School of Computing News

As part of the University of Kent Think Kent series – a collection of YouTube videos celebrating research with international impact at the University – Dr Carlos A. Perez-Delgado explores the future of quantum computing. Google, Intel, IBM and NEC are just a few of the large, well-known companies that have announced large investments, and accomplishments, towards building large-scale quantum computers. But, what is a quantum computer? In this t...

Sam Cordner-Matthews, a Computer Science with a Year in Industry student, has received a Digital Recognition Award while on placements at Schroders. The Digital Recognition Awards are given to placement year students who have made a significant contribution to digital at Schroders. Sam said ‘I was given the Digital Recognition Award for my effort in Schroders' Digital Innovation Challenge after winning the Best Technology prize for our hackathon e...

Shutterstock Jason Nurse, University of Kent Cybercriminals have just been given yet another route to get malicious software (malware) onto your personal mobile devices. The hugely popular video game Fortnite has become one of the first major apps to bypass official app stores and encourage users to download its software directly. In doing so, it's also bypassing the security protections of the app stores and chipping away at a system that has worked r...

Over the past year, the School of Computing has continued to have a global reach in its research, student recruitment and engagement activities, showcasing the truly international impact of the School. Raising our profile through research The government-run Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise ranked 100% of the School’s research impact ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ and the latest research in the Sc...

The aim of most research is to achieve impact, but a new research project in the School of Computing aims for the opposite – to reduce impacts. Palaniappan Ramaswamy, Ian McLoughlin and Howard Bowman have been given an award of £195k from the Road Safety Trust for "Using Cognitive Responses to Assess and Improve Vehicle Brake Light Designs". The grant's aim is to assess current LED brake lights and to improve th...

The University of Kent has achieved accreditation from the government as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR).                                 The announcement, made by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, comes in recognitio...

Computer Science with a Year in Industry Alumna, Christine Berry (formerly Moore) has been listed in The Drum's 50 under 30 Women in Digital 2018. The Drum's 50 under 30 women in Digital celebrates the outstanding level of female talent in the digital media and marketing industry, based on nominations from readers of The Drum and curated with the help of a panel of industry experts. Christine graduated from Kent i...

Dr Delaram Jarchi has joined the University of Kent as a lecturer in computing, in the School of Computing. She is a member of the Data Science group and is based at the Medway campus. Delaram joins Kent from the University of Oxford where she was a senior researcher at the computational health informatics lab and a research member of the Wolfson College Oxford. Dr Jarchi's research interests are body sensor network, biomedical signal processing and mac...

The School of Computing’s Administration Manager, Angela Doe, has retired from the School after 13 years in post. Colleagues from around the University gathered to say their goodbyes and to thank Angela for her professional and personal support. Head of School, Professor Richard Jones thanked Angela for her professionalism and expertise in finance in particular as well as being ‘a thoroughly lovely person’. Angela’s post-retirement pl...

The School of Computing welcomes new lecturer Dr Stephen Kell. Stephen joins the School from the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. He has also worked at Oracle Labs, the University of Lugano, and the University of Oxford. Stephen does practical research on programming systems will be joining the  Programming Languages and Systems (PLAS) research group. His interests span most  aspects of program...