Awards and honours

CheriABI wins best paper award at ASPLOS conference

16 April 2019

The CHERI Instruction-Set Architecture (ISA) is a novel computer processor architecture intended to support more secure computer system designs. It has been developed by a multi-disciplinary team spanning the University of Cambridge and SRI International over the last decade....

Cambridge Ring Awards

5 April 2019

Every year the Cambridge Ring celebrates the successes of companies founded by graduates of the Department of Computer Science and Technology.

The winners of the 2019 Hall of Fame Awards are:

Company of the Year: PolyAI

PolyAI aims to revolutionise call centres with its state-of-the-art...

NetFPGA project wins SOSR System Award

31 March 2019

San Jose, California, USA, April 3rd, 2019. The NetFPGA project was awarded today the ACM SIGCOMM SOSR System Award. The award recognises the development of a software system that has had a significant impact on SDN research, implementations, and tools.

The NetFPGA is an open platform enabling researchers and...

Professor Cecilia Mascolo wins ERC Advanced Grant

29 March 2019

Professor Cecilia Mascolo , Professor of Mobile Systems and Co-Director of the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence , has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council.

The ERC has awarded €540 million in total to fund researchers working on pioneering projects that...

Success for Cambridge in the Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge

4 March 2019

Gary Dreyer, Ainsley Katz, Jamie MacColl and Tomass Pildegovics won first place in a national cyber competition, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge. The four Cambridge MPhil students in International Relations and Politics were sponsored by Cambridge's Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security...

Alastair Beresford receives Google Security and Privacy Research award

12 February 2019

Dr Alastair Beresford, Reader in Computer Security, has received a 2018 Google Security and Privacy Research award.

Dr Beresford's research examines the security and privacy of large-scale networked computer systems.

Cambridge team wins the 2018 Northwestern Europe Regional Contest

26 November 2018

Congratulations to Team Treenity, winners of The 2018 Northwestern Europe Regional Contest.

NWERC 2018 is an official regional contest in the International Collegiate Programming Contest. It draws students from colleges and universities throughout Belgium, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Norway,...

Dr Amanda Prorok receives Best Paper Award at DARS 2018

22 October 2018

Dr Amanda Prorok has received the Best Paper Award, at DARS 2018: 14th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, for ' Redundant Robot Assignment on Graphs with Uncertain Edge Costs '.

Dr Prorok is a member of the Digital Technology Group.

Dr Robert Harle receives ACM Ubicomp 10 Year Impact Award

10 October 2018

Dr Robert Harle has been awarded the ACM Ubicomp 10 Year Impact Award at Ubicomp 2018, for his paper from 2008 entitled 'Pedestrian localisation for indoor environments'.

The paper was joint work with Oliver Woodman.

Dr Noa Zilberman named in list of 10 Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications

2 October 2018

Dr Noa Zilberman, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and member of the Networks and Operating Systems Group, has been named in the fourth list of "N2Women: Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications".

CheriABI wins best paper award at ASPLOS conference

Cambridge Ring Awards

NetFPGA project wins SOSR System Award

Professor Cecilia Mascolo wins ERC Advanced Grant

Success for Cambridge in the Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge

Alastair Beresford receives Google Security and Privacy Research award

Cambridge team wins the 2018 Northwestern Europe Regional Contest

Dr Amanda Prorok receives Best Paper Award at DARS 2018

Dr Robert Harle receives ACM Ubicomp 10 Year Impact Award

Dr Noa Zilberman named in list of 10 Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications

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