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Read more at: RA Sam Aaron teaches BBC DJ to compose music using Sonic Pi

RA Sam Aaron teaches BBC DJ to compose music using Sonic Pi

7 September 2015

Lab Research Associate Sam Aaron can often be found in school classrooms teaching children to create music by writing code using Sonic Pi. However, recently he welcomed a slightly older pupil, BBC Radio 1 and BBC 1Xtra DJ MistJam. The pair used Sonic Pi to compose a piece , inspired by Bizet's 'Carmen'....


Read more at: Oliver Chick wins APSys15 best paper award

Oliver Chick wins APSys15 best paper award

2 September 2015

PhD student Oliver Chick has received the Best Paper Award at APSys15.

The paper, 'Shadow Kernels: A General Mechanism For Kernel Specialization in Existing Operating Systems', is joint work with Lucian Carata, James Snee, Nikilesh Balakrishnan and Ripduman Sohan.


Read more at: Lab PhD student wins ACM Student Research Competition at SIGCOMM 2015

Lab PhD student wins ACM Student Research Competition at SIGCOMM 2015

19 August 2015

First year PhD student Heidi Howard has won the ACM Student Research Competition at SIGCOMM 2015 for 'Coracle: Evaluating consensus at the internet edge.'

The paper is joint work with Professor Jon Crowcroft.


Read more at: Mark Batty receives John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award

Mark Batty receives John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award

25 June 2015

Mark Batty has received the John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award .

His dissertation ' The C11 and C++11 Concurrency Model ' makes significant contributions to the understanding of memory models for C and C++.

Mark was a member of the Programming, Logic, and Semantics Group under the...


Read more at: EPSRC funds Cambridge Cloud Cybercrime Centre

EPSRC funds Cambridge Cloud Cybercrime Centre

17 June 2015

Thanks to an EPSRC grant, the Cambridge Cloud Cybercrime Centre will be operational from October 1st 2015.

The Centre is a multi-disciplinary initiative combining expertise from the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, Institute of Criminology and Faculty of Law.

The primary aim of the...


Read more at: Lab PhD awarded Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship

Lab PhD awarded Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship

4 June 2015

Congratulations to Luana Bulat who has been awarded a Google Anita Borg Scholarship.

Luana is a member of the Natural Language and Information Processing Group, under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Clark .


Read more at: Andrew W Moore receives ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award 2015

Andrew W Moore receives ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award 2015

28 May 2015

Andrew W Moore has received the ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award 2015 for "Internet Traffic Classification Using Bayesian Analysis Techniques".

The paper is joint work with Denis Zuev.

The ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award recognizes an influential performance evaluation paper whose impact is...


Read more at: Lab PhD wins NSDI'15 Best Paper Award

Lab PhD wins NSDI'15 Best Paper Award

5 May 2015

Matthew P Grosvenor has received the Best Paper Award at NSDI'15.

The paper, ' Queues Don’t Matter When You Can JUMP Them! ' is joint work with Malte Schwarzkopf, Ionel Gog, Robert Watson, Andrew Moore, Steven Hand, and Jon Crowcroft.


Read more at: Cambridge Ring member Dr Hermann Hauser awarded an honorary knighthood

Cambridge Ring member Dr Hermann Hauser awarded an honorary knighthood

23 April 2015

Cambridge Ring member Dr Hermann Hauser CBE, FRS, FREng has been awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of his services to engineering and industry.

Dr Hauser co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, he has founded or co-...


Read more at: Professor Ross Anderson named as BCS Lovelace Medal Winner 2015

Professor Ross Anderson named as BCS Lovelace Medal Winner 2015

16 April 2015

Ross Anderson FRS FREng, Professor of Security Engineering, has been named as the recipient of the 2015 BCS Lovelace Medal awarded by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

The award is presented annually to individuals who, in the opinion of BCS, have made a significant contribution to the advancement of...