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- May 2019
ACL publication success
A UoL paper addressing gender-related stereotype biases in machine learning models has been accepted at ACL-2019 - the premiere venue for Natural Language Processing research
- April 2019
ICML 2019
Two papers have been accepted at the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning. These include one by an undergraduate AI student, based on his final year project.
- April 2019
Publication success at ICALP'19
The CS department has had five papers accepted for presentation at ICALP'19, to be held 8-12 July in Patras, Greece
- March 2019
BCS Dissertation Award
Alkmini Sgouritsa was the highly-commended runner up for the prestigious BCS Distinguished Dissertation award, for her thesis Algorithms for Game-Theoretic Environments.
- February 2019
2019 Modern Law Awards
A team from CS won 'Best use of technology' prize for their work in developing AI systems to analyse legal cases.
- February 2019
Unilever Innovation Challenge
Nachi Kaluba was the winner of the inaugural Unilever/University of Liverpoool "Getting Rid of Plastics" competition
- November 2018
Best paper award at ICFEM 2018
Members of the Autonomy and Verification Lab won best paper award at International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods
- June 2018
Best Paper at ICALP
Darek Kowalski and Miguel Mosteiro (Pace University) have been awarded the Best Paper (Track C) at ICALP 2018.
- May 2018
Publication Success at IJCAI-ECAI 2018
Research staff at the University of Liverpool have again had a large number of accepted papers at the 2018 IJCAI-ECIA joint conference, to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, on the July 13-19, 2018.
- May 2018
Publication Success at ICALP 2018
Five papers have been accepted at the 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) - the main conference of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).
- April 2018
REF 2021 CS panel
Professor Katie Atkinson has been appointed to the Computer Science and Informatics sub-panel for REF 2021
- March 2018
Faculty Learning and Teaching Award
Dave Shield has won one of the 2018 Faculty Learning and Teaching Awards, for his work with electronic assessment and feedback.
- January 2018
Article in VentureBeat
Dr. Louise Dennis was quoted in an article in VentureBeat on `The Development of AI Ethics must keep pace with Innovation' talking about the work of the Autonomy and Verification Laboratory on the development of ethical reasoning for autonomous sys
- January 2018
Communications of the ACM
Othon Michail and Paul Spirakis have had their review article titled “Elements of the Theory of Dynamic Networks” published in the February issue of Communications of the ACM. The article is accompanied by a video.
- January 2018
Funded PhD Studentships available for start date Oct 2018
The University of Liverpool’s Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design has funding available for PhD positions from October 2018
- January 2018
Nature Scientific Reports
Karl Tuyls and Rahul Savani. together with collaborators at Google DeepMind and the University of Oxford, have had their paper Symmetric Decomposition of Asymmetric Games published in the prestigious journal Nature, Scientific Report
- November 2017
Staff Awards 2017
Dr Louise Dennis is the winner of the University's Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement Award
- November 2017
Logic Conferences at the University of Brasilia
Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS), Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX) and Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP). Clare Dixon was the programme co-chair of FroCoS.
- November 2017
Discussing semantic technologies in Vienna
Dr Valentina Tamma was one of the three Programme Chairs at the 16th International Semantic Web Conference in Vienna
- April 2017
Best Paper nomination
Daniel Claes, Frans Oliehoek, Hendrik Baier and Karl Tuyls have been nominated for the Best Paper Award at AAMAS2017
- March 2017
Logic in CS 2017
Liverpool will be strongly represented at the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, with four papers being presented there.
- March 2017
- December 2016
Best Student Paper at AI 2016
Abdullah Alshehri was awarded the best student paper prize in the application stream of the 2016 BCS SGAI conference on AI.
- September 2016
- September 2016
Student paper at COMMA 2016
James Butterworth, recently presented a paper based on his final year project at the 2016 Computational Models of Argument conference, in Potsdam.
- August 2016
Best Student Paper at TAROS 2016
Eric Schneider has won the Best Student Paper prize at TAROS 2016 for his paper Evaluating Multi-Robot Teamwork in Varied Environments
July 2016
New EATCS President
Professor Paul Spirakis has been appointed President of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
July 2016
Best paper award at SEFM 2016
PhD student Idress Husien, together with Sven Schewe, won the best paper award at SEFM 2016, for their paper Program Generation using Simulated Annealing and Model Checking
April 2016
Lovelace Colloquium prizewinner
Jessica Lettall won first prize at this year's BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium.
February 2016
SET for Britain 2016
PhD student Reino Niskanen will be displaying his research at the House of Commons in March, having reached the final of the 2016 SET for BRITAIN poster competition
November 2015
smARTLab wins RoCKIn@Work
The smARTLab@Work team from Liverpool won the RoCKIn@Work robot competition in Lisbon.
