My colleagues in Newcastle (where I did my first degree) have an MRes/PhD position available in computational behaviour analysis.
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The move towards massively open on-line courseware (MOOCs) has the potential fundamentally to change the practice and experience of university. But what does it feel like to study on a MOOC-delivered course?
A discussion on the different styles of PhD thesis that might be appropriate for different students and research areas.
The British Computer Society’s distinguished PhD dissertations competition is now accepting nominations for 2013.
As part of St Andrews’ 600th anniversary, the University is funding six scholarships in computer science (and all our other Schools, for that matter).
I’m a little perplexed by the direction of the current discussion over Ireland’s chief scientific advisor.
We usually think about formal language grammars in terms of the complexity of the language, but it’s also possible — and potentially more useful, for a compiler-writer or other user — to think about them from the perspective of the parser, which is slightly different.
It’s slightly spooky when you’re discussing a topic and evidence for (or against) your position seems to spontaneously appear. The fashion for strong versus weak type systems seems to change on a cycle of about a decade. It might be turning again.
