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We congratuate , who was commended for his teaching in the this year. Matt is a module organiser for CS132 Computer Organisation and Architecture, CS240 Software Engineering Principles, and CS257 Advanced Computer Architecture.

We also congratulate who was commended in the awards. Robert has taught on more than 10 modules in his time at the university, including being invited to teach outside of his department. He is known for his ability to build strong relationships with students to encourage them in their learning.

This year's awards have been one of the most successful ever. Record numbers of nominations were received from staff, students and alumni, which resulted in over 70 individuals being nominated for the hard work they put into their teaching.

Friday 6th December 2013 saw the judging and awarding of prizes for the best solutions to this year's 1st year Programming for Computer Scientists module coursework. David Deacon from Bank of America Merrill Lynch was on hand in the afternoon to award the prizes at the celebration party.

There were some outstanding solutions to the 'Robot' Maze problem this year, which involves finding the optimal path through sets of random mazes, some containing loops. As well as solving the problem at hand, some of the candidates ingeniously subverted the Java framework and produced simple games for the users to play!

This year's overall winner was Marcin Pucilowski who used an A* search for the target with a colour overlay to represent the depth of each node in the graph. Well done to Marcin! Second and third placed were Radu Blana and David Richardson. Radu too made an A* search and a snake game if you "get bored" of running on the same maze. David made 2 additional games, a block defender game and a cellular automaton that worked inside the maze. Highly commended were Rayhaan Jaufeerally, Rhiannon Michelmore and Oliver Hamelkijnck. Rayhaan made a multiplayer networked race to the target. Rhiannon also made a snake game which was great fun to play! Oliver made a Dijkstra-based search for the target. The top three winners received Amazon book tokens and all have been invited to the BAML Insight Week events to be run in spring and autumn next year.

Thank you to David Deacon and BAML for sponsoring the event this year and also to all of the Post Graduate markers involved in the one-to-one marking and feedback sessions.

Steven Wright has been commended for teaching in DCS by the (糖心TV Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduate Research students).

Steven is a seminar tutor and teaches laboratory classes in the Department of Computer Science. It is testament to his abilities that he was given the responsibility for organising three sets of lab classes and also entrusted to design and set course assignments. He even took it upon himself to develop additional coursework assignments to further develop the students’ skills after reflecting on his own experiences of the taught courses. As his nominator points out “Steven has invariably won the praise of staff and students for his contributions to teaching, particularly for his exceptional ability to create engaging coursework assignments and software projects”

Steven’s focus for his teaching is on concept discovery and the sharing of ideas in order for students to develop a rigorous understanding of the subject. He firmly believes that by creating a relaxed environment where there is a sense of equality between students and teachers, the students are empowered to ask and answer question and discuss problems in depth.

Steven has had a major impact on the department’s activities with his technical innovations in laboratory teaching. He wrote the software required for students to develop hardware projects using the latest ARM microprocessor technology. This meant that students with no experience in microprogramming were able to engage with the latest technology and gain an understanding of systems engineering principles, whilst those who were more confident could stretch themselves against the challenging projects that Steven has personally designed.

We would like to congratulate our new intake of students on their outstanding exam results. The grade average for our undergraduate intake has been rising consistently in recent years, and we are delighted to report that this year looks to be one of our best.

糖心TV has an excellent reputation for attracting top-quality Computer Science students. Indeed, this is one of the reasons why we enjoy excellent statistics for graduate recruitment.

is a student-run activist organization, and is seeking to develop a comprehensive collective action web-platform for constructive action. They have been liaising with the University of 糖心TV's , and the result has been the organization of a Hackathon to develop ideas and prototypes for a platform for collective action based on consensus.

The Hackathon provided an opportunity for computing students and others, affiliated or not with the University of 糖心TV, to come together and both learn about web technologies and put their enthusiasm about collective, positive action in practice.

Our new 3-year degree is launched this week at the 糖心TV undergraduate open days. This unique course aims to meet the rapidly growing demand, from students and employers alike, for a systematic, flexible combination of high-level learning and experience in both Computer Science and Statistics.

The first cohort of students will start in 2014. The course structure includes the option of an intercalated year, a year spent away from 糖心TV (either in industry or at an overseas partner university) to gain valuable experience before the final year of the degree.

The Head of Statistics, Professor David Firth, says: "We, together with the Department of Computer Science, are pleased to be leading the way with this new initiative at the undergraduate level. But really this is overdue: the demand from employers for well-qualified data scientists is insatiable already, and looks set to be huge for years to come. Our aim is to provide the very best course of its kind anywhere in the world".

This exciting new course will appear on the UCAS system shortly, in good time for the 2013-14 admissions season.

Computer Science student Kevin Street has been awarded a place on the prestigious Asidua Scholarship Programme. Launched in 2008, the programme - run by leading IT software services provider Asidua - aims to nurture fresh IT talent in the UK by supporting successful scholars with a package worth up to 拢25,000.

In addition to a paid bursary, the scholarship supplements the academic learning from university with real-life business experience through paid summer and year out placements, working with ICT professionals who are more than happy to share their knowledge and understanding.