January is over and the days are getting longer, so we’re in the mood to post a list of fifteen things from the past 12 months that we’re proud of. 

1. We set up a playable library of computer games in the ground floor of the library.
2. We ran our best ever Digital Arts Computing exhibition in April
3. Our academics shared their research with students on Wednesday afternoons. More to come soon…
4. Our Music Computing students set up Resolution, a programme of live music and visual performances
5. Hacksmiths ran a ton of amazing events, including Non Binary in Tech, Global Game Jam, Anvil Hack, and our Welcome Week student get-together DoC.Hack.
6. We hired Eilidh Macdonald to be our Industry Employability Champion who develops opportunities for placements, internships and other collaborations with employers.
7. We ran an international art & tech symposium ‘Future Mind’ with our new friends at Kyoto University
8. Post Doc Researcher Perla Maiolino exhibited at the Science Museum’s ROBOTS show
9. Our EAVI (Embodied AudioVisual Interaction) research group ran a brilliant day of audiovisual workshops and performances at the ICA
10. We launched five new online courses in Virtual Reality
11. Our students were on primetime BBC1 telly
12. We took part in an acid house revival
13. Sex Tech Hack 2!
14. Our students won a prize at the Living Data City Challenge hackathon in Eindhoven
15. London Evening Standard named senior lecturer Dr Kate Devlin ‘one of London’s most influential people of 2017’

If you think of any more, send your suggestions to p.fry@gold.ac.uk.