THE SCHOOL OF COMPUTING (RGU)

'The School of Computing' is a department within the Faculty of Design and Technology at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Contents

About the School of Computing

Teaching

Research

Knowledge Based Systems Research Group

Computational Intelligence Research Group

Cognitive Engineering Research Group

Working with Schools

External References

About the School of Computing

The School specialises in a range of Computing and IT technologies. Our career-ready graduates benefit from degree programmes designed in partnership with industry and the professional bodies, by staff whose expertise is at the leading edge of these technologies. Our Computing laboratories are some of the best equipped of any University department and offer access to the latest software technologies.



RGU is well placed at the centre of an area recognised for its software development opportunities; 30% of Scotland's software engineers live and work here. Our excellent links with industry offer exciting careers, interesting industrial placements for all undergraduates and projects that are relevant in the real world. The area includes mainstream software houses, IT providers in major oil-related companies, specialist software consultancies, and important venture capital start-ups.



Our undergraduate Computing courses develop skills and expertise for a wide range of Computing technologies and target applications. A range of Computing courses with specialised themes focus on the latest technologies for Graphics and Animation, Mobile Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia and the Internet, or on applications in business and e-Commerce or systems to support the Information Age. A traditional Computer Science course suits the technically-oriented. A degree-link course in Information Systems tops up a variety of FE courses.



A range of postgraduate Masters courses suit Computing graduates or graduates wishing to explore computing as a new career. A flexible on-line Masters including CPD provision allows professionals to study part-time. Research degrees offer an opening in our research strengths. Many of our postgraduates are international students.

Teaching

===Courses at the School of Computing (Website)

Undergraduate Programme (Website)

★ BSc/BSc (Hons) Computer Science UCAS G400


★ BSc/BSc (Hons) Computing for Business & e-Commerce UCAS G501


★ BSc/BSc (Hons) Business Information Systems UCAS G510 - New


★ BSc/BSc (Hons) Computing for Graphics and Animation UCAS G450


★ BSc/BSc (Hons) Computing for Internet and Multimedia UCAS G401


★ BSc/BSc (Hons) Information Systems Technology UCAS G502


★ BSc/BSc (Hons) Multimedia Development UCAS G451 - New


★ BSc/BSc (Hons) Computing for Intelligent Systems UCAS G700


★ BSc/BSc (Hons) Computing for Mobile Applications UCAS G490


★ BSc/BSc (Hons) Computing & Information G500

Postgraduate Programme (website)

★ Computing: Software Technology


★ Computing: Software Technology with Network Management - New


★ Computing: Information Engineering


★ Computing: Information Engineering with Network Management - New


★ Computing: Information Systems


★ Computing: Human Interface Design


★ MSc Project Management

Research

The School of Computing has a vibrant, dynamic and growing interdisciplinary research community consisting of academics, research staff and postgraduate students. The community has outstanding research facilities in the externally funded Computing Technology Centre (CTC) and the Smart Web Centre.


Research is mainly conducted through three research groups, Knowledge Based Systems, Computational Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering but many funded projects involve staff from more than one group. A common research focus can be found in solving applied problems in Biomedical Informatics, Medicine and Healthcare.

Knowledge Based Systems Research Group

The knowledge based systems group (website) conducts research on the knowledge modelling and acquisition, and how these can be used to build more effective knowledge based systems with practical applications. The group has three main strengths: constraint programming, case-based reasoning, and knowledge discovery from text. Among the projects in this group, advanced knowledge engineering tools have been developed for building and maintaining knowledge-based systems and these have been applied to decision support tools in several domains, such as pharmacy and engineering.

Computational Intelligence Research Group

The Computational Intelligence Group (website)carries out research with a primary focus in four related areas: evolutionary algorithms; inductive logic programming; probabilistic modelling and neural networks. The work of the group involves a variety of approaches to problems falling under the general category of learning and optimisation. The aims of the group are:



★ to apply intelligent algorithms to solve learning and/or optimisation problems;

★ to develop improved or novel intelligent algorithms;

★ to contribute to the theoretical understanding of computational intelligence.


The research has found application in several areas including: medical treatment design and optimisation; bioinformatics; scheduling and pattern recognition.

Cognitive Engineering Research Group

The Cognitive Engineering Group (website)carries out research on the novel and innovate design and implementation of highly interactive systems in a number of applied areas. These include:



★ Systems for medical imaging and graphics, including Virtual Reality for anxiety and phobia therapies

★ Interactive learning systems and adaptive user interfaces

★ Complex visualisations of data in cancer genetics

★ Visual tool-kits for design and knowledge capture for user interfaces in Healthcare Informatics

★ Analysis of language, e.g. authorship and plagiarism detection

★ Self-evaluating systems

★ Interactive GAIT analysis

★ Virtual sculpting


We also do commercial work, e.g. consultancy, in Usability Engineering (Evaluation Studies, Methods & Data analysis).

Working with Schools

The School currently has an extensive programme of outreach workshops that can be run either at schools or in one of the schools labs.


We are currently able to run the following workshops:



★ Anatomy of a PC - More Info

★ PC Networking - More Info

★ Programming a Virtual World with Alice - More Info

★ Games Programming with Gamemaker - More Info

★ Cartoon Capers with Freehand - More Info

★ Computers in Control (Lego Mindstorm) - More Info

★ Battling Robots with Robocode - More Info

★ Introduction to HTML - More Info Part One Part Two

★ Introducing MYSQL - More Info

★ A Sort of Talk - A Talk on Sorts - More Info


If there is anything not covered on the list above then visit our website and contact us and we will see what can be arranged.

External References

★ 'RGU Website (website)


★ 'School of Computing Website at RGU (website)


★ 'School of Computing on MySpace (Myspace Profile)