Department of Computer Science

Martin Henson

Head of Department

TCS Awareness14 November 2002

Our Mission

Research

Teaching Outreach

The Department

• 54 Staff

• 8 Research Groups

• 13 Degree Schemes

• 800 Students

• Income £5M

Outreach: an integrated approach

• Partnership

• Trust and Confidence

• Opportunities and benefits

• Serendipity

Outreach Strategy

• Dissemination

• Application

• Direction

Agent-based monitoring

• Sensor integration from robotics

• Agent systems – Intelligent Environments

• Large-scale deployment

E-commerce toolkit

• Software engineering

• E-technologies

• Synergistic expertise

YPA – directory enquiry assistant

• Natural language engineering

• Data-mining

• Searching semi-structured data

Expertise

• Software Engineering– Testing, Re-use, Re-engineering– Tool support for software design– System specification and analysis

Expertise

• E-technology– Java and related technologies– XML and related languages– .NET– Agents for e-commerce– Distributed systems architecture

Expertise

• Constraints and Evolutionary Computation– Financial forecasting – Logistics– Transportation

Expertise

• Data mining & language engineering– Web search– Unstructured data– Intelligent query systems– Language understanding and translation

Expertise

• Embedded systems and agents– Intelligent environments– Care agents– Environmental management

Expertise

• Robotics– Advertising robots (AdXbot)– Agricultural vehicles– Hostile environments– Care robotics

Outreach from the curriculum• 170 MSc + PhD graduates per annum• Work placements and contract work• Recruitment• TCS associates• Advanced MSc schemes• Virtual industrial liaison committee• Industrial seminar series

The Future

Research

Teaching Outreach