News 2010
Featured news and articles from the School of Computer Science.
The Pinkerton Lecture: "The Relentless March of The Microchip"
26th November 2010
Professor Steve Furber from the school was the honorary guest speaker in The IET Pinkerton Lecture which was brodcast live from Bangalore, India. Webcast available... read more.
NanoCMOS Project Receives Excellence Award from the National Microelectronics Institute
10th November 2010
The School would like to congratulate Professor Asenov and Glasgow University on their receipt of the National National Microelectronics Institute award for excellence in R&D. ... read more.
Twitter a stock market indicator?
22nd October 2010
Xiao-Jun Zeng, a professor at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester has been working with Indiana University Professors Johan Bollen and Huina Mao have analyzed activity in the Twitterverse to determine how... read more.
Nobel Prize for Physics to Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov
15th October 2010
The announcement this week of the award of the Nobel Prize for Physics to Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov has been met with widespread jubilation across the University. Our colleagues in the Nano Engineering and Storage Technology group are entitled to feel especially proud, having collaborated on Graphene research since its initial discovery... read more.
Manchester: Britain's greatest university?
12th October 2010
Following the announcement this week of the award of the Nobel prize to two Manchester scientists, an article in the Independent discusses whether Manchester should now be considered Britain' greatest University... read more.
Utopia Brings Data to Life!
11th October 2010
Pitching somewhere between academia and the business world, school's Utopia project is capturing attention from the business world... read more.
Edwin Broni-Mensah named Britain's top black graduate
13th September 2010
Twenty-five year old Edwin made the news in August 2010 when he launched GiveMeTap, which raises money for drought-stricken countries through the sales of a special aluminium bottle.
BBC News Technology: Memristor revolution backed by HP
3rd Sept 2010
"Steve Furber, professor of computer engineering at the University of Manchester, explained that the potential benefits lie in the fact that memristors are "much simpler in principle than transistors". read more...
Current ICT and Computer Science in schools - damaging to UK's future economic prospects?
5th August 2010
Study of computing in schools launched by the Royal Society and the UK's leading universities including Professor Steve Furber from the University of Manchester. read more...
CASC-J5 Automated Theorem Proving Success
27th July 2010
Congratulations to Professor Andrei Voronkov and Dr Konstantin Korovin (Royal Society University Research Fellow), who have return triumphant (once again) from the world championship. read more...
Neurons to Inspire Future Computers
26th July 2010
he interest and excitement around the School's SpiNNaker Project continued last week with a BBC technology news article contrasting the work of our APT group. read more...
Hal Coley wins the Animation10 Overall Award!
21st July 2010
When 16 year old Hal Coley from Bosworth Community College, Leicester. read more...
Manchester Computer Scientist awarded prestigious Japanese Medal of Honour
20th July 2010
Congratulations to Professor Junichi Tsujji who was recently awarded the Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon by the Japanese government. read more...
Linking ARMS to make a Brain
15th July 2010
ARM processors are enabling a massively parallel neural network. read more...
Carole Goble Elected as Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering
12th July 2010
Congratulations to Carole on her election as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. read more...
On the Absence of the Basic Programming Languages in modern PC's
3rd June 2010
"It's not the language that matters, but how early the kids are exposed to the concept of computer programming. I got the bug early, because my computer had a built-in programming language ready to capture the curiosity of a smart kid". read more...
School of Computer Science awaits the arrival of the 20 ARM processor cores chips!
4th May 2010
The Chip will contain 20 ARM processor cores, each modelling 1000 neurons. With 20,000 neurons per chip, 50,000 which is required to for reaching the target of 1 billion neurons... read more...
Computers have shrunk!
4th May 2010
Sixty years ago it took a one-tonne computer to run a simple mathematics program - but now UK computer scientists have ‘shrunk’ it to make it available on your mobile... read more...
School contributes to Future Everything Festival
28th April 2010
Carole, an internationally renown researcher in the area of e-science and the semantic web, will be contributing to a panel discussion on Open Data and the Semantic Web... read more...
New Computational Method to Uncover Gene Regulation
23rd April 2010
Scientists have developed a new computational model to uncover gene regulation, the key to how our body develops – and how it can go wrong.
The Millennium Technology Prize Laureate 2010
14th April 2010
Professor Stephen Furber, Professor of Computer Engineering at The University of Manchester, has been shortlisted for the 2010 Millennium Technology Prize, the world’s largest award for technological innovation. He is one of three laureates announced in Helsinki today by Technology Academy Finland.
"Embracing Uncertainty: The new machine intelligence"
Manchester Turing Lecture 2010: Professor Christopher Bishop
17th March 2010
The school hosted the sixth annual Manchester Turing lecture this week, in partnership with the BCS and IET. The lecture proved one of the most popular to date, with an audience of over 350 people attending to hear Chris Bishop (Chief Research Scientist, Microsft Research Lab Cambridge) lecture on machine intelligence. A video recording of the lecture is available from here.
UK e-Science programme judged world-leading
15th February 2010
UK e-Science programme, to which Manchester is a key contributor, has recently been judged world- leading by an international panel of experts read more....
Computer contest hopes to inspire young animators
14th January 2010
Staff at the School of Computer Science came up with the idea for the UK Schools Computer Animation Competition in 2008, to mark the 60th anniversary of the world's first stored program computer, designed and built in Manchester in 1948.. read more....
News 2009
IET - Present Around the World Competition Winner
7th December 2009
Computer Science student Peter Sutton was a runner up, 2nd and 1st going to the people from industry. read more....
Wiser OWL Learns to Unravel Doctor Talk.
27th October 2009
A new Internet language will enable computers to unravel the complex terminology used by experts such as doctors, engineers and life scientists, and understand what they really mean. read more...
Racing the "Baby" in the City Centre Manchester.
23rd October 2009
School took part in the "Speedy Science" event for schoolchildren, part of this year's Manchester Science Festival. The event was held in Pure at the Printworks, with over 500 schoolchildren visiting. Our activity was "Race the Baby", where the kids could download a Java simulator of the original Baby into their mobile phones, using Bluetooth. read more...
Best Paper Award in Environmental Modelling & Software Journal.
24th August 2009
Congratulations to Graham Riley and Rupert Ford in the Decision Support category for 2008. read more...