School of Computing News

The School of Computing is delighted to announce the renewal of its partnership with ECE, a leading French engineering school based in Paris and Lyon.  Under the agreement, postgraduate students from ECE can spend a year at Kent taking one of our advanced Masters programmes. Representatives form ECE visited the School of Computing on Thursday 18 July to discuss ways to broaden the relationship, including staff and student exchanges, summer schools ...

Graduating students and staff celebrated the success of prize winners at a reception for graduating students. The awards for Canterbury-based students were presented by Head of School Professor Richard Jones and Kent alumnus Tyler Amos, from the placement award sponsors Fivium. Computer Science Project Prize This prize is awarded for the best final year Computing Project. The students who are prize winners are those who achieved th e highest marks for their ...

Adrien Witon has been conferred with a PhD for his research into EEG-based mental states identification. Dr Witon was supervised by Dr Caroline Li with Professor Samuele Marcora and Professor Howard Bowman. He was awarded the title of Dr at a graduation ceremony in Rochester Cathedral on 9 July 2019. Since completing his research Adrien has taken up a post doctoral position in the Centre for Neuroprosthetics at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Research abstract Mental health has a huge imp...

At the Medway graduation on 9 July, Professor Ian McLoughlin presented the prizes to the 2019 graduates who had excelled in academic achievements or contribution to the life of the School. Computer Science Project Prize James Merrington "James is a self-driven and highly motivated individual. He used industry standard throughout the development of his final year project, InsomiApp, a cross-platform sleep-tracking app and website. He delivered excellent contributions to all areas of the p...

Four Year in Industry students from the School of Computing have attracted the attention of Apple for their new music service, Musish. Having realised that Apple does not offer a web player for its music service in the same way that the likes of Spotify does, James Jarvis, Raphaël Vigée, Filip Grębowski and Brychan Bennett-Odlum developed their own open-source web based player for Apple Music. Musish uses an Apple Music subscriber's e...

Lecturer Dr Jason Nurse has been called on to give his expert opinion on a security vulnerability on a popular gaming platform. Jason is quoted in a Wired UK article entitled ‘A series of dumb security flaws left millions of EA Origin users exposed’. EA are the makers of hugely popular games such as the FIFA series of football games, Star Wars, Madden NFL and SIMS. Researchers managed to find a flaw in the way EA managed its subdomain names ...

"It must be wonderful working at a university with that long summer break." That's something you'll hear a lot if you ever choose a career in higher education. For three months between the end of the summer term and the start of the next academic year, it would be nice to think that we all relaxed in hammocks with a glass of something chilled on hand. So students are of...

New content is now available in the University of Kent library (with many online): Computer Science: Over 1000 ebooks published in the last three years covering key topics including big data, databases, opensource, web development, Java, Python, Apple & Swift along with the Apress' series of Microsoft and .NET titles. Mathematics and Statistics: an extra 1500+ titles including emerging topics in cybersecurity and mathematical biology. Intelligent Ro...

Computing Support Lecturer Kwai Yoke McLoughlin has received not just one but two Above and Beyond Awards in May 2019 for providing good teaching, additional support to students and ongoing encouragement throughout the year. Students felt that she had gone above and beyond in helping to make the School of Computing in Medway a great place to study. Kent Union Above and Beyond Awards are nominated by students and conferred on good staff to recognise and encou...

Dr Jason Nurse from the School of Computing is involved in a new project led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) designed to make chatbots more trustworthy. From banking and insurance to shopping these human-like computer programmes are becoming increasingly common. But many people are not keen on disclosing sensitive information, hindering their effectiveness. As a result researchers at Kent, alongside UEA, Oxford Brook...