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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

In recent years IBM have regularly invited a group of 糖心TV computer science students to an 'open day' event held at
their research centre at Hursley. A couple of weeks ago a coach-full of our students (from 1st years to 4th years) attended this year's event. One of those attending, Alex Wilson, picks up the story ...

"After arriving in Hursley we were shown around the beautiful grounds of Hursley House before being introduced to IBM staff and facilities. The Galileo Centre, where we spent most of the day, was filled with interesting exhibitions and demonstrations of technology such as facial profiling and uses of RFID tags. The staff gave us presentations on current technologies and uses, such as in the SMARTer planet scheme – including one employee who had integrated public monitoring with his house through Twitter! During lunch we were able to have personal chats with IBM’s Master Innovators, the people who design the new innovations in technology.

The last part of the day was splitting into groups and working on our own “innovations” – we gave a presentation on uses and how we’d implement it to the rest of the students who came and IBM’s own panel of judges. The winning team received iPods as prizes. The entire day was very fun, interesting, and well worth doing again. A big thank you to IBM for their time and hospitality!"

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