School of Computing (Robert Gordon University) Computing and Engineering. Much of its research is encompassed by SmartWeb, a centre of excellence on intelligent computing technologies and their application to new types of Web-based systems and services. A new £1 million purpose-designed Computing Technologies Research Centre has recently been opened. The School is located in the Sir Ian Wood building (formerly known as Riverside East) at the University's Garthdee campus. School of Computing (Robert Gordon University) The Robert Gordon University's School of Computing Science and Digital Media is one of the four schools in the Faculty of Design and Technology at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen,
Robert Gordon University future of UK higher education recommended major expansion, which led to the renaming of the institution to Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology to suggest its increasing role in higher education rather than further education. As well as new "plate-glass" universities, reforms following the report created the polytechnics in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It also created the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) to allow non-university institutions (like the polytechnics and Scottish central institutions) to run programmes that graduated students with CNAA degrees. The Institute's first CNAA degree programmes began in pharmacy in 1967, then in engineering, chemistry and physics