Computer Science and Software Engineering
Welcome to Computer Science and Software Engineering
The department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) at the University of Canterbury has a strong international reputation. It teaches courses that are reviewed regularly against international standards, and its graduates are in strong demand. The lecturing staff are also active researchers, and have one of the best records of research publications in the Pacific region.
Earthquake information
The south side of the Erskine building is once more operational after the quake on Monday June 13. See the University home page for latest announcements. The CSSE Reception is located in Rm 332, while the HOD is located in Rm340. (Please refer to the people pages for more information on current locations of CSSE people.) Course enquiries should be made to the course coordinators. Other enquiries can be made to admin@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz. We recommend email as the best way to reach staff at this time.
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Announcements
- Departmental Vacancy: Lecturer in Software Engineering
- COSC 200-300 level prerequisites (pdf, 66KB).
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Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury,
Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
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Newsletter
Issue 4/10 of the departmental newsletter is available now (pdf 1MB)
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Seminars
Please refer to the CSSE seminars page.
News and Features
April 2012: It has just been announced that Richard Lobb has been awarded a University of Canterbury Teaching Award. Congratulations Richard!
April 2012: Tanja Mitrovic has been voted as President-elect of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society, for the period 2013-2015.
Joey Scarr will receive a Best Paper Award for "Improving Command Selection with CammandMaps" at CHI 2012 (reserved for the top 5% of submissions).
Stephen Fitchett will receive an Honourable Mention Award for "AccessRank: Predicting what users will do next" at CHI 2012 (reserved for the top 5% of submissions).
The 2011 James Chen Annual Award for Best UMUAI Journal Article was received by Brent Martin, Antonija Mitrovic, Kenneth R. Koedinger and Santosh Mathan for "Evaluating and improving adaptive educational systems with learning curves", in User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 21:3, 2011, 249-28, http://dx/doi/org/10.1007/s11257-010-9084-2
2012-01-30: The presentation of eight summer research projects for COSC366/COSC486 will take place on 10 February, Friday, 9:00 am -- 12:20 pm in Erskine 031. All students and staff are encouraged to attend. Read more »
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