Department News
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19-Feb-2008
Today Clifford Cocks was given an honorary degree by the University of Bristol.
Clifford was the first person to invent a practical method for public key encryption and was also the inventor of one of the first identity based encryption mechanisms. He was also a major influence behind the founding of the Heilbronn Institute in Bristol.
06-Feb-2008
Ever come out of a London Underground station and not known where you were? Then you spot a familiar landmark like the Tower of London and suddenly you have your bearings? New research from the Departments of Computer Science and Psychology shows for the first time that global positioning systems technology (GPS) can be used to show how children as young as three find their way around.
29-Jan-2008
Sriram Subramanian, Lecturer in Computer Science, gave two invited lectures in Japan under the Pacific Rim International University initiative promoted by Osaka University.
18-Jan-2008
Andrew Charlesworth, the head of our Centre for Law and IT, was interviewed today in The Sun newspaper about the dangers of sites like Facebook.
02-Jan-2008
Google and the Computer Science Department at Bristol are pleased
to announce that Dominique Kwiek is the recipient of the 2007-2008
Google Scholarship in Bristol. The Google Scholarship is awarded
to a female student in the Computer Science department whose academic
record is excellent.
12-Feb-2008
The Real-Time Vision Group will be the technical lead in a recently awarded project to develop the next generation of mapping systems. The group is led by Dr Andrew Calway and Dr Walterio Mayol-Cuevas and their work on visual SLAM will be central to the new project. Worth over 1.4M GBP, the 2 year ViewNet project will be funded by the Technology Strategy Board, the EPSRC and Industrial Partners.
01-Feb-2008
Registration has opened for the Bristol Summer School on Probabilistic Techniques in Computer Science, to be held from 6-11 July 2008.
29-Jan-2008
Sriram Subramanian, Lecturer in Computer Science, will chair the IEEE conference on Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces.
The use of interactive surfaces is an exciting and emerging research area attracting interest from industry giants including Microsoft, Philips and Mitsubishi.
12-Jan-2008
A game idea developed by computer science graduates Tom Dowding (MEng 2004) and Richard Wilson (MEng 2004) has won the 4Talent New Mobile Game Developer award supported by Channel 4 and EA Games.
13-Dec-2007
If you want to do a masters degree in Advanced Microelectronic Systems Engineering then we have four scholarships from EPSRC that will fund you on this programme.