University of Lincoln, UK
Flying quadrocopters, robotic arms and a 3D printer will all be demonstrated at an event aimed at showcasing the engineering and manufacturing sector. Get up to Speed is one of the headline events of the 2012 Global Manufacturing Festival in Sheffield. It aims to inspire the next generation of engineering talent by bringing education and…
The contract of the FP7-IRSES project HAZCEPT has been signed recently. It will start from 1/April/2013 and run for 4 years. Lincoln is the coordinator of this consortium. What and why is this project? HAZCEPT: Towards zero road accidents – nature inspired hazard perception. The number of road traffic accident fatalities world wide has recently…
Research and design work carried out by 2nd year Lincoln School of Computer Science students has recently been recognised as excellent, through the acceptance of a paper describing that work to ACM CHI 2013, the worlds leading conference in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. We have recently redesigned the Human-Computer Interaction module, which is taken by most…
We have recently published an article in the ACM Interactions magazine, which is the most widely read industry & research magazine in the field of Human Computer Interaction. The article reports work carried out in the 2011/2012 academic year by two undergraduate students in the Lincoln School of Computer Science. The students, Tom Leeman and Chris Borrowdale,…
The School of Computer Science (SoCS) at the University of Lincoln has taken a lead in helping secondary schools to develop their computing curriculum. It has become one of the Universities that constitute the “Network of Excellence” – this is a set of hubs connected to the schools that operate in their region. The driver…
Students and staff from the University of Lincoln were invited to a prestigious event at the House of Lords this week to showcase work being done at the University in STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). SoCS postgraduate student Derek Foster was given the honour of making a welcome speech to the invited audience…
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. The students were the quickest to respond to an offer of free tickets that the BBC made available to the School of Computer Science. Final year student Jake Brown said “The…
SoCS students enjoyed a productive and informative day at BBC Media City in Salford last week. The theme of the event was latest trends in software development at the BBC. Second year Web Technology student Owen Pierce said of the day “The event’s most interesting parts for me was the noSQL talk (“Not Only SQL”) and…
SoCS students enjoyed a productive and informative day at BBC Media City in Salford last week. The theme of the event was latest trends in software development at the BBC. Spokesperson Sam Newman outlined one of their key issues: “We have lots of information available about our systems. CPU, disk IO, orders placed, error rates,…