News archive 2013

Cambridge formally recognised as centre of excellence for cybsersecurity research

13 June 2013

The University of Cambridge has been recognized as an " Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research ” (ACE-CSR) by the UK Government.

The status is further acknowledgement of Cambridge’s long-standing record of world-class research in the field of cybersecurity, in particular within its...

John Daugman inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame

3 June 2013

John Daugman, Professor of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, has been inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame.

The National Inventors Hall of Fame annually accepts nominations for men and women whose work has changed society and improved the quality of life.

Professor Daugman...

Jean Bacon awarded honorary doctorate

30 May 2013

Jean Bacon, Professor of Distributed Systems, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the Open University.

The honorary award will be conferred in Ely on June 1st 2013.

Two new lectureships announced

24 May 2013

The Computer Laboratory is pleased to announce that Dr Robert Watson and Dr Thomas Sauerwald have been appointed to Lectureships.

Dr Watson, currently a Senior Research Associate at the Computer Laboratory, has been appointed from June 1st 2013.

Dr Thomas Sauerwald, a Senior Researcher at Max...

Computer Lab spin-out Cronto acquired

21 May 2013

Computer Lab spin-out Cronto, a provider of secure visual transaction authentication solutions for online banking, has been acquired by VASCO Data Security International, Inc.

VASCO acquired all of the stock of Cronto in exchange for an initial cash consideration of Euro 15 million and contingent cash...

Jon Crowcroft elected to Royal Society

6 May 2013

Jon Crowcroft , the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems, has been elected to the Royal Society for his seminal contributions to the development of the Internet, including techniques that have paved the way for rural broadband.

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 &...

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...

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...

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 (...

Cambridge formally recognised as centre of excellence for cybsersecurity research

John Daugman inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame

Jean Bacon awarded honorary doctorate

Two new lectureships announced

Computer Lab spin-out Cronto acquired

Jon Crowcroft elected to Royal Society

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

Computer Laboratory celebrates the first 75 years

Tadas Baltrušaitis wins Cambridge Ring Publication of the Year award

Computer Lab students win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships

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