16 December 2010

Christmas lectures show 'mamy faces of computing'

School pupils from across Tayside and Fife will be shown the many faces of computing in a range of Christmas lectures at the University of Dundee tomorrow (Friday Dec 17th).

The University's School of Computing will welcome fifth and sixth year school pupils for the talks on 'The Many Faces of Computing'. The lectures will show the links between computing and other subjects including design, art, maths, ecology and geography.

It is hoped this will provide students and teachers with a glimpse into the wide range of computing teaching and research being undertaken in the UK.

Two of the speakers are from the School of Computing. Graham Pullin will talk about the 'Museum of Lost Interactions', a project showing how computing and design can be combined to great effect. Nick Hine will talk about how computing is being used in Columbia to cause a rise in the value of exported coffee. It is hoped that this technology can convince Columbian farmers to grow coffee as opposed to exports of an illegal nature. Nick's talk looks at links between computing and business, ecology and geography.

This year for the first time, thanks to sponsorship from Computing at Schools and the British Computing Society Academy of Computing, there will be a guest speaker, Professor James Davenport from the University of Bath, who will talk about the mathematics behind the internet.

The lecture programme will run from 10am-12:50pm on Friday December 17th at the Dalhousie Building.

For more information visit: www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/christmaslectures/form.asp.

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