Welcome to the School of Computer Science
The School of Computer Science is a centre of excellence for computer science teaching and research, with staff and students from Scotland and all parts of the world. It is a member of SICSA - The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance.
We offer BSc, MSci, MSc, MPhil and PhD degree programmes, and are active in research in the fundamentals of computer science, networking and distributed systems, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, and software systems engineering.
Over the last few years, the School has been consistently highly ranked in the various UK league tables. If you are thinking about studying at St Andrews, you are very welcome to come and visit us to see for yourself. There are visiting days on Wednesdays throughout the year.
News
- Alumni Numbers Increase in New York City
- We like to share success stories, especially when they relate to our Alumni. Congratulations to Greg Bigwood who recenltly joined AetherWorks LLC. as [...]
- KALQ Keyboard
- Per Ola Kristensson and researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Montana Tech have created a new keyboard that enables faster thu [...]
- Gesture-based Natural User Interfaces
- Research into personalised gestures for user interfaces carried out by Miguel Nacenta, Per Ola Kristensson and two of our recent MSc students, Yemliha [...]
- HEA ‘Curriculum for Excellence Scholarship Scheme’
- The HEA has recently funded 20 scholarships which are aimed at helping HEIs work with partner schools and consider the impact of CfE on future higher [...]
- Graduates Return to Computer Science
- Three of our alumni Andrew McCarthy, Adam Copp and James Smith, dropped by to say hello last week. They were visiting the University to represent Goog [...]
- PPSP in Computer Science
- PPSP in Computer Science – What’s been happening in the School of Computer Science? Posters, Prizes, Scholarships and Plants of course. Poster [...]
Ongoing and future events
- SACHI Seminar TBC
- Seminar: 28th May 2013 at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm (in Cole 1.33a) More info
- SACHI Seminar TBC
- Seminar: 11th Jun 2013 at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm (in Cole 1.33a) More info
- SACHI Seminar TBC
- Seminar: 25th Jun 2013 at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm (in Cole 1.33a) More info
- Summer School – Big Data Information Visualisation
- Summer School: 8th Jul 2013 to 12th Jul 2013 SACHI the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction research group and the Big Data Lab St Andrews are pleased to announce they will jointly run a SICSA s [...]
- SACHI Seminar TBC
- Seminar: 16th Jul 2013 at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm (in Cole 1.33a) More info
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