School of Computing News

The University has launched a series of masterclasses in Erlang, a programming language that powers websites around the world, including WhatsApp. The free online classes  include contributions from Simon Thompson, Professor of Logic and Computation at Kent, and industry experts Joe Armstrong (one of the inventors of Erlang) and Francesco Cesarini (founder of the largest Erlang consultancy). The masterclasses build on the School...

As preparation for a Paris to Canterbury cycle ride in September, Professor Richard Jones and colleagues from the University took park in a 60-mile charity bike ride on Sunday 28 June. In September a group of riders will be cycling from Paris to Canterbury as one of the 50th anniversary Goldstein Cycle Rides (named after Professor Laurence Goldstein, former Head of School for European Culture and Languages). Riders include ...

The School of Computing has been presented with a bronze Athena SWAN award for gender equality work. The award formally recognises the School’s commitment to combating underrepresentation, and advancing the careers of women in science research and academia. Head of School Professor Frank Wang, School Administration Manager Angela Doe and Kent’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Manager Tracey Lamb received the award from Professor Dam...

Dr Mark Batty has won the 2015 John C Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award. This prestigious prize is presented annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the area of Programming Languages from submissions received globally. Mark, who is joined the School of Computing as a Lecturer in March 2015, completed his dissertation titled The C11 and C++11 Concurrency Model while at the University of Cambridge. The dissertat...

The School of Computing is hiring lectures in computing at both our Canterbury and Medway Campuses. The successful candidates will help us to build on the success of the recent REF exercise when we were ranked in the top quartile of 89 Computing departments across the country, coming 22nd for Research Power and 12th for Research Intensity. We are particularly interested in appointing in the research areas of Security or Programming Languages in Canterbu...

The School of Computing is looking to recruit experienced staff to assist with undergraduate classes at both our Medway and Canterbury campuses. The hours of work will be flexible and agreed in consultation with the post-holders. The School of Computing is a welcoming and diverse environment that has recently been recognised with a Bronze Athena SWAN award.  We are keen to enhance the balanced, inclusive and diver...

The School of Computing has hosted two film crews in an afternoon, both interested in the cyber security work of the School. Lecturer Julio Hernandez-Castro was asked his opinion on a new Kent County Council campaign to help fight cybercrime for a KM online video. He was also interviewed about his research for a programme called Inside UK Education which will be shown in Thailand as part of its long-running World 360 degree documentary series. ...

Dr Matteo Migliavacca has been awarded funding for a two-year project on stream and transactional processing from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The project will be looking at the integration of the stream processing model (which processes streams of data in real time) with the the recent developments of in-memory transaction processing systems (which process data which was previously stored...

Eighty top academics including Eerke Boiten from the School of Computing and Alan Mckenna from Kent Law School have signed an open letter to Google, arguing for more public scrutiny over its handling of ‘right to be forgotten’ requests. The letter was featured in the Guardian and stated that since The European Court of Justice ruled that Google is responsible for removing links to outdat...

Today Kent launched the pilot K-MOOC (Kent massive open online course) in Functional Programming in Erlang (a programming language) with over 500 participants. The K-MOOC is a joint project led by Professor Simon Thompson from the School of Computing, Mark O’Connor, a Distance Learning Technologist for the University, and Stephen Adams, who is the Teaching Assistant for the course and a PhD student in computer science. This K-M...