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Read more at: International Summer School on Metaprogramming

International Summer School on Metaprogramming

2 June 2016

Jeremy Yallop and Ohad Kammar have organised an International Summer School on Metaprogramming .

The summer school will be held at Robinson College from 8-12th August.


Read more at: Jingyun Zhang wins CAPE Acorn Post-graduate Research Award 2016

Jingyun Zhang wins CAPE Acorn Post-graduate Research Award 2016

18 May 2016

PhD student Jingyun Zhang has won a CAPE Acorn Post-graduate Research Award 2016 for a joint project with Lu Bai.

The project, The Digital Distributed Antenna System (DDAS) over Internet Protocol (IP), is one of three to receive the CAPE Acorn Award.

Jingyun Zhang is a member of the Systems...


Read more at: Wheeler Lecture 2016

Wheeler Lecture 2016

26 April 2016

The Wheeler lecture for 2016 will be given by Dr. Andrew Herbert on Wednesday 25th May. The programme is now available, and registration is open if you wish to attend.


Read more at: University of Cambridge wins both individual and team gold at national cybersecurity competition

University of Cambridge wins both individual and team gold at national cybersecurity competition

26 April 2016

Dr Frank Stajano launched and hosted the Inter-ACE Cyberchallenge , a hacking competition between the country’s GCHQ-recognized Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR).

The event was run on April 23rd at the Computer Laboratory, in partnership with Facebook.

Ten of the 13 ACE...


Read more at: Dr Markus Kuhn receives Bright Ideas Award

Dr Markus Kuhn receives Bright Ideas Award

21 April 2016

Dr Markus Kuhn received a Bright Ideas Award in a ceremony at the University Information Service (UIS) on April 7th 2016.

For the inaugural Bright Ideas campaign, UIS chose to target the 900-strong Cambridge IT community with a technology-focused issue: "affordable ideas that would make a difference to...


Read more at: Professor John Daugman elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors

Professor John Daugman elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors

21 April 2016

Professor John Daugman has been elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI) at a ceremony in Washington DC.

Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or...


Read more at: Erroll Wood receives ACM Emerging Investigator Award

Erroll Wood receives ACM Emerging Investigator Award

17 March 2016

Erroll Wood has received the Emerging Investigator Award at the ACM SIGGraph Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications for his paper 'Learning an appearance-based gaze estimator from one million synthesised images'. The paper is joint work with Tadas Baltrusaitis, Louis-Philippe Morency, Peter...


Read more at: Robert Harle awarded Pilkington Prize

Robert Harle awarded Pilkington Prize

11 February 2016

Dr Robert Harle has been awarded a Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching.

The Pilkington Teaching Award recognises excellence and innovation in teaching, making a significant impact on the student learning experience.


Read more at: Ramsey Faragher and Robert Harle receive presitigious Dr Samuel M Burka Award

Ramsey Faragher and Robert Harle receive presitigious Dr Samuel M Burka Award

4 February 2016

The Institute of Navigation (ION) presented its Dr Samuel M Burka Award to Dr Ramsey M Faragher and Dr Robert K Harle for their paper “Towards an Efficient, Intelligent Opportunistic Smartphone Indoor Positioning System” published in the Spring 2015 issue of NAVIGATION, Journal of The Institute of Navigation,...


Read more at: SwiftKey, Cambridge Ring 2015 Hall of Fame winner, acquired by Microsoft

SwiftKey, Cambridge Ring 2015 Hall of Fame winner, acquired by Microsoft

3 February 2016

SwiftKey, the winner of the Cambridge Ring Hall of Fame Company of the Year Award 2015 , has been acquired by Microsoft for $250m.

As well as the popular smartphone app, SwiftKey is known for being behind the computer software on Professor Stephen Hawking's wheelchair.

Co-founded by Computer Lab...