By Tania Willis on June 6, 2012
Senior lecturer in creative technology Dr Christos Gatzidis appears in this month’s Edge magazine talking about how well BU prepares its gaming students for the technology industry. Edge is a monthly magazine which specialises in videogame insight and game industry professionals. Christos spoke in an interview with the magazine about how well BU’s courses [...]
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By kirstipawlowski on May 23, 2012
Two academics from the school of Design, Engineering and Computing at Bournemouth University (BU) have written chapters in a new book ‘Design and Designing, a critical introduction’ Dr Bob Eves, Senior Lecturer in industrial Design and Bryce Dyer, Senior Lecturer in Product Design wrote chapters Design Semiotics and Ethics and Design: I Can but Should I? [...]
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By Tania Willis on March 21, 2012
BU’s Dr Christos Gatzidis spoke to BBC radio Shropshire on Monday 19 March about the latest studies that say computer games are good for you. It has been discussed in recent reports that playing video games boots creativity, 3D modelling skills, reaction times and cognitive ability. Dr Gatzidis discussed the growing movement in games being [...]
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By Tania Willis on October 19, 2011
Darren Jones, a BSC Hons Computer Aided Product Design graduate has won two prestigious prizes for fire safety product Freedor. The product won best mechanical product and young designer engineer of the year award at British Engineering Excellence Awards. Darren’s product Freedor also won best passive protection product at the Fire Excellence Awards 2011. Freedor [...]
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By Charles Elder on July 25, 2011
On Thursday 4 August 2011 the INFER Project team will host a workshop with contributions from BU’s Prof. Bogdan Gabrys, Dr João Gama (University of Porto, Portugal), Dr Rogerio de Lemos (University of Kent, UK) and Albert Bifet (University of Waikato, New Zealand). The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss [...]
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By Sally Gates on July 18, 2011
Saheed Adepoju studied Advanced Computing at Bournemouth University, before setting up his own company Encipher, specialising in tablet computing technology in his home county, Nigeria. Read more about Saheed’s journey after leaving BU in Wired Magazine here.
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By Charles Elder on June 21, 2011
Sam Jamieson reports Dr Alain Renaud and Dr Katarzyna Musial have participated in “Smart Spaces for Smart People” – the e-Science Institutes workshop held in Edinburgh. The workshop gathered specialists from the field of Smart Technologies, and included academics from BU, Edinburgh University, Oxford University and Southampton University. Both Katarzyna and Alain gave talks about [...]
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By Charles Elder on June 20, 2011
We’re just days away from the start of this year’s Festival of Design and Innovation at BU. The 19th annual event kicks off with a private viewing on Thursday evening, 23 June, before the doors open to the general public on Friday, 24 June. To find out more visit the Festival website. We hope to see [...]
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By Charles Elder on June 20, 2011
The creator of the ‘Twinthesiser’ – the unique web-based software which turns posts made on Twitter into real sounds – will present his latest project as part of the 2011 Festival of Design and Innovation at Bournemouth University. Sam Harman, who is just completing his BSc (Hons) in Music and Audio Technology, will demonstrate his [...]
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By Charles Elder on June 14, 2011
Sam Jamieson reports Dr Katarzyna Musial, Lecturer in Informatics, has visited the Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland as part of the Erasmus Exchange Programme. Katarzyna acts as BU’s Transfer of Knowledge Coordinator on the INFER project (www.infer.eu), and focuses her research on Complex Networked Systems. She was invited by Assistant Professor Dr Krzysztof Juszczyszyn [...]
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