Awards and honours

Professor Peter Robinson was awarded best in-category at Pervasive 2011 for the video 'The emotional computer'.

The conference is the premier forum for researchers to present their latest results in all areas related to architecture, design, implementation, application and evaluation of pervasive computing.

Andreas Koltes has won the IET Postgraduate Scholarship , one of two awarded in 2011.

His research is focused on the design of flexible low-power memory systems for manycore processors, part of the Loki project.

Andreas is a PhD student at the Computer Laboratory, under the supervision of Dr...

Peter Calvert won first place, in the undergraduate category of the ACM Student Research Competition , for his final year project on offloading Java to graphics processors.

Peter is now doing a PhD at the Computer Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Alan Mycroft.

Dr Alexey Gotsman has been named the winner of the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems's Best Dissertation Award 2010 for his dissertation on logics and analyses for concurrent heap-manipulating programs.

Anil Madhavapeddy is one of four researchers chosen to receive a Verisign grant of US$75,000 to pursue projects aimed at strengthening Internet infrastructure.

The winners were chosen in four categories with Anil the winner in the DNS Security category for "Constructing a Functional Name System'. The...

Eurographics , the European Association for Computer Graphics, has chosen Tom Cashman 2010 dissertation as one of this year's three award winners. Tom's dissertation, "NURBS-compatible subdivision surfaces", had previously been the runner-up in the 2010 BCS Distinguished Dissertation competition.

The citation...

Robert Watson and Jonathan Anderson have won the Publication of the Year Award 2011, at the Cambridge Ring's Hall of Fame Awards , for 'Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX' .

This research in operating system and application security was performed in collaboration with Ben Laurie and Kris...

Glynn Winskel , Professor of Computer Science, has recently been awarded one of the prestigious European Research Council Advanced grants. The award of 2.4 million euro is for five years and is for research on Events, Causality and Symmetry – the next generation semantics . Professor Winskel was one of ten...

Magnus Myreen has been named the winner of the BCS Distinguished Dissertation competition 2010, for 'Formal verification of machine-code programs' .

Runners-up were Computer Laboratory PhDs Tom Cashman (for 'NURBS-compatible subdivision surfaces'), and Alexey Gotsman (for 'Logics and analyses for concurrent...

PhD student, Sherif Akoush , has won the best student paper award at the 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems. The paper, Predicting the Performance of Virtual Machine Migration , is joint work with Professor Andy...