School of Computing News

The School of Computing will host a variety of activities at the upcoming University of Kent Open Day on Saturday 5th October. Demonstrations showing a variety of research and student projects will run in the School of Computing building on the Canterbury campus from 9:00am to 3pm, with admissions officers available there and in the sports centre from 9am. There will be a panel session in SW101 (Brian Spratt room) in the Cornwallis building, for prospective ...

The new Apple iPhone 5s launched this week features fingerprint recognition sensors to unlock the phone and make purchases, but according to an expert in cyber security at the University of Kent the new fingerprint recognition could be subjecting users to more security risks than they realise. Dr Eerke Boiten from the University’s Centre for Cyber Security Research, said: ‘Following recent revelations by Edward Snowden, it seems a bit unfort...

Research undertaken by the School of Computing into the extent of cybercrime and its risk to the UK population has been covered extensively by the national press. Articles appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Times Online, The Independent, The Sun and ITV. The research was also featured on a number of online news sites, including MSN, and appeared in several regional newspapers across the UK such as The Yorkshire Post. The research was und...

The School of Computing has appointed a Chief Researcher at BT Research and Innovation to its staff. Dr Theo Dimitrakos will begin his two-year, part-time professorship in September 2013. Professor Frank Wang, Head of the School of Computing said: “I am delighted to announce the appointment of Theo Dimitrakos. Theo combines deep technical knowledge with strong leadership skills. He also has the experience of managing large-scal...

A group of 37 year 11 students were given a taste of computer programming as part of their residential five day Summer School. The students from the University’s 18 Partner and KMPF (Kent and Medway Progression Federation) schools across Kent and Medway have been given the opportunity to experience university life first-hand, living on campus for the week and attending lectures and seminars. As part of their week (5-9 August) o...

The School of Computing’s placement team is celebrating a landmark. For the first time ever, over 100 students from the School will be taking a paid Year in Industry placement as part of their degree programmes in the next academic year (2013-14). In 2009-10 only 45 students opted to take the Year in Industry option. Katie Van Sanden, Placement Officer said: “Although the IT placement market is buoyant, our students are still competing nationally...

Professor Frank Wang, Head of the School of Computing, was invited to give a keynote speech ‘Towards 2020 Computing’ at Asia Modelling Symposium in Hong Kong on 23 July. In his talk, Professor Wang demonstrated his award-winning work on accelerating Cloud Computing applications. He also introduced the latest advance in his ‘DiscoverTable’ research with Professor Leon Chua and elaborated that a correct circuit element table could requi...

Two academics from the School of Computing have won a best paper award at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013). Fernando Otero and Alex Freitas’ paper entitled ‘Improving the Interpretability of Classification Rules Discovered by an Ant Colony Algorithm’, was the winner of the conference’s Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence track. The paper was shortlisted by the Track Chairs, Editor in Chief, a...

The University of Kent is one of three universities to join forces with Kent Connects – a public sector technology partnership which links all of Kent's councils with the emergency services and NHS – to help promote IT innovation and knowledge transfer across the county. Launched at the University's Canterbury campus on Wednesday 10 July, the Kent IT Alliance (KITA) will support collaboration and provi...

Wing Commander Andy Green also known as 'the fastest man on earth' sped down to the Canterbury Campus to speak about his land speed record and how he hopes to engage scientists and engineers of the future with his next attempt. The Royal Air Force fighter pilot and holder of the World Land Speed Record addressed delegates of ITiCSE 2013, the 18th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science E...