Awards and honours

Andy Hopper, Professor of Computer Technology and Head of Department, has been named in the Science Council's list of the country’s 100 leading practising scientists.

Lecturers Dr Alastair Beresford and Dr Andrew Rice have been awarded Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching.

The Pilkington Teaching Award recognises excellence and innovation in teaching, making a significant impact on the student learning experience.

Congratulations to Raspberry Pi, which was been awarded an INDEX 2013 Award in the Play and Learning category.

The INDEX awards are the biggest design awards in the world and are widely recognised as the most important.

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Dr Steven Murdoch is one of seven Royal Society research fellows to receive further research funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), in what is a new collaboration between the Royal Society and the EPSRC.

Eben Upton, co-founder of the Rapsberry Pi Foundation, is one of four entrepreneurs to receive a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal.

The Silver Medal recognises an outstanding and demonstrated personal contribution to British engineering.

RealVNC, co-founded by Professor Andy Hopper and Dr Andy Harter, has won the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award, the premier award for UK innovation in engineering.

John Robinson FREng, chair of the MacRobert Award judging panel, said: “RealVNC was selected for the MacRobert award because of...

Jon Crowcroft , Marconi Professor of Communications Systems, has been awarded the 2014 IEEE Internet Award.

The award, sponsored by Nokia Corporation, recognizes exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications.

Glynn Winskel, Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded the LICS (Logic and Computer Science) Test of Time award for his paper with Andre Joyal and Mogens Nielsen on ''Bisimulation from Open Maps'' which appeared in LICS 1993 - see http://lii.rwth-aachen.de/lics/archive/test-of-time-award.html...

PhD student Toby Moncaster has been awarded a Google Scholarship for Students with Disabilities.

Toby will receive a EUR 7,000 scholarship for the 2013/2014 academic year and will be invited to visit a Google's Zurich office for a networking retreat.

John Daugman, Professor of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, has been inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame.

The National Inventors Hall of Fame annually accepts nominations for men and women whose work has changed society and improved the quality of life.

Professor Daugman...