School of Computing News

The effort to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to healthcare workers has been a main item on the news agendas for weeks. Members of the School of Computing’s technical staff have played a key role in stepping up to provide a face shields for local health care providers including Pilgrims Hospices, east Kent’s largest palliative care charity. Along with colleagues from Kent School of Architecture ...

The Kent IT Consultancy (KITC) is part of the School of Computing and is a student staffed IT consultancy delivering services to local small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Its mission is to solve business problems with technology and to make our student consultants more employable. This year the KITC had 26 undergraduate consultants who delivered between them 7000 hours of work across both Canterbury and Medway campuses. As well as running a project to recru...

Many people are using the Covid-19 lockdown as an opportunity to learn new skills. If learning more about the Erlang programming language has been on your to-do list, then you are in luck. A MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) Functional Programming in Erlang will be available from 4 May 2020 on the FutureLearn platform. The course is free and designed for anyone with prior programming experience, whether self-taught or professional. This University ...

Shao Yong is currently on her Year in Industry at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society which is playing a critical role in the coronavirus response. Shao is an undergraduate Computer Science student helping to develop web pages providing new content on the specialised care required for Covid-19 patients which will be available to all NHS workers nationally, with extra information for those who may have come out of ret...

We are pleased to welcome Jordan Regan to the School of Computing as Student Success Project Officer. The Student Success Project is a University of Kent initiative that commits to helping every student to achieve the best degree that they can. Jordan will be working as part of the professional services team and with Student Success Lecturer, Jacqui Chetty, to evaluate and improve the retention, attainment and progression o...

The School of Computing is part of a team from the University of Kent that has supported Pilgrims Hospices by creating 3D printed face shields to protect staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Colleagues from Kent's School of Computing, School of Architecture and Planning, and the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA) collaborated to design and supply 300 sets of personal protective equipment (PPE) for East Kent&ap...

A weather app developed by computing students as their final year project is available to download for iPhones. Bring Your Umbrella aims to stop you getting wet and was developed by students Chris Wood, Krishnee Manikum, Thomas Taylor, Charlie Panayiotou and Ishan Jand, who are either studying BSc Computing or BSc Business Information Technology. The app lets you knows when it is due to rain at your current location or on a planned trip, so t...

Simon Thompson, Professor of Logic and Computation retired from the School of Computing on Monday 6 April after more than 36 years at the University of Kent, having joined in 1983 . Simon has had a distinguished academic career with his research mainly focusing on functional programming, most recently in designing tools to help people to write and test programs more effectively. In particular, together with Huiqing Li, Reuben Rowe and many others, he has bee...

Richard Jones, Head of School of Computing and Professor of Computer Systems retires today after 35 years at the University of Kent. He joined Kent as a member of staff in 1985 after doing a Master’s programme, with a project supervised by Simon Thompson, who also retires today. Dick has had a distinguished academic career with his research mainly focusing on dynamic memory management and has published the definitive books on garbage c...

Dear all, As the new Head of School, following the retirement of Professor Richard Jones, I wanted to introduce myself and thank everyone for their patience and resilience at this challenging time. I will be working as the Head of School until December, when the new Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences will be up and running. Dick Jones has done a fantastic job of leading the School and we are in a strong position to face the challeng...