School of Computer Science

2013 Computer Science Prize Winners

prizewinners2013

Undergraduate Nottingham/Malaysia Prizes

Springer Science and Business Media Prize
Awarded for the best student performance in final year of study.
Prize: $200 (US) worth of books
Awarded to: Warren Jackson

BSc Individual Project Prize
Awarded for the most outstanding overall Individual project.
Prize: £250
Awarded to: Gemma Ames

MSci Project Prize
Awarded for the most outstanding overall Individual project.
Prize: £250
Awarded to: William Ward

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT Prize

Awarded for promoting the wider impact of Computer Science
Prize: £150 and 12 month subscription to the BCS
Awarded to: Niall O’Dwyer and Laurence Herbert

School Prize

Awarded to the student who has the highest final average mark
Prize: £100
Awarded to: Warren Jackson

Group Project Prizes

The 7Digital and Esendex Prize for Software Quality
Esendex and 7digital are keen to promote principles and practices they know contribute to high-quality software, including SOLID principles, agile methods, and source-code control. To that end, this prize is awarded to the group that, in their opinion, have carried out their project in a way that best embodies such ideas.
Prize to include: a copy of Robert C Martin’s book ‘Clean Code’; a Raspberry Pi computer; a pair of 7digital approved high quality headphones from AKG; a pair of 7digital branded in-ear headphones
Awarded to: gp12-pos ‘Development of a Greenhouse Appliances Control System’ supervised by Peer-Olaf Siebers. Group members: Adam Gask, Tai Nguyen Bui, Antreas Paschalis, Joshua Rose, Arjun Sharma

The School Group Project Prize for Best Project
Awarded to the team that is judged to have produced the best project in terms of what was achieved overall, how robust and usable the delivered system is, and how well the project has been documented in the final group report. This prize is provided by Head of School, Prof. Uwe Aickelin, and is judged by the Group Project Awards Committee (GPAC) headed by Prof. David Brailsford.
Prize: £50 per winning team member
Awarded to: gp12-nhn2 ‘Reactive Music’ supervised by Henrik Nilsson
Group members: Stephen Cooke, Ryan Fulton, George Hallam, Da Huo, Jonathan Sherry, Michael Tawafig

School’s Special Prize for Outstanding Performance in the Group Project
Prize: £50 per winning team member
Awarded to: gp12-jaa ‘Networked Board and Card Game Emulator’ supervised by Jason Atkin
Group members: Mohamed Abdullah, Nathan Bratby, Hein Min Htike

Well done to everyone concerned!

 

Posted on Wednesday 17th July 2013

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