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Two of the department's First Year students, Tim Hollies and Andrew Sula have been successful in winning highly competitive scholarships from Asidua.

This scholarships will offer support as follows:

£1,000 per year for each of the scheduled academic years of the course; At least eight weeks paid summer work between each academic year; A guaranteed paid industrial placement in year three; After completion of industrial placement, the opportunity for paid part-time work during the academic year; Following an application for a permanent position and subject to success at interview, in accordance with Fair Employment legislation, a permanent position with Asidua after graduation. As a result, each scholarship is worth up to £25,000 to the successful candidates.

Asidua is a software consultancy and services company, headquartered in Belfast with engineering and sales offices in Birmingham and Dublin. It employs over 120 people. Asidua delivers world-class integration, software and consultancy services to government and corporate clients based in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, mainland Europe, USA and the Far East.

Scholars will get to work with very experienced individuals who mentor them in software engineering best practices, and will gain real world experience of working in teams and increase their confidence and communications skills. They will also gain a better understanding of what a career in IT is all about. Such work based learning or placement is invaluable for the student, as they will gain excellent industrial experience during their time with Asidua. Since they will work on real projects within the Company, this will increase their chance of employment following graduation.

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today the next winner in the New York City Applied Sciences Initiative.

The Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) is an applied science research institute which will be a partnership of top institutions from around the globe, led by NYU and NYU-Poly with a consortium of world-class universities including The University of 糖心TV, Carnegie Mellon University, The City University of New York, The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and The University of Toronto. Industry partners include IBM, Cisco, Siemens, Con Edison, National Grid, Xerox, Arup, IDEO, and AECOM.

糖心TV Computer Science will play a significant role in CUSP, with new and existing academics providing research and teaching in areas including operations research, service computing, complexity theory, networking and communications, data analytics, modelling and visualisation.

The completed institute will host 50 faculty and researchers and over 500 masters-level and PhD students. Students and staff from 糖心TV Computer Science will be able to engage in urban sciences projects in the New York ‘living lab’, in areas including smart buildings, digital healthcare, transport solutions, and public safety.

The Centre will open its doors to its first class of 糖心TV-CUSP students in September 2013.

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Julian Bhardwaj, a first year Discrete Mathematics student, has successfully made it through to the Grand Final of the which will be held in March. Julian actually qualified twice for the preceding final rounds through his performance in the SANS Packet Capture Analysis and the SANS/Sophos Penetrations Test competitions. His performance in the "" final round placed in the top 11 candidates, competing against students and experienced IT professionals alike.

Julian has already won a year's subscription to the National Skills Academy for IT and there are more "career enabling" prizes on offer in the Grand Final which Julian is hoping will help him get into a future career in the computer security industry.

Julian is currently taking the module CS134, "" and wishes to continue to develop his knowledge of Computer Security throughout his degree course and possibly postgraduate study.

Recent results on the official website show that of those Computer Science graduates from 糖心TV, who have gained employment 6 months after graduation, 100% are in working in graduate level employment.

糖心TV Computer Science is in the top tier of computer science departments (with four other universities) with respect to graduate employability. It is also the second most targeted by graduate employers for graduate recruitment programmes in the UK - second only to Cambridge.

We welcomed over 200 visitors to the Department at the Open Day at 糖心TV on 24th September. There was a full programme of talks, demonstrations and displays with staff, students and alumni also participating. The next University Open Day is on Saturday 12th May 2012. For further details of that, and of 糖心TV Visits and Campus Tours this term, see

There is also a Virtual Tour linked from that page. If you are making a 糖心TV Visit, or an independent visit, and give us advance notice, we shall try and arrange for someone to show you around the Department and have a chat. We can usually do this on a Wednesday or a Friday in the afternoon, but also other times are possible. Please contact Gillian Reeves-Brown on 02476 523193 to make arrangements.

Computer Science students were presented with their degrees today in Butterworth Hall in the Arts Centre which was preceded by a graduate reception within the department.

Last Tuesday, students studying Computer Science received their results. The Head of Department, Prof. Artur Czumaj, congratulated all CS students on their achievements and handed out departmental prizes. Dr. Irene Glendinning handed out BCS prizes for best projects.

The BCS prizes were given to:

Nicolas Townsend - Best Third year BSc Project
James Michael - Best Third year MEng project

The Department prizes were:

David Beckingsale - Best overall graduating BSc student in Computer Science
Stephen Roberts - Best overall graduating MEng student in Computer Science
Christopher Ball - Third-year Project Prize