Master of Science - Computer Science (Dissertation)

The research activity and supervision for this standard one year MSD Computer Science is concentrated in the following principal research areas: artificial intelligence, biologically inspired architectures, educational technology, e-learning, natural and evolutionary computation, natural language engineering, software agents and software engineering. The cross-disciplinary projects draw on the expertise of university's electronic engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists and psychologists.

University of Essex is one of the largest and best resourced schools in the UK. Their work is supported by extensive networked computer facilities and software aids, together with a wide range of test and instrumentation equipment. The research covers a range of topics, from the theory of computation and the philosophy of computer science, computational intelligence and computer games, to artificial intelligence and robotics, with most of the research groups based around laboratories offering world-class facilities. The impressive external research funding stands at multi-million pounds per year and students participate in a number of EU initiatives and undertake projects under contract to many outside bodies, including government and industrial organisations.

Studying within the School provides both the recent graduate and the practising engineer with an opportunity to gain new skills or enhance existing ones. Graduates have progressed to a variety of senior positions in industry and academia. Some of the companies and organisations where university's former graduates are now employed include: Alcatel Submarine, BT Group, QinetiQ, Dolby Laboratories, Fujitsu, Royal Air Forces, and within the University and Imperial College, London.