School of Computing News

A School of Computing student has been presented with the Duke of Edinburgh (D of E) gold award by Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, at a ceremony at St James’s Palace in London. Peter Kiely, who is a first year student at the University’s School of Computing, spent more than two years completing five sections of the highly-regarded award, which aims to help young people develop their skills and improve their emplo...

A Kent Union society, popular with School of Computing students, has attracted interest from the online technology community by building an inexpensive antenna that can tune into a range of frequencies including, weather balloons and aircraft transponders. An article about TinkerSoc’s (The Tinkering Society) antenna, built from galvanized garden wire and connected to an inexpensive USB TV tuner, appeared on the popular tech website hackaday.com on Mond...

The University will hold a Postgraduate Open Day from 10am-2pm on Saturday 2 February. Anyone interested in gaining a postgraduate degree to launch or further their career in computing is welcome to attend. The Canterbury campus event will cover the School of Computing’s extensive range of full- and part-time programmes including the Conversion Master's which requires a good degree in any subject but no prior kno...

The Faculty of Sciences is holding a Research Festival on Thursday, 10 January in the new Colyer-Fergusson building to celebrate and raise awareness of the research across the Schools in the Faculty, and to facilitate new interdisciplinary collaborations. The Festival is primarily for staff, postgraduate students and final year undergraduate students within the Faculty but other members of the university and general public are welcome too. The Festival is being organised by Professo...

The European Commission has awarded £2.7million (€3.4million) to a computing consortium that includes the School of Computing’s Professor Simon Thompson. The award is for research that will develop innovative software testing techniques that build on the success of ProTest (2008-2011), an EU project that delivered new methods and tools to support property-based development of systems. Known as PROWESS (an...

Thomas Schilling, studying for a PhD in the University’s School of Computing, won a Gold Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for a poster and presentation in Copenhagen. Thomas’ presentation, titled ‘Lambdachine: a trace-based just-in-time compiler for Haskell’, was judged to be the best of three finalists in the Student Research Competition. His prize included an award medal, US$500 cash and ACM membership. His p...

Dr. Alex Freitas has been recently awarded a £104,000 EPSRC Discipline-Hopping grant entitled: "Predicting the Volume of Distribution of Drugs and Toxicants with Data Mining". This is a two-year grant, from Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2014. In this project Alex will be "hopping" into the pharmaceutical sciences, spending two and a half days per week based on the Medway School of Pharmacy, doing research in collaboration with Dr. Taravat Ghafo...