News archive 2016

Royal Society publishes new report on cybersecurity research

13 July 2016

The Royal Society has published a new report on cybersecurity research .

Professor Andy Hopper , co-chair of the working group who wrote the report, said "We are entrusting more and more information about ourselves to digital systems and that is shifting the balance between personal security and...

Professor Andy Hopper receives the ACM Sigmobile Test-of-Time Award

29 June 2016

Professor Andy Hopper has received the ACM Sigmobile Test-of-Time award for "The active badge location system." The paper is joint work with Roy Want, Veronica Falcao and Jonathan Gibbons. The SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time awards recognize papers that have had a sustained and significant impact in the SIGMOBILE community over...

Mariana Marasoiu receives honourable mention at EuroVis 2016

21 June 2016

Mariana Marasoiu has received an honourable mention at EuroVis 2016 for 'Clarifying Hypotheses by Sketching Data'.

The paper is joint work with Alan Blackwell, Advait Sarkar and Martin Spott.

Mariana is a member of the Rainbow Graphics & Interaction Group under the supervision of Professor...

Video available of 2016 Wheeler Lecture

14 June 2016

The video of this year's Wheeler Lecture is now available . If you were unable to attend the lecture, or you wish to hear it again, then we hope you will find this useful. The video and audio are also available to download from the Streaming Media Service .

International Summer School on Metaprogramming

2 June 2016

Jeremy Yallop and Ohad Kammar have organised an International Summer School on Metaprogramming .

The summer school will be held at Robinson College from 8-12th August.

Jingyun Zhang wins CAPE Acorn Post-graduate Research Award 2016

18 May 2016

PhD student Jingyun Zhang has won a CAPE Acorn Post-graduate Research Award 2016 for a joint project with Lu Bai.

The project, The Digital Distributed Antenna System (DDAS) over Internet Protocol (IP), is one of three to receive the CAPE Acorn Award.

Jingyun Zhang is a member of the Systems...

Wheeler Lecture 2016

26 April 2016

The Wheeler lecture for 2016 will be given by Dr. Andrew Herbert on Wednesday 25th May. The programme is now available, and registration is open if you wish to attend.

University of Cambridge wins both individual and team gold at national cybersecurity competition

26 April 2016

Dr Frank Stajano launched and hosted the Inter-ACE Cyberchallenge , a hacking competition between the country’s GCHQ-recognized Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR).

The event was run on April 23rd at the Computer Laboratory, in partnership with Facebook.

Ten of the 13 ACE...

Dr Markus Kuhn receives Bright Ideas Award

21 April 2016

Dr Markus Kuhn received a Bright Ideas Award in a ceremony at the University Information Service (UIS) on April 7th 2016.

For the inaugural Bright Ideas campaign, UIS chose to target the 900-strong Cambridge IT community with a technology-focused issue: "affordable ideas that would make a difference to...

Professor John Daugman elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors

21 April 2016

Professor John Daugman has been elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI) at a ceremony in Washington DC.

Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or...

Royal Society publishes new report on cybersecurity research

Professor Andy Hopper receives the ACM Sigmobile Test-of-Time Award

Mariana Marasoiu receives honourable mention at EuroVis 2016

Video available of 2016 Wheeler Lecture

International Summer School on Metaprogramming

Jingyun Zhang wins CAPE Acorn Post-graduate Research Award 2016

Wheeler Lecture 2016

University of Cambridge wins both individual and team gold at national cybersecurity competition

Dr Markus Kuhn receives Bright Ideas Award

Professor John Daugman elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors

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