Computer 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 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...
View ArticleRamana 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 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...
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