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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.

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

Ten of the 13 ACE...

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...

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...

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...

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

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,...

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...

A research paper by Robert Mullins, Andrew West and Simon Moore was selected as the "10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper" in the 2016 Asia & South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC). The award for the paper, “ The design and implementation of a low-latency on-chip network ”, was presented to...

Founded in 2015, Unikernel Systems provides a new approach to building, deploying and managing cloud services. The acquisition enables Docker Inc to integrate support...