University of Lincoln, UK
Computer Science students will be exhibiting their projects during a two-day event on Wednesday, 14th May to Thursday, 15th May. All students, staff and visitors are welcome to the event which will include presentations from Postgraduate by Research students and final year undergraduates. The event runs from 9.30am to 5pm on both days and will…
Computer Science postgraduate researchers took part in the annual Postgraduate Student Conference held at the University of Lincoln on Thursday, 3rd April. This year the focus of the conference was on Methods and Methodologies, the use and applications of which unites postgraduate students across subjects and disciplines. The aim of the conference was to provide…
Developers from the University of Lincoln, UK, have created a new fantasy roguelike that allows players to generate their own content through Twitter. #Dungeon is a simple dungeon crawler, created from tweeting code tagged as #HashtagDungeon. Roguelike is a sub-genre of role-playing video games, characterized by random level generation, tile-based graphics and permanent death. Likened…
SoCS students were introduced to the capabilities of Project Anarchy in a presentation and demonstration on Wednesday 19th February. Stu Johnson introduced Project Anarchy and showed it’s capabilities as a mobile game development and deployment environment. Stu, who is a game industry ‘veteran’, illustrated how complex games could be developed using this technology. He also…
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…
On Friday 8th November we have Ed from Google coming in to talk to current students about his role at Google and how he got there. He works within the technical side of Google Maps but will also tell you more about working for Google and the areas within it such as Google Maps and…
Using robots to understand animal social cognition: We are offering a funded PhD position for an enthusiastic and highly-motivated student to join a thriving and dynamic research environment, and benefit from close associations with both the School of Life Sciences and the School of Computer Science. The aim of this project is to develop a robot that…
On Thursday, 19th June 2013, Olivier Szymanezyk, a PhD games computing student at the Lincoln School of Computer Science travelled to Leicester to represent the University of Lincoln at the East Midlands Engineering and Science Professionals (EMESP) Masters Prize. “It was most honourable to have been appointed by a panel of University of Lincoln academics…