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Read more at: Cambridge team wins ‘Oxford Instruments Special Award’ at iCAN UK 2015

Cambridge team wins ‘Oxford Instruments Special Award’ at iCAN UK 2015

23 March 2015

Congratulations to the Computer Laboratory's Ran Guan and Bob Fang who, as part of team 'GameBob' won the Oxford Instruments Special Award at iCAN UK 2015.

The entry received the most audience votes for its "CamTunes" device that embeds sensors into gloves, enabling the wearer to make sounds with...


Read more at: 2015 Wheeler Lecture

2015 Wheeler Lecture

9 March 2015

The annual Wheeler Lecture will be given on Tuesday 26th May of this year. Further information is available, and registration is now open.


Read more at: Professor Anuj Dawar to receive Hind Rattan Award 2015

Professor Anuj Dawar to receive Hind Rattan Award 2015

6 January 2015

Anuj Dawar, Professor of Logic and Algorithms has been awarded a prestigious Hind Rattan Award for outstanding services, achievements and contributions in his field of research.

The Hind Rattan is one of the highest Indian diasporic awards granted annually to non-resident Indian citizens (NRIs) by the...


Read more at: Computer Lab to host conference for policy making in the Big Data era

Computer Lab to host conference for policy making in the Big Data era

8 December 2014

The Computer Laboratory will host the ' Policy-Making in the Big Data Era ' conference in June 2015.

The conference committee invites contributions from researchers, policy makers, practitioners in industry and all other stakeholders to explore the latest developments and potentials in policy-making...


Read more at: EDSAC project reaches key milestone

EDSAC project reaches key milestone

27 November 2014

A project to recreate EDSAC has reached a key milestone.

The project is being led by Dr Andrew Herbert who, early in his career, worked at the Computer Laboratory under EDSAC's designer Sir Maurice Wilkes.

The work on the recreated EDSAC is due for completion in late 2015.


Read more at: Lab PhD wins Best Student Paper Award

Lab PhD wins Best Student Paper Award

16 November 2014

Marwa Mahmoud has been awarded the Best Student Paper award at the 2014 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014).

The paper on 'Autonomatic detection of naturalistic hand-over-face gesture descriptors' is joint work with Tadas Baltrušaitis and Peter Robinson in the Rainbow Graphics and...


Read more at: Lab PhD wins Ubicomp 2014 Best Paper Award

Lab PhD wins Ubicomp 2014 Best Paper Award

16 September 2014

Chloe Brown has received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2014).

The paper "The architecture of innovation: Tracking face-to-face interactions with ubicomp technologies" is joint work with Christos Efstratiou, Ilias...


Read more at: September edition of 'The Ring' now online

September edition of 'The Ring' now online

15 September 2014

The September edition of ' The Ring ' is now available.

Please contact cam-ring@cl.cam.ac.uk for more information on the Computer Laboratory's graduate association.


Read more at: Java 8 in Action, co-authored by the Lab's Prof Alan Mycroft and Raoul-Gabriel Urma, released

Java 8 in Action, co-authored by the Lab's Prof Alan Mycroft and Raoul-Gabriel Urma, released

18 August 2014

Java 8 in Action , co-authored by the Computer Laboratory's Professor Alan Mycroft and PhD student Raoul-Gabriel Urma, along with Mario Fusco, has been released.

The book is a clearly written guide to the new features of Java 8. The book covers lambdas, streams, and functional-style programming.


Read more at: Computer Laboratory hosts 2014 GNU Tools Cauldron

Computer Laboratory hosts 2014 GNU Tools Cauldron

23 July 2014

The 2014 GNU Tools Cauldron was recently held at the Computer Laboratory (July 18-20). The event brought together researchers and developers working on the GNU Tool Chain (the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), the GNU Debugger (GDB) and the GNU binary utilities) and was the largest ever such meeting, with...