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Placement Year Awards 2024 winner Simone Jain

Celebrating exceptional achievements at the inaugural Placement Year Awards 2024

Computer Science student, Simone Jain, won the Placement Student of the Year Award - Faculty of Engineering. This award was given for her considerable contribution to her host organisation as well as her personal and professional growth over the year
Gavin Litton, the CEO and Co-Founder of Pillars Brewery

From Graduation to Business Success

Gavin Litton graduated from ºù«Ӱҵ with a Computer Science BSc and is now the CEO & Co-founder of Pillars Brewery, a specialist craft lager brewery based in London. Here he shares his Uni experience, early career, business and advice with us.
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The Centre for Machine Intelligence discusses prospects for future collaboration with ºù«Ӱҵ City Council

The Centre for Machine Intelligence welcomed ºù«Ӱҵ City Council into new office space to showcase research and discuss potential areas of collaboration.
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Giving something back...

John Wright graduated in the early 90s with a degree in Software Engineering. Now in 2018, he has come back to share his industry expertise by joining the Departmental Industrial Advisory Board and supervising student dissertation projects.
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ºù«Ӱҵ scientists help Nepalese orphans to grow fruit and vegetables

Scientists from the University of ºù«Ӱҵ, including Prof. Hamish Cunningham from the Department of Computer Science, are helping children from a Nepalese orphanage grow their own vegetables with a pioneering, sustainable technique which will provide a vital food supply all year round.
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Department is part of a new EU consortium researching solutions for speech problems

The Department of Computer Science is part of a European-wide project which aims to transform the well-being of people with debilitating speech problems.
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The Active 10 app developed by researchers from the Department for Public Health England featured on BBC1

BBC1 has dedicated a programme to Active 10, a tracking App developed by Prof. Fabio Ciravegna, Jie Gao and Chris Ingram at The OAK Group.

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Department of Computer Science is founding member of new £20 million Institute of Coding

The Department is a founding member of a new £20 million Institute of Coding – a consortium of more than 60 universities, businesses and industry experts tackling the UK’s digital skills gap, which was announced by the Prime Minister today (25 January 2018).