Tag: Birkbeck College

• How to get a job as a developer

  Last night I went to a Birkbeck training session for prospective mentors. I did not realise before I turned up that all, or almost all, the would-be mentors would be MSc Computer Science graduates. In the end that fact alone turned what could have been a pretty dull way to spend a Friday night into…

  Adrian McMenamin

  March 2, 2013

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  Birkbeck College, debugging, GitHub, Google, Google Chrome, graduate employment, mentoring, Software development

• Similarity, difference and compression

  I am in York this week, being a student and preparing for the literature review seminar I am due to give on Friday – the first staging post on the PhD route, at which I have to persuade the department I have been serious about reading around my subject. Today I went to a departmental…

  Adrian McMenamin

  December 12, 2012

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  Birkbeck College, Cardiff University, compression, computer science, difference, Image::Pngslimmer, Kolmogorov complexity, Nick Chater, Perl, PNG, psychology, similarity, Ulrike Hahne, University of York

• Books I recommend for Birkbeck MSc Computer Science students

  I thought I would list some of the books – other than the set texts – that I think new students (for 2011/12 intake) to Birkbeck ought to read. Sadly, for me, I didn’t really read any of them until the second year – but they are still useful. This is will probably be an…

  Adrian McMenamin

  April 10, 2011

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  Birkbeck College, Linux, Logic and Foundations, Master of Science, MSc Computer Science, Operating system, The Annotated Turing, Unix