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A party of students travelled to the new BBC Media City in Salford last week to discover latest trends in software development at the BBC. Topics included NOSQL (“Not only SQL”) databases and HTTPShark (real-time management and analysis of website traffic). Second Year Web Tech student Josh Leafe said “the visit to Media City UK was a…
A massive response to the offer of free tickets led to a group of 14 students travelling to the new BBC Media City in Salford. The BBC originally offered just two tickets but demand was so great that Head of School Dr David Cobham wrote back requesting additional places and the BBC kindly obliged. First year…
Will Bromley has just checked in with the School of Computer Science. He’s a Level 2 student who is spending his second year on a student exchange programme at Montana State University in Boseman, Montana, USA. After completing his first year at Lincoln he packed his bags during Summer 2012 and headed off to start…
A very warm welcome back to all returning students of the School of Computer Science. On the Blackboard Site for your programme (under Useful Documents) you will find the welcome week timetable. Make sure you attend all the introductory talks as we have lots to tell you about your next year of study at Lincoln…
A very warm welcome to all new students joining programmes that are hosted by the School of Computer Science. If you are new student you should have access to the “Getting Started” area on Blackboard – our virtual learning environment. This gives you the welcome week timetables and introduces you to the activities that we…
Students and Staff of the School of Computer Science set up and ran an entertaining and educational stand once again at this year’s Waddington Air Show. In addition to the ever-popular robot football and eye-tracker simulations, this year people attending the stand could win a prize by controlling a robot arm that detected their hand movements.…
Once again the School of Computer Science ran a stand at this year’s Waddington Air Show this weekend. The stand was run by staff, students and representatives of the new MSc in Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Management. Prince Edward visited the hangar where we were based and as he and the Waddington Station Commander toured…
The School of Computer Science is once again hosting a stand at this year’s Waddington Air Show. If you are going along then please pop in and say hello. We are in Hanger 3 this year. You can try your hand at controlling a robot arm that copies your own movements! Or come and compete…
In a radio interview yesterday, SoCS Head of School Dr David Cobham discussed government proposals to introduce a new Computer Science curriculum in secondary schools. Talking to Rod Whiting at BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Dr Cobham discussed education secretary Michael Gove’s proposal to re-introduce a focus on programming into the GCSE computing curriculum. The long term aspiration is…