University of Lincoln, UK
With a rapidly ageing population, the number of people with dementia and other age-related disabilities is expected to soar by 20501. Coupled with warnings about future shortages of health workers and doctors2, it’s clear other options need to be found. The concept of applying findings from different technological areas to assist people in their daily…
Prof Ales Leonardis (University of Birmingham) is presenting his research on “Combining compositional shape hierarchy and multi-class object taxonomy for efficient object categorisation” in a joint Psychology and Computer Science seminar on Wed, 29th May at 4pm (in room MC1001). All students and staff are invited. Here the abstract of Ales’ presentation: Visual categorisation has…
We are pleased to announce that Games Computing were commended in the Student Union Awards 2013 for the Best Course Award. The recent upgrade of facilities for this course has been greatly appreciated by students. The exemplary use of blackboard as a timely communication tool particularly stood out to the panel as a leading example…
Professor Atul Donsai visited the University of Lincoln sponsored by UKIERI: The UK-India Education and Research Initiative. Professor Atul lectures in Computer Science at Saurashtra University, Rajkot, India Professor Atul used the visit as an opportunity to progress a number of collaborative research initiatives and to help build a stronger partnership between the University of Lincoln and Universities…
A unique digital garden created by the University of Lincoln has won Gold at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Fresh garden Digital Capabilities responds to live Twitter activity, enabling the public to directly influence how the garden appears at any one time. Created by academics at the University of Lincoln, UK, and designers Harfleet…
The Annual Showcase Event was successfully held on Friday, 3rd May 2013. This was the end of a week long showing the Undergraduate Projects work, with live and Interactive demos. Students, Staff and Visitors gathered in Comp Lab ‘C’ in the School of Computer Science, where the event was officially opened by the Head of…
Twitter will be in control of a unique digital garden at the 100th RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Fresh garden Digital Capabilities will respond to live Twitter activity, enabling the public to directly influence how the garden appears at any one time. Created by academics at the University of Lincoln, UK, working with award-winning designers Harfleet…
Robotics, gaming and website design will all be showcased as part of a week-long event by students from the School of Computer Science. Students, staff and visitors are all welcome to the event, which will take place from Monday, 29th April to Friday, 3rd May. Posters and video demos detailing the projects will be on…
Computer science student? Looking for an exciting internship opportunity? Dr Duncan Rowland and Dan Frodsham have secured funding for a number of Internships. Each one carries a bursary of £1500 and a variety of skills are required, both technical and creative, depending on the topic. Please contact Dr Rowland ASAP to find out more (these…