News Archives

• December 2009: Congratulations to Elizabeth Scott on her appointment as Professor and to Kostas Stathis on his appointment as Reader!
• A Chinese translation of the first edition of the monograph Digraphs by J. Bang-Jensen and G. Gutin has been published. The current, second edition of this book has also been published by Springer on 17/12/08. More
• "Intelligent scriptwriting"
  Fionn Murtagh's ground-breaking new technology in joint work with the Media Arts Department features in Nature (5 June 2008). Further discussion of the mathematical data mining algorithms can be found in the article, The Structure of Narrative: the Case of Film Scripts, by Fionn Murtagh, Adam Ganz and Stewart McKie, which is forthcoming in the journal Pattern Recognition
• Pioneering software robots to aid businesses - A joint venture, using intelligent agent technology developed Dr Kostas Stathis's research team in the Department of Computer Science, has been launched with Thinking SAFE Ltd, a software company supplying data backup, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions to clients of all sizes.
• Research initiated here in 2006 by Dr Alberto Paccanaro and colleagues from Yale is reported in their recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, highlighted on both ScienceDaily and Science websites. Quantifying environmental adaptation of metabolic pathways in metagenomics describes new mathematical models for analyzing huge amounts of data in different ocean habitats (temperature, salinity etc) and metabolic activity in marine micro-organisms, which could be valuable biosensors for detecting environmental change.
• New software for metabolomic data analysis
  Alberto Paccanaro and colleagues have been working with Peter Bramley and Paul Fraser (School of Biological Sciences) to develop BioSynLab®. More
• Local student wins Scholarship Challenge. Peter Blay, a local student from Strode's College, won the Scholarship Challenge for 2008, worth £1,000 in 08-09, his first year of study, and renewable in subsequent years.
• National Student Satisfaction Survey 2008 - the Department came second among all CS departments in the UK with a satisfaction rating of 97%.
• Comp Sci student Andrew Walker won the 2007 3rd Year Poster Project Competition. His poster was entitled "Intra-AS Routing Protocol and Algorithm Simulation"
• Thinking SAFE. Pedro Contreras, PhD researcher works with Thinking SAFE
• Inaugural Lecture, RHUL, 22 Feb. 2007
  "Thinking Ultrametrically: Understanding Massive Data Sets and Navigating Information Spaces" Fionn Murtagh. Streamed video of the presentation, and of the lecture, and text of the vote of thanks.
• Gregory Gutin was invited to give a plenary lecture at the International Conference on Discrete Mathematics (ICDM 2006), jointly organised by the Ramanujan Mathematical Society and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
• Alexander Clark has won the Tenjinno Machine Translation Competition.
• Computer Science Department staff, Alexander Clark, Christophe Costa Florencio and Chris Watkins won the Best Paper Award at the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) for their paper entitled "Languages as Hyperplanes: Grammatical Inference with String Kernels."
• Fionn Murtagh has been elected as President of the Classification Society of North America for a 2-year term in 2008 and 2009. Leadership of the North American scholarly organisation is a prestigious appointment. The CSNA is a nonprofit interdisciplinary organization whose purposes are to promote the scientific study of classification and clustering. Research interests of the CSNA include data analysis in mathematical psychology, forensics and linguistic clustering and classification.
• Victor Solovyev has been involved in a large international consortium which has unravelled the 236-million-base genome of the European honey bee - Apis mellifera. He was one of 150 scientists from 15 countries to work on this major project, the results of which have been published in Nature (26 October 2006).