30 May 2012
Imperial alumni Idy Law (Civil Engineering) and Anthony Leung (Computing), who graduated in 2004, returned to the South Kensington Campus for a pre-wedding photoshoot on 12 April. Idy shares their story:
Tags: Civil Engineering, Computing
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3 May 2012
Tags: Computing, Life Sciences, Media Mentions, Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Wellcome Trust
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9 March 2012
Across the College – in lecture theatres, in hallways and in common rooms – ideas flow like oxygen. Imperial staff and students believe in the power of ideas to benefit society; a vision shared by the founders of the not-for-profit organisation TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design), which is the driving force behind the first TEDxImperialCollege event to be held on 24 March.
Tags: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Computing, Humanities, Medicine, Physics, racing green
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25 January 2012
Dr James Bull (Chemistry), Drs Amelle Zair and Piers Barnes (both Physics), and Dr Thomas Reddyhoff (Mechanical Engineering) have been awarded Career Acceleration Fellowships by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC).
Tags: Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Mechanical Engineering, Physics
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14 November 2011
Nine Imperial researchers are beginning new projects this autumn, after winning more than €12 million in grants from the European Research Council (ERC).
Tags: Chemistry, Computing, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Life Sciences, Materials, Mathematics, National Heart and Lung Institute, Physics
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14 October 2011
Last month, 400 investors and marketing gurus from high profile companies, such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, eBay and Twitter, came to Imperial to take part in Seedcamp Week. Hosted by Imperial College Business School and the Department of Computing, the event linked up new entrepreneurs with industry experts from across Europe.
Tags: Business School, Computing, Entrepreneurship Hub, Maths
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13 October 2011
The first residents of the brand new postgraduate accommodation complex for Imperial students began moving in last week. Griffon Studios is a development of 566 studios in Battersea, which was developed by the College together with Berkeley First. Its aim is to expand the limited provision of accommodation available to postgraduates in London, with priority given to Imperial students.
Tags: Commercial Services, Computing
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16 September 2011
Mrs Marina Hall, Research Group Secretary (Computing), moved to the UK 10 years ago from one of Russia’s Siberian cities, Tomsk. One of her most vivid memories of her childhood is of staying with her grandmother every summer for three months in a village called Batyrovo in the area of Altay, which Marina remembers as being small, friendly and close knit. She recalls the harvest festivals she experienced there, which were started by local villagers hundreds of years ago.
Tags: Computing, Cross Culture
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1 July 2011
Katherine Gray first came to Imperial as an undergraduate studying Physics, followed by an MRes in Bioimaging Sciences. She joins the College staff as a research assistant in the Department of Computing, where work will involve her doctoral research on the imaging of Alzheimer’s disease. She says: “The interdisciplinary culture here is great. I work with medics and physicists who bring different viewpoints.”
Tags: Computing, New Starter, Physics
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29 March 2011
Dr Leslie Valiant (Computing and Control 1971) has been awarded the prestigious A.M. Turing Award 2010 for his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science.
Tags: Alumni, Awards and Honours, Computing
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24 March 2011
From tinkering with radio equipment as a teenager to bringing together multidisciplinary research teams at Imperial, Professor Jeff Magee, recently appointed Principal of the Faculty of Engineering, speaks to Reporter about his career progression and his hopes for his new role.
Tags: Alumni, Bioengineering, Computing, Faculty of Engineering
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7 March 2011
A paper written by Dr Natasa Przulj (Computing) that describes a software tool for analysing large networks, is currently listed as the second most accessed study in the journal BMC Bioinformatics. The paper describes a computer tool called Graphcrunch, which Dr Przulj has developed to analyse different types of networks, including transport, biological and social.
Tags: Computing, Faculty of Engineering
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14 February 2011
Two members of the team from Orange Innovation Labs dropped into Imperial on 31 January, to challenge MSc students to design an innovative and inspired new mobile phone application. The labs are the hub for the development of new products and technology for the telecommunications company, Orange.
Tags: Bioengineering, Computing, Faculty of Engineering, News
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4 February 2011
Professor Manny Lehman, Imperial’s first Head of the Department of Computing, died on 29 December 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. Professor Susan Eisenbach, current Head of the Department of Computing, pays tribute:
Tags: Computing, Obituaries
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16 December 2010
Professor Daniel Rueckert is Professor of Visual Information Processing (Computing) and co-founder of IXICO, an Imperial spin-out company and provider of imaging solutions to the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries.
Tags: Computing, Imperial Innovations, Inventor's corner
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