News & Events

Congratulations to Prof Sergio A Velastin

Posted on April 5, 2012

Congratulations to Prof Sergio A Velastin of the Digital Imaging Research Centre  who has become a Fellow of the IET, in recognition of his professional achievements

Posted in Digital Imaging Research Centre (DIRC)

Press release, DSCallards – Voice and Gesture Recognition in Operating Theatres. Fact or Fiction?

Posted on April 3, 2012

Kingston University, with the help of DSCallards Ltd and LEAD Technologies, is entering the Imagine Cup 2012, a worldwide Microsoft competition, with MediKinect, a pioneering medical voice and gesture recognition software tool for operating theatres. MediKinect is designed to save a surgeon’s time during an operation and prevent the spread of infection. The Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012 is ...

Posted in Computing and Information Systems News, Digital Imaging Research Centre (DIRC), SEC News

CIS International collaboration

Posted on April 2, 2012

The Digital Imaging Research Centre (DIRC), one of 6 centres of research excellence within the Faculty of Science, Engineering and computing at Kingston Univerity, welcomes the visit of Dr Chee Seng Chan from the Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Malaya , Malaysia. We are collaborating with Dr Chan and his group through our Human ...

Posted in Computing and Information Systems News, Digital Imaging Research Centre (DIRC)

Kingston academic continues on editorial board of prestigious journal.

Posted on March 22, 2012

Professor Sergio Velastin has been invited to serve for another two years in the Editorial Board of the IET's Computer Vision journal. The IET (formerly IEE) is the UK's Institution of Engineering and Technology and one of the main UK publishers of professional and research outputs, including their INSPEC indexing system. Sergio continues his work as ...

Posted in Digital Imaging Research Centre (DIRC)

Hollywood film producer Max Howard promotes cross-course creative projects

Posted on March 22, 2012

A top Hollywood film producer has called for more universities to make cross-course creative projects part of degrees to increase student employability. Speaking to students at London's Kingston University, Max Howard, whose CV includes such blockbusters as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Lion King and The Iron Giant, said putting more emphasis on giving students ...

Posted in Mechanical and Automotive Engineering News, SEC News

Kingston scores a one-two finish in Boris Johnson’s Low Carbon Prize

Posted on March 21, 2012

Second prize went to final year Environmental Science student Bruce Pawsey whose idea is to turn waste into electricity and heat through cyclonic pyrolysis. This is the thermochemical decomposition of organic material at elevated temperatures without the participation of oxygen to produce gas. While the technology is not new in itself, the proposal is to ...

Posted in Centre for Earth and Environmental Science, Geography, Geology and Environment News, SEC News

Kingston students brimming with Bright Ideas

Posted on March 19, 2012

Kingston students performed strongly in this year’s Bright Ideas competition, winning three top prizes and finishing runner-up in even more. The competition, now in its eighth year, was established by the University in conjunction with the WestFocus collaboration of seven universities in London and the Thames Valley. This year saw a record-breaking number of entries with ...

Posted in SEC News

PhD students second publication in IEEE Transactions

Posted on March 13, 2012

Mr. Ali AliNejad has his second IEEE Transactions publication as part of his PhD work on medical video streaming. This is a first for any PhD student in the School of Computing and Information Systems to be published in two highly cited IEEE Transactions from his PhD work (the work has been co-supervised and authored by Dr. Nada Philip). Ali's first ...

Posted in Computing and Information Systems News, Mobile Information and Network Technologies (MINT)

MINT director to join editorial board of World Medical and Health Policy

Posted on March 13, 2012

Professor Robert Istepanian has recently been invited to join the editorial board of the journal 'World Medical and Health Policy'. The journal website is http://www.psocommons.org/wmhp/.

Posted in Computing and Information Systems News, Mobile Information and Network Technologies (MINT)

Green bike technology targeted by industrial spies

Posted on February 15, 2012

The technology used to create the University’s electric motorbike is at risk of being copied by foreign competitors, according to Channel 4’s Made in Britain programme. The green bike featured on last week’s show, which looked at the future of Britain’s manufacturing industry and its difficulties getting ideas from design to production. The programme’s business correspondent Sarah ...

Posted in Mechanical and Automotive Engineering News