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Computer Science, Loughborough
Founded in 1974, the Department of Computer Science was among the first university computing departments to be established in Great Britain. The Research School of Informatics was established in December 2004 as part of a new £100M University expansion in a number of areas. It is located in a new building equipped to the highest standards. The school's mission is research excellence founded upon the strengths of research groups in the departments of Computer Science and Information Science.
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008
The results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), published in December, have confirmed Loughborough as one of the country's leading research universities.
Computer Science Department
90% of the Department's research is of an international standard (rated 2*, 3* or 4* in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise) as classified under the Computer Science and Informatics category.
TEACHING QUALITY ASSESSMENTIn 2003 the Department received the highest available commendation for its teaching quality from the Quality Assurance Agency. In the first national poll of how satisfied final year students were with their degree course - the National Student Survey (2005) - Loughborough topped the table for overall satisfaction and also for learning resources and organisation and management. The survey placed the Department of Computer Science at Loughborough top of the league for the most satisfied computing students among 81 participating computing departments in the country (Times Higher, 23 September 2005). In 2006 the Department was placed 3rd overall and, when considering results over the last two years, places the Department first out of 84 departments.
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News
Opening of Usability Lab
The Research School of Informatics working with the Department of Computer Science, Ergonomics and Safety Research Institute, and the Department of Information Science have established a Usability Lab with money allocated from the Research Capital Investment Fund. The Lab was officially opened by Professor Ken Parsons, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Research on 9th December 2009. The Lab is equipped with a range of state-of-the-art facilities for investigating human-computer interaction. See photos of the opening and some of the facilitities - click here
Finalist, IET Innovation Awards 2009
A joint project between BAE Systems, Loughborough University and Aberystwyth University, was one of the finalists of the IET Innovation Awards 2009. There to attend the award ceremony on 25th November 2009 at the Nursery Pavilion, Lords' Cricket Ground and to receive a certificate of recognition from the IET were Dr John Pearson (SEIC), Mr Clive Downes (BAE Systems) and Professor Paul Chung (Director, Research School of Informatics). The ASTRAEA project developed a systems framework for integrated vehicle health management and advisory systems for uninhabited air vehicles (UAV's).
The 2009 Enterprise Awards
The Consultancy Award for Enterprise was presented to Professor Alastair Gale, head of the Applied Vision Research Centre for PERFORMS ('PERsonal perFORmance in Mammographic Screening'). PERFORMS has been playing a critical role in improving and maintaining the diagnosis of breast cancer since the NHS began breast screening over 20 years ago and it is planned to licence variations of the scheme worldwide. The evening was a double celebration for Alastair and his team as it has just been confirmed that £1.2M over four years has been awarded from the NHS for the continuation of PERFORMS.
IEEE Best Student Paper
PhD student Martin Sykora was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 3rd IEEE SOFA 2009 (International Workshop on Soft
Computing and Applications 2009), held in Szeged (Hungary)/Arad (Romania),
29th July - 1st August 2009. All student papers
were considered for best IEEE SOFA 2009 student paper award.
2009 Student Poster Competition
The winners of the 2009 Student Poster Competition are as follows:
Tareq Alhmeidat - Winner of the Best Poster in Three Departments prize (£200);
Sion Scone - Winner of the Second prize in Three Departments (£150);
Chris Parker - Winner of the Commendation prize in ESRI (£100);
Jonathan Farnsworth - Winner of the Commendation prize in CS (£100);
Rachael Lindsay - Winner of the Commendation prize in DIS (£100).
Industrial Placement Student Receives Employee Recognition Award
In November 2008, only 5 months after starting work with JP Morgan, industrial placement student Jamie Dumbill was nominated for an Employee Recognigtion Award. The purpose of this is to reward and recognise employees for significant performance accomplishments, extraordinary efforts creativity, innovation and leadership consistent with JP Morgan values that result in improved productivity, profitabilty or recognition of JP Morgan in the marketplace or community.
The nature of the accomplishment being rewarded falls outside the scope of an individual's normal job responsibilities, for which they receive incentive compensation and immediate recognition from peers and senior managment. Jamie is the only intern who has received such an award.
Best Student Paper
Computer Science student, Hesham Abusaimeh won the best student paper prize at the 14th International Conference on Automation and Computing, London on 6th September 2008. His paper is titled 'Dynamic cluster head for lifetime efficiency in WSN (wireless sensor networks).''
