Department of Informatics

Prize-winning undergraduate projects

Each year, prizes are awarded for the best final-year undergraduate student projects. Below are the most recent prize-winners and links to their dissertations. We also award prizes recognising outstanding overall achievement. Our archive of previous prize-winners lists all project awards since 2001.

2017

£10,000 MacQuitty award for the highest-performing student across the sciences at the University of Sussex
John Wilkie, BSc Computer Science

Computer Science / IT

BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT – prize for best computer science / IT project
John Wilkie, BSc Computer Science

Tangible programming languages: a better solution to teaching children to program? - John Wilkie [PDF 6.2MB]

Artificial Intelligence

Brandwatch prize for best artificial intelligence project
Oliver Thomas, BSc Computer Science

Learning using privileged information: a unified approach - Oliver Thomas [PDF 1.8MB]

Digital Media

Brandwatch prize for best digital media project
Nicolas Slack, BSc Games and Multimedia Environments (GAME)

H.I.D.E: Humanised Integrated Development Environment - Nicolas Slack [PDF 2.0MB]

Overall Achievement

InCrowdSports prize for outstanding performance in computer science
Oliver Thomas, BSc Computer Science

Hare Digital prize for best overall performance in computing
John Wilkie, BSc Computer Science

Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) prize for computing with business and management
Anna Hughes, BSc Computing for Business and Management (with a Study Abroad Year)

John Wilkie  Oliver Thomas  Nicolas Slack  Anna Hughes

2016

Computer Science / IT

BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT – prize for best computer science / IT project
Jacob Hughes, BSc Computer Science

PLang: a concurrent programming language using shared nothing-threads - Jacob Hughes [PDF 930.71KB]

Artificial Intelligence

Brandwatch prize for best artificial intelligence project
Daniel Saska, BSc Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Fast methods for building accurate models of individual neurons - Daniel Saska [PDF 10.11MB]

Digital Media

Brandwatch prize for best digital media project
Paul Hickman, BSc Computing for Digital Media

Max's Mission: an application to support the development of computational thinking skills - Paul Hickman [PDF 18.00MB]

Overall Achievement

InCrowdSports prize for best overall performance in computer science
Justin Crow, BSc Computer Science (with an industrial placement year)

Hare Digital prize for best overall performance in computing
Daniel Saska, BSc Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Final year prize winners 2016