School of Computing News

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...

Ransomware is a growing threat as seen with the recent incident involving meat processing company JBS paying the equivalent of $11m (£7.8m) in cryptocurrency to cyber hackers. Dr Budi Arief, a cyber-crime expert from the University's School of Computing provides comment on how to best manage a ransomware attack or avoid one altogether. He said: 'The latest incident involving JBS demonstrates the real difficulties faced by victi...

This year's Kent Cyber Security Forum (KCSF 2021), hosted by the University of Kent's newly established Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), will provide insights into staying safe online against cyber criminals, how cybercrime and cyber attacks are investigated, and how to avoid the dangers of false information online and other types of online harm. Taking place virtually on Monday 28 June (10.00-16.00...

Researchers from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, School of Computing, and the School of Arts have developed an online platform to bring performing artists together remotely to rehearse and create mixed reality improvisational performance. The platform, called 'Virtual Director', provides a shared virtual 3D environment to connect performers who cannot rehearse face-to-face, as experienced by many ...

Geraldine Nyathi, MSc Computer Science student at the School of Computing, reached the finals of Kent’s Business Start-Up Journey Pitching Competition 2021 with her business idea My Care Buddy, a Customer Relationship Management app for the adult social care sector. The Business Start-Up Journey is run by the ASPIRE team in Kent Business School and is open to students on any deg...

The School of Engineering and Digital Arts and the School of Computing are delighted to have been awarded the highest grade of ‘Outstanding’ by Innovate UK's Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Grading Panel for their achievement in their KTP project. Nationally less than 10% of the KTP projects receive this grade. The KTP project, entit...

Congratulations to Professor Richard Jones, Emeritus Professor of Computer Systems in the School of Computing, who has been awarded Book Authority’s Best Memory Management Books of All Time and Best Data Structure Books of All Time for his book The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (Chapman & Hall, 2012). The book, co-authored with...

The University of Kent is hosting a series of 4 virtual Royal Institution Computer Science Masterclasses for Year 12 and Year 11 students progressing to A Level Maths. The series will run from Saturday 12 June to Sunday 10 July 2021. The classes are a collaboration between the Royal Institution, and the School of Computing, School of Engineering and Digital Arts and the School of Mathemati...

Welcome to Professor Ben Cosh who joins the University as Director of our Division of Computing, Engineering & Mathematical Sciences in September. Ben is joining us from the University of Reading where he is currently Head of the School of Mathematical, Physical and Computation Sciences. Ben completed a PhD at Goldsmiths, working with Bill Jackson on Vertex Splitting and Connectivity Augmentation in Hypergraphs, before starting his career ...