News Archive
2012
April
Undergraduates scoop awards at Lovelace Colloquium
Wed 18 Apr 2012
Our female undergraduates scooped a number of awards at the BCSWomen Undergraduate Lovelace Colloquium on 12 April read more »
March
Undergraduates reach semi-finals of IBM Universities Business Challenge
Mon 19 Mar 2012
A team of 2nd year students recently took part in the semi-finals of the IBM Universities Business Challenge read more »
Robot beauty pageant
Fri 16 Mar 2012
A robot beauty pageant took place at the University this week, featuring intelligent design by undergraduate students read more »
Computer Science research to feature at international digital entertainment conference
Fri 09 Mar 2012
Researchers from the Department of Computer Science and the Centre for Digital Entertainment will showcase and demonstrate current work at XML 2012. X Media Lab conferences bring together leading visionaries from across the world to discuss the latest thinking on the current digital entertainment landscape and the changes that are set to transform the industry. Mainly targeted at businesses, it creates an opportunity to present cutting-edge technologies, network, and get insight from global players and discuss opportunities for growth. read more »
February
Could local digital research result in our fridges ordering milk?
Mon 20 Feb 2012
Computer Science researchers awarded funding to look at the 'Internet of Things' read more »
Mobile composition set to go global
Fri 17 Feb 2012
New musical composition scored for ring tones and mobile phone orchestra read more »
Comp Sci's swaying trees hailed a "game changer"
Wed 01 Feb 2012
NewScientist reports on software developed by Comp Sci researchers read more »
January
12 Devs of Xmas
Thu 19 Jan 2012
Blog features Year 2 Comp Sci student's article about Coffeescript read more »
How Bath keeps its Comp Sci courses up to speed
Thu 19 Jan 2012
Keeping pace with the industry read more »
2011
October
Computer Science undergraduate wins World Skills Contest 2011
Fri 28 Oct 2011
First year undergraduate has beaten off strong competition to take gold read more »
July
First class Comp Sci graduates already in business
Tue 26 Jul 2011
Two Computer Science graduates from the class of 2011 have set up an e-commerce software business in Bath read more »
US$50,000 Google award for augmented reality research
Fri 08 Jul 2011
Dr Eamonn O'Neill has been awarded US$50,000 for his proposal to develop multi-step selection in dense and occluded 3D augmented reality environments. read more »
May
Blues Awards winners
Fri 20 May 2011
Year 2 students, Jose Lima and Amy Tidmarsh, have both won a Blues Award. read more »
April
Google Award for Bath student at 2011 BCSWomen Undergraduate Lovelace Colloquium
Thu 21 Apr 2011
University of Bath Computer Science student Eleanor Mitchell has won the Google Excellence Award for Best First Year Undergraduate Poster at the 2011 BCSWomen Undergraduate Lovelace Colloqium held in Birmingham on Thursday 14 April. read more »
Computer Science moves to £16 million building
Fri 15 Apr 2011
Computer Science will soon be moving into their new facilities with over £100,000 worth of new equipment in the University's brand new £16 million pound East Building. read more »
March
Bath to host 2012 BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium
Fri 25 Mar 2011
The Department of Computer Science is to host the 2012 BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium. read more »
2010
November
Bath Evolutionary Social Science mailing list
Mon 29 Nov 2010
A new Computer Science research project on "Cross-cultural variation in anti-social punishment" will launch an mailing list; Bath Evolutionary Social Science (BESS), as part of the AmonI group. read more »
Bath graduate Meri Williams announced as the BCS Young IT Professional of the Year
Thu 18 Nov 2010
The BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT has announced the winners of their prestigious UK IT Industry Awards 2010. read more »
International Journal of Synthetic Emotions celebrates the completion of its inaugural year
Fri 05 Nov 2010
The IJSE covers the main issues relevant to the generation, expression, and use of synthetic emotions in agents, robots, systems, and devices. Providing unique, interdisciplinary research from across the globe, this journal covers a wide range of topics such as emotion recognition, sociable robotics, and emotion-based control systems useful to researchers and academics. read more »
