BCS-in-Scotland sponsors ScotlandIS Young Software Engineer of the Year awards

For the fourth consecutive year BCS-in-Scotland has sponsored the second prize at the Scotland IS Young Software Engineer of the Year awards presented at the ScotSoft 2009 dinner on 8th October 2009.

The Young Software Engineer of the Year awards are given for the best undergraduate software projects, drawn from across all students studying computer science and software engineering in Scotland. Each university nominates the very best final year undergraduate software engineering project to be submitted for the awards.

Liam being awarded is prize by David Murie, Chair of BCS-in-Scotland group

The BCS prize of £1000 was won by Liam McBrien of the University of Strathclyde for his Synthetic Vision System for Pilots.

Liam’s Synthetic Vision System creates a computer-generated visualisation of an aircraft’s position in relation to its surroundings, intended for small aircraft. Implementations are available in commercial airliners and military aircraft, but are rare in civilian light aircraft which are typically equipped with more traditional flight instruments. Liam had examined the feasibility of producing a basic level Synthetic Vision System using a standard PC with a connected GPS device.

Liam is 23 and from Glasgow. He has recently graduated from the University of Strathclyde with a MEng in Computer Science. He works for Sun Microsystems, and his interests include hill walking, archery and pool.

The first prize, sponsored by Sopra Group UK, was awarded to Michal Bartosik of the University of Edinburgh for his project "Classification of motion data from on-body Orient motion capture system for training a humanoid robot".

The third prize, sponsored by Lumison, was awarded to Gerard O’ Donnell of the University of Glasgow for his project "Emergency Ski Response System".

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