{"id":44,"date":"2004-03-16T16:09:22","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T15:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomwire.com\/2004\/03\/16\/seg-update\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:10:33","slug":"seg-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/seg-update\/","title":{"rendered":"SEG Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11358,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dur.ac.uk\\\/cs.seg13&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050419081446\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.dur.ac.uk:80\\\/cs.seg13\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 21:22:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-17 03:49:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-17 19:32:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-31 18:01:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-05 03:24:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-08 03:40:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-06 01:13:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 15:17:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 15:49:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 04:13:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 04:13:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Today was the infamous SEG (Software Engineering Groups) Trade Fair where the 17 different groups tout the fruits of their labors, often with a little (or sometimes a lot) of bribery! All visitors to the fair were give three voting tokens which they could give to the group(s) which they liked the most, whatever the motivation for that may be. Out group (SEG 13) ended up with 98 votes which although wasn\u2019t enough to win the prize for the most number of votes we still walked off with the \u201cProfessional Photographers Prize\u201d which was judged by a professional photographer (bet you never guessed that!). Hopefully a good indicator of things to come as there\u2019s still the IBM and BT prizes to be awarded next term. I you want to have a look at the system we developed click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/cs.seg13\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the infamous SEG (Software Engineering Groups) Trade Fair where the 17 different groups tout the fruits of their labors, often with a little (or sometimes a lot) of bribery! All visitors to the fair were give three voting tokens which they could give to the group(s) which they liked the most, whatever the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[1424],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university","tag-seg"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57,"url":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/clean-sweep\/","url_meta":{"origin":44,"position":0},"title":"Clean Sweep","author":"David","date":"4th May 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"SEG (Software Engineering Groups) culminated today with some rather pleasing results. Having won the trade fair prize for the most professional system last term we claimed another victory today by winning the 'Durham University Computer Science IBM Thinkpad Challenge Heat'!! 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On closer inspection, I noticed some suspicious activity in the FTP access logs and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/tech\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poster4_supersize-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poster4_supersize-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poster4_supersize-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poster4_supersize-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poster4_supersize-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poster4_supersize-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":150,"url":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/hursley\/","url_meta":{"origin":44,"position":4},"title":"Hursley","author":"David","date":"22nd September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"After our software engineering team won the overall team prize back in April we're off to IBM Hursley (Winchester) tomorrow to compete against other universities in the 'UK Labs ThinkPad Challenge'! 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