{"id":761,"date":"2015-11-25T16:18:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T16:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=761"},"modified":"2015-11-25T16:18:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T16:18:50","slug":"mark-batty-wins-second-dissertation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2015\/11\/25\/mark-batty-wins-second-dissertation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Batty wins second dissertation award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Mark Batty, Lecturer in the School of Computing, has won a second award for his doctoral thesis.\u00a0His\u00a0dissertation, <em>The C11 and C++11 concurrency model<\/em>, was\u00a0selected as the winner in the 2015 CPHC\/BCS Distinguished Dissertation Competition. \u00a0The thesis also won\u00a0the John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award.<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), in conjunction with BCS and BCS Academy of Computing, annually selects for publication the best British PhD\/DPhil dissertations in computer science and publishes the winning dissertation and runner up submission on the <a href=\"http:\/\/academy.bcs.org\/content\/distinguished-dissertations\">BCS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bill Mitchell,\u00a0Director of Education at\u00a0BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT told Mark, &#8216;It was a tough competition this year but your thesis was one of three that stood out from the crowd as being exceptional.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mark was presented with his award and was commended on his achievement at the annual Roger Needham Lecture at the Royal Society on 2 November 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Mark Batty, Lecturer in the School of Computing, has won a second award for his doctoral thesis.\u00a0His\u00a0dissertation, The C11 and C++11 concurrency model, was\u00a0selected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2015\/11\/25\/mark-batty-wins-second-dissertation-award\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}