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Going to taster lectures, seeing a mock admissions interview, doing a programming workshop and touring Cambridge colleges. These were among the activities sampled by the prospective undergraduates who came to our Women in Computer Science residential course last week.

At a time when there's widespread interest in self-improving AI, researchers here have tackled one of the central challenges affecting its development by using an approach adapted from evolutionary biology.

We held Open Days on 9 – 10 July where we welcomed prospective undergraduate students to come and look round, try a taster lecture and find out about the Computer Science degree course here.

An entrepreneurial alumnus whose time at Cambridge helped him develop his fascination with computers into a string of successful businesses is endowing a professorship and a PhD studentship in this Department.