School of Computing News

The School of Computing is celebrating after the 2012 National Student Survey (NSS) confirmed the excellent employment rates of its graduates. All of the undergraduate courses have a high proportion of graduates either going on to further study or to professional or managerial jobs. Computer Science with a Year in Industry graduates had the highest employability rates at the School with 100% being either employed in a professional post or on a further course...

Dr Eerke Boiten, head of the Security Research group and director of the University’s Cyber Security Research Centre, has been awarded £89,000 by EPSRC for the Network of Excellence “CryptoForma“, on the application of formal methods to cryptography. The aim of the network is to use formal notations, and logic based techniques for modelling and analysing cryptographic primitives, and security protocols based on them. Their applications may be found in electronic voting...

Students are saying a big "Thank you" for excellent teaching skills and the positive impact it has had on students' lives.  The success of last year's awards has been built on by including three new awards: Professional Services Award, Postgraduates who teach and Teaching Employability along with Best Teacher, Fantastic Feedback and Best Supervision. David Barnes, Fred Barnes, Eerke Boiten, John Bovey, Howard Bowman, David Chadwick, Dominique Chu, John Crawford, Sonna...