Awards and honours

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...

The Science Student of the Year winners were recently announced at The Science, Engineering & Technology (SET) Student of the Year Awards in London.

Congratulations to Peter Calvert who won The BCS Award for the Best Information Technology Student for ' Parallelisation of Java for Graphics...

PhD student, Fernando Ramos , has won the Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Workshop on IPTV Technologies and Multidisciplinary Applications (IWITMA 2010). The paper, 'Channel Smurfing: Minimising Channel Switching Delay in IPTV Distribution Networks', is joint work with Professor Jon Crowcroft and Dr...

Robert Watson and Jonathan Anderson, PhD students at the Computer Laboratory, and Ben Laurie and Kris Kennaway of Google UK Ltd, have won the Best Student Paper award at USENIX Security ’10 for ‘ Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX ’. The research was sponsored by Google.

Professor Andy Hopper has received an honorary doctorate - DSc (Eng) - from Queen's University, Belfast, for services to information technology and business and commerce.

Dr Simon Moore , Reader in Computer Architecture, has been awarded one of the University's prestigious Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching .

PhD student Shazia Afzal has won the best paper award, at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, for 'Modelling Affect in Learning - Motivation and Methods'.

Ms Afzal works under Professor Peter Robinson in the Rainbow Research Group .

Ian Leslie , the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science, has been elected a Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering. The Academy’s Fellowiship honours the UK’s most distinguished engineers.

The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory has become the only university outside the US to receive a Google Focused Research Award.

The award will support the Lab's Computing for the Future of the Planet research initiative, led by Head of Department, Professor Andy Hopper .

Professor...