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A new internet service that allows content to be created and shared by people attending specific events was showcased at a national digital conference. Dr Duncan Rowland, Reader in the School of Computer Science, presented the software Automics at DE2013: Open Digital at MediaCityUK in Salford. He said: “The goal has been to create an…
The School of Computer Science will be hosting Richard Stallman at the University of Lincoln on the 29th November, where he will be giving an evening colloqium titled “A Free Digital Society” There are many threats to freedom in the digital society. They include massive surveillance, censorship, digital handcuffs, nonfree software that controls users, and…
Research by two graduates from the University of Lincoln, UK, will be discussed at the world’s leading conference on entertainment computing. Sean Oxspring and Nick Bull, who both graduated with a BSc in Games Computing in September 2013, have had academic papers accepted to ACE 2013 – the 10th international conference on Advances in Computer…
Richard Stallman will be visiting the University of Lincoln on the 29th November 2013 to give an evening colloquium about the free software movement and the GNU Project. Richard Stallman is best known for launching the GNU Project in 1983, to create a “Unix-like computer operating system composed entirely of free software”. This is the…
Wheelchair Revolution: Motion-Based Games for Players with Mobility Disabilities The growing popularity of motion-based video games such as Dance Dance Revolution, Dance Central, or Wii Fit creates new challenges for game design. Research has shown that such games have a variety of benefits, for example, improved cognition, physical health, and emotional well-being. However, they remain…
Video games are slowly moving out of the monitor and into the real world. And this next stage of development in the world of gaming will be shared with Computer Science students during a special workshop. ‘Real-world’ or Mixed Reality gaming is fast becoming the next big thing in computer games advancement. Students will be…
Analysing cats’ facial expressions could lead to a major breakthrough in helping to alleviate feline suffering. Computer vision expert Dr Georgios Tzimiropoulos, from the University of Lincoln, UK, has been pioneering the development of self-learning computer vision systems to aid the automatic detection of facial expressions. Although the focus has been on humans, the technology will now…
Congratulations to all our graduation prize winners of 2013.
Linda, Lincoln’s mobile robot developed in the STRANDS project, will soon be reaching a first major project milestone: Running autonomously for a total of 30 days. While this seems easy too achieve for today’s industrial robots, Linda has continuously been patrolling an office space at the School of Computer Science University of Lincoln which is…