School of Computing News

Free Film Screening of Hidden Figures In celebration of Black History Month, the Student Success team invites students from the School of Computing to a free screening of Hidden Figures. This inspiring film shares the untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, three African-American women working at NASA as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history, the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. T...

Before the start of term new and returning students were encouraged to take part in the Userinyerface challenge; an infuriating race to complete a badly designed form on a website. Undeterred by the deliberately awful interface, School of Computing students rose to the challenge, with many submitting their best efforts several times as they got faster. The winning students managed to complete the challenge in just one second. If you would like to know how th...

In 2020 we are used to hearing bad news, but the placements team in the School of Computing are bucking that trend. 54 students have secured a Year in Industry working in paid tech roles in a range of sectors from banking to local government. Industrial Placement Officer Katie Van Sanden said: ‘It's wonderful that so many of our students have managed to secure placements this year. It goes to show that the skills they are developing at univer...

Research from Dr Chee Siang (Jim) Ang from the School of Computing, alongside University College London, has revealed that popular games apps such as Tetris could one day be used to diagnose early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Dr Ang’s research was covered in inews where you can read the full story. Dr Ang recently joined the School of Computing, having previously worked in the School of Engineering an...

Dr Jason Nurse is collaborating with colleagues from Cardiff University, Royal Holloway University of London, Cranfield University and industrial partners, Cybsafe and Cybersmart, on a new project related to remote working post-Covid-19. The project is funded by the EPSRC via the Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust Engagement NetworkPlus (SPRITE+ HUB) and will research the risks and challenges surrounding Trust, Identity,...

Dr Jason Nurse has earned a well-deserved promotion to Senior Lecturer. Since joining the School of Computing in July 2018, Jason has become heavily involved in the University and School, and in the advancement of cyber security research and teaching locally and internationally.   This has included becoming Director of Public Engagement of the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), Theme lead for the Sciences for th...

Kent's MSc Cyber Security programme has become a fully certified master's degree recognised by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – a subsidiary of the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The full certification, which is valid for 5 years (2020-2025), confirms that Kent's MSc Cyber Security programme meets the criteria defined by the NCSC for mast...

Many industries have been hit hard by COVID-19, inevitably making the job market a more competitive environment. While this can be seen as a challenge for those looking to start a career or change career direction, it also means there is no better time to bolster skills with postgraduate study – whether a master's degree, PhD or other. Postgraduate students at Kent have shared their views on how returning to edu...

All applicants, students and staff from the School of Computing are invited to take part in one of the most excruciatingly annoying challenges on the internet. User Inyerface is ‘a challenging exploration of user interactions and design patterns.’ This challenge will show you why well considered web design and user interfaces really matter and how we take good design for granted. To play the game, simply fill in...

BSc Computer Science student Mihail Munteanu took first place in the American Express global intern coding challenge while on an internship at Amex. In total, 278 interns attended the challenge from the UK, the US and India. Mihail said 'We were given 3 algorithmic problems and were asked to solve them using the most efficient way. In order to solve these problems we had to be familiar with data structures, algorithms and time complexity, luckily e...