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International Women’s Day 2021: Professor Uli Sattler
Meet the Department 3 March 2021
Professor Uli Sattler hasn’t looked back after making the (perhaps unconventional) career switch from dressmaking to computer science – a field, she believes, more women should consider. This blog has been written as part of our International Women’s Day 2021 campaign.
Our @csmcr alumni – Zac Hamid, from IBM to ARM
Life after study 15 July 2020
Zac is a 26-year-old University of Manchester alumnus from London. He studied BSc Computer Science and Mathematics with Industrial Experience, graduating in 2015. He did his year in industry with IBM. Hi Zac! Can you tell us your favourite part of studying Computer Science at The University of Manchester? I enjoyed the variety of courses […]
Running a Hackathon in lockdown – with Carmen Faura Praxedes
Student experience 3 June 2020
Hackathons can form an important part of a computer science student’s life at The University of Manchester. They are large scale social events which allow students to flex their coding muscles. Lockdown may have cancelled many such events, but our students weren’t about to let that get in the way. We spoke to Carmen Faura […]
Alan Turing’s generous nature
Welcome to Computer Science 25 November 2019
Alan Turing was a true pioneer of computer science; but are you aware of his philanthropic side? Here we explore the generous nature of ‘the father of computer science’.
Studying a PhD whilst at CERN, with Joshua Dawes.
Life after study 5 November 2019
Joshua Dawes is 25 years old, from the UK and a final-year PhD student in Computer Science. Although Joshua is studying his PhD with The University of Manchester, for the entire period of the programme he’s actually based at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland on CERN’s Doctoral Student programme. Here we find out more about Joshua’s […]