Gabriella Asprella-Libonati, a student in the Department of Informatics at King's College London, was recently awarded the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Contensis: http://www.contentmanagement.co.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/anitaborgscholarship.aspx?SyndicationType=2 2013-05-23T04:49:17Z Mr James Mabbett

We have received the sad news that Prof. John A. S. Smith passed away suddenly on 25 April 2013 while on a short visit to Portugal.

2013-05-10T15:02:00Z 2013-05-10T14:59:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/ProfJohnASSmith.aspx Mr James Mabbett

Professor Kaspar Althoefer was the NMS winner for the 2012 – 2013 Supervisory Excellence awards.

2013-05-03T15:30:00Z 2013-05-10T15:35:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/supervisoryexcellence2013.aspx MISS Emily Balls

The Hackin' The City Hackathon brought together 55 students from a dozen of the top universities in the UK to pit their skills in a round-the-clock hackathon to design and develop an application over 24 hours.

2013-05-02T15:20:00Z 2013-05-02T15:16:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/hackinthecity.aspx Mr James Mabbett

Dr Richard Overill from the Department of Informatics gave an invited presentation on Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism to the Metropolitan Police Service Security Forum.

2013-05-02T15:04:00Z 2013-05-09T14:55:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/overillcybercrime.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Teaching Assistant Awards is an annual event, intended to remind teaching assistants that they play a very important role in the Department and that their hard work is recognised and appreciated by both staff and students.

2013-04-10T16:24:00Z 2013-04-10T16:40:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/teachingassistant2013.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Dr Katarzyna Musial-Gabrys from the Department of Informatics has recently initiated collaboration with Affectv company. The result of this link is the Open Graph Initiative in which the Department of Informatics is a partner.

2013-04-10T15:39:00Z 2013-04-10T17:01:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/opengraph.aspx MISS Emily Balls

In a report discussing the increasing presence of robots in our daily lives, Sky News interviewed Dr. Thrishantha Nanayakkara, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Informatics, about his views on robots.

2013-04-10T13:28:00Z 2013-04-10T16:57:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/thrishskynews.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Students of the Department of Informatics have been short listed for the national finals of the Samsung Student Developer Challenge.

2013-03-21T12:12:00Z 2013-03-21T12:12:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/samsungnationalfinal.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Dr. Laurence Tratt from the Department of Informatics has been awarded a £618K grant from the EPSRC.

2013-03-05T10:22:00Z 2013-03-05T10:31:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/trattepsrcgrant.aspx MISS Emily Balls

On Tuesday 12 February 2013, the Department of Informatics held a Mentoring event for current students and alumni.

2013-02-28T10:30:00Z 2013-03-05T10:16:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/mentoringevening.aspx MISS Emily Balls

The Department of Informatics is hosting two summer schools in July 2013: the European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2013) and the Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence Summer School (ACAI 2013).

2013-02-27T10:28:00Z 2013-03-05T10:16:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/summerschools.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Two publications have been dedicated to the memory of Dr Steve Barker, who sadly passed away early in 2012.

2013-01-30T14:27:00Z 2013-01-30T14:25:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/stevebarker.aspx MISS Emily Balls

On 15 and 17 January 2013, King's College London hosted the two Greater London Science & Technology Challenge Finals for Gifted & Talented 13 - 15 year olds.

2013-01-30T13:25:00Z 2013-01-30T14:25:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/sciencechallenge.aspx MISS Emily Balls

In November 2012 the first ever J.P. Morgan Code for Good Challenge took place in London. The challenge was an opportunity for top tech talent from UK universities, including three students from the Department of Informatics at King's College London, to come into J.P. Morgan, and through their team coding skills, use technology to address a social challenge for one of their three partner charities.

2013-01-30T13:23:00Z 2013-02-01T16:12:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/jpmorgancodeforgood.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Kaspar Althoefer, Maria Fox, Jian Dai, Hongbin Liu and Vahid Aminzadeh have been featured in a series of videos from technology magazine T3. The videos look at the role of robotics in the home.

2013-01-30T13:22:00Z 2013-01-30T14:26:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/t3magazine.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Colin Cooper and Tomasz Radzik, academics in the Algorithm and Bioinformatics Group in the Department of Informatics, have been awarded $100,000 from the Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO) program.

2012-12-03T15:34:00Z 2012-12-03T15:33:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/samsungglobalresearch.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Valeriia Haberland, a third year PhD student in the Department of Informatics, won first prize in the School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences' annual poster competition.

2012-12-03T10:28:00Z 2012-12-03T15:59:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/postercompetition.aspx MISS Emily Balls

The Department of Informatics recently hosted a 24 hour codeathon as part of the Samsung Student Developer Challenge.

2012-12-02T15:33:00Z 2012-12-03T15:39:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/developerchallenge2012.aspx MISS Emily Balls

A paper by a group of undergraduate students under the supervision of Dr Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Senior Lecturer in Robotics in the Department of Informatics, has been accepted to be published in the proceedings of the prestigious International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012).

