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Archive of Older School of Computing News
This is an archive of older news items from the School of Computing. Our up-to-date news can be found on the School of Computing News page.
2013
- Congratulations to our new students on your exam results!
- Year 11 students get a taste of computing.
- BT Chief Researcher joins School staff.
- A century for School placement team.
- Professor Frank Wang's Hong Kong Visit.
- Best paper award for School academics.
- University of Kent part of new county alliance to promote IT innovation.
- Kent hosts ‘fastest man on earth’ at computing conference.
- 2013 Computer Science graduate Paul Wozniak is highlighted in TechCrunch article.
- Dr Dominique Chu provides fresh insights into the relationship between science and society. aspects of modern life.
- Lecturer John Crawford has been presented with the Kent Union Teaching Award for the sciences faculty.
- Meridian TV interviewed Lecturer Julio Hernandez-Castro on 16 May.
- New funding for BlueJ and Greenfoot projects.
- Year in Industry students present to industry leaders.
- Professor Leon Chua joins the School of Computing.
- School of Computing rises in the league tables.
- Lecturer John Crawford has been shortlisted for the Kent Union Teaching Awards 2013 in the category of faculty award for Sciences.
- Computing Officer Tim Bishop completed the London Marathon on Sunday 21 April.
- Second year undergraduate students at the School of Computing have been awarded a prize for best Software Engineering project sponsored by Accenture Technology Solutions.
- Students from all over the world get a taste of higher education and computer programming at the School of Computing.
- Visual effects expert returns to Kent to inspire students
- The University of Kent has been selected for the UK's new Academic Research Institute for cyber threats
- Professor Kölling receives SIGCSE award - School of Computing - University of Kent
- Computing students' project wins innovation prize
- Students share social media expertise with local businesses
- Two enterprising Computer Science students have staged a 'hackathon' for students at the University of Kent
- A School of Computing student achieves the highest Duke of Edinburgh accolade
- A Kent Union society, popular with School of Computing students, has attracted international attention
- New Year, new challenge with a postgraduate computing degree
2012
- Sciences Research Festival
- Kent computer expert recognised for impact on computer science education
- High employment and salaries for graduates
- Vacancy - Research Associate
- School of Computing at Medway Open Day
- School of Computing involved in £2.7 million computing consortium
- School of Computing Open Day
- Computing student wins Gold Award for research presentation
- School of Computing Open Day
- Alex Freitas awarded EPSRC Discipline-Hopping grant
- School of Computing Open Day
- Underground maps unravelled at University of Kent exhibition
- Cryptography funding award
- Students say Thank You
- Cloud Security Research funding award
- Accenture Technology Solutions award for best Software Engineering project
- School of Computing postgrads help organise free technology conference
- The Final Year Project Fair
- School of Computing welcomes Professor Daniel Kroening
- 50th Anniversary Research Scholarships
- Greenfoot videos prove big hit with Java teachers
- NSF support for Diagrams 2012
- Leon Chua awarded Honorary Professorship
- Deputy Vice Chancellor visits School of Computing at its Medway Campus
- Excellent career prospects from the School of Computing
- School of Computing to help improve Computer Science teaching in schools
- Jael Kriener wins scholarship
2011
- Cisco CTO Tony West awarded Honorary Professorship
- Rackspace International's Nigel Beighton visits the School of Computing
- Schools compete in Lego League regional finals
- Michael Kölling named ACM Distinguished Member
- Mark Burchell visits Medway Computing
- Medway Computing Research Gains Momentum
- Award for Peter Linington
- Ten million downloads of BlueJ
- Simon Thompson's Erlang Video published
- School of Computing Open Days a success
- School of Computing student completes Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Expedition
- Vice-Chancellor Visits Medway Computing
- Richard Jones's Second Book Published
- Multicore released!
- Welcome Week Hunt winners
- Nick Ryan wins an award from the SEAV
- Nick Ryan collaberates to produce visitor guide app
- Simon Thompson wins the Academic Business Collaboration Award
- Gary Rampaud wins $5000 studentship from Google
- Jon Crowcroft talks on mapping human contect networks
- Postgrad Mini-conference a Success
- Students say "Thanks!"
- School of Computing Away Day
- Enhanced analysis of protein molecular dynamics possible with new NMR application
- Accenture Technology Solutions awards for best group projects
- BAe Systems Work Placement Essay Competition winner
- Computing room renamed in honour of Prof Peter Brown
- Kent computing students showcase their final year project work
- Computing students meet IBM business challenge
2010
- Media appearance for Kent alumnus internet security expert
- Body Forward winners through to UK final of FIRST LEGO® L eague 2010
- Talks by experts are highlight of student project week
- Greenfoot wins 2010 Premier Award
- Computing senior lecturer appointed editor of top journal
- Kent Computing student is e-skills Intern of the Year
- Former MSc Student Wins National Science Prize
- Computing Professor elucidates Erlang in InfoQ interview
- New versions of Kent-developed teaching software bring big changes for programming education
- Body Forward theme announced at FIRST LEGO® League 2010 launch
- Grid Computing expert to lead School of Computing
- National diary project requires HE teaching professionals
- Royal Society award for Kent computing lecturer
- NXT Generation Robotics in Science Extravaganza
- Google Summer of Code for Kent computing postgraduate
- Guest lecture by world-leading visual effects company
- Kent Computing Postgraduate Conference 2010
- Kent researcher wins best paper at EuroGP conference
- Systems expert from French partner university visits School of Computing
- First year Computing student awarded British Computer Society prize
- Kent and e-skills in partnership to advance professional placements
2009
- 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
- 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