Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science. Academic staff are leaders and partners on a variety of research projects and have key alliances with other universities (including Cambridge University, MIT, Brown University, Leeds University, and King’s College London), cultural institutions (the Department works with several museums including Tate Modern), creative and telecommunications industries.

Current research within the Department includes Ontology of Digital Culture (developing an application for searching audio and video content online), Intelligent Sound and Music Systems (understanding how human music cognition functions), Adaptive Technologies (enhancing the functionality of hypermedia systems), and Algorithms and Computer Networks (encompassing algorithm design and analysis, wireless networks, data compression, and combinatorics).

BSc Degree

This degree will equip you with the knowledge, confidence and skills needed to act as a creative autonomous professional in the computing and cultural industries. It prepares you for a variety of careers, including: design (particularly games design), computing in the film, music or tv industry, web development, animation, IT consultancy or systems management or analysis.

The range of skills you will develop include:

• visual and audio design by programming
• storyboarding, from ideas to implementation
• creative processing for digital media: generating films, music, animations and games
• Java programming.