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. There was interest from commercial contacts in the quadcopter demonstration and in the educational programmes offered. The LiSC research group had real time demonstrations of Twitter and Bluetooth activity, and an informative crowd simulation application, and the Vision group demonstrated real time foreground and backgroup video separation. A number of military personnel sought advice about the various tailored programmes now offered by the School and there were plenty of general enquiries for many of the other courses offered by the University. The slightly grey and cloudy weather was unfortunate for some of the air displays but did mean that there was a constant flow of people through the exhibits in the covered hangars!
