School of Computing News

The School of Computing has recently built a Makerspace in the Cornwallis Quad on the Canterbury campus. This building represents exciting new teaching and collaboration opportunities. Amongst other equipment, it contains milling machines, a 3D printer, laser cutter and extensive space for building and making digital artefacts. It is scheduled to open in Summer 2014. Initially the space will be used for learning and teaching within the School of Computing. A module in the second year will use...

Master’s student Deepak Selvaraj has been awarded a best employee prize of £500 in recognition of his excellent work on his industrial placement. Future Computing MSc student Deepak is currently working for communications infrastructure company Arqiva on a 12 month placement, having completed the first year of his Master's programme at the Canterbury Campus. He was recently asked to work on a project, for a leading client, to a very tight de...

The School of Computing continues to maintain its high position in the league tables. It has been ranked 26th out of 105 UK Computer Science departments in the Complete University Guide 2015. The School also received a similar ranking in the most recent Sunday Times University Guide with a place of 24th out of 101 CS departments. The University of Kent has been ranked 22nd out of 123 UK institutions, up six places from last year. This rise, combine...

Athena SWAN Bronze award for Kent The University of Kent's success in developing employment practices to support the career progression of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) has been recognised with an Athena SWAN Charter Bronze award. The Bronze award recognises that Kent has established a solid institutional foundation through the development of policies, practices and systems to advance gender equality and to embed ...

Three teenagers from Kent have been named the winners of the IET’s global First Lego League technology competition. They beat 20,000 teams from 70 countries to claim the title. Emma English, 14, a pupil at Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School, her brother Oli and friend Carlos Purchase-Galarza, both 14 and Langton Boys pupils, were champions at the regional finals held at the University of Kent campus in December ...

Albert Kampe, a postgraduate student in the School of Computing has been featured in the Spring 2014 edition of GradPost, the magazine for Kent postgraduate students. His article on ‘Le Web’ the start up and web entrepreneur conference provides a summary of the conference’s discussions of predicted technological and entrepreneurial trends in the next ten years. Albert is studying MSc Computer Science with an Industrial Placement. His articl...

Professor Frank Wang has been named as one of the Invited Speakers to the Science and Information Conference (SAI) 2014 in August. His speech title is ‘How will computers evolve over the next 10 years?’. Other keynote and invited speakers will be coming from Canada, Japan, Germany and the USA. Frank said: ‘Computer science has impact on many parts of our lives. Computer scientists craft the technologies th...

A radio quiz featuring a student and a staff member from the School of Computing will be broadcast at 3pm on Monday 14 April. The 3rd Degree is BBC Radio 4’s lively university-based quiz show where teams of undergraduate students challenge their lecturers in a public display of their knowledge. The Kent academic team includes the School of Computing’s Colin Johnson and final year student Steve Farrugia represents Computing on the studen...

Students have been challenged to share their Year in Industry experience in images. A photo competition has been launched and is open to all School of Computing students currently on a Year in Industry placement. Placement Officer Katie van Sanden said; ‘We are not looking for a particular type of image but for photographs that represent what your Year in Industry experience is like. Everyone's experience is unique and we would like to see the eve...

The School of Computing is looking to recruit experienced staff to assist with undergraduate teaching. The hours of work will be flexible and agreed in consultation with the post-holder. There are roles available for lecturers and class supervisors. The closing dates for applications for both roles is 31 March 2014.