Awards and honours

Andrew Pitts is joint winner of the 2019 Alonzo Church Award

18 April 2019

Andrew Pitts and Jamie Gabbay (Heriot-Watt) have been selected for the 2019 Alonzo Church Award for their work on nominal techniques, begun when Jamie was a PhD student with Andrew in the Computer Laboratory in the late 1990s.

The Alonzo Church Award is...

Marcelo Fiore and Andrew Pitts win 2019 LICS Test-of-Time awards

17 April 2019

The ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) annual Test-of-Time Award recognises a small number of papers from the LICS proceedings from 20 years prior.

Two awards have been made in 2019 to honour outstanding papers from the IEEE Symposium...

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.

Andrew Pitts is joint winner of the 2019 Alonzo Church Award

Marcelo Fiore and Andrew Pitts win 2019 LICS Test-of-Time awards

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

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