IAESTE: International Work Experience
The Computing Laboratory regularly particiaptes in the IAESTE scheme which is the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience. We offer a summer placement to a student from overseas and at least one of our students can work abroad during the summer vacation.
Summer in Japan
Marco Filetti, worked for Hitachi in Japan during the summer of 2008. He was attached to teams developing software for the next generation digital devices. You can read about what he did in his placement report.
He said, "I wanted to thank you for the great opportunity given; in fact, it was an excellent experience, maybe the only tough part was getting used to the Japanese culture, but even so it was worth it."
IAESTE students also get excellent opportunities for experiencing the environment and culture of the host country. The picture shows Marco (centre front, white shirt) visiting the Golden Temple of Kyoto.
Coming to Canterbury
This year we welcomed Ivan Ivanovski from Macedonia to the Laboratory. Ivan spend his 8 weeks at Kent on improving Heat, the interactive development environment that we use for teaching functional programming in Haskell. Heat is implemented in Java and was originally developed by two of our final year project groups. Ivan added features and removed bugs. In particular he implemented a terminal console window that communicates with the Haskell interpreter and a system for automatic testing. These tasks required using several concurrent threads.
Olaf comments: "I was very happy that Ivan came and pushed the development of Heat forward. He quickly got a grip on the existing code and added several features that I wanted for a long time. Due to his work both the source code and the executable of Heat are finally openly available, also outside the university, and from 2008/9 our students will profit from a substantially improved learning environment."
Read more about Heat.
Previously
Read about the experiences of students from previous years.