2012

January

• 30 January 2012: Professor gives keynote speech at the Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia
• 23 January 2012: Former student named new CEO at VeriCorder Technology
• 23 January 2012: ESRC Studentships for 2012-13 entry
• 23 January 2012: IET Anglian Coastal Network Technical Presentation Competition
• 16 January 2012: Essex Robotics featured on new online site
• 16 January 2012: Professor gives presentation at Café Scientifique
• 16 January 2012: Visting Professor to speak at International Traders Conference
• 2 January 2012: Papers Published
• 2 January 2012: CSEE students get £1000 Scholarships

2011

December

• 5 December 2011: CSEE Professor has 2 books published
• 5 December 2011: First European Immersive Education Summit held in Spain

November

• 28 November 2011: CSEE Professor gives Keynote Speech at the Vienna Content Awards
• 28 November 2011: IP Seminar and Clinic
• 21 November 2011: CSEE Academic Selected for Peer Review College of EPSRC
• 21 November 2011: Building Schools of Robotic Fish to Defend the Ocean
• 21 November 2011: Set for Britain 2012
• 14 November 2011: Internships available
• 7 November 2011: Paper Ranked "Most Read Paper"
• 7 November 2011: International Broadcasting Convention

October

• 31 October 2011: IEEE TCIAIG listed in Thomson Reuters JCR
• 31 October 2011: IEEE CIG 2011 Ms Pac-man versus Ghost Team Competition
• 24 October 2011: Undergraduate of the Year Awards
• 17 October 2011: Disabled set to try out Robo-Chair
• 17 October 2011: PhD student gives lecture at Audio Engineering Society UK
• 17 October 2011: CCFEA students visit Bank of England
• 10 October 2011: Essex listed among top organisations in Artificial Intelligence
• 10 October 2011: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offering Grants
• 10 October 2011: PGT Recruitment Event - 26th October
• 3 October 2011: Prize Winners
• 3 October 2011: Award for Most Influential Paper
• 3 October 2011: IET William James Winner
• 3 October 2011: Lecturer to give talk at Colchester Cafe Scientifique Event

August

• 22 August 2011: PhD Awards
• 8 August 2011: Professor gives keynote speech at Multi-player Conference
• 8 August 2011: Research Group article published

July

• 25 July 2011: PhD Award
• 25 July 2011: Call for Papers - European Immersive Education Initiative Summit
• 25 July 2011: CEEC 2011
• 11 July 2011: Richard Bartle speaks at Gamelab 2011
• 11 July 2011: CCFEA MSc Presentations

June

• 20 June 2011: CSEE undergraduate wins BiG E Award
• 13 June 2011: Ms Pacman vs. Ghost Team Competition launched by Essex team
• 6 June 2011: PhD Studentship Opportunities in Intelligent Environments - Four Funded positions
• 6 June 2011: PhD Award

May

• 30 May 2011: CCFEA student awarded David Norman prize
• 30 May 2011: Inventing the Future - Digital technologies serving the community - Competition
• Robotic Fish featured on The Naked Scientists
• AWS job opportunity in cloud computing

March

• Groundbreaking bionics research at Essex featured at silicon.com
• Summer placement opportunity
• Open Day to showcase students' work
• Results of IET Anglian Coastal Southern Present Around the World competition

February

• The Future of Search at the ECIR 2011 Industry Day
• CCFEA Workshop 2011
• Facebook monthly contributions prize

January

• Mission to reinvent the internet
• CSEE postgraduate Recruitment Event on 1 February 2011
• Latest NSS and SSS results available online
• CSEE academic presents archaeological work at Geological Society conference
• Second Marie Curie Fellowship awarded to Essex researcher

2010

November

• CSEE Professor opens Nanotechnology Centre in Turkey
• The Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR)
• Industrial placement opportunity in Japan
• University of Essex spin-out company UltraSoC Technologies secures £2million investment
• Report on CEEC 2010

October

• CSEE academics appointed to the Engineering Council
• SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING PRIZES 2009-10
• CSEE live on Facebook - Introducing Michael Anslow, Social Networking Editor
• Autumn 2010 - CSEE Open Seminar Series

