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Researchers here are developing social robots that could work with humans to assist them in the home

Save the date for our January Research Showcase

4 December 2024

At our Research Showcase in January, we'll highlight our research in human-centred computing & human-machine interaction. Topics will range from creating 'digital twins' of buildings to resolving ambiguities in human-robot conversations.

Dr Christopher Pulte is the recipient of a Royal Society University Research Fellowship

The researcher looking for better ways to prove systems software is correct

26 November 2024

If errors in an operating system enable a virus or malware to infect it, it can lead to security breaches or financial losses. Now a researcher here has been awarded a Royal Society Fellowship to look for better methods to verify if systems software is correct.

Fellowship funds new research into 'hearable' health sensors

25 November 2024

Turning 'hearable' devices like earbuds into genuinely reliable instruments for measuring human health: that's the goal of a new research project that will shortly get underway.

Arm donation funds PhD students in new Computer Architecture Research Centre

20 November 2024

Arm is donating £3.5 million to enable 15 PhD students over the next five years to study at CASCADE – our dedicated new Computer Architecture and Semiconductor Design Centre, which is now accepting applications.

New alliance launches to tackle cybersecurity threats

12 November 2024

A new alliance launches today to take forward the pioneering CHERI cybersecurity technology co-developed by researchers here.

Using AI to understand and tackle the spread of fake cancer treatments

29 October 2024

Can we develop tools to reduce the harm caused to cancer patients by the spread of misinformation about the disease and the sale of fake cures online? Researchers in our Security Research Group are aiming to find out.

The 2024 Wheeler Lecture - 'Supercharging the Human Mind With AI'

27 October 2024

How can human-centred AI enable us to achieve ever greater feats through new 'supertools' that expand our minds? That was the question Professor Yvonne Rogers, Director of the Interaction Centre at UCL, addressed in our 2024 Wheeler Lecture.

Lovelace Medal for Dr Sue Sentance

24 October 2024

Many congratulations to our colleague Dr Sue Sentance, Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre here. She has just been awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal 2024.

Researchers' work on electronic eavesdropping attacks wins Best Paper Award

16 October 2024

For their research into ways that spies can pick up information by 'eavesdropping' on the signals that computer devices emit, two Security researchers here have won a Best Paper Award.

Image of Demis Hassabis by Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize for our alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis

9 October 2024

Many congratulations to Sir Demis Hassabis, the first of our alumni to receive a Nobel Prize. The 2024 Prize for Chemistry is awarded jointly to him and his Google DeepMind colleague John Jumper "for protein structure prediction" with their AI model AlphaFold2.

Save the date for our January Research Showcase

The researcher looking for better ways to prove systems software is correct

Fellowship funds new research into 'hearable' health sensors

Arm donation funds PhD students in new Computer Architecture Research Centre

New alliance launches to tackle cybersecurity threats

Using AI to understand and tackle the spread of fake cancer treatments

The 2024 Wheeler Lecture - 'Supercharging the Human Mind With AI'

Lovelace Medal for Dr Sue Sentance

Researchers' work on electronic eavesdropping attacks wins Best Paper Award

Nobel Prize for our alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis

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