Computing & Informatics

Business Breakfasts in March

Business Breakfasts in March

  The School of Design, Engineering & Computing is hosting two free business breakfast events on March 21st and March 26th. Both events will be at talbot campus and start at 8am-10.30am.       March 21: Information Assurance & System Security A 2011 Detica/UK government report estimated that cyber crime is costing the UK [...]

BSc (Hons) Games Technology at Bournemouth University

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If you want to learn more about the techniques used for the development of games, animation and graphics then BU’s BSc (Hons) Games Technology could be for you.   If you like what you see call BU’s Clearing hotline on 01202 524111 or 01202 966777.

EU Leonardo GameiT project partner meeting

EU Leonardo GameiT project partner meeting

Between the 15th and the 17th of May we were fortunate to host the third partner meeting of the GameiT EU project here at Bournemouth University’s Executive Business Centre (the first two took place in Denmark and Norway respectively). The project, which kicked off in October 2009 and finishes this coming October, has received 250,000 Euros of [...]

BU Professor amongst elite in lecture series

BU Professor amongst elite in lecture series

Sam Jamieson reports Bournemouth University Professor Bogdan Gabrys, Chair in Computational Intelligence and Director of Smart Technology Research Centre within DEC, is taking part in a series of lectures as part of a cross-European Masters/PhD programme. Professor Gabrys is one of 17 external experts worldwide to be invited to the programme on Soft Computing and [...]

Lecturers sweep prizes in International Predictive Modelling Competition

Lecturers sweep prizes in International Predictive Modelling Competition

Sam Jamieson reports The School of Design, Engineering and Computing’s Amanda Schierz, Lecturer in Databases/Data Mining and Marcin Budka, Associate Lecturer in Computing have won the data mining contest associated with the 19th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2011). As Amanda explains: “the task was to recognise different properties of music samples [...]

BU lecturer in ‘best thesis’ nomination

BU lecturer in ‘best thesis’ nomination

Sam Jamieson reports Bournemouth University’s Dr Indrė Žliobaitė, Lecturer in Computational Intelligence in the School of Design, Engineering and Computing, was recently nominated for the prestigious title of ‘Best PhD Thesis in Lithuania’. Dr Žliobaitė received the nomination within the ‘science’ category, whilst another award was given for humanities theses. “My PhD thesis was in [...]