News archive 2011

Andreas Koltes awarded IET Postgraduate Scholarship

13 June 2011

Andreas Koltes has won the IET Postgraduate Scholarship , one of two awarded in 2011.

His research is focused on the design of flexible low-power memory systems for manycore processors, part of the Loki project.

Andreas is a PhD student at the Computer Laboratory, under the supervision of Dr...

Peter Calvert wins ACM Student Research Competition

9 June 2011

Peter Calvert won first place, in the undergraduate category of the ACM Student Research Competition , for his final year project on offloading Java to graphics processors.

Peter is now doing a PhD at the Computer Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Alan Mycroft.

Computer Lab PhD scoops EAPLS Best PhD Dissertation Award 2010

11 April 2011

Dr Alexey Gotsman has been named the winner of the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems's Best Dissertation Award 2010 for his dissertation on logics and analyses for concurrent heap-manipulating programs.

Computer Laboratory to start full recycling scheme

29 March 2011

The Computer Laboratory will operate a full recycling system from April.

All waste will be taken to a central recycling site, where it will be sorted.

The new recycling system will include food waste and building users are requested to use the appropriate food waste bins, which will be located...

Anil Madhavapeddy wins Verisign grant

17 March 2011

Anil Madhavapeddy is one of four researchers chosen to receive a Verisign grant of US$75,000 to pursue projects aimed at strengthening Internet infrastructure.

The winners were chosen in four categories with Anil the winner in the DNS Security category for "Constructing a Functional Name System'. The...

Tom Cashman wins Eurographics dissertation award

14 March 2011

Eurographics , the European Association for Computer Graphics, has chosen Tom Cashman 2010 dissertation as one of this year's three award winners. Tom's dissertation, "NURBS-compatible subdivision surfaces", had previously been the runner-up in the 2010 BCS Distinguished Dissertation competition.

The citation...

Robert Watson and Jonathan Anderson scoop Cambridge Ring Hall of Fame Award 2011.

9 March 2011

Robert Watson and Jonathan Anderson have won the Publication of the Year Award 2011, at the Cambridge Ring's Hall of Fame Awards , for 'Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX' .

This research in operating system and application security was performed in collaboration with Ben Laurie and Kris...

Sir Maurice Wilkes event: 27 June 2011

16 February 2011

Registration is now open for the tribute event for Sir Maurice Wilkes, which will be held in the Computer Laboratory on Monday, 27 June 2011.

Prof. Winskel wins €2.4M ERC Advanced Grant

9 February 2011

Glynn Winskel , Professor of Computer Science, has recently been awarded one of the prestigious European Research Council Advanced grants. The award of 2.4 million euro is for five years and is for research on Events, Causality and Symmetry – the next generation semantics . Professor Winskel was one of ten...

EDSAC to be recreated

13 January 2011

A working replica of EDSAC, the forerunner of general purpose computing, has been commissioned by the Computer Conservation Society , in recognition of the achievements of the pioneering computer scientists at Cambridge University in the 1940s, to inform the general public about Britain’s illustrious computer...

Andreas Koltes awarded IET Postgraduate Scholarship

Peter Calvert wins ACM Student Research Competition

Computer Lab PhD scoops EAPLS Best PhD Dissertation Award 2010

Computer Laboratory to start full recycling scheme

Anil Madhavapeddy wins Verisign grant

Tom Cashman wins Eurographics dissertation award

Robert Watson and Jonathan Anderson scoop Cambridge Ring Hall of Fame Award 2011.

Sir Maurice Wilkes event: 27 June 2011

Prof. Winskel wins €2.4M ERC Advanced Grant

EDSAC to be recreated

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