University of Northampton Computing students equipped with skills to fight cyber crime

University of Northampton Computing students equipped with skills to fight cyber crime: "Undergraduates from the University of Northampton are being equipped with the skills to fight on the frontline against computer hackers.
According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, cyber crime costs the global economy $445 billion a year, with computer hackers' wrongdoings including monetary and personal data theft, stealing corporate secrets and the destruction of client databases.
The University has responded to the growth in hacking by offering a degree course in Web Technology and Security, and encouraging undergraduates on other Computing courses to undertake a Security module."



To read more go to: http://www.northampton.ac.uk/news/university-of-northampton-computing-students-equipped-with-skills-to-fight-cyber-crime



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Swarm Robotics - Northampton

Some interesting work has been developed by Narinder Singh (MSc Computing student and Technician) in the Department of Computing and Immersive Technology, University of Northampton. The work revolves around investigating the use of relatively simple robots, kilobots, to investigate swarm robotics.

Example:Dancing Kilobots 

For more examples go to: Kilobot videoss

Supervisor Scott Turner

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Three Lecturer posts

Taken from: https://jobs.northampton.ac.uk/vacancy/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-computing-immersive-technologies-223778.html

The School of Science and Technology is organised into four Programme Areas/Departments.  These posts will be located in the Computing & Immersive Technologies department. The area has a strong technical computing teaching and learning profile at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and we now seek to promote and develop our technical MEng/MSc/BEng/BSc Computing programmes.  As such, we require THREE lecturer appointments to help support and develop the work within the Computing and Immersive Technologies disciplinary area and the ability to lecture in one or more of the following: Media Technology, Computer Systems Engineering, Embedded Systems, Software Engineering, Web Design, Technology andSecurity, Games Programming, Business Computing.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide leadership and management in the development of their discipline and to lecture at both under and postgraduate levels. There is also an expectation that the successful applicant will contribute to Research, Knowledge Transfer and/or Consultancy within the Department of Computing & Immersive Technologies. Between one and two weeks international travel may be expected in the role.

Interview date: Wednesday 19 August or Friday 21 August 2015

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Games Jam challenge here comes our students

Taken from: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/246331/

[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.]

Five students from the University of Northampton are gearing up for a gruelling video games-building contest.
Student teams from around the globe will converge on Cambridge later this month for the prestigious Brains Eden Gaming Festival, which will see them battle it out in a Games Jam – a 48-hour competition to build a video game from scratch.
Computer Games Development undergraduates at the University, Gabriel Rosu, Henrique Galati and Rob Paton have teamed up with Game Art students Holly Hilson and David Bush for the event, which takes place at Anglia Ruskin University between 26 and 29 June.
The Games Jam will see the teams tasked with making an original game within 48 hours – with the theme only revealed to competitors at the event.
Shane Mitchell, Senior Lecturer in Games Art at the University, said: “It may seem quite a daunting task, to be given a theme and then expected to build a game around it within two days, but our students will be incredibly well prepared for it.
“A unique selling point of our games courses is that we ensure the students work together in groups, which mirrors the way the games industry works, and so they learn to work as a team – which is invaluable to be successful in the Games Jam.
“People from the games industry have also told us the best way to understand how to make a game, is to actually make a game. This is something all of our games students do, from week one of their course. In fact, over a three-year degree, each student will have worked on three games.
“So the Games Jam is really a culmination of everything our students have been putting into practice.”
The Festival also provides the students with an opportunity to enhance their career prospects, as representatives from some of the biggest games companies in the world will be there, including Sony, Frontier, Unity and Jagex.
Shane added: “The students will be able to attend workshops, get career advice and generally showcase their talents to industry professionals.
“It’s a fantastic opportunity – the competition is sponsored by big games companies and in the past they have offered winners either internships or jobs.”
More details about Brains Eden Gaming Festival, visit the website http://www.brainseden.net/ .
Notes for editors:

• At the University of Northampton, we offer our students more than just a good degree; we blend academic and vocational skills with ‘real world’ industry experience and are ranked a top 50 University in the Guardian University league table two years in a row (2014 and 2015).
• We were the first UK University to be awarded the Ashoka U ‘Changemaker Campus’ status, in recognition of our commitment to Social Entrepreneurship.

For further information contact the University of Northampton Press Office
Chris Fidler, Senior Marketing and Communications Officer: Press and PR
Telephone: 01604 893230

Email: chris.fidler@northampton.ac.uk

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British Computer Society (Northampton): Penetration Testing Event

Northampton Branch  in conjunction with the YPISG will be holding a Pen Test Event at the University Of Northampton on 20th June 2015
http://northampton.bcs.org/events.php?menu_id=4

This is free to all BCS members , but the number of places is strictly limited to 30!
To book a place use the following link.
https://events.bcs.org/book/1608/

Do you think you have the skills to work as a white hat hacker?

Does the idea of penetration testing applications and infrastructure and learning the techniques for breaking into systems seem to be your ideal career?
If you've been working as a developer, in infrastructure or application support, and maybe already know the difference between nmap, metasploit and sql injection, then this could be the event for you!

We are running a one day overview of penetration testing, starting with how to develop a career in penetration testing, reviewing the methodology involved and getting close up with the tools used by professional ethical hackers. The event has hands on sessions with theory and labs. Make sure you bring your laptop! (Joining instructions will be provided on registration few days prior to the event).

Please note this opportunity is only open to a maximum of 30 attendees, and that we recommend only those who have a genuine interest in a penetration/ethical hacking/security testing career, and have experience of working with web applications, databases, and network protocols should register to leverage full value from the content.

Details on Location and Branch
http://northampton.bcs.org/events.php?menu_id=4

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Computational Thinking and Junkbots

A recent presentation as part of the Department of Computing and Immersive Technologies, University of Northampton Research Seminar series, looking a on going project within the Department.

Junkbots has been a ongoing and ever evolving project since 2009 around the use of 'junk' as part of activities to developing skills in STEM subjects. In particular in the presentation (below) shows the links between these activities and Computational Thinking were discussed.

Junkbots and computational thinking from Scott Turner

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Creating Interactive Content using Scratch

Two members of the Department of Computing and Immersive Technologies, Dr Maurice Hendrix (Lecturer) and Tom Rose (Undergraduate Student) have been involved in the cross-school project around flipped classrooms with colleagues from the Schools of Health and The Arts.

The following link:  http://dna-fc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/creating-interactive-content-with.html shows the work Tom Rose posted on using the programming language Scratch to create interactive educational content.

To read more about the project go to: http://dna-fc.blogspot.co.uk/



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