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25 April 2011

Blood and Coffee at Computing Degree Show 2011

Show opens 4pm, Wednesday April 27th, Queen Mother Building, University of Dundee

Future apps and programs for use by everyone from detectives to blood donors to Colombian coffee growers will be on show as the latest group of computing graduates at the University of Dundee host their Degree Show 2011 this week.

The Degree Show will take place at 4 pm on Wednesday April 27th at the Queen Mother Building on the University campus. A host of industry figures will be among those viewing the projects from over 40 graduating students on the BSc Applied Computing course.

'We have a fantastic range of work from the students this year and I am sure everyone who comes along will be extremely impressed,' said Doctor Janet Hughes, Dean of the School of Computing.

'It is interesting to see more and more of the students developing applications for the mobile phone and tablet market, which of course is an area which is increasingly commercially important. But we also have some very strong graduates who have produced innovative work on the more traditional platforms.'

For the first time each of the student projects has been assigned a unique QR code. Using their mobile phone, visitors can snap a photo of the QR code to link to each student’s own project web page.

Among the projects on show will be:

  • Graham Troup's data analysis tool for the Colombian coffee market, all developed using Open Source software.
  • James McLaren's 'MyBlood', a mobile phone-based interactive system for blood donors which includes support for social networks to encourage donations.
  • Qiming Zhang's 'SHERLOCK' software, which provides automated assistance in crime detection.
  • Liam Hall's 'Ship Tracker' which enables the location of ships to be tracked and plotted using Google Maps in close to real time.
  • Hugh Calder's Employability Toolkit which uses the fantastic Microsoft Surface as the platform for an interactive experience to help students with professionalism and employability issues.

A full list of the student projects, with further information on each, is available at: http://cds2011.computing.dundee.ac.uk/.


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