FACULTYOF TECHNOLOGY

PostGraduate Research Scholarships for October 2005

 TheFaculty has four University Scholarships for Research Students.

 TheScholarships will be known as

     TheCharles Babbage*Research Scholarship

     TheI K Brunel*Research Scholarship

     TheThomas Fowler*Research Scholarship

     TheAlan Turing*Research Scholarship

Theseare for UK/EU fees only, if thecandidate is from overseas then they will have to find the difference ofapproximately £5,500.

Upto two stipends of £12,000 may be available to highly qualified UKstudents. For well qualified overseas students 4 partial fee scholarships willbe given.

Opportunitiesalso exist for overseas students to be employed on a part time basis. Part-timelecturing may also be available.

Closingdate for applications - 31 May 2005.  Please contact Mrs C Watson, ResearchAdministrator, Faculty of Technology, email c.watson@plymouth.ac.uk, tel: 0044 (0)1752 233329 for an application pack.

 *CharlesBabbage (1791-1871) Reformer militant, mathematician,computer pioneer, economist, mechanical engineer, code-breaker, inventor,society figure.

 *IsambardKingdom Brunel was born in 1809. He wasprobably the greatest engineer of all time, designing bridges, ships, railwaysand tunnels with many innovative features. One of his works was the Royal Albert Bridgebetween Plymouthand Saltash.

 *Thomas Fowler wasborn in 1777 at Great Torrington in North Devon.He received only a rudimentary education, but despite this he was arguably oneof the greatest thinkers of his age. In 1840 he invented a calculating machine,built in wood that was much admired by his contemporaries Augustus De Morgan,Charles Babbage, George Airey and many others. The machine used a tertiarycalculating model.

 *Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a British mathematician and isconsidered to be one of the fathers of Artificial Intelligence. He provided aninfluential formalisation of the concept of algorithm and computation: theTuring machine. He formulated the now widely accepted Church-Turing thesis,namely that every other practical computing model had either the equivalent ora subset of the capabilities of a Turing machine. During World War II he headeda successful effort of breaking the German secret code. After the war, heworked with one of the earliest digital computers, and later he provided aprovocative contribution to the discussion ‘Can machines think?

Applications are invited inthe following areas