Microsoft Imagine Username Changes
The usernames on the Microsoft Imagine site (formerly known as Dreamspark and before than as MSDNAA) have been changed to be of the form crsid@cam.ac.uk for all users. The effect of this change will be...
View ArticlePostgraduate Open Day
The University of Cambridge is proud to be hosting its first Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 2 November 2016. During the Postgraduate Open Day you will be able to attend centralised presentations on...
View ArticleDr Mateja Jamnik to receive a Royal Society 2016 Athena award.
Dr Mateja Jamnik will receive a Royal Society 2016 Athena award in a ceremony at the Royal Society’s annual diversity conference on 31 October 2016. Dr Jamnik receives the award for founding women@CL,...
View ArticleA tribute to Negar Miralaei
Staff and students at the Computer Laboratory were deeply saddened to learn of the untimely death of Negar Miralaei. Negar was a fourth year PhD student soon to submit her dissertation. Her supervisor...
View ArticleSuccess for Lab teams at Northwestern Europe Regional Contest
Team Me[∰]tallica (PhD student Petar Veličković along with Part IB students Marko Stanković and Dimitrije Erdeljan) were awarded a silver medal at Northwestern Europe Regional Contest (NWERC 2016). A...
View ArticleProfessor Cecilia Mascolo reaches the finals of the 2016 Women in...
Professor Cecilia Mascolo is a finalist on the second Networking Networking Women (N2 Women) list of “10 Women in Networking/Communications That You Should Know”. The award focuses on women who have...
View ArticleSystems vulnerable 10th January
On the 10th January the UPS is being moved. This will leave core services vulnerable to building power outage until it is recommissioned later that day. At the same time one of our switches in the West...
View ArticleComputer Lab team awarded bronze medal at Hack Cambridge Recurse
Congratulations to Catalina Cangea, Laurynas Karazija, Edgar Liberis and Petar Veličković who were awarded a bronze medal at Cambridge Hack Recurse. Around 300 students from around the world descended...
View ArticlePart IB Group Design Project winners announced
Congratulations to all the Part IB project design groups who put on a fantastic display at the March 8th demonstrations. Team Juliet (George Andersen, Luke Baxter, George Prosser, Peter Rugg, Sunny...
View ArticleCristina Muñoz receives best paper award at NetSys 2017
Cristina Muñoz has received a best paper award at NetSys 2017 for his paper‘I(FIB)F: Iterated Bloom Filters for Routing in Named Data Networks’. The paper is joint work with Liang Wang and Jon...
View ArticleAdvait Sarkar receives CSAR award
The Cambridge Society for the Application of Research has announced that Advait Sarkar is one of 12 PhD students from the University of Cambridge to receive a CSAR Student Award for 2017. Advait was a...
View ArticleSuccess for Cambridge team at final of Google’s Hash Code 2017
Congratulations to team МЕТАШСА (PhD student Petar Veličković along with Part IB students Marko Stanković and Dimitrije Erdeljan) who came fifth in the final of Google’s Hash Code 2017. The competition...
View ArticleProfessor Lawrence Paulson elected a new fellow of the Royal Society
Lawrence Paulson, Professor of Computational Logic, has been elected a new fellow of the Royal Society. The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship made up of the most eminent scientists,...
View ArticleProfessor Sir Tony Hoare newly elected a foreign associate of the National...
Professor Sir Tony Hoare, an Honorary member of the Computer Laboratory, has been elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) elects new...
View ArticleCambridge Computer Lab Ring Company of the Year, Improbable, raises $500m
Cambridge Computer Lab Ring Company of the Year, Improbable, has raised $502m from Japan’s SoftBank corporation. Founded in 2012 by Computer Lab graduates Herman Narula and Rob Whitehead, Improbable’s...
View ArticleProfessor Andy Hopper appointed Treasurer of the Royal Society
Professor Andy Hopper CBE FREng FRS has been appointed Treasurer of the Royal Society. The appointment, which is for five years, starts on November 30 2017. Andy has been a recipient of numerous...
View ArticleDiana Popescu named Google Women Techmakers Scholar
Diana Popescu has been named a Google Women Techmakers Scholar 2017. Through the Women Techmakers Scholars Program – formerly the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Program – Google is furthering...
View ArticleDr Marwa Mahmoud presents research on new artificial intelligence system
Dr Marwa Mahmoud recently presented the results of research on a new artificial intelligence system designed to detect pain levels in sheep, at the 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face...
View ArticleWheeler lecture video now available
The video of Angela Sasse’s lecture entitled “Can we make people value IT security?” is now available. This lecture was given on 24th May as this year’s Wheeler lecture, and is now available to view.
View ArticleRaspberry Pi wins UK’s top engineering innovation prize
Raspberry Pi has won the UK’s top engineering innovation prize – the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award. Known for spotting the ‘next big thing’, the annual MacRobert Award is presented to...
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