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- Kent and e-skills in partnership to advance professional placements
- Over £360,000 funding to improve memory management on multicore systems
- Kent awarded £187,989 to create logins for life
- Kent researchers make significant advances in molecular computing
- EPSRC grant for Refactoring and Neutrality in Genetic Programming
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2009
- Major award for Professor of Computing Education
- Knockholt Stingers are smart move champions of LEGO® Competition
- Kent develops prize winning renal diagnosis software
- World expert in concurrent programming collaborates with Kent
- Royal Society grant funds gene behaviour research
- Welcome to our new computing students
- Smart move launches FIRST LEGO® League 2009
- School of Computing academic publishes Greenfoot programming book
- Dr. Peter Rodgers awarded Royal Society Industrial Fellowship
- BlueJ's 10th birthday
- Kent students are TOPS
- Erlang project funded via Knowledge Transfer Partnership
- Computing lecturer, Aliy Fowler, joint recipient of £6,500 for curriculum development
- Computing Lab academic publishes "Erlang Programming" with O'Reilly Media
- Student startup wins Microsoft innovation award
- Computing students win Kent Innovation 2009 competition
- Computing Lecturer opens BioMedical Informatics Symposium
- £73,820 EPSRC grant to increase confidence in cryptography
- Mozilla helps UK Mirror Service achieve double record breaking month
- Face recognition researcher awarded best paper
- British Computer Society impressed by Greenfoot
- Student company rated one of the 20 best e-startups in Europe
- University of Kent Opens the Source Code for BlueJ and Greenfoot
- Financial rewards for Intel Essay Competition winners
- Excellence in research at Kent Computing Laboratory according to the RAE 2008 results
2008
- Dick Wall gives Centre of Excellence Distinguished Lecture
- Winners of the Intel sponsored Placement Essay Competition
- Winners of the Kent regional finals of FIRST LEGO® League 2008
- Kent graduate returns to give visual effects masterclass
- Kent IT Clinic shortlisted for Computing Project Award
- eScience Education at the University of Copenhagen
- Kent computing professor receives national teaching award
- e-skills promote the Greenfoot message to schools
- Kent wins three 'Best' awards at CPA conference
- IBM give mainframe talk to first year computing students
- Welcome Week Treasure Hunt winners 2008
- Successful launch of the Kent & Medway First LEGO® League 2008 regional finals
- Computing Academic Fellow to collaborate with CAS-MPG Partner Institute
- Hong Kong computing exchange programme with Kent - AWESOME!
- ISICA 2008 (China) invite Dr. Alex Freitas to present keynote speech
- US researcher collaborates with Kent on memory management
- Professor Julio Nievola from Brazil working with bioinformatic experts at Kent
- Computer Science Postgraduate Conference and Poster Fair
- Aliy Fowler wins 'Best Paper' Award at Computer Assisted Assessment Conference 2008
- £200,000 National Teaching Fellowship Scheme award to senior lecturer in computing
- Kent share in €2,709,821 ProTest project
- Computing students awarded graduation prizes
- Kent researcher funded to work with US experts on face recognition
- European conference Best Paper award won by Kent computing researchers
- Dr Andy King awarded Royal Society Industrial Fellowship
- Kent computing professor awarded €942,534 EC grant
- Radio Kent interview Kent computing lecturer in celebrations of 50 years of LEGO®
- Kent IT Clinic launches in Medway
- Computing students on Hong Kong exchange
- Computing students battle it out at semi-finals of IBM Universities Business Challenge
- Kent University student battles it out to become the new 'Unipreneur'
- Kent are tops at teamwork
- Sun Microsystems present 'OpenSolaris for Beginners' to Kent computing students
- PC Pro magazine team up with Kent in 'Teach your kids to code' feature article : direct link to article on PC Pro web site
- PC Pro magazine joins Kent in bid to teach kids to program
- Tribute to David Shrimpton
2007
- British Computer Society award for Kent computing student
- Sally Fincher named Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Winners of the FIRSTSM LEGO® League 2007 at the University of Kent
- Winners of the FIRSTSM LEGO® League 2007 at the Medway
- UK Mirror Service has record month
- Computing students visit IBM Hursley labs
- Why functional programming matters to Credit Suisse
- FIRSTSM LEGO® League 2007 at the University of Kent
- EPSRC Grant awarded to investigate evolutionary processes using computer sim ulation
- Leading companies bid to attract our best placement students
- XLAirways add authenticity to undergraduate project
- Computing Laboratory makes connexions with local schools
- The importance of innovation
- EPSRC grant awarded for Verification with Integer Polyhedra (VIP) project
- Kent IT Clinic wins Technology Enterprise award
- Kent student helps develop interactive E-Learning Centre in Kenya
- Computing students presented with prizes on Graduation Day
- Kent Computing Laboratory hosts Postgraduate Conference
- Team building weekend for postgraduate students
- IT Consultants Master New Skills at Kent
- CoSMos project awarded £398,058 EPSRC grant
- Three academic positions advertised today in the Computing Laboratory
- Tribute to Peter Brown
- Kent computing lecturer receives teaching prize
- Computing in the Classroom
- Computing books publicised with Book Talk
- Greenfoot wins Duke's Choice Award
- Guardian puts Kent in joint first position for computing careers
- Kent computing student gives Google TechTalk
- Café Scientifique takes science to the pub
- International symposium to focus on cancer informatics
- Kent launches new programming workshops for schools
- Kent hosts ICS 7th Programming Workshop
- Kent hosts ICS 7th Programming Workshop
