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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...


Read more at: The January 2013 edition of 'The Ring' is out!

The January 2013 edition of 'The Ring' is out!

29 January 2013

The January edition of the journal of the Computer Laboratory's graduate association, The Ring, is now out.

The archive can be found at: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ring/newsletters.html


Read more at: The Computer Laboratory gets ready to celebrate 75 years

The Computer Laboratory gets ready to celebrate 75 years

11 January 2013

2013 is a special year for the Computer Laboratory.

Not only does it mark the Laboratory's 75th anniversary but also the centenary of the Cambridge computer pioneer, Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes.

Celebrations to mark these landmark events will take place on April 24th 2013. Full details of the...


Read more at: Professor Andrew Pitts is made a Fellow of the ACM

Professor Andrew Pitts is made a Fellow of the ACM

12 December 2012

Andy Pitts has been made a Fellow of the ACM for his contributions to the theory of programming language semantics.

The ACM Fellows Program was established in 1993 to recognize and honour outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant...


Read more at: Computer Laboratory recruitment fair full to bursting

Computer Laboratory recruitment fair full to bursting

8 November 2012

Fifty one companies will converge on the Computer Laboratory on Thursday November 15th 2012 for the annual Supporters' Club recruitment fair.

The event attracts many of the most prestigious IT companies at home and abroad, and provides students with an excellent opportunity to collect information on...


Read more at: PLS Research Group has four papers accepted for POPL 2013

PLS Research Group has four papers accepted for POPL 2013

29 October 2012

Of the 43 papers accepted (18.5% of those submitted) for the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2013) to be held in Rome next January, four are authored by members of the Computer Laboratory's Programming, Logic, and Semantics Research Group.

Library Abstraction for C/C++...

Read more at: Charles Babbage robot head inspires research on affective computing

Charles Babbage robot head inspires research on affective computing

16 October 2012

Professor Peter Robinson's research exploring the role of emotions in human-machine interaction has inspired research on affective computing .


Read more at: ACM Queue interview with Robert Watson on Cambridge research into the hardware-software interface

ACM Queue interview with Robert Watson on Cambridge research into the hardware-software interface

16 October 2012

Robert Watson talks about spanning industry and academia, the importance of open source in software research, and challenges facing research that spans traditional boundaries in computer science.

Watch the ACM Queue interview to find out about CHERI , an exciting computer science research project at...


Read more at: Computer Lab graduate highly commended in 2012 Undergraduate Awards

Computer Lab graduate highly commended in 2012 Undergraduate Awards

14 October 2012

Congratulations to Manfredas Zabarauskas who has been selected as one of nine Highly Commended students in the field of Computer Science & Information Technology in the 2012 Undergraduate Awards .

The Undergraduate Awards are open to final and penultimate year undergraduate students across Europe,...