2010

March

• 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