Take a scientific approach

The University of Reading’s Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies Centre, School of Systems Engineering combines learning with entrepreneurial endeavour

ACET – Advanced Computing and Emerging
Technologies Centre, School of Systems Engineering

Wantage Hall, one of the main university’s main residence halls

The Centre works in three directions:

• Advanced research in the area of Computational Science, Cluster and Grid computing and corresponding collaborative environments facilitating virtual teams and organisations; e-Learning platforms and methodology; scalable numerical methods and algorithms for large-scale applications.
• Advanced multi-disciplinary postgraduate courses for traditional and nontraditional learners based on mixed mode of delivery.
• Entrepreneurial and reach-out activities based on the close collaboration with leading industrial partners, such as Intel and IBM.

The Centre collaborates on various research projects with universities across Europe as well as Daresbury Laboratory UK, Oak Ridge National Laboratory US, Intel, IBM, Procter and Gamble, AWE and various SMEs. These collaborations present great opportunities to individually tailor the MSc projects.

Postgraduate Courses

Advanced European MSc in Network Centred Computing
MSc Co-ordinator: Nia Alexandrov
E-mail: ncc@rdg.ac.uk
Website: www.sse.rdg.ac.uk/MSC_NCC

Application deadlines are usually 16 December for intakes in February the following year, and 30 June for the October intake the same year. The course structure is one semester of intensive modules (each of them one or two weeks long) and one semester (24 weeks) project placement in the university, other research institution or in the industry, completed with write up of the dissertation as an integral part. The modules are divided into core and stream subjects. The core modules contain the key technical and scientific knowledge and are taken by all of the streams. The stream modules are more specific and generally equip the students with the specific problemsolving methodology.

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Streams

• High Performance Computing: focuses on methods and techniques of placing and running problems on high-performance machines.
• Computational Sciences: focuses on multidisciplinary approach of building models of complex systems and methods of their efficient solving.
• Data Communications: addresses the skill gap in networking and communications area
• Advanced Cybernetics: focuses on the interface between Computing Science and Cybernetics, in particular AI techniques and Robotics;
• Software Engineering & HCI: focuses on Graphical Interfaces, Multimedia Software Engineering and Digital Image Processing;
• E-Business: focuses on Web-centred technology and its application in business and e-learning environments.

Erasmus Mundus MSC in Network and e-Business Centred Computing
Project Manager and Program Director: Vassil Alexandrov
MSc Co-ordinator: Nia Alexandrov
E-mail: nebcc@rdg.ac.uk
Website: www.sse.rdg.ac.uk/EMMSC_ NeBCC

This is an 18-month joint degree co-ordinated by University of Reading. Application deadlines for scholarships are usually 31 January for intake in October the same year. For selffunded students, the deadline is usually 30 June for October intake the same year.

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Objectives of the programme :

To prepare future professionals for the digital economy, leaving them capable of understanding the technical underpinnings and business opportunities of the new economy through a set of in-depth specialist modules and a substantial research and development project.

University of Reading modules

Advanced Operating Systems and Programming in UNIX; Network Computing; Advanced Computer Architectures; Internet Software Environments; Transferable Skills.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki modules

Human-Computer Interaction; Computational Intelligence and e-Business; Databases and Knowledge Mining; Introduction to e-Business;

University Carlos III Madrid modules

Network Infrastructure; B2B Technologies; B2C Technologies; Network Security and Electronic Payments.

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