School of Computing News

Congratulations go to the final year students who have been awarded a prize for their outstanding achievements. The prizes were awarded to students who attended the graduation congregations at Medway on 8 July and Canterbury on 16 July. Edward Jones – Dean's Prize; a prize awarded for outstanding performance in the examinations. James Wilkinson – Rotary Prize; prize awarded for the best results in each faculty. Lucas Kummerle-Perger  – Rotary Prize; prize...

Information Technology student Charlotte Hutchinson has been been rubbing shoulders with the great and good of the tennis world during her time working with IBM behind the scenes at Wimbledon. She said; ‘I had the best two weeks at Wimbledon. I’ve had so much fun and met some amazing people!’ Charlotte was tasked with working on the Media Production Team providing the players on all the show courts with their match statistics and data ...

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 9:00 to 15:00, with admissions officers available there and in the sports centre from 9:00. There will be a panel session in Cornwallis SW101 (Brian Spratt room) in the Cornwallis building, for ...

The School of Computing has been certified as a university partner in the new UK-wide Network of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science. This certification is recognition of the School's role in improving computer science teaching in schools in the UK. The network of excellence is arranged by Computing at School (CAS) and BCS, the chartered institute for IT, with support from the Department for Education, Microsoft an...

Computing students currently on their placement submitted a diverse range of images to the first Year in Industry photo competition, which reflects the range of experiences students have during their placement year. The judges found it difficult to narrow it down to just two winners, so decided on runners-up in each category. The winners are Best individual photo: Winner – Matt Weeks, on placement at Cisco Runner up – Lucas Slater-Williams, on pl...

Student Charlotte Hutchinson will have a unique insight behind the scenes of The Championships at Wimbledon this summer. Charlotte who is a student of Information Technology with a Year in Industry at the Medway campus, is currently undertaking her placement year at IBM, the main sponsor of the event. Hundreds of staff at IBM applied to represent the organisation at the championships and Charlotte was one of only 24 who was...

The School of Computing has risen 11 places in the 2015 Guardian University Guide to 25th out of 102 computer science departments in the UK. The league table also highlights students’ high levels of satisfaction with their courses and excellent career prospects; 90% of our students are satisfied with their course and 88% are in a graduate level job or further study six months after graduating. The School has also been ranked 26th out of 105 UK Computer...

While most students manage to fit plenty of new experiences into their placements year, most don't go as far as planning an escape from an infamous prison island. However, that's exactly what Computer Science MSc student Elizabeth Bowen will be doing on Sunday 1 June when she takes part in an Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon on the streets and bay waters of San Francisco, California. Elizabeth is currently living and working in California as part of ...

The School of Computing has recently built a Makerspace in the Cornwallis Quad on the Canterbury campus. This building represents exciting new teaching and collaboration opportunities. Amongst other equipment, it contains milling machines, a 3D printer, laser cutter and extensive space for building and making digital artefacts. It is scheduled to open in Summer 2014. Initially the space will be used for learning and teaching within the School of Computing. A module in the second year will use...

Master’s student Deepak Selvaraj has been awarded a best employee prize of £500 in recognition of his excellent work on his industrial placement. Future Computing MSc student Deepak is currently working for communications infrastructure company Arqiva on a 12 month placement, having completed the first year of his Master's programme at the Canterbury Campus. He was recently asked to work on a project, for a leading client, to a very tight de...