September

• Magnetometer survey on University Knowledge Gateway site
• CSEE Undergraduate awarded prestigious scholarship
• Groundbreaking Creative Stickies application further developed by CSEE Undergraduate
• ***Presentation Today 9 September 2010 - CEEC 10***
• CSEE Undergraduate Awarded Prestigious Scholarship

August

• CSEE Visiting Professor recognised by Game Developers Choice Online Awards
• CEEC '10 Registration now open

July

• Competition Launched
• Essex researchers develop games for I-Phone

June

• £400k research grant awarded to CSEE academics
• Position for a Senior Research Officer investigating Monte Carlo Tree Search
• New Book Published by CSEE Academic
• Academy Award for former Essex Professor

May

• New EPSRC Award: UCT for Games and Beyond
• Essex Research Student wins British Computer Society 4th East Anglian PhD Competition
• Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference
• Placement Opportunity
• Final Year Project Presentation Prize

April

• University of Essex Open House
• Summer internship for CSEE undergraduate
• Final Year Project Open Day photographs

March

• New MSc degree scheme on High Frequency Finance and Trading launched
• Electronic Engineering Students' Final Year Project Presentation Open Day
• Results of IET Anglian Coastal Southern PATW
• SEMINAR - Brain Machines: Robots, Free Will and Science Fiction Prototypes
• Global Challenges Workshop
• CSEE Professor appointed to board of prestigious online encyclopaedia
• CCFEA Workshop
• CSEE academic selected for peer review college of EPSRC

February

• IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
• CCFEA Workshop
• Robotic wheelchair developed at Essex featured in local news

January

• CSEE Professor and Research Student win Best Journal Paper from Institute of Measurement and Control
• CCFEA staff and students participate in experiment on "the One Show"
• CSEE Professor contributes to BBC 4 Series
• Software Developers, Summer Placements at AWS
• IET Anglian Coastal (Southern) Network Technical Presentation Competition

2009

November

• An Internationally Leading Research Facility for Future Digital Media Innovation
• Research Student Wins Best Student Paper Award

October

• National Student Survey Results
• CSEE Student develops first Augmented Reality SatNav application for the Android mobile phone platform
• School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Prizes 2008-09

September

• New Head of School Dr Maria Fasli
• Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA) joins CSEE
• Staff News - Recent Promotions

August

• School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Research Colloquium
• BCI Researcher on Sky News

July

• School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Prizes 2008-09
• Students awarded MBCS on Graduation

June

• CSEE Academic joint winner of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award
• Staff News - Profesor Balkan awarded DSc
• Student grant competition for IBC 2009 Conference

May

• Essex Team Wins Algorithm Competition at Congress of Evolutionary Computation 2009 in Norway
• Essex Robotics is on the map of the New Economic UK Atlas
• Experiment in software engineering demonstrates 76% productivity gains with the TTP Toolkit
• Frontrunners Scheme seeking new applicants
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI Games now published
• CSEE ranks 5th for Student Satisfaction in National Student Survey
• CSEE Professor to speak at BRIICS 2009

April

• Job Opportunity - KTP Associate
• Paper wins award at EuroGP 2009 Conference
• CSEE Undergraduate scoops first prize at BCS Women Undergraduate Lovelace Colloquium

March

• PhD CEEC 2009 ***CALL FOR PAPERS***
• Knowledge Partnership Kicks Off
• Leading University Research Wins the Prestigious Lord Stafford Award
• Field Trial on JANET Aurora
• IEEE United Nations Humanitarian Technology Project
• Conference to honour physicists
• EU Shoal Project attracts worldwide media attention
• Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference
• Results of IET Anglian Coastal Southern PATW
• CSEE Undergraduate finds placement with Frontrunners
• £2.5million funding for Pollution Monitoring at ports

February

• Software Developers, Summer Placements at AWS
• AWR Donates Software to CSEE
• IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents
• Third Annual BCS East Anglian PhD Competition
• CSEE Student Presenting at SET for Britain
• Research Opportunity with EBTIC
• British Computer Society Essex Branch - Lecture
• Update on A Field Guide to Genetic Programming

January

• Essex CSEE Graduate Featured in The Guardian
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC 2009

