School of Computing News

The School of Computing is seeking to appoint a Head of Computing (Medway) to lead our team at our Medway Campus. The post is given the grade of Professor to reflect the level of leadership and managerial responsibility. The successful candidate will have vision and proven leadership skills as well as a successful track record in research and teaching at all levels. S/he will report directly to the overall Head of School and will play a crucial par...

The School of Computing has launched the Kent Crypto Challenge as part of the University of Kent's 50th Anniversary celebrations. The Kent Crypto Challenge is a series of texts, encrypted with the Enigma machine, which are waiting to be cracked. The challenge has been set for under 18s, current students and alumni to see if they can unlock the secrets of Second World War coding systems. The Kent Crypto Challenge is part of the University of Kent's 50th Anniversary celebrations,...

Have you got a bright idea on how you'd like to improve your neighbourhood using technology?  How would you like to improve community spaces?  From beaches, markets, bus stops and skate parks to urban games, accessibility, learning zones, outdoor spaces, busking or street art – if you've got an idea, the Embrace Your Space challenge could help it become reality. Through the project  local peo...

The second Medway Research Festival took place at the Pilkington Building, Medway campus on 10th September. The Festival was based around a series of short presentations, discussions and demonstrations from research staff and students from the University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University and Greenwich University, which share the Medway campus. The School of Computing displayed its research activities on Unconventional Computing via memristor, Brain Computing and Big Data. Head of S...

The School of Computing will host a variety of activities at the upcoming University of Kent Open Day on Wednesday 17th September. Demonstrations showing a variety of research and student projects will run in the School of Computing building on the Canterbury campus from 9:30 to 15:00, with admissions officers available there and in the sports centre all day. There will be a panel session in Cornwallis SW101 (Brian Spratt room) in the Cornwallis building, fo...

Dr Peter Rodgers, Director of Research and Enterprise at the School of Computing and his collaborators Dr Peter Chapman and Dr Gem Stapleton, both at the University of Brighton, have been awarded Best Paper. The award was given at the Visual Languages and Computing Workshop, part of the  20th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS) for their paper “PaL Diagrams: A Linear Diagram-Based Visual Language“. The DMS conference...

The School of Computing will be hosting computer scientists from five continents in two international symposia. Dr Olaf Chitil and Dr Andy King from the School are co-chairs for these prestigious events in the logic and functional programming communities. The 16th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP 2014) will take place from 8-10 September 2014 in at the University of Kent in Canterbury. PPDP brings together r...

Dr Peter Rodgers has been appointed as the School’s Director of Research and Enterprise. The three-year post begins in September 2014 until August 2017. Head of School, Professor Frank Wang said, ‘Peter’s work is in information vizualisation and diagrammatic reasoning, including applications to mapping such as metro (underground) systems and he has a track record of publishing in international conferences and leading journals. He also ...

Dr Eerke Boite and Dr Julio Hernandez-Castro of the University's School of Computing and Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security Research have asked poignant questions following an announcement by the National Crime Agency (NCA). The NCA said it had made 660 arrests after an operation to identify people who had viewed indecent images of children online. The cyber crime experts argue that this announcement raises important qu...

New graduates Matt Levett and Chris Detsicas will be going on an African adventure this summer as part of their Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) Gold awards. The trip will include an expedition on foot along the coast from South Africa to Mozambique and back, visiting a school and an orphanage, taking part in a game ranger basic skills course and being challenged to live on one rand per day. Matt explained; ‘The main challenge is not physical, it is being in a completely difference culture for ...