- Placement students Campus Day
- James Gosling - the inventor of Java - visits Kent
- Congratulations to Kent students in programming competition
- Computing projects showcased at Undergraduate Poster Fair
- IBM eBusiness challenge to computing students
- University teaching prize awarded to Janet Linington
- IBM Mainframe Competition winners
- James Gosling to present Open Lecture at Kent
- Good luck to Kent Students in the Java programming competition
2006
- Kent Enterprise makes a success of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
- First Sun Centre of Excellence Annual Lecture at Kent
- Kent is a Sun Centre of Excellence in Object-Oriented Education
- Kent's students clinch new web contract
- Student Representatives co-ordinate Computing Laboraory festivities
- HE Academy-ICS development fund grant awarded to Kent lecturer
- St. Anselm's "Gecko Geeks" win Nano Quest Final 2006
- Computer Science Prestigious Paper
- Kent's Sun Centre of Excellence Annual Lecture announced
- Kent students taught how to hack, but for a good cause
- IBM opens its doors to Kent students
- Computing Magazine prize for Kent IT Clinic student
- Laboratoire d'Informatique du Littoral visit
- Knowledge Transfer Partnership Grant
- Siemens back for more students
- Nano Quest final draws near
- Security & Trust Talk by BT's Piotr Cofta
- Helping hand for LEGO® challenge schools
- OMG solutions to Application Integration problem
- Top academic accolade for computer scientist at the University of Kent
- Sun Releases NetBeans Version for Beginners
- Kent lecturer guests in Sun's "Jumpstart" video
- Erasmus students from Hungary contribute to Erlang Project
- First LEGOŽ League competition launched at Medway
- Visualization with Euler Diagrams
- FLL: Nanotechnology Challenges Unveiled
- Sun Microsystems' visit inspires new students
- Kent IT Clinic shortlisted for major IT industry award
- Treasure Hunt enjoyed by new students
- International Student Exchanges
- New course in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence
- Post Graduate Conference
- Ashford Schools Robot Day 2006
- Campus Day for Year in Industry students
- Industrial Experience - Austrian-style
- University of Bologna for Kent research student
- EPSRC Grant Success with LACE
- Student is banking on a top career
- Concurrent Operating Systems for a Parallel World
- £1,000 Microsoft Research Bursary to Kent student
- EPSRC Fellowship for Rodolfo Gomez
- Graph Games Research
- Computer science student wins £20K GRIST award
- Project Poster Fair
- Kent Hosts Only Official Source Forge Mirror in UK
- Local Government goes Open Source with Kent's help
- BBC R&D develop the Kamaelia Toolkit
- Dividing the Sheep from the Goats
- STMS Faculty Teaching Prize for Janet Carter
2005
- Research Project Award for David Chadwick
- Barbara Morris Learning Support Prize for Aliy Fowler
- Activity Weekend for New Postgraduate Students
- FIRST LEGO® League Winners
- James Whittaker gives Kent a testing time
- Winners of the FIRST LEGO League Medway final
- Microsoft Research Scholarship Competition
- Guest speakers support students in the Kent IT Clinic
- Java Posse helps spread the word about BlueJ
- Prestigious Paper Award for Research Student 2005
- Sun Start Placements Reunion
- Kent wins grant for Multi-institutional project integrating biology and computer science
- Teams gear up for technical challenge
- Richard Jones - Honorary Fellow of the University of Glasgow
- Summer Interns work in Computing
- Graduation Day - Joint Reception
- Kent's BlueJ Environment Receives Wide Recognition at JavaOne
- FIRST LEGOŽ League gets underway
- Google Award for Open Source project maintained at Kent
- Y12 students visit the University of Kent
- Summer School visits Computing
- National Teaching Fellowship for Sally Fincher
- Robot Day for Ashford Schools
- Presentation by ClusterVision Ltd
- Campus Day for Placement Students
- Forthcoming Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2005 Conference
- KS3 students visit the University of Kent
- Robots in the Classroom
- New academic appointments in the Computing Laboratory
- First Grant Success
- Microsoft Research Bursary Competition
- ASET Runner-up Award to Kent Computer Science Student
- Professor Peter Welch presents invited talk to the BCS Advanced Programming Group
2004
- Computing Laboratory researcher awarded Honorary Professorship in Peru
- Computing Laboratory researcher receives a further prestigious IBM Faculty Partnership Award
- Y12 students visit the University of Kent
- Visiting Professor from IBM gives master class on Systems Performance
- Functional Programming 3-day event
- FIRST LEGO League Winners
- Prizes awarded for Excellence
- Students assist with Computer Science Research
- Two top prizes awarded at the Communicating Process Architectures Conference
- Students face Robot challenge
- Robot battles at University of Kent
- Computing Laboratory strengthens links with IBM
- Student wins Year in Industry essay prize
- Computing Laboratory hosts Microsof t Lectures.
- Microsoft provides scholarships for Undergraduate Students
- Computing postgraduate, Paul Mutton, casts new light on the works of Shakespeare
- Garbage Collection and Memory Management Summer School
- Eli Lilly - Student of the year award
- Graduation Day - Joint Reception
- Members of the Computing Laboratory participate in the Race for Life
- Kent hosts the Integrated Formal Methods (IFM) 2004 Conference
- Sally Fincher receives IEEE Teaching Award
- Erlang: a one day course given by Franceso Cesarini
- New Appointments: Professor Ian Marshall, Visiting Researcher Will Harwood
- Prof. Peter Welch is invited speaker at Institute of Analysts and Programmes (IAP) Symposium
- Phd student Johnny Kelsey wins best Artificial Immune Systems paper.
- Research Student, Andy King, wins first place in ACM Research Competition.
- Dr David Akehurst receives award from Microsoft to develop Curriculum Material