Welcome to the School of Computer Science
The first degree in Computer Science at St Andrews was awarded in 1971. Today, 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. You can find our alumni across the world in industry and academia. The School moved into the purpose-built Jack Cole and the refurbished John Honey buildings in 2004, which we are regularly updating with new labs and new teaching spaces.
We offer BSc, MSci, MSc, MPhil, MSc (Res), PhD, and EngD 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. Part of each academic year is our Distinguished Lecture Seminar series, which is approaching its 50th anniversary in 2019.
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. If you are one of our Alumni please visit our Alumni site for alumni stories and more.
The School endorses the Athena SWAN charter and is actively working towards recognition.
News
- n-Queens Completion is NP-Complete
- Ian Gent, Christopher Jefferson and Peter Nightingale have shown that a classic chess puzzle is NP-Complete. Their paper “Complexity of n-Queens Com [...]
- MSc Poster Demo Session 2017
- After a year of hard work, and an intensive summer dissertation, our MSc students submitted their dissertations last week and presented their project [...]
- Postgraduate Dinner at Fairmont Hotel
- Postgraduate student, Paul Dobra organised an end of semester celebratory dinner at the Fairmont Hotel in April. The social event marked the end of te [...]
- Computer Science: June Graduation 2017
- Congratulations to our Senior Honours Class of 2017, MSci Honours students and our PhD students Dr Anne-Marie Mann, Dr Ildiko Pete, Dr Yuchen Zhao and [...]
- Senior Honours: Poster Presentation and Demo Session 2017
- Our talented hard working SH students from CS4099: Major Software Project and CS4098: Minor Software Project presented their posters and final year so [...]
- Junior Honours: Software Team Project 2017
- Earlier today our Junior Honours students presented their Team Projects. The projects involve substantial team based software engineering and rely hea [...]
- Hot off the press: Type-Driven Development with Idris
- A new book, Type-Driven Development with Idris has just been published by Manning Publications. Written by Dr Edwin Brady, the creator of Idris, Type- [...]
Ongoing and future events
- Daniel Sorin (Duke University): Designing Formally Verifiable Cache Coherence Protocol (School Seminar) next week
- Seminar: 26th Sep 2017 at 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm (in Cole 1.33a) School Seminar Series Abstract: The cache coherence protocol is an important but notoriously complicated part of a multicore processor. Typical protocols are far too compli [...]
- Maja Popović (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): (Dis)similarity Metrics for Texts (School Seminar) next week
- Seminar: 29th Sep 2017 at 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm (in Cole 1.33a) School Seminar Series Abstract: Natural language processing (NLP) is a multidisciplinary field closely related to linguistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. [...]
- Siân Lindley (Microsoft Research Cambridge) School Seminar
- Seminar: 4th Oct 2017 at 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm (in Purdie Theatre C) School Seminar Series Please note that this seminar is currently scheduled for Purdie D however this location may change closer to the date. Wednesday October 4th between 1 [...]
- DLS: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Computer History
- Distinguished lecture: 10th Oct 2017 at 9:30 am to 4:00 pm (in Byre Theatre) Distinguished Lectures Series What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Computer History Prof Ursula Martin Distinguished Lecture Series, Semester 1, 2017-18 Biography: Profe [...]
- Mark Olleson (Bloomberg): Super-sized mobile apps: getting the foundations right (School Seminar)
- Seminar: 17th Oct 2017 at 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm (in Cole 1.33a) School Seminar Series Abstract: An email client. An instant messenger. A real-time financial market data viewer and news reader. A portfolio viewer. A note taker, file mana [...]
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