[Gllug] Re: Universities and degrees in computing.

[David Irvine]

Peter & Sarah Childs writes: 

> On Saturday 28 December 2002 19:56, Paul Cupis wrote:
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>> On Saturday 28 Dec 2002 19:00, rich at annexia.org wrote:
>> > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 06:55:19PM +0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
>> > > My brother who has a US degree is seeking to do a PhD in the UK in
>> > > computing.
>> > >
>> > > What universities would people recommend?
>> > >
>> > > It needs to be Internationally recognised and not just the latest fad.
>> >
>> > I may be biased here, but Imperial College, University of London
>> > has a great computing department. 
>>
>> I agree with this. And I'm biased. 
>>
> 
> 	I did not think Kent was bad. 
> 

Cranfield have quite a good reputation. Warwick have a good computing 
department from what i've seen. 

One word of warning, STAY AWAY FROM leeds.ac.uk  Their postgrad computing 
staff can't even write hello world. I'm not kidding btw, I set a basic 
problem to teach some MPI code, basically they had to write hello world in 
fortran and start and stop mpi, two statements extra. I got emails telling 
me the compiler was broke because it failed to compile because of syntax 
errors. 

I rest my case. 

Imperial, and UCL all seem to have good computing departments, UCL and 
Imperial are getting a lot of funding for HPC clusters and the like which is 
always cool stuff. 

HTH 

David 

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