A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
York, winners of University of the Year in last year’s THE awards, received their award at a gala dinner on 24 November at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
The awards, now in their seventh year, represent a high profile opportunity to celebrate the excellence and achievements of UK higher education institutions.
York’s Advanced Computer Architectures (ACA) group, part of the University’s Department of Computer Science, was one of six shortlisted research teams in this category.
The award is designed to recognise a team whose innovative research has made or has the potential to make, a far-reaching impact on its field and to catch the public’s imagination.
Group leader Professor Jim Austin said: “We are absolutely delighted by the award; it recognises the years of hard work of the team and its collaborators. I am sure that the main factors in winning have been our commitment to solving real problems, in real applications, with an understanding of the commercial constraints.
“We have benefitted from a consistent and talented team over the last 10 years, supported through Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Technology Strategy Board (TSB) grants. This has allowed us to build the deep expertise needed to solve the hard problems industry faces. Being in a successful, supportive Department and University has made all the difference. We are looking forward to a rosy future despite these hard times.”
The Advanced Computer Architectures group’s work is based on ideas of how the brain works. The team has successfully developed a breakthrough technology – AURA – which mimics the brain’s ability to make sense of massive amounts of data.
Professor Austin added: “In basic terms, AURA allows large, complex and unstructured data to be stored and searched. Uniquely it allows textual, image and signal information to be analysed quickly, despite the inherent problems in ‘real’ data – that they are incomplete, badly described and large in quantity.
“The main use has been to facilitate ‘find one like it’ searching which looks for patterns in past data similar to those found in current data to spot current and likely future events that have happened before.”
The team has worked with Rolls-Royce on Aero Engines, while teams using AURA in the Department for Transport have improved management of the road system. The team has also set up a spin-off company, Cybula Ltd, to further develop the application of these ideas in areas including power generation, wind energy systems and medicine.
The University of York was also nominated in the Outstanding Support for Students and Entrepreneurial University of the Year categories.
For full details on the University of York’s award, visit the university website.
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