Department News
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27-Oct-2006
The Wearable and Mobile computing group, under the Equator project, is
actively involved with the Thrill Lab event at the Science Museum's Dana Centre.
The event, curated by Brendan Walker, runs for 3 weeks and aims to explore the science of Thrill.
06-Oct-2006
The Misys Charitable Foundation will soon be considering a new round of candidates for its scholarships, designed to help students with a clear financial need reach their potential. The scholarships are open to Computer Science students, and those studying a degree which includes a strong component of IT, who have completed their first year.
26-Sep-2006
EPSRC has awarded Professor Peter Flach and Dr Ksenia Shalonova GBP 350,000 for a project studying the use of advanced machine learning techniques such as inductive logic programming to learn the morphology of complex synthetic languages including Russian, Turkish and isiZulu (a Bantu language spoken in South Africa). The project is due to start on 1 October 2006 and runs for 3.5 years.
07-Jul-2006
SensaGest are developing a state-of-the-art nurse call system that can be operated by people with minimal hand movement and will be connected to a small wearable computer which will relay alerts to a paging device carried by a nurse or care worker.
19-Jun-2006
The University of Bristol is offering three RCUK Academic Fellowships in the area of Exabyte Informatics, one available for 2006 and the other two to begin in 2007.
12-Oct-2006
On November 1st the Department of Computer Science will host a symposium by IBM on their open-source software development platform, Eclipse. The event features talks and lab-based practical sessions run by IBM's leading experts, and is open to all University of Bristol students and staff.
29-Sep-2006
The Computer Science department and Google are pleased to announce the launch of the Google Prize Scholarship, which will be awarded to Bristol's most talented female Computer Science student at the start of the 2006 / 2007 year.
25-Aug-2006
From August 2006 Prof Nigel Smart takes over as being Head of Department of
Computer Science from Prof David May.
27-Jun-2006
The Times Online has ranked the Computer Science department at Bristol 5th in a league table of Computer Science departments in the UK. The league table was compiled by taking into account the quality of the teaching, research and the students at the institute.
16-Jun-2006
Our new EngD Centre in Systems invites applications for EngD researchers who would like to advance the state of the art in Microelectronic Design and Verification in collaboration with world-leading local semiconductor design companies such as Infineon Technologies and Broadcom Corporation, as well as smaller world-class start-up companies in the area.