New Remote Desktop Service
The previous remote access Windows machines ts01 and ts02 have now been retired. In their place is a newer version running on Windows Server 2016. The local unix command cl-rdesktop has been updated to...
View ArticleServer Room Cooling Failure
Overnight between the 27th and 28th of February the building cooling failed. This was due to the pipes on the roof freezing due to very low temperatures. Emergency actions was taken at in the middle of...
View ArticleStart of change of default domain on Linux systems
The department is moving from the ‘AD’ domain to the ‘DC’ domain. Linux systems use the DNS to decide which the default should be if none is given. We shall be moving certyain test hosts over to DC in...
View ArticleCambridge Computer Laboratory hosts Inter-ACE cyber security challenge
More than 130 students representing 18 of the UK’s top cybersecurity universities battled it out at the Inter-ACE 2018 cyber security challenge, hosted at the Computer Laboratory at the University of...
View ArticleNew Ubuntu 18.04 LTS slogin-new test server
A new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server is now available, available via the service name slogin-new and slogin. To ensure that the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server is used, connect to slogin. Comments to sys-admin please.
View ArticleMichael Schaarschmidt awarded 2018 Google PhD Fellowship
Michael Schaarschmidt has been awarded a 2018 Google PhD Fellowship. Michael is a member of the Systems Research Group under the supervision of Dr Eiko Yoneki.
View ArticleSeventh Annual Wheeler Lecture
We are pleased to announce that the Wheeler Lecture for 2018 will be given on Wednesday 30th May by Prof. Stephen Pulman. The title of the lecture is Language, learning and creativity. More information...
View ArticleProfessor Jon Crowcroft awarded honorary doctorate by the Aalto University...
Professor Jon Crowcroft has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Aalto University schools of technology. The award ceremony will take place on June 15th 2018 in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland. Jon...
View ArticleNew Ubuntu MTA now in use by new slogin server
The new slogin server will not send non-ASCII MH emails to the main Lab CentOS 5 MTAs, as they do not advertise that they support 8BITMIME. A Ubuntu 16.04 MTA which was being used for development has...
View ArticlePAT 2018
Portable Appliance Testsing (PAT) is not a legal requirement, but is required by our insurers. Estate Management have hired contractors to fulfill the insurers’ requirement at very short notice. Some...
View ArticleNetwork outage on June 2nd
At 09:12 on Saturday morning, a new switch in our data centre failed. In doing so it bridged together all of its connections to the rest of the network. Since switches have multiple uplinks for...
View ArticleThe Department of Computer Science and Technology and Nokia Bell Labs...
Nokia Bell Labs is a founding partner of the new Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence, to be based in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. The Centre will...
View ArticleDeepMind Chair of Machine Learning to be appointed
The Department of Computer Science and Technology is to appoint a DeepMind Chair of Machine Learning thanks to a benefaction from the world-leading AI company. The first DeepMind Chair is expected to...
View ArticleDr Richard Gibbens (1962 – 2018)
It is with great shock and sadness that we announce the death of Richard Gibbens on 12 August 2018, following a short illness. Richard was Reader in Network Modelling in the Department, and had been...
View ArticleDr Noa Zilberman named in list of 10 Rising Stars in Computer Networking and...
Dr Noa Zilberman, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and member of the Networks and Operating Systems Group, has been named in the fourth list of “N2Women: Rising Stars in Computer Networking and...
View ArticleDr Robert Harle receives ACM Ubicomp 10 Year Impact Award
Dr Robert Harle has been awarded the ACM Ubicomp 10 Year Impact Award at Ubicomp 2018, for his paper from 2008 entitled ‘Pedestrian localisation for indoor environments’. The paper was joint work with...
View ArticleRobert Sansom Professorship of Computer Science to be appointed
The Department of Computer Science and Technology (formerly, the Computer Laboratory) will be appointing a new Robert Sansom Professorship of Computer Science in 2019/20. The Chair will build on the...
View ArticleDr Amanda Prorok receives Best Paper Award at DARS 2018
Dr Amanda Prorok has received the Best Paper Award, at DARS 2018: 14th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, for ‘Redundant Robot Assignment on Graphs with Uncertain Edge...
View ArticleOld print server being retired
The old print server (version 1-6-2) will be retired in stages over the next week or so. Most users will not be affected, as they are already using our new server. The only people who need to take...
View ArticleCambridge team wins the 2018 Northwestern Europe Regional Contest
Congratulations to Team Treenity, winners of The 2018 Northwestern Europe Regional Contest. NWERC 2018 is an official regional contest in the International Collegiate Programming Contest. It draws...
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