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  Kirsty Wark praises Infolab21
  Lancaster University’s InfoLab21 was one of the key regional developments singled out for praise at the launch of the new Northwest science strategy.
• Department Undergraduate Visit Day Dates for 2007
  The current round of Open Days has finished, but there is still an opportunity to visit the department as part of the University-wide Visit Days, taking place on Wednesday 22 August, 2007 and Saturday 22 September, 2007. Prospective students can go on a tour of the campus by prior arrangement by booking online.

Computing student Paul Clark and Dr Andrew Sithers from Microsoft's Academic Team

• Computing Student Wins National Microsoft Award
  The Microsoft Award for Student Excellence 2006 has been awarded to an undergraduate at Lancaster University for a novel project looking at how drivers' personalities affect traffic flow. Paul Clark beat off stiff competition to emerge as the only student in the UK to win the prestigious award for his final year project. Microsoft executives travelled to campus to present him with a laptop and engraved trophy plus £1,000 and a commemorative plaque for the Computing Department. The national award recognises the most outstanding final year project developed by an undergraduate using Microsoft tools and technology. Paul's project involved a simulation of motorway traffic flow with the novel feature of factoring in the personalities of the drivers.
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• Two New Undergraduate International Degree Schemes
  The Computing Department is offering two new international degree schemes, one targeted at North America and Australasia and the other at Europe. The two schemes offer a unique opportunity to spend your second year abroad at one of Lancaster's world-class partner institutions. The schemes build upon the highly successful exchange programme the University of Lancaster has operated over 20 years with Universities in the USA and Canada, and more recently Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Find out more at our course description page.
• Professor Doug Shepherd
  It is with great regret that the department reports the death of Professor Doug Shepherd, who died on 23rd August 2006. Doug came to the University in the early 1980s as Professor of Computing. At the same time he became increasingly involved with Computing Services (ISS) and also became Director of Information Systems Policy and then Dean of Engineering , Computing and Mathematical Sciences (known as SECAMS). Doug was forced to take early retirement due to poor health in 2002, but maintained an interest in the work of his colleagues and of InfoLab21. Read more...
• Workshop on Historical Text Mining
  InfoLab21 hosted a Workshop on Historical Text Mining, on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st July 2006. The workshop was orgainised by Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) and Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire).
• Computing Taster Week 2006
  Intel Research will be sponsoring the Headstart course offered by Lancaster University from July 11th to July 14th 2006. The residential course is for year 12 students and the theme will be ubiquitous computing. Visit the Headstart site.
• 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Ubiquitous Computing (SEUC2006)
  Lancaster University's Computing Department hosted the 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Ubiquitous Computing" (SEUC2006). The workshop, which was held June 1-2, 2006, brought together researchers to discuss tools, methods and processes for engineering high-quality ubiquitous computing systems and applications. More details can be found at http://ubicomp.comp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/seuc2006.
• Workshop on Ethnographies of Digital Healthcare
  Tim Rapley (University of Newcastle) and David Martin (Computing, Lancaster University) were speakers at a mini-workshop on Ethnographies of Digital Healthcare on Thursday 2nd February 2006. Maggie Mort (Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University) acted as discussant. The workshop was organised by The Institute for Health Research in collaboration with Computing. Read more.
• Excellent Review for Computing's AOSD-Europe Project
  The Computing Department leads the European Network of Excellence on Aspect-Oriented Software Development. The project, which started in September 2004 and will run till August 2008, recently went through its first formal review. The reviewers rated the project as excellent across the board. A special highlight was the high quality of the coordination and project management from Lancaster. Research activities that the Lancaster team is involved with also received very positive feedback. Read more.
• International Workshop on Physicality
  This two-day workshop offered a multidisciplinary forum of discussion for researchers who are interested in the way that physicality of digital artefacts influences their use, or in the way that digitality informs our understanding of the physical. The workshop will take place on the 6th and 7th of February 2006, in InfoLab21.
• Workshop on Ethnographies of Code
  The department hosted a workshop exploring the overlap between social and technical issues in computer programming. The workshop questioned how computer code is written and worked with by communities of programmers. The workshop took place on the 30th and 31st of March 2006.

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