Ramana Kumar wins the ACM SIGPLAN Doctoral Dissertation Award
Ramama Kumar has been awarded the ACM SIGPLAN John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2017. The award is presented annually to the author of an outstanding dissertation in the field of...
View ArticleComputer Laboratory researchers win best paper award at ACM SIGCOMM 2017
Computer Laboratory researchers Gianni Antichi, Marcin Wójcik, and Andrew W. Moore, along with co-authors, have won the best paper award at ACM SIGCOMM 2017. The paper “Re-architecting datacenter...
View ArticleZafar Gilani presents research on Twitter bots
PhD student Zafar Gilani recently presented the results of research on Twitter bots, at the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining in Sydney, Australia. Twitter has...
View ArticleProfessor Mike Gordon FRS
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor Mike Gordon FRS. Mike Gordon joined the Computer Laboratory in 1981 and he made magnificent contributions to the Department in many...
View ArticleComputer Laboratory researchers win SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award...
Computer Laboratory researchers, led by Professor Peter Sewell, have won the SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award 2017. The paper “Ott: Effective Tool Support for the Working Semanticist” is joint...
View ArticleThomas Brouwer wins the Homerton Santander award for PhD research
Thomas Brouwer has won the Homerton Santander award for outstanding achievement in PhD research. Thomas was awarded the prize for his work under Pietro Lio’ investigating the use of Bayesian models for...
View ArticleStephen Dolan wins 2017 CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertation Award
Stephen Dolan has been named the winner of the 2017 CPHC/BCS Distinguished Dissertation Award for his dissertation ‘Algebraic subtyping’. The Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), in...
View ArticleAnnual Faculty Meeting
This year’s Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be at 14:15 on Tuesday 7 November 2017 in Lecture Theatre 1 in the William gates Building. The meeting will be followed by refreshments in the Street. All...
View ArticleCambridge teams triumph at the 2017 UK & Ireland Programming Contest
Cambridge teams occupied six of the top ten places (including 1st place) at this year’s UK & Ireland Programming Contest (UKIEPC). The UKIEPC is the UK & Ireland Subregional Contest for NWERC...
View ArticleDepartment’s researchers awarded a double at SPLASH 2017
Department researchers Victor Gomes, Martin Kleppmann, Dominic Mulligan, and Alastair Beresford have been awarded both a distinguished paper award and a distinguished artefact award for their paper...
View ArticleCambridge joins new UK Hardware Security Institute
Researchers at the University of Cambridge are part of the new £5m multi-university Research Institute to improve hardware security and reduce vulnerability to cyber threats. Funded by the Engineering...
View ArticleCambridge team wins The 2017 Northwestern Europe Regional Contest
Congratulations to Team Me[N]ta∭ca, winners of The 2017 Northwestern Europe Regional Contest. NWERC 2017 is an official regional contest in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. It...
View ArticleFiler software update Tuesday 9th Jan 2018
The next scheduled vulnerable period (2018-01-09 0700-1000) will be used to perform a software update on the NetApp filers elmer and eldo. Elmer is the main filer directly visible to users and eldo...
View ArticleBjarne Stroustrup to receive 2018 Charles Stark Draper Prize
The National Academy of Engineering has announced that Bjarne Stroustrup will receive the 2018 Charles Start Draper Prize for Engineering. The prize has been awarded ‘for conceptualizing and developing...
View ArticleCL VPN certificate replacement
The SSL certificate used to authenticate the CL-specific instance of the UIS VPN service at vpn.cl.cam.ac.uk is scheduled for routine replacement on Tuesday 13th February at about 08:00. The purpose of...
View ArticleBjarne Stroustrup named recipient of the 2018 IEEE-CS Computer Pioneer Award
Bjarne Stroustrup has been selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society’s 2018 Computer Pioneer Award. The award is given for significant contributions to early concepts and developments in the...
View Articlerdesktop service replaced
As part of the move to a new Active Directory Domain the old terminal server machines have been replaced with a new service. Users connecting from windows or MacOS should use the Microsoft Desktop...
View Articleely reboot in vulnerable period 20th Feb
This reboot is necessary to complete the installation of some security updates.
View ArticleSE18 due to be cleared by 1 June 2018
The deadline for moving equipment out of SE18 has been set to the 1st June 2018. The removal of the air-conditioning has been arranged to start them. Anyone with any equipment remaining in that room...
View ArticleProblem with new VPN certificate corrected
Some people using the VPN service at vpn.cl.cam.ac.uk may have been experiencing difficulties since the server certficate was updated on 2018-02-13. We issued a warning applicable to Windows users, but...
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