Informatics: ICSA: Computer Architecture, Compilation and System Software, Networks and Communication

Entry requirements

A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, typically in an area of informatics, such as artificial intelligence, cognitive science or computer science. You should have experience in computer programming.

We may also consider a UK 2:1 honours degree or its international equivalent, in engineering, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, physics or psychology.

Months of entry

Anytime

Course content

The Institute for Computing System Architecture (ICSA) will provide you with academic resources and industry links that are among the best in the world.

We are home to the UK’s largest group of PhD researchers in the field, and host a Centre of Excellence in partnership with ARM, the world’s largest microprocessor intellectual property provider. We are also a member of the European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation.

Our current research is focused on the areas of:

• compilers and architectures
• parallel computing
• wireless networking
• processor-automated synthesis by iterative analysis.

While the scope for research is wide, each area is underpinned by our fundamental aims:

• to extend understanding of existing systems
• to improve current systems
• to develop new architecture and engineering methods