Author: huizhiliang

We are arranging a day trip to Bletchley Park (https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk) during on Friday 8th Nov 2019 (week 6). Bletchley Park is also call Station X, fame as the central site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II, and where  Alan Turing worked as a codebreaker during that time period. The department will pay for the travel and tickets (It will cost you more than £30 if you go there yourself from Reading).

If you are interested please bring a deposit of £10 (to be returned to you on the day of the trip) to room 151 in the Polly Vacher building ASAP. There will be a limited number of seats on the coach and these will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

On 13 Feb 2019, the students and staffs visited JASMIN Data Center. It’s located at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. This event was organized by Dr. Huizhi (Elly) Liang. Thanks for the great support of Prof. Bryan Lawrence,  Jonathan Churchill, and other staff members of RAL.

The Department of Computer Science and R. U. Hacking society of University of Reading is proudly bring you a hackathon and showcase event! Welcoming students from all over Thames Valley! Whether you’re completely new to programming or are a seasoned hackathon veteran, you are welcome to join us in this fun and collaborative invention marathon! On Day 1 and 2, you will have a 24 hours student Hackathon event. On Day 3, there will be a team event to analyze a data set, an extreme programming competition, workshop sessions for beginners, and a poster and demo session in the afternoon. Bring your laptops and bright ideas, and we’ll cover food, power and Wi-Fi – beginners welcome!

Day 1, 2: (16, 17 Feb), 24 hours student Hackathon event. Venue: Henley Business School Building. Organised by R. U. Hacking. More details please visit: https://www.ruhacking.me/?no-cache=1

Day 3: (18 Feb) Data Science Hackathon, Competition, and Showcase Event. Venue: Department of Computer Science, Polly Vacher building. Organised by the staff members of the department. We define Data Science Hackathon = creative ideas + data + programming (Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence/Data Mining/Data Visualization).  Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/7OqIifNCGvcFa3ij2 . More details please visit: https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/computer-science/2019/01/25/data-science-hackathon-and-competition-day/

Prize of Day 3

Track 1

The first prizes: Chiara Zucco  Runner-up: Umarani Ganeshbabu, Bhuvana Dhruva, Ekene Ozioko

Track 3

Best presentation: Andrejus    Runner-up: Ben Magee

Best Video: Group 11 Tarab Shakeb, Sacha Walton     Runner-up: Zixu Guo

Best Poster: James Bradley    Runner-up: Eleni Charalambous