School of Computing News

Students at the School of Computing have had another vintage year of placement offers. Over 100 students will be going on a paid industry placement as an integral part of their degree. The students have secured placements with a diverse range of organisations from Kent-based start ups to prestigious global brands such as Rolls-Royce, Sky, Net-a-Porter, IBM and Disney. They include jobs in countries in the UK, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Many of the ...

Computing student and Bestway Foundation scholar Muhammad Rehman, MSc Cybersecurity, and fellow scholar Huma Razzaq, MSc Advanced Communications Engineering, attended the Bestway Foundation Scholars Reception on Tuesday 23 July to meet fellow Pakistan students and share their experiences of study in the UK. Hosted by Sir Anwar Pervez, Bestway Foundation UK founder, and his son Zameer Choudrey CBE, BA (Hons), the Reception was attended by other high-profile b...

A one day event at the Canterbury campus on Thursday 5 September will enable businesses and organisations with cyber security problems and challenges to meet with cyber security experts and researchers. The event will provide them with the opportunity to discuss the increasing number of cyber threats, what can be done to combat them, and how to make businesses and organisations more cyber aware and resilient. Hosted by the University's Interdi...

The School of Computing is delighted to announce the renewal of its partnership with ECE, a leading French engineering school based in Paris and Lyon.  Under the agreement, postgraduate students from ECE can spend a year at Kent taking one of our advanced Masters programmes. Representatives form ECE visited the School of Computing on Thursday 18 July to discuss ways to broaden the relationship, including staff and student exchanges, summer schools ...

Graduating students and staff celebrated the success of prize winners at a reception for graduating students. The awards for Canterbury-based students were presented by Head of School Professor Richard Jones and Kent alumnus Tyler Amos, from the placement award sponsors Fivium. Computer Science Project Prize This prize is awarded for the best final year Computing Project. The students who are prize winners are those who achieved th e highest marks for their ...

Adrien Witon has been conferred with a PhD for his research into EEG-based mental states identification. Dr Witon was supervised by Dr Caroline Li with Professor Samuele Marcora and Professor Howard Bowman. He was awarded the title of Dr at a graduation ceremony in Rochester Cathedral on 9 July 2019. Since completing his research Adrien has taken up a post doctoral position in the Centre for Neuroprosthetics at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Research abstract Mental health has a huge imp...

At the Medway graduation on 9 July, Professor Ian McLoughlin presented the prizes to the 2019 graduates who had excelled in academic achievements or contribution to the life of the School. Computer Science Project Prize James Merrington "James is a self-driven and highly motivated individual. He used industry standard throughout the development of his final year project, InsomiApp, a cross-platform sleep-tracking app and website. He delivered excellent contributions to all areas of the p...

Four Year in Industry students from the School of Computing have attracted the attention of Apple for their new music service, Musish. Having realised that Apple does not offer a web player for its music service in the same way that the likes of Spotify does, James Jarvis, Raphaël Vigée, Filip Grębowski and Brychan Bennett-Odlum developed their own open-source web based player for Apple Music. Musish uses an Apple Music subscriber's e...

Lecturer Dr Jason Nurse has been called on to give his expert opinion on a security vulnerability on a popular gaming platform. Jason is quoted in a Wired UK article entitled ‘A series of dumb security flaws left millions of EA Origin users exposed’. EA are the makers of hugely popular games such as the FIFA series of football games, Star Wars, Madden NFL and SIMS. Researchers managed to find a flaw in the way EA managed its subdomain names ...

"It must be wonderful working at a university with that long summer break." That's something you'll hear a lot if you ever choose a career in higher education. For three months between the end of the summer term and the start of the next academic year, it would be nice to think that we all relaxed in hammocks with a glass of something chilled on hand. So students are of...