ACM Queue interview with Robert Watson on Cambridge research into the...
Robert Watson talks about spanning industry and academia, the importance of open source in software research, and challenges facing research that spans traditional boundaries in computer science. Watch...
View ArticleCharles Babbage robot head inspires research on affective computing
Professor Peter Robinson’s research exploring the role of emotions in human-machine interaction has inspired research on affective computing.
View ArticlePLS Research Group has four papers accepted for POPL 2013
Of the 43 papers accepted (18.5% of those submitted) for the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2013) to be held in Rome next January, four are authored by members of the Computer...
View ArticleComputer Laboratory recruitment fair full to bursting
Fifty one companies will converge on the Computer Laboratory on Thursday November 15th 2012 for the annual Supporters’ Club recruitment fair. The event attracts many of the most prestigious IT...
View ArticleProfessor Andrew Pitts is made a Fellow of the ACM
Andy Pitts has been made a Fellow of the ACM for his contributions to the theory of programming language semantics. The ACM Fellows Program was established in 1993 to recognize and honour outstanding...
View ArticleThe Computer Laboratory gets ready to celebrate 75 years
2013 is a special year for the Computer Laboratory. Not only does it mark the Laboratory’s 75th anniversary but also the centenary of the Cambridge computer pioneer, Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes....
View ArticleThe January 2013 edition of ‘The Ring’ is out!
The January edition of the journal of the Computer Laboratory’s graduate association, The Ring, is now out. The archive can be found at: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ring/newsletters.html
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Andy Hopper welcomes Business Secretary, Dr Vince Cable, to the Computer...
Professor Andy Hopper welcomed Business Secretary, Dr Vince Cable, to the Computer Laboratory today. Dr Cable, in Cambridge to launch Cambridge Business Week, visited the University’s Computer...
View ArticleLab PhD wins Mark Weiser Best Paper Award
Kiran Rachuri has received the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 2013 (PerCom 2013). The paper “METIS: Exploring mobile phone...
View ArticlePurge of legacy automount information
It is believed that the last systems using the old “indirect” autofs LDAP tables have been shut down or moved to use “direct” filer mounts, so the information is no longer included in the LDAP data. If...
View ArticleComputer Lab spin-out helps protect online banking customers
Computer Lab spin-out, Cronto, is helping to protect online banking cutomers from the threat of online banking fraud. Dr Steven Murdoch, a member of the Lab’s Security Group and Cronto’s Chief Security...
View ArticleRealVNC wins the triple
RealVNC, the company founded by Computer Laboratory’s Professor Andy Hopper and Andy Harter together with Lily Bacon and other colleagues from the University has been singled out with its third...
View ArticleLab PhD student wins Best Student Paper Award at EuroSys 2013
Malte Schwarzkopf has received the Best Student Paper Award at EuroSys 2013. The paper “Omega: flexible, scalable schedulers for large compute clusters” is joint work with Andy Konwinski, Michael...
View ArticlePoster competition winners announced at 75th anniversary celebrations
The Computer Laboratory celebrated its 75th anniversary on 24th April, at which time the winners of the associated poster competition were announced. We congratulate the winner, Ramsey Faragher, and...
View ArticleComputer Lab students win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships
Marwa Mahmoud and Steven Marsh, students at the Computer Laboratory, were awarded two of the three Qualcomm UK Innovation Fellowships in competition with other departments in Cambridge and at Imperial...
View ArticleTadas Baltrušaitis wins Cambridge Ring Publication of the Year award
Tadas Baltrušaitis, Peter Robinson and Louis-Philippe Morency have won the Publication of the Year award at the Cambridge Ring’s annual dinner for their paper on “3D Constrained local model for rigid...
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Computer Laboratory celebrates the first 75 years
Around 300 graduates and friends of the Computer Laboratory converged on the William Gates Building to celebrate its first 75 years. Professor Sir Tony Hoare delivers Wheeler Lecture A packed lecture...
View ArticleMarwa Mahmoud wins best paper award at IEEE Face and Gesture Conference
Marwa Mahmoud has won the best paper award at IEEE Face and Gesture Conference in Shanghai. The paper on “Automatic behavior descriptors for psychological disorder analysis” is joint work with...
View ArticleJon Crowcroft elected to Royal Society
Jon Crowcroft, the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems, has been elected to the Royal Society for his seminal contributions to the development of the Internet, including techniques that have...
View ArticleComputer Lab spin-out Cronto acquired
Computer Lab spin-out Cronto, a provider of secure visual transaction authentication solutions for online banking, has been acquired by VASCO Data Security International, Inc. VASCO acquired all of the...
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