’s contribution in im...

Kent has been ranked 12th out of 125 UK universities in the Whatuni 2016 Student Choice Awards. The Whatuni Rankings are based on averages taken from reviews submitted by over 25,000 students and published on whatuni.com. Kent’s other recent league table achievements include: 16th in the Guardian University Guide 2016; 23rd in the Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2016; and 22nd in the Complete University Guide 2015. The Times Hi...

As part of the University of Kent Think Kent series – a collection of YouTube videos celebrating research with international impact at the University – Mark Batty explores how mathematics can improve computer systems. Modern computer systems have intricate and unusual memory behaviour. As a result, it can be dangerous to use intuition, specifications are universally unreliable, and the outcome o...

Dr Srivas Chennu has returned to the University of Kent as a lecturer based at the Medway campus. Srivas received his PhD from the University of Kent, specialising in computational and cognitive neuroscience, followed by a postdoctoral stint at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on understanding the neural network mechanisms underlying consciousness, and how they are altered in sleep, during sedation and in the vegetative and minimally co...

As part of the University of Kent Think Kent series – a collection of YouTube videos celebrating research with international impact at the University – Anna Jordanous explores what creativity is and whether computers are capable of achieving it. Can computers be creative? This seems like a contradiction. Computers are very good at mechanical tasks, churning through large data, processing an...

As part of the University of Kent Think Kent series – a collection of YouTube videos celebrating research with international impact at the University – Eerke Boiten explores who owns and controls your online information, especially on social media. One view of privacy is that it is all about autonomy and control. This talk looks at control over your personal data, especially when it goes onto th...