School of Computing News

Student IT consultants were invited to share their knowledge in social and collaborative media with local organisations at an interactive workshop on 6 March, at Kent’s Medway Campus. The students, who are working as consultants in the Kent IT Clinic as part of their final year studies, shared their expertise with small and medium sized businesses and gave tips on how to incorporate social media into business strategy. Lesley Chater, Business Developme...

A School of Computing student has been presented with the Duke of Edinburgh (D of E) gold award by Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, at a ceremony at St James’s Palace in London. Peter Kiely, who is a first year student at the University’s School of Computing, spent more than two years completing five sections of the highly-regarded award, which aims to help young people develop their skills and improve their emplo...

A Kent Union society, popular with School of Computing students, has attracted interest from the online technology community by building an inexpensive antenna that can tune into a range of frequencies including, weather balloons and aircraft transponders. An article about TinkerSoc’s (The Tinkering Society) antenna, built from galvanized garden wire and connected to an inexpensive USB TV tuner, appeared on the popular tech website hackaday.com on Mond...

The University will hold a Postgraduate Open Day from 10am-2pm on Saturday 2 February. Anyone interested in gaining a postgraduate degree to launch or further their career in computing is welcome to attend. The Canterbury campus event will cover the School of Computing’s extensive range of full- and part-time programmes including the Conversion Master's which requires a good degree in any subject but no prior kno...

The Faculty of Sciences is holding a Research Festival on Thursday, 10 January in the new Colyer-Fergusson building to celebrate and raise awareness of the research across the Schools in the Faculty, and to facilitate new interdisciplinary collaborations. The Festival is primarily for staff, postgraduate students and final year undergraduate students within the Faculty but other members of the university and general public are welcome too. The Festival is being organised by Professo...

The European Commission has awarded £2.7million (€3.4million) to a computing consortium that includes the School of Computing’s Professor Simon Thompson. The award is for research that will develop innovative software testing techniques that build on the success of ProTest (2008-2011), an EU project that delivered new methods and tools to support property-based development of systems. Known as PROWESS (an...

Thomas Schilling, studying for a PhD in the University’s School of Computing, won a Gold Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for a poster and presentation in Copenhagen. Thomas’ presentation, titled ‘Lambdachine: a trace-based just-in-time compiler for Haskell’, was judged to be the best of three finalists in the Student Research Competition. His prize included an award medal, US$500 cash and ACM membership. His p...