Welcome to StuConOS

The StuConOS conference is aimed at current undergraduate and master students. The conference will give students a chance to submit their work and to have this reviewed by a programme committee of experts. We interpret the word "optimisation" in its very broad sense: anything that improves (in any way) software or the process of making it. It will give students an initial taste of research work and a chance to publish and discuss their ideas with experts. The programme committee will review the submissions and decide on those to be accepted and the prizes to be awarded. All... [more]

The Fugue project presented its work at the "State of Mind: A Consciousness Expo" which took place in Brighton on July 30th. 

The Expo showcased the latest developments in the science of consciousness and took place just before the academic meeting of the association for the scientific study of consciousness (ASSC16).

Fugue project, led by Gordana Novakovic  is an on-going project which provides a new way of communicating complex scientific ideas to any audience.

Gordana says "Your brain is not the only complex and intelligent system in your body ? there?s also your immune system. It?s... [more]

Jie Xiong, Research Student and member of the Networks Research Group at UCL-CS has been awarded a competitive Google European Doctoral Fellowship in Wireless Networks for 2012.  Jie’s nomination, titled "Leveraging Multiple-antenna Access Points for Localisation and Wireless Security" was exemplary, championed by an expert panel of research scientists and distinguished engineers within Google who reviewed applications from across Europe.  Jie's primary research advisor is Dr Kyle Jamieson of UCL-CS.

On being awarded the Fellowship, Jie said: "It's a great honor to be awarded a Google... [more]

Bill Langdon, Senior Research Fellow at UCL-CS, has had a letter published in this month's issue of the ACM magazine. Essentially it is a probalistic take on the Halting Problem, which figured heavily in an article they did on Alan Turing in March.

The Halting Problem in the Clear Light of Probability, W. B. Langdon, Communications of the ACM, 2012, 55(6) page 6. See http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/6/149939-the-halting-problem-in-the-clear-light-of-probability/fulltext

On Thursday 14 June Dr Peter Bentley, Honorary Reader at UCL-CS, will appear on BBC Radio 4's weekly science programme 'Material World'. Peter will be covering Turing and his new book 'Digitized'.

See the Material World website here or listen to Peter's contribution on iPlayer here.

On Friday 1 June CS undergraduate students participating in 'Program A Robot' module took part in the final races. Morgan Stanley kindly sponsored the event and presented trophies to the winning teams. See here for photos and a video of the final race and trophy presentation.

Computer Science's Dr Peter Bentley will be talking at TEDxUCL event on 3 June, at the UCL Bloomsbury Campus. This is very first TEDx event to be organized at UCL, featuring UCL talent which includes both staff and students at UCL.

“sevitcepsrep” – is that a typo? a foreign word? a city? a medical term? – It could be anything you want it to be, depending on how you look at it!

Caught up in a world where rapid speed dominates everyday life, one only has time to digest information that is presented to us, but rarely do we have the time to take up further inspection, to challenge what has been... [more]

Dr Niloy Mitra has developed techniques to illustrate the operation of complex mechanical assemblies.

Starting with a 3D CAD model of an assembly, his system infers the motions of individual parts and the interactions between parts based on their geometry and a few user specified constraints. This information is then used to generate visualisations that incorporate motion arrows, frame sequences and animation to convey the causal chain of motions and mechanical interactions between parts. The work is inspired by recent findings in cognitive psychology.

Dr Mitra's paper, which describes the... [more]