2008

December

• Research Assessment Exercise 2008 Results
• The Philosophy of Computer Science - Preliminary Call for Papers
• IEEE CIG 2008 Tutorial
• Auto Adapt Project Started

November

• AI and Non-player Characters Workshop
• School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Postgraduate Prizes
• New on-line video available about PHOSPHORUS FP6 IST Project
• The School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
• IET IPTV Seminar

October

• EXTERMINATE! Pumpkin Dalek created at Essex to be featured on Richard and Judy
• Natural Language Engineering Workshop at the British Computer Society
• Appointment of new Visiting Professor
• Undergraduate Prizes
• Annual British Computer Society Lecture

September

• $10,000 Bot Prize
• Essex Computer Society launched this week
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games - New Journal Launched
• Natural Language Engineering Group Language and Computation Day
• AnaWiki Project Launches Phrase Detectives Game
• Summer Keynote Speeches
• Essex and Suffolk Shell Step Awards Ceremony 2008

August

• MOD Grand Challenge Award Win
• New EPSRC Studentship Available
• New Prizes Announced
• GRADUATION 2008 - Official Graduation Pictures

July

• Research in Brain-Computer Interface and Human-Centred Robotics at Essex featured in the Sunday Telegraph
• CES Professor Chairs Visual Web Conference
• Games for Disabled
• Senior Teaching Fellow Receives Excellence in Teaching Award

June

• Ms Pac-Man Competition
• Essex Papers Nominated for Award at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2008
• CES Professor discusses virtual worlds with German government representatives

May

• Founding Editor in Chief of new IEEE Transactions
• AAMAS Award for CES Academic
• Computational Intelligence in Games Panel Session
• CES academic appearing on presentation for BT management
• CES Professor gives Invited Talk At British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine
• Award for Visiting CES Professor
• PhD Awarded - Xiaoyun Li
• Summer Graduate Fair
• Virtual lectures for real students
• CES Professor on government's "blame game"

April

• New EPSRC Project: AutoAdapt
• Major Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering
• CES Student Regional Winner at International Students Awards Competition 2008
• IET Anglian Coastal Network Regional "Present Around the World" Results

March

• Department connected to JANET Aurora Network
• Essex EVO*2008 Stars
• CES featured in The Times
• CES Student named Autosport Club Driver of the Year
• Essex Robotics in e-Exhibitions
• Staff Member Appears on BBC4's Worlds of Fantasy
• PhD Awarded
• New Book Published
• Solaris Open Day

February

• IET Ambition Awards 2008
• IEEE to Launch New Journal
• Essex Games Research Makes Top 10
• CES Research Featured on ITV Local Website
• School Presentation on the Future of Energy
• Richard Bartle listed in Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition
• Simon Lucas to give Inivited Tutorial at PPSN 2008
• Knowledge Transfer Partnership recruiting for Associate Position

January

• Software Developers, Summer Placements at AWS
• Sun Microsystems recruits Student Ambassador from Essex
• Knowledge Transfer Partnership aims to develop Intelligent Mail Server
• University opens new Research Centre on Computational Intelligence
• Grant Awarded to Brain Computer Interface Research
• Reseacher visits Thz laboratory in Japan

2007

December

• CES Academic gives keynote address at International Film Festival
• Staff Member elected to Executive Committee of European Materials Research Society

November

• New Degree Scheme launched: Alternative Energy Systems
• CES Academics win industrial grant to develop Intelligent Plug
• Departmental Prizes awarded
• Staff Member invited to contribute to IEEE Expert Now Series

October

• Professor Hagras wins prestigious International Award
• Official Opening of the Department of Computing and Electronic Systems
• CES Academic shortlisted for Young Researcher of the Year
• Simon Lucas invited to be Program Co-Chair for Parallel Problem Solving from Nature

September

• EPSRC CASE Studentship with British Telecom Awarded

August

• Former departments of Electronic Systems Engineering and Computer Science combine to form Department of Computing and Electronic Systems.

July

• Grant Award: Creating Anaphorically Annotated Resources Through Semantic Wikis (AnaWiki)

June

• The Computer Science Department comes 12th in the Guardian League Tables for 2007
• The Electronic Systems Engineering Department comes 14th in the Guardian League Tables for 2007