EPSRC funds Cambridge Cloud Cybercrime Centre
Thanks to an EPSRC grant, the Cambridge Cloud Cybercrime Centre will be operational from October 1st 2015. The Centre is a multi-disciplinary initiative combining expertise from the University of...
View ArticleTexLive 2015 now available on the filer
The latest version of TeXLive is now available on the filer in /usr/groups/texlive. Using the standard TeXLive naming convention, it is in the directory 2015. The symb links oldest, current and latest...
View ArticleMark Batty receives John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award
Mark Batty has received the John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award. His dissertation ‘The C11 and C++11 Concurrency Model‘ makes significant contributions to the understanding of memory models...
View ArticleLab PhD student wins ACM Student Research Competition at SIGCOMM 2015
First year PhD student Heidi Howard has won the ACM Student Research Competition at SIGCOMM 2015 for ‘Coracle: Evaluating consensus at the internet edge.’ The paper is joint work with Professor Jon...
View ArticleOliver Chick wins APSys15 best paper award
PhD student Oliver Chick has received the Best Paper Award at APSys15. The paper, ‘Shadow Kernels: A General Mechanism For Kernel Specialization in Existing Operating Systems’, is joint work with...
View ArticleRA Sam Aaron teaches BBC DJ to compose music using Sonic Pi
Lab Research Associate Sam Aaron can often be found in school classrooms teaching children to create music by writing code using Sonic Pi. However, recently he welcomed a slightly older pupil, BBC...
View ArticleProfessor John Daugman elected to Academy Fellowship
John Daugman OBE FREng, Professor of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his outstanding contribution to engineering.
View ArticleRoss Anderson named winner of 2015 SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation award
Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering, has been named the winner of the 2015 SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation award. The award is given for outstanding and innovative technical contributions to...
View ArticleComputer Laboratory receives prestigious Athena SWAN award
The Computer Laboratory has received a prestigious bronze Athena SWAN award, the charter that recognises commitment to tackling gender inequality in higher education.
View ArticleLab researchers win best paper award at ACM ICN 2015
Lab researchers Liang Wang, Arjuna Sathiaseelan and Prof. Jon Crowcroft have won the best paper award at ACM ICN 2015. The paper “Pro-Diluvian: Understanding Scoped-Flooding for Content Discovery in...
View ArticleCambridge triumphs at UKIEPC 2015
Cambridge teams triumphed at The UK/IE Programming Contest (UKIEPC) 2015. Not only did a team from the University come first, but Cambridge teams filled ten slots in the top twenty. Team EE Dragons...
View ArticleMark Batty wins 2015 BCS Distinguished Dissertation Competition
Mark Batty has been named the winner of the 2015 CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertation Competition. The Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), in conjunction with BCS and BCS Academy of...
View ArticleAndra Adams named a winner of UK ICT Pioneers 2015
PhD student, Andra Adams, has been named the winner of the UK ICT Pioneers 2015 in the category ‘Transforming Society’. UK ICT Pioneers is ‘a unique partnership between Engineering and Physical...
View ArticleThomas Sauerwald awarded prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant
Dr Thomas Sauerwald, University Lecturer in Computer Science, has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. His funded project titled “Dynamics of Multiple, Interacting...
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Professor Simon Moore receives “10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper”...
A research paper by Robert Mullins, Andrew West and Simon Moore was selected as the “10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper” in the 2016 Asia & South Pacific Design Automation Conference...
View ArticleSwiftKey, Cambridge Ring 2015 Hall of Fame winner, acquired by Microsoft
SwiftKey, the winner of the Cambridge Ring Hall of Fame Company of the Year Award 2015, has been acquired by Microsoft for $250m. As well as the popular smartphone app, SwiftKey is known for being...
View ArticleRamsey Faragher and Robert Harle receive presitigious Dr Samuel M Burka Award
The Institute of Navigation (ION) presented its Dr Samuel M Burka Award to Dr Ramsey M Faragher and Dr Robert K Harle for their paper “Towards an Efficient, Intelligent Opportunistic Smartphone Indoor...
View ArticleRobert Harle awarded Pilkington Prize
Dr Robert Harle has been awarded a Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching. The Pilkington Teaching Award recognises excellence and innovation in teaching, making a significant impact on the...
View ArticleErroll Wood receives ACM Emerging Investigator Award
Erroll Wood has received the Emerging Investigator Award at the ACM SIGGraph Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications for his paper ‘Learning an appearance-based gaze estimator from one...
View ArticleProfessor John Daugman elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors
Professor John Daugman has been elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI) at a ceremony in Washington DC. Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded...
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