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"This opportunity is great for people like me"

8 January 2025

"Now I've done this, I hope I can go great places in future." As applications open for our 2025 Research Ready Internships, 2024 intern Michael Ogunrinde tells us how he benefited from spending a summer in Cambridge conducting AI research.

Researchers here are using the small robot Nao to explore how robots can help assess the mental wellbeing of children

January Showcase highlights importance of humans in computing

16 December 2024

At our Research Showcase this month, we'll highlight our research in human-centred computing & human-machine interaction. Topics will range from creating 'digital twins' of buildings to using robots to assess the mental wellbeing of children.

Can we use AI to regulate AI?

10 December 2024

Can we use AI to help regulate AI? Researchers here will pose the question at a conference this Sunday, just weeks before parts of the EU's new AI Act – the world’s first comprehensive law on the use of AI – come into effect.

Dr Christopher Pulte is the recipient of a Royal Society University Research Fellowship

The researcher looking for better ways to prove systems software is correct

26 November 2024

If errors in an operating system enable a virus or malware to infect it, it can lead to security breaches or financial losses. Now a researcher here has been awarded a Royal Society Fellowship to look for better methods to verify if systems software is correct.

Fellowship funds new research into 'hearable' health sensors

25 November 2024

Turning 'hearable' devices like earbuds into genuinely reliable instruments for measuring human health: that's the goal of a new research project that will shortly get underway.

Arm donation funds PhD students in new Computer Architecture Research Centre

20 November 2024

Arm is donating £3.5 million to enable 15 PhD students over the next five years to study at CASCADE – our dedicated new Computer Architecture and Semiconductor Design Centre, which is now accepting applications.

New alliance launches to tackle cybersecurity threats

12 November 2024

A new alliance launches today to take forward the pioneering CHERI cybersecurity technology co-developed by researchers here.

Using AI to understand and tackle the spread of fake cancer treatments

29 October 2024

Can we develop tools to reduce the harm caused to cancer patients by the spread of misinformation about the disease and the sale of fake cures online? Researchers in our Security Research Group are aiming to find out.

The 2024 Wheeler Lecture - 'Supercharging the Human Mind With AI'

27 October 2024

How can human-centred AI enable us to achieve ever greater feats through new 'supertools' that expand our minds? That was the question Professor Yvonne Rogers, Director of the Interaction Centre at UCL, addressed in our 2024 Wheeler Lecture.

Lovelace Medal for Dr Sue Sentance

24 October 2024

Many congratulations to our colleague Dr Sue Sentance, Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre here. She has just been awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal 2024.

"This opportunity is great for people like me"

January Showcase highlights importance of humans in computing

Can we use AI to regulate AI?

The researcher looking for better ways to prove systems software is correct

Fellowship funds new research into 'hearable' health sensors

Arm donation funds PhD students in new Computer Architecture Research Centre

New alliance launches to tackle cybersecurity threats

Using AI to understand and tackle the spread of fake cancer treatments

The 2024 Wheeler Lecture - 'Supercharging the Human Mind With AI'

Lovelace Medal for Dr Sue Sentance

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