School of Computing

Previous news items:

• The Leeds Virtual Reality Powerwall project wins a large extension.
• School spinout company Tracsis goes from strength to strength. The company was highly commended during the recent THE awards.
• The BCS undergraduate conference for women was held in Leeds on April 16th.
• Leeds research in smart CCTV continues to make headlines.
• Dr Chris Goodyer and Prof. Ken Brodlie have won the 2008 vizNET Showcase with work on 3D surface visualization using high resolution display walls.
• On September 1st-4th, the School will be hosting the British Machine Vision Conference.
• The University of Leeds ranks 80 in the THES global university rankings.
• Leeds Computing student Stephan Liwicki wins the national IBM Mainframe contest.
• Bicycle thieves are to be defeated by School of Computing researcher Dima Damen.
• School of Computing spinout company Tracsis goes public.
• February 12th: Prof. Chris Bissell (OU) spoke on the Moniac.
• February 7th: Prof. John Davies (BAE) will spoke in the "Research into Industry" series on Use of computing in large distributed military systems.
• January 30th: Prof. Jaafar Elmirghani (Elec. Eng) spoke on Next generation heterogeneous wired-wireless systems and networks.
• January 29th: Dr John Maxfield (Icona) spoke on From VITAL Proof of Concept to aesthetica™: Product Evolution and Technical Challenges.
• Leeds is confirmed as the university town with the best cost of living.
• October 10th 2007: Prof. Dave Cliff: "The best is yet to come" ... a talk celebrating the next 50 years of computer science.
• Leeds graduates get more jobs than others! The Higher Education Statistics Agency records that for the 3rd year running, the unemployment rate for graduates of the School is half the national average for Computing BSc's.
• On Friday 13th July, the university Chancellor, Lord Bragg, awarded an honorary DEng to Tony Wren as part of the School's 2007 graduation ceremony.
• An ultrasound simulator, developed in the School's vision group, has won first prize in the Medipex Yorkshire and Humber NHS Innovations Competition.
• The 50th Jubilee of Computer Science at the University of Leeds was celebrated on March 30th. We enter our second half century continuing to lead in teaching and research
• New! MSc in Computing and Management. Learn more at the LUBS Open day. The unemployment rate for graduates of the School of Computing currently runs at about 3%, while the national rate for graduates of computing is quoted at 11%. The Leeds degree is the thing to have!
• Emeritus Professor Tony Wren's pioneering development of the world's first computerised train schedule in 1963 has been listed as one of the top 100 world-changing discoveries to come out of UK universities in the last 50 years.
• Professor Geoffrey Cook, a founder of computing at Leeds, died recently.
• School of Computing student, Simon Wilkinson won the 2005 prize for the best computer science project in the UK.
• First and second prizes go to members of the School's Computer Vision Group at the 2006 London Hopper Colloquium
• Leeds MSc students have recently had great success in taking on top world researchers in the international MorphoChallenge.
• The School's Cognitive Vision research group won the BCS Machine Intelligence Prize 2004.
• Computing degrees from the School of Computing are accredited by the BCS and were recently ranked 6th in England.