2012-11-02T11:41:00Z 2012-11-02T11:38:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/studentsroboticspaper.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Informatics PhD students Golnaz Badkobeh and Chalita Toopsuwan and their supervisor Professor Maxime Crochemore have been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 19th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval.

2012-11-01T11:31:00Z 2012-11-08T09:25:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/crochemorebestpaper.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Final year Informatics student Gabriella Asprella Libonati recently completed a Technical Internship at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, one of the world's largest centres for scientific research in fundamental physics.

2012-11-01T11:30:00Z 2012-11-02T11:38:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/CERNinternship.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Dr Laurence Tratt, a lecturer in the Software Modelling and Applied Logic group, won a best paper award at this year's International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), the premier empirical software engineering and measurement conference.

2012-11-01T09:32:00Z 2012-11-02T11:37:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/trattbestpaper.aspx MISS Emily Balls

King's has been ranked 8th in the Telegraph's ranking of the top universities at which to study computer science in the UK.

2012-10-17T12:20:00Z 2012-10-17T12:23:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/telegraphtop10.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Dr H.K. Lam, a senior lecturer in the Department of Informatics, has published an edited book entitled "Computational Intelligence and its Applications: Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network and Support Vector Machine Techniques".

2012-10-03T10:14:00Z 2012-10-03T10:25:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/lampublishes.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Three Indian students have been awarded Jubilee Scholarships to pursue master's courses at King's, one of whom will be joining the Department of Informatics.

2012-10-02T10:10:00Z 2012-10-03T10:36:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/jubileescholarship.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Professor Michael Luck, Head of the Department of Informatics, gave a keynote presentation at the 2012 national Argentinian computing conference.

2012-10-01T10:23:00Z 2012-10-03T10:34:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/luckkeynoteargentina.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Dr Sophia Tsoka, a lecturer in the Department of Informatics, has been awarded £185,267 from the Leverhulme Trust for a project on community structure detection in complex networks.

2012-09-04T12:31:00Z 2012-09-04T12:29:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/tsokaleverhulme.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Professor Kaspar Althoefer, Head of the Centre for Robotics Research (CoRe), Department of Informatics, collaborated with the Bartlett School (University College London) on a robot installation at the Tate Modern.

2012-09-04T12:31:00Z 2012-09-18T09:57:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/corefearfulsymmetry.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Dr. Laurence Tratt received a $100,000 grant from the large software company Oracle for the "Heterogeneous Editors" project, which will investigate how mixed programming languages can be edited within a single tool.

2012-08-01T16:11:00Z 2012-08-02T12:13:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/trattoraclegrant.aspx MISS Emily Balls

The Department of Informatics recently held an image competition. Prizes were awarded in two categories: "Life as a King's Informatics Student" and "Research at King's Department of Informatics".

2012-08-01T16:00:00Z 2012-08-01T16:08:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/imagecompetition.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Members of the Planning, Agents and Intelligent Systems Group, part of the Department of Informatics at King's College London, were awarded two prizes recently at the 22nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.

2012-07-09T09:43:00Z 2012-07-09T15:13:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/planningsuccess.aspx MISS Emily Balls

The Department of Informatics hosted the first in a series of Distinguished Lectures on 21 June 2012. The event celebrated the career of Emeritus Professor Dov Gabbay who delivered a lecture on The Logic of Tense in Language.

2012-07-05T15:20:00Z 2012-07-20T14:39:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/distinguishedsuccess.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Professor Michael Luck, Head of the Department of Informatics, was invited to give two keynote presentations in June 2012.

2012-07-05T15:16:00Z 2012-07-03T14:39:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/luckkeynote.aspx MISS Emily Balls

The Department of Informatics is hosting the first in a series of Distinguished Lectures on 21 June 2012. The event celebrates the career of Emeritus Professor Dov Gabbay who will deliver a lecture on The Logic of Tense in Language.

2012-06-01T15:02:00Z 2012-06-26T11:05:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/distinguishedlecture.aspx MISS Emily Balls

The Department of Informatics hosted a Computer Science Taster Day on 8 May 2012.

2012-05-31T09:11:00Z 2012-06-18T09:12:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/tasterday2012.aspx MISS Emily Balls

The Department introduced Teaching Assistant and Lab Demonstrator Awards this academic year. This will be an annual event, intended to remind teaching assistants and lab demonstrators that they play a very important role in the Department and that their hard work is recognised and appreciated by both staff and students.

2012-04-30T12:01:00Z 2012-04-30T12:04:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/oustandingteachingasst.aspx MISS Emily Balls

Dr Mohammed Reza-Nakhai was the NMS winner for the 2011 – 2012 Supervisory Excellence awards. Dr Reza-Nakhai is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Telecommunications Research.

2012-04-30T12:01:00Z 2012-04-30T12:08:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/supervisoryexcellence.aspx MISS Emily Balls

A recent paper of Professor Jian S Dai's has been awarded the 2011 SAGE Best Paper Award by the Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Systems and Control Engineering.

2012-04-30T12:01:00Z 2012-04-30T12:15:00Z http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/news/newsrecords/daibestpaper.aspx