Department News
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09-May-2008
April 28th saw a guest lecture by Joe Bungo, Senior Applications Engineer at
ARM, to a 90 person audience from the COMS12200 Introduction to Computer
Architecture unit, and selected staff and students from elsewhere.
ARM was impressed by the level of interest generated from the attendants and decided to donate evaluation boards to supplement teaching in the area. More details in the full story.
23-Apr-2008
The head of Detica Forensics acknowledges the excellent training which Bristol Computer Science department provides in the areas of computer security, programming and the low-level operation of computing and other electronic devices.
14-Apr-2008
January 2008 saw the official kick-off of a 4.8 million euro, EU FP7 funded research project called Computer Aided Cryptography Engineering (CACE), the project supports a total of 12 partners including 7 academic partners, 4 industrial partners and the project coordinator, Technikon.
06-Mar-2008
Two staff members, Colin Dalton and Nigel Smart, will this year be presenting at IBM's Blue Fusion event. This event runs throughout National Science Week and aims to inspire school children into pursuing careers in science, engineering and technology.
04-Mar-2008
The EE Times today announced Professor David May as one of the top 35 people, places, and things that will shape the future. Citing his current work with
XMOS on Software-Defined Silicon, as well as his pioneering work with the
transputer.
01-May-2008
A new supercomputer facility, known as 'BlueCrystal', that will revolutionise research in areas such as climate change, drug design and aerospace engineering has been opened at the University of Bristol today [Thursday 1 May] by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Eric Thomas.
18-Apr-2008
Cadence has selected the University of Bristol to be a lead university in Advanced Verification to head the Cadence Academic Network in Europe. Dr Kerstin Eder, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, has been invited to present her pioneering work in setting up Design Verification within a Computer Science degree programme at the Cadence Academic Network Symposium in April 2008.
10-Mar-2008
Matthew Baldwin's final year project in 2002 on email encryption resulted in him setting up a company called Identum, with help from academic members of staff in the Dept of Computer Science. Last month Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in Internet content security, announced the acquisition of Identum.
05-Mar-2008
Tim Kovacs and James Marshall of the Machine Learning and Biological Computation
Group will commence the EPSRC-funded ADEPT (Adaptive Dynamic Ensemble Prediction
Techniques) project in April 2008. External collaborators are Gavin Brown of the University of Manchester and Jeremy Wyatt of the University of Birmingham. In total the project will feature 2 RAs and 2 PhD students.
28-Feb-2008
This month was the annual robot programming event, organized once a year for local students aged around 15-17. The general aim is to encourage more students to go to University through a series of challenging tasks and events. See more details and a video in the full story.