Lincoln Computer Science Week – British Science Week 2021

Lincoln Computer Science Week – British Science Week 2021

A computer science or games computing degree opens up a wide range of exciting opportunities, and as part of British Science Week 2021, here at the University of Lincoln we celebrated all things computer science with a series of lectures from our experts and guest speakers. Catch up to find out more about what we do in the School…

Students receive personal invitation to RAF Metheringham

Students receive personal invitation to RAF Metheringham

Alex Curtis and Raymond Kirk, students at the School of Computer Science, were delighted to receive an invite to visit RAF Metheringham in Lincolnshire. Alex was contacted by RAF Metheringham after delegates had seen his Lancaster simulation game at the School of  Computer Science showcase event in May 2017. Find out what Alex said about his experience: …

24 Hour Virtual Reality Hackathon

24 Hour Virtual Reality Hackathon

Students and staff alike enjoyed a 24 hour Virtual Reality Hack which took place at 12pm on Saturday 11th February. The aim of the event was for students to create and develop software systems as well as being given the chance to test and try out state-of-the-art VR equipment. The Hackathon started with the theme announcement,…

Lincoln computer science research papers accepted

Lincoln computer science research papers accepted

Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) submitted research papers to SAC 2017 and HRI 2017, and have been accepted. The first paper to be presented at SAC 2017 is joint work with Dr Marc Hanheide‘s PhD student Peter Lightbody and Dr Tomas Krajnik on “A Versatile High-Performance Visual Fiducial Marker Detection System with Scalable Identity Encoding”. Fiducial markers have a wide…

Upcoming Computer Science events for your diary!

Lincoln’s School of Computer Science announces FIVE upcoming events you’ll not want to miss. From a range of 24hr to 48hr hackathons, to a short four hour long event in collaboration with Google, this is a great opportunity for students of any experience to get involved, learn and have fun. November 12th/13th – SoCS 24h…

From 3D-printed blacksmith artefacts to proton therapy

LiGHTS Nights is coming to Lincoln and the School of Computer Science is putting on a variety of workshops and lectures you don’t want to miss. Produce real blacksmith artefacts with the latest 3D-printer technology, find out how Lincoln research is improving proton therapy for cancer sufferers, and get up close and personal with our all-seeing robots,…

Simplify travelling round Lincoln with Lincoln Bus

Simplify travelling round Lincoln with Lincoln Bus

Travelling on a bus in Lincoln just got easier thanks to a website created by a University of Lincoln student. Lincoln Bus has been created by third year Computer Science student Jacob Ellis and is an all-in-one bus timetable viewer for travelling around Lincoln. The website hopes to help people check all bus services, routes…