University of Lincoln, UK
We’ve got some great seminars coming up in the School of Computer Science, so put these dates in your diary and we’ll see you there. First up next week we have a seminar on ‘Visual mining – interpreting image and video‘ with speaker Professor Stefan Rüger from the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK. The…
An innovative electronic smart key system has secured a software system engineer a major national award following a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between the University of Lincoln, UK, and Lincoln Security Ltd. Nandagopal Lakshminarayanan, who has been working as a KTP Associate at the security specialists for the past two years, won the Business Leader…
Take a look at how well our robot BAXTER is coming along. This is the very first demo of our new Baxter robot using taught-in trajectories to manipulate some objects. Not much state-of-the-art science in this one, but a feasibility study of what’s possible with off-the-shelf components. Let us know what you think in the…
A groundbreaking piece of medical imaging technology that could revolutionise cancer treatment will be featured as part of a showcase of 100 engineering ideas that have changed our world.
Visitors to The Collection in Lincoln can meet a very special robot during EU Robotics Week later this month. Linda the robot, from the University of Lincoln, UK, will be guiding visitors to exhibitions in the museum as part of European Robotics Week from 24th to 30th November 2014. Linda is one of six robots…
The first of three workshops for a new research project looking at creating new videogames will take place this week. Led by the Games Research Group at the University of Lincoln, the Performance and Games Network involves several researchers from Lincoln’s School of Computer Science, including Dr Patrick Dickinson, Dr Duncan Rowland, Dr Conor Linehan, Dr…
A PhD student from the School of Computer Science was one of just 30 first year post-doctoral students chosen from all over Europe to take part in a week-long training school. Kwamena Appiah-Kubi, attended the TUTOREM Twintide Autumn Training School in Bled, Slovenia, which aims to improve participants’ understanding of significant research methods used in…
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…
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…