World-class research
World-leading researchers in key areas, such as systems security, communications and computing education, and interdisciplinary work with biosciences and psychology all contribute to an extensive support framework for postgraduate students and early career researchers.
World-class teaching
An internationally recognised Centre of Excellence for programming education, the School of Computing is a leader in computer science teaching and home to two National Teaching Fellows, authors of widely used textbooks and award-winning teaching systems such as BlueJ and Greenfoot.
Latest news
Google Summer of Code for Kent computing postgraduate
Laurence Hellyer, a PhD student in the School of Computing, has won a $5000 studentship from Google for the 2010 Summer of Code. Laurence will be developing an On the fly copying garbage collector for the Jikes Research Virtual Machine (Jikes RVM) project.
Guest lecture by world-leading visual effects company
Hannes Ricklefs, R&D lead and Head of Pipeline at the The Moving Picture Company (MPC) and Kent computing graduate, entertained students and staff with an animation-packed presentation covering the latest research and development at MPC as demonstrated in recent movies such as Clash of the Titans, Watchmen and The Chronicles of Narnia.
Kent Computing Postgraduate Conference 2010
The School of Computing recently held its annual postgraduate conference. Research students used the opportunity to present their work to an invited audience of academic staff and to review the work of fellow students.
Kent researcher wins best paper at EuroGP conference
Dr. Alberto Moraglio, Centre for Reasoning Research Fellow in the School of Computing at the University of Kent, received the best paper award at the European Conference on Genetic Programming in Istanbul this month.
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* Guardian Good University Guide 2010
** Independent Good University Guide 2009