Matlab updated to R2014b
The version of Matlab used on lab Linux systems has been updated from R2013b to R2014b. Condor users should be aware that the pathname of the version of Matlab that they should use under condor has...
View Articleinternal ‘sysdata’ web service fist to move to NFS sec=sys
http://sysdata.cl.cam.ac.uk/ is the first of the Lab web services to move to Ubuntu servers running Apache 2.4 using NFS sec=krb5 to access the web pages from the filer. Please contact sys-admin if...
View ArticleWGB power cut 2014/11/09 17:43
There was a power cut in the WGB just before 17:43 for about ten seconds. See UIS report for their timeline.
View ArticleNFS version 4
Support for NFS version 4 has now been enabled on the main NetApp filer “elmer”. The change is upwards compatible in the sense that the older protocol remains available as well. However client systems...
View ArticleLab PhD wins Best Student Paper Award
Marwa Mahmoud has been awarded the Best Student Paper award at the 2014 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014). The paper on ‘Autonomatic detection of naturalistic...
View ArticleEDSAC project reaches key milestone
A project to recreate EDSAC has reached a key milestone. The project is being led by Dr Andrew Herbert who, early in his career, worked at the Computer Laboratory under EDSAC’s designer Sir Maurice...
View ArticleComputer Lab to host conference for policy making in the Big Data era
The Computer Laboratory will host the ‘Policy-Making in the Big Data Era‘ conference in June 2015. The conference committee invites contributions from researchers, policy makers, practitioners in...
View ArticleProfessor Anuj Dawar to receive Hind Rattan Award 2015
Anuj Dawar, Professor of Logic and Algorithms has been awarded a prestigious Hind Rattan Award for outstanding services, achievements and contributions in his field of research. The Hind Rattan is one...
View Articleslogin server upgrade
As there have been no reports of problems with the testing slogin server we plan to swap the DNS pointer over the weekend spanning the end of February and the start of March at which point the old...
View ArticleWest Cambridge power problem 2015/02/23
There was a power problem on the West Cambridge site effecting some of our systems in the WGB and some in the UIS at around 9PM on Mon 23 Feb. Please report any anomalies to sys-admin.
View ArticleAnother power glitch 2015-03-03 03:06:24
This time it killed a switch ad (at least) two discs.
View ArticleDHCP servers upgraded
The main Lab DHCP servers have been replaced. This should not have changed things for clients, so if there are any problems, please report them to sys-admin.
View Article2015 Wheeler Lecture
The annual Wheeler Lecture will be given on Tuesday 26th May of this year. Further information is available, and registration is now open.
View ArticleCambridge team wins ‘Oxford Instruments Special Award’ at iCAN UK 2015
Congratulations to the Computer Laboratory’s Ran Guan and Bob Fang who, as part of team ‘GameBob’ won the Oxford Instruments Special Award at iCAN UK 2015. The entry received the most audience votes...
View ArticleProfessor Ross Anderson named as BCS Lovelace Medal Winner 2015
Ross Anderson FRS FREng, Professor of Security Engineering, has been named as the recipient of the 2015 BCS Lovelace Medal awarded by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. The award is presented...
View ArticleCambridge Ring member Dr Hermann Hauser awarded an honorary knighthood
Cambridge Ring member Dr Hermann Hauser CBE, FRS, FREng has been awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of his services to engineering and industry. Dr Hauser co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners...
View ArticleLab PhD wins NSDI’15 Best Paper Award
Matthew P Grosvenor has received the Best Paper Award at NSDI’15. The paper, ‘Queues Don’t Matter When You Can JUMP Them!‘ is joint work with Malte Schwarzkopf, Ionel Gog, Robert Watson, Andrew Moore,...
View ArticleDisruption to Xen clients
Our Xen system was disrupted last night. It is believed to be mostly fixed, but users should check their systems. A rogue process caused problems with the Lab routing, which caused the filer to be...
View ArticleAndrew W Moore receives ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award 2015
Andrew W Moore has received the ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award 2015 for “Internet Traffic Classification Using Bayesian Analysis Techniques”. The paper is joint work with Denis Zuev. The ACM...
View ArticleLab PhD awarded Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
Congratulations to Luana Bulat who has been awarded a Google Anita Borg Scholarship. Luana is a member of the Natural Language and Information Processing Group, under the supervision of Dr. Stephen...
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