Further Distinction for Bath Honorary Graduate
Tue 02 Nov 2010
Professor Bruno Buchberger, who was awarded a Bath Honorary D.Sc. in 2005, has been named as "Austrian of the Year 2010" in the "Researcher" category. read more »
September
Computer Science Alumni nominated for Graduate 100 award
Wed 15 Sep 2010
We are delighted to announce that our graduate Tom Fletcher has been shortlisted for the national Graduate 100 awards, which will be presented at a special dinner in London this evening (Wednesday 15 September). read more »
August
Green Computer Science building opening soon
Tue 10 Aug 2010
New Computer Science building: structure completed and internal fitting underway. read more »
Topping-out Ceremony for new Computer Science Building
Wed 04 Aug 2010
The topping-out Ceremony for new Computer Science Building was held today, 4th August 2010. read more »
July
Bath entrepreneur holds key to internet security
Thu 29 Jul 2010
Paul Kane, CEO of CommunityDNS, based at the University of Bath’s SETsquared Innovation Centre, has been selected to safeguard one of seven keys to restart the World Wide Web in the event of a catastrophic event, such as a terrorist attack. read more »
June
Student Wins Location Wild Competition
Wed 30 Jun 2010
A student from the Department of Computer Science has won Location Wild, a worldwide startup competition. read more »
Department Revisits India
Mon 21 Jun 2010
Laura Manning, Postgraduate Administrator in Computer Science, made a return visit to India this year to meet current and potential MSc applicants. On this trip, Laura travelled to Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Lucknow. read more »
Gradwell named as finalist for award
Tue 01 Jun 2010
UK Internet service provider Gradwell, founded by Dr Peter Gradwell a PhD graduate from the Department of Computer Science, have been named as a finalist for the prestigious Best Internet Telephony prize at the 12th annual UK Internet Industry Awards. read more »
April
Computer Science students win Arts prizes
Fri 23 Apr 2010
Two students from the Department of Computer Science won prizes at this years Arts and Media Awards. read more »
Success for Bath at 2010 BCSWomen Undergraduate Colloquium
Mon 12 Apr 2010
The University of Bath's Department of Computer Science provided the winners of the top two prizes awarded at the colloquium, those going to Ivelina Stoyanova and Dung "Alex" Hoang Tran. read more »
Karmasphere Secures $5 Million
Fri 09 Apr 2010
A company co-founded by a Computer Science PhD graduate from the University of Bath has secured $5 million to commercialize software for big data analysis, earning the company a place in the headlines of Wall Street Journal. read more »
March
Lovelace Laboratory Opening Ceremony
Tue 30 Mar 2010
The Lovelace Laboratory was officially opened on 24th March 2010. Professor Jane Millar Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), Monica Siesenberger from the Lovelace Colloqium, Lovelace students, SSLC student representatives and members of staff from the Department of Computer Science were in attendance. read more »
French tap professor's expertise
Fri 26 Mar 2010
This week two different French organisations have requested Professor Davenport’s help in evaluating their research. read more »
New Computer Science Laboratory
Tue 23 Mar 2010
The Lovelace Laboratory is the new teaching laboratory purpose-built for Computer Science undergraduate education. It currently has 21 work stations on their own network which can be detached from the University's, allowing for experimentation with operating systems and networking as well as ordinary programming. There is also space for collaborative work. Specialist teaching also takes place in the laboratory. With the strong collaboration of Computing Services, we have been able to offer students a networking environment that lets them develop their skills safely. read more »
Nose scanning techniques could sniff out criminals
Thu 04 Mar 2010
Forget iris and fingerprint scans – scanning noses could be a quicker and easier way to verify a person’s identity, according to scientists at the University of Bath. read more »
Lovelace Submission Success!
