University of Lincoln, UK
The University of Lincoln recently invested £28m to create the Isaac Newton Building – the new home for our School of Computer Science. We join the Schools of Engineering and Maths & Physics in this stunning new setting. The new building is named after one of Lincolnshire’s greatest sons, Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP, who was born at Woolsthorpe Manor near Grantham.…
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…
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…
Two specialists in human-computer interaction have joined the growing team at the University of Lincoln’s School of Computer Science. Dr John Shearer and Kathrin Gerling will be continuing their research into interactive technologies that have a purpose beyond entertainment. Ms Gerling is particularly interested in how motion-based interfaces can be used by people with special…
Young people who will be studying at Lincoln’s new University Technical College were given a crash course in computer programming from experts at the University of Lincoln’s School of Computer Science. During the workshop on Monday, 17th February, the pupils completed a set of programming challenges using a Raspberry Pi – a credit-card-sized computer developed with the intention…
Marie Curie Researcher within the School of Computer Science, Georgios Leontidis, talks about his research into detecting diabetic retinopathy As part of the Retinal Vascular Modelling, Measurement and Diagnosis (REVAMMAD) project led by the University of Lincoln, UK, Georgios is investigating new methods for the early screening and diagnosis of the disease by developing computer…
The face of computing and computer science has changed dramatically over the last ten years, with social media transforming not only the way business operates but society as a whole. In direct response to this increasingly digital landscape, the University of Lincoln has created the UK’s first BSc (Hons) programme in Social Computing that will…
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 to set up an online system enabling doctors to access patients’ health records from across the European Union has been launched. The European Commission project, MyHealthAvatar, is designed to give people more knowledge and control of their health via their computers and mobile phones. The programme will keep archives of each user’s electronic health…