Awards and honours

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.

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 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 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, 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".

Professor Jon Crowcroft has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Aalto University schools of technology.

The award ceremony will take place on June 15th 2018 in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland.

Jon Crowcroft is the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems at the Department of Computer Science and...

Michael Schaarschmidt has been awarded a 2018 Google PhD Fellowship. Michael is a member of the Systems Research Group under the supervision of Dr Eiko Yoneki.

Bjarne Stroustrup has been selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society’s 2018 Computer Pioneer Award.

The award is given for significant contributions to early concepts and developments in the electronic computer field, which have clearly advanced the state-of-the-art in computing. Bjarne is being...