School of Computing News

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...

Professor David Chadwick has recently returned from a Foreign Office sponsored visit to Uganda as part of the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative (CCI). The mission of the CCI is to provide assistance to member states in realising their capacity to fight cybercrime. The mission was led by Paul Caruana, a lecturer in criminology at the University of Malta who recently retired as Superintendent from the Malta Police Force, where he was in charge of the Cybercrime Unit. The team's task was t...

2013 Computer Science graduate Paul Wozniak is highlighted in TechCrunch article Hey Silicon Valley, The British Are Coming (To Learn Your Startup Secrets). Paul is featured as an example of a UK graduate on the Silicon Valley Internship Programme which enables graduates to “bring back a little bit of the West Coast positivity to contribute to the local startup scene.” However, Paul is no stranger to Silicon Valley. His Computer Science with...

A new book by Dr Dominique Chu, a computer scientist at the University of Kent, provides fresh insights into the relationship between science and society, as well as shedding light on topical aspects of modern life. Titled, The Science Myth – God, society, the self, and what we will never know, the book challenges the commonly-held view that science or the "scientific method" is somehow a privileged or more reliable way to generate knowledge than other human activities. Dr Chu...

Meridian TV interviewed Lecturer Julio Hernandez-Castro on 16 May. He spoke about cyber security following two recent attacks by hackers based in the southeast. Lewys Martin infiltrated the Kent Police website and has been jailed for two years. Maidstone Crown Court had heard that was trying to impress fellow hackers. In an unrelated case a hacker from South Essex has admitted breaking into the US air force computers at the Pentagon. Reporter Sangeeta Bhabra...

Lecturer John Crawford has been presented with the Kent Union Teaching Award for the sciences faculty. The popular winner was announced at the Kent Union Awards 2013 ceremony on 15th May in the Gulbenkian Theatre. The ceremony celebrated the achievements of students for the outstanding work they undertook whilst members of Kent Union clubs and societies. The event also recognised the contributions of the University's teaching staff, with awards for &apo...

The Programming Education Tools groups in the School of Computing at the University of Kent, led by Professor Michael Kölling, has received a research and development grant of US $510,000 from Oracle for further work on the BlueJ and Greenfoot projects. BlueJ and Greenfoot are two educational development environments to teach object-oriented programming using the Java language. Oracle, the owners of the Java language, have recently adopted Greenfoo...

Four School of Computing students have presented their work to a conference in Portland, Oregon. The undergraduates, Sam Betts, John Davidge, Jack Fletcher and Bradley Jones, have been spending their Year in Industry working for Cisco Systems in San Jose, California working on a project called OpenStack. They were selected to present their work to technology industry leaders at the OpenStack Developers Summit in April. OpenStack is an open-source cloud compu...

The School of Computing will be welcoming a distinguished Professor on to its team in August. Professor Leon Chua is an IEEE Fellow and an emeritus professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1971. Professor Chua has been appointed following an EU grant of €309k for ‘DiscoverTable’. The School of Computing is the host of the grant and Professor Chua ...