Wed 03 Mar 2010
Ten of our female undergraduate students have had their submissions to the Lovelace Colloquium accepted this year. read more »
World premier of "Universal Algebra" by Professor ffitch
Wed 03 Mar 2010
The world premier of "Universal Algebra" by Professor ffitch is going to be played on Monday, March 8, 2010, 8 pm at The Berklee College of Music Fenway Building, RM F12, Boston USA as part of the First Bohlen-Pierce Conference. read more »
February
Computer mimics nature by watching TV
Mon 01 Feb 2010
Computer scientists at the University of Bath have developed a new way of making life-like animations of trees using video footage of the real thing. read more »
2009
October
Computer Science PhD students make top 5 in Deloitte Fast 50
Fri 23 Oct 2009
The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 is a ranking of the country's 50 fastest-growing technology growth over five years. This year two of the companies in the top five in the South-West & Wales are closely-linked with research in the Department of Computer Science. read more »
Alan Hayes awarded National Teaching Fellowship
Fri 02 Oct 2009
Alan Hayes from the Department of Computer Science was presented with a National Teaching Fellowship at an awards ceremony in London on 23 September. read more »
September
New Home for Computer Science
Thu 24 Sep 2009
Work has now started on the new East Building that Computer Science will occupy from Spring 2011. read more »
August
Uni offers doctorates in special effects and computer animation
Tue 25 Aug 2009
Postgraduate students will be working with top industry experts developing special effects for films and creating cutting-edge computer games animation at a new Centre for Digital Entertainment (CDE) based at the Universities of Bath and Bournemouth. read more »
Gradwells launches new brand
Tue 11 Aug 2009
The Bath-based internet service provider, Gradwell (founded by a PhD graduate of the University of Bath), has revamped its own website and re-branded the business. read more »
July
Summer Graduation 2009
Fri 03 Jul 2009
A great time had by all at this years summer graduation party and ceremony! read more »
June
Lecturer scoops National Teaching Fellowship
Thu 25 Jun 2009
A University of Bath lecturer has been awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship. read more »
Department Visits Students in India
Wed 17 Jun 2009
The Department’s Postgraduate Administrator, Laura Manning, recently travelled to India to meet MSc applicants and recruitment agents on a tour which took her to Chennai, Bangalore and Delhi. read more »
May
Final Year Student co-authors a conference paper for UKAEA Culham
Wed 13 May 2009
Christopher Tidy, a final year BSc (hons) Computer Science, has co-authored a conference paper for UKAEA Culham. The paper titled "The JET Intershot Analysis: Current Infrastructure and Future Plans" will be presented at the Seventh International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Technical Meeting on Control, Data Acquisition, and Remote Participation for Fusion Research on 15 June 2009. read more »
March
New building for Computer Science
Wed 04 Mar 2009
The University of Bath is currently seeking planning permission for a new building, to open in 2011. The Department of Computer Science will be the main occupant. read more »
February
50 IDC EngD Studentships available now
Mon 16 Feb 2009
50 Doctoral Studentships available now read more »
Success x4 for Bath at BCSWomen Undergraduate Colloquium
Thu 12 Feb 2009
Congratulations to Anthi Anastasiou, Skevi Anastasiou, Maria Lena Demetriou, and Aurora Suriel, four undergraduate computer science students at the University of Bath among a total of only 21 in the whole of the UK who have been invited to present posters at this year's BCSWomen Undergraduate Lovelace Colloquium. read more »
January
The time has come for Computing Science.
Thu 29 Jan 2009
The UKCRC have reported that the recent Research Assessment Exercise has shown that Computer Science has taken its place amoung the great research subjects in the UK. read more »
Bath tops the class for University campus safety
Fri 23 Jan 2009
The University of Bath can boast it has one of the safest university campuses in the UK – following the news it has won a prestigious national security award. read more »
2008
December
RAE 2008 confirms world class standing of research at Bath
Thu 18 Dec 2008
The results of RAE 2008 were published today and show that the majority of our research activity is at the forefront of international excellence. read more »
Two HP Innovation Awards for Bath this year
Mon 15 Dec 2008
Bath has been awarded two HP Innovation Awards this year, after a selection process involving 450 applications and a total of 41 awards worldwide. read more »
New Undergraduate Laboratory
Mon 08 Dec 2008
The Department of Computer Science has secured space for its own undergraduate laboratory. read more »
£6 million awarded to the Department
Fri 05 Dec 2008
Around £6 million has been awarded to the University’s Department of Computer Science to train people from the special effects and animation industry who work on Hollywood films and computer games. read more »
November
GWR Research Symposium
Thu 20 Nov 2008
GWR held its first annual research symposium entitled " Future Imperfect ? " on November 18th at Hewlett Packard labs in Bristol. read more »
Visiting Research Fellow will discuss what makes a good astronaut
Fri 14 Nov 2008
London Science Museum event asks what it takes to become an astronaut. read more »
September
Computer Science graduate joins Guardian News & Media
Wed 03 Sep 2008
Simon Willison, a graduate from the Department of Computer Science, has been recruited by Guardian News & Media as a software architect. read more »
