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Read more at: Marwa Mahmoud wins best paper award at IEEE Face and Gesture Conference

Marwa Mahmoud wins best paper award at IEEE Face and Gesture Conference

2 May 2013

Marwa Mahmoud has won the best paper award at IEEE Face and Gesture Conference in Shanghai.

The paper on "Automatic behavior descriptors for psychological disorder analysis" is joint work with colleagues at the University of Southern California. Marwa is a research student in the Graphics &...


Read more at: Computer Laboratory celebrates the first 75 years

Computer Laboratory celebrates the first 75 years

30 April 2013

Around 300 graduates and friends of the Computer Laboratory converged on the William Gates Building to celebrate its first 75 years.

A packed lecture theatre greeted Professor Sir Tony Hoare who got proceedings underway and delivered the annual Wheeler Lecture titled 'Could Computers Understand Their Own...


Read more at: Tadas Baltrušaitis wins Cambridge Ring Publication of the Year award

Tadas Baltrušaitis wins Cambridge Ring Publication of the Year award

29 April 2013

Tadas Baltrušaitis, Peter Robinson and Louis-Philippe Morency have won the Publication of the Year award at the Cambridge Ring's annual dinner for their paper on "3D Constrained local model for rigid and non-rigid facial tracking" presented at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in June 2012...


Read more at: Computer Lab students win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships

Computer Lab students win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships

26 April 2013

Marwa Mahmoud and Steven Marsh, students at the Computer Laboratory, were awarded two of the three Qualcomm UK Innovation Fellowships in competition with other departments in Cambridge and at Imperial College. The Computer Laboratory winners were Marwa Mahmoud (supervised by Peter Robinson) and Steven Marsh (...


Read more at: Poster competition winners announced at 75th anniversary celebrations

Poster competition winners announced at 75th anniversary celebrations

25 April 2013

The Computer Laboratory celebrated its 75 th anniversary on 24 th April, at which time the winners of the associated poster competition were announced.

We congratulate the winner, Ramsey Faragher, and the joint runners up who were Sergei Skorobogatov and Anastasios Noulas. A summary of these and other...


Read more at: Lab PhD student wins Best Student Paper Award at EuroSys 2013

Lab PhD student wins Best Student Paper Award at EuroSys 2013

25 April 2013

Malte Schwarzkopf has received the Best Student Paper Award at EuroSys 2013.

The paper “ Omega: flexible, scalable schedulers for large compute clusters ” is joint work with Andy Konwinski, Michael Abd-El-Malek and John Wilkes.

Malte Schwarzkopf is a member of the Systems Research Group under...


Read more at: RealVNC wins the triple

RealVNC wins the triple

23 April 2013

RealVNC , the company founded by Computer Laboratory’s Professor Andy Hopper and Andy Harter together with Lily Bacon and other colleagues from the University has been singled out with its third Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in as many years, a remarkable accomplishment for the Cambridge-based provider of VNC®...

Read more at: Computer Lab spin-out helps protect online banking customers

Computer Lab spin-out helps protect online banking customers

18 April 2013

Computer Lab spin-out, Cronto , is helping to protect online banking customers from the threat of online banking fraud.

Dr Steven Murdoch, a member of the Lab's Security Group and Cronto’s Chief Security Architect, has designed and developed a new transaction signing solution able to withstand both...


Read more at: Lab PhD wins Mark Weiser Best Paper Award

Lab PhD wins Mark Weiser Best Paper Award

21 March 2013

Kiran Rachuri has received the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 2013 (PerCom 2013).

The paper " METIS: Exploring mobile phone sensing offloading for efficiently supporting social sensing applications " is joint work with Christos...


Read more at: Andy Hopper welcomes Business Secretary, Dr Vince Cable, to the Computer Laboratory

Andy Hopper welcomes Business Secretary, Dr Vince Cable, to the Computer Laboratory

18 March 2013

Professor Andy Hopper welcomed Business Secretary, Dr Vince Cable, to the Computer Laboratory today. Dr Cable, in Cambridge to launch Cambridge Business Week, visited the University's Computer Laboratory which, this year, celebrates its 75th anniversary. The Computer Laboratory has been instrumental in making Cambridge...