Welcome
The University of Strathclyde is one of the best universities in the UK for science and engineering. It is located in the heart of Glasgow, an exciting and vibrant city with all the cultural highlights close to hand, including the world famous Burrell Collection, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Scottish Ballet and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Scotland is one of Europe’s most exciting destinations, renowned for its beautiful countryside and friendly people.

 

Strathclyde University is known as the place of useful learning, with excellent links with industry and business and world-class research. There are excellent facilities for students within the Department: a number of well-equipped teaching laboratories, dedicated study space and a large social area where students can meet with their fellow students, work on their projects, or just relax.

 

The Department has a reputation among its students for being friendly and for having a real community spirit. The staff are enthusiastic teachers and researchers, passionate about their subject, and very approachable. International students are warmly welcomed and quickly integrated into university life.

 

Academic Strengths
The Department of Computer and Information Science spans a range of areas within Computer Science and Information Systems, resulting in a lively and diverse Department with a unique character. Research interests span the whole spectrum of theory and application from Artificial Intelligence, Functional Programming and Software Engineering to Information Retrieval, Enterprise Architectures and Information Communities. This diversity gives the Department a refreshing perspective on the Computer Science curriculum and its role in the modern world. Particular research strengths are in Artificial Intelligence including AI Planning, machine learning and genetic algorithms, mobile systems and Human-Computer Interaction, mathematically structured programming languages, information retrieval and empirical Software Engineering. The Department is home to one of the largest and best-known research groups in AI Planning.

 

Undergraduate Degrees in Computer Science

MEng Computer Science
MEng and BEng (Honours) Computer & Electronic Systems – offered jointly with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

 

BSc (Honours) Computer Science
BSc (Honours) Software Engineering

BSc (Honours) Internet Computing
BSc (Honours) Computer Science with Law

 

Computing is a young, exciting and rapidly evolving subject and its influence in our everyday lives – for work, study, and recreation – is rapidly increasing. It opens up a wide variety of career paths and provides you with a set of skills that will allow you to tackle major technical challenges with confidence and expertise.

 

Undergraduate Degrees in Information Systems

 

BSc (Honours) Business Information Systems

BSc (Honours) Information Systems

 

All our courses have a strong practical component that complements the underlying theoretical foundations. There is a high degree of commonality between the early foundational years which makes it possible to transfer between courses.

 

Postgraduate Degrees in Artificial Intelligence

 

PG Dip/MRes Automated Planning for Autonomous Systems

 

Autonomy is one of the most important current growth areas in Computer Science, with many diverse applications in robotics, mobile systems and ubiquitous distributed computing. Computer systems of the future will be increasingly intelligent and capable of autonomous high-level decision-making. The MRes in Automated Planning for Autonomous Systems concentrates on Artificial Intelligence for robotic systems, from planetary rovers to domestic robots and next-generation mobile personal devices. It provides the perfect opportunity for the best graduates of Computer Science and Engineering to be at the forefront of developments of this exciting technology. The course is delivered by an internationally-known research team actively engaged in planning and machine learning research.

The MRes degree structure has a strong research emphasis with a large project component. The project will give students the opportunity to develop applications of planning in a range of cross-disciplinary fields from prosthetics to power station management and planetary rover control.

The Department has a number of fully-funded EPSRC scholarships available for the best UK applicants entering the course in October 2008. For further information please contact:

enquiries@cis.strath.ac.uk

Mrs Linda Hunter or Miss Carol-Ann Seath (Secretaries): 0141 548 4527

 

The web site for the PG Dip/MRes Automated Planning for Autonomous Systems

is http://www.strath.ac.uk/cis/courses/mres/

 

 

Postgraduate Degrees in Computer and Information Science

 

PG Dip/MSc Information Management
PG Dip/MSc Information and Library Systems
PG Dip/MSc Computer and Internet Technologies
PG Dip/MSc Forensic Informatics

 

The Information Management degree is designed to create versatile managers who can operate at the interface between business, information resources and information and communications technologies. The Computer and Internet Technologies degree is aimed at students with a background in computer science, engineering or a mathematical discipline. It provides them with a specialised knowledge of internet programming, enterprise networking, mobile applications and computer security. The Information and Library Studies degree provides a professional qualification for those wishing to work in the library sector. The course is accredited by CILIP, the UK's professional body, and is recognised world-wide.

The Forensic Informatics degree, taught in conjunction with the University’s Centre for Forensic Science, seeks to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform forensic investigation of all aspects of crime and terrorism involving computers, networks and mobile communications systems.  

 

All of these courses are an excellent preparation for a career in industry or academia.

 

Under the Scottish Executive Fresh Talent Initiative, students who require a visa, and who successfully complete our MSc degrees, can have up to two years extension enabling them to stay and work in Scotland.

 

 

Research Degrees

The Department offers a wide range of research opportunities in Software Engineering, Information Management, Functional Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Systems and HCI and other areas represented by the research interests of academic staff.

 

Enquiries
For further information about our degrees or the Department please contact:

 

enquiries@cis.strath.ac.uk

 

Specific information on degrees can also be obtained from:

 

Undergraduate degrees:
Duncan Smeed (academic selector)
Duncan.smeed@cis.strath.ac.uk

 

Postgraduate taught degrees:
Steven Buchanan (academic selector)
Steven.buchanan@cis.strath.ac.uk

 

Research opportunities:
Derek Long
Derek.long@cis.strath.ac.uk

For detailed information about our degrees and the Department, please see our web site:

http://www.strath.ac.uk/cis

Staff Profile

 

Professor Derek Long, Computer Science,

Professor Derek Long researches in Artificial Intelligence, specialising in automated planning. This problem is central to the realisation of autonomous intelligent systems, such as space probes including planetary explorers. Planning problems are optimisation problems that involve finding schedules of activities that will achieve some specified collection of goals, within constraints on resources and time.

 

Derek is shown here with a copy of the Beagle 2 lander, designed by British scientists to perform science experiments on the surface of Mars. Although the lander shared the fate of more than half of Martian probes, failing to make contact after its landing on December 25th 2003, its design continues to play an important role in proposals for the European Space Agency's ExoMars lander planned for 2013. Derek is contributing towards work that aims to include intelligent on-board planning capabilities for ExoMars.

Student Profile

 

I wanted to build on my background in management and Marketing, and develop my ability to use science and technology to complement my existing approaches to solving business problems. For this reason I chose to read Information Management at the University of Strathclyde.  Besides providing me with attractive employment opportunities in industry, this experience has helped me to co-found an entrepreneurial high technology start up company that I intend to develop full-time on completion of my MSc thesis. I have learned a wide range of valuable skills and I feel that investing my time in postgraduate study and been very worthwhile.

 

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