Computing professors hit the media on programming

Two professors of the Department of Computing have appeared on the BBC Business page 'Future of Coding'.

Our students are well known for their programming prowess but recently it has been two academics who hit the press.

The BBC ran a story on their Business pages called Coding the future: What will the future of computing look like? One of the experts quoted was Professor of Programming Languages Sophia Drossopoulou. To read what she said see

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32743770

Professor of Cognitive Robotics Murray Shanahan wrote code displayed in the film Ex Machina.  One can see the media storm this code produced at any of these sites:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/365f9b/secret_code_in_ex_machina/

http://moviecode.tumblr.com/post/119171520870/in-the-movie-ex-machina-which-is-really-great

http://blog.quantifiedcode.com/omg-ai-breaks-loose-security-code-not-pep8-compliant/

https://github.com/quantifiedcode/exmachina

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/theres-a-python-script-easter-egg-in-ex-machina

There are pedants who criticise his code, but we’re just pleased that one of our former graduates can still deliver good working code over thirty years after he finished our course!