September 2015
TAROS 2015
The Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) conference was held over 8th-10th September
June 2015
Dinosaurs over Cheltenham
Lego Robot Dinosaurs have been revealing ideas from AI, robotics and space science at the Cheltenham Science Festival
April 2015
IJCAI 2015
Liverpool CS have had 15 papers accepted for IJCAI 2015 - confirming our position as one of the leading departments for AI within the UK
April 2015
Athena SWAN
The School of EEE and Computer Science has been granted Athena SWAN Bronze Award status.
March 2015
smARTLab wins RoCKIn@work competition
smARTLab@Work win best demo award at the RoCKIn Camp 2015 @work challenge.
January 2015
Computer Science Ranked Highly in REF2014
Ranked 1st in the UK for 4* & 3* research, with 97% of our research rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.
September 2014
Researchers win best paper award at TAROS conference
' "The fridge door is open" - Temporal Verification of a Robotic Assistant's Behaviours' wins best paper.
August 2014
IMA Conference on Game Theory and its Applications
Rahul Savani from our Economics and Computation Research group is organizing the IMA Conference on Game Theory and its Applications at St. Anne's College Oxford, 8 – 10&
July 2014
smARTLab@work wins world title at RoboCup 2014
The smARTLab@work team has won the world title at RoboCup 2014 in Brazil - the 2nd win for the team this year.May 2014
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May 2014
May 2014
Best Paper Award at AAMAS 2014
A team including Daan Bloembergen and Karl Tuyls have won a best paper award at AAMAS 2014.
April 2014
Our smARTLab@work team wins Open Robocup@work competition
The School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science smARTLab@work team has won the 2014 German Open Robocup@work competition.
March 2014
Professor Paul Spirakis named an EATCS Fellow
Prof Paul Spirakis has just been named as an EATCS Fellow, for "seminal papers on Random Graphs and Population Protocols, Algorithmic Game Theory, as well as Robust Parallel Distributed Computing".
December 2013
Best Doctoral Consortium Student at JURIX 2013
Latifa Al-Abdulkarim was awarded the prize for Best Doctoral Consortium Student at JURIX 2013.
November 2013
More new staff
Dr André Hernrich, Dr Danushka Bollegala and Prof Karl Tuyls have joined us as new members of staff.
July 2013
Congratulations to the Graduates of 2013
The Department of Computer Science offers its congratulations to our graduates of 2013.
July 2013
New Staff
We are delighted to welcome Professor Simon Parsons & Dr Elizabeth Sklar who have just joined the department from Brooklyn College, New York
July 2013
Making robots more trustworthy
The University of Liverpool is part of a UK project that aims to ensure that future robotic systems can be trusted by humans.May 2013
Best Paper at AAMAS 2013
Piotr Krysta and colleagues from the Economics and Computation group were award the Best Paper prize at AAMAS2013, for their work on combinatorial auctionsMay 2013
Professor Paul Spirakis
We are delighted to welcome Professor Paul Spirakis, currently at Patras University, who will be joining us this summer.April 2013
Best Paper Award at ICALP 2013
John Fearnley was awarded a Best Paper prize at ICALP, for his paper 'Reachability in two-clock timed automata is PSPACE-complete'
April 2013
Lego Rovers head to NASA's International Space Apps Challenge
A system that imitates navigation of a space rover, originally intended for use in North West schools, will become part of NASA's International Space Apps Challenge later this month.November 2012
New phone app charts cases of infectious diseases
iPhone app to help health authorities monitor cases of major infectious diseases developed by a team including researchers from Computer Science.June 2012
Innovative educational tool developed by Dental School & CS
Machine Learning in Action
Come and hear Martina King, CEO of Featurespace, talk about the use of machine learning in the business world.
May 2012
Liverpool CS scores highly in Guardian report
Department scores 9th out of 103 Computer Science departments in the Guardian University guide 2013 subject tableApril 2012
Student accepted on Google Summer of Code
Tobenna Peter Igwe, a second year BSc Computer Science student, has been accepted to the Google Summer of Code 2012October 2011
Professor awarded £2million ERC Advanced Grant
Prof Mike Wooldridge of the Department of Computer Science has been awarded a £2million Advanced Grant from the European Research CouncilOctober 2011
iPad App for Teaching AI Reaches 900 Downloads
An iPad app developed by Dr Terry Payne, has now reached 900 downloads internationallyOctober 2011
Dr Payne Awarded SWSA 10 Year Distinguished Paper Award
Dr Terry Payne has been awarded the SWSA 10 Year Distinguished Paper Award for his contribution to the paper "DAML-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services"
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