News archive 2016

Erroll Wood receives ACM Emerging Investigator Award

17 March 2016

Erroll Wood has received the Emerging Investigator Award at the ACM SIGGraph Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications for his paper 'Learning an appearance-based gaze estimator from one million synthesised images'. The paper is joint work with Tadas Baltrusaitis, Louis-Philippe Morency, Peter...

Robert Harle awarded Pilkington Prize

11 February 2016

Dr Robert Harle has been awarded a Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching.

The Pilkington Teaching Award recognises excellence and innovation in teaching, making a significant impact on the student learning experience.

Ramsey Faragher and Robert Harle receive presitigious Dr Samuel M Burka Award

4 February 2016

The Institute of Navigation (ION) presented its Dr Samuel M Burka Award to Dr Ramsey M Faragher and Dr Robert K Harle for their paper “Towards an Efficient, Intelligent Opportunistic Smartphone Indoor Positioning System” published in the Spring 2015 issue of NAVIGATION, Journal of The Institute of Navigation,...

SwiftKey, Cambridge Ring 2015 Hall of Fame winner, acquired by Microsoft

3 February 2016

SwiftKey, the winner of the Cambridge Ring Hall of Fame Company of the Year Award 2015 , has been acquired by Microsoft for $250m.

As well as the popular smartphone app, SwiftKey is known for being behind the computer software on Professor Stephen Hawking's wheelchair.

Co-founded by Computer Lab...

Professor Simon Moore receives "10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper" award

26 January 2016

A research paper by Robert Mullins, Andrew West and Simon Moore was selected as the "10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper" in the 2016 Asia & South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC). The award for the paper, “ The design and implementation of a low-latency on-chip network ”, was presented to...

Computer Lab start-up Unikernel Systems acquired by Docker Inc

21 January 2016

Unikernel Systems , co-founded by Computer Laboratory staff and postdoctoral researchers, has been acquired by San Francisco based Docker Inc.

Founded in 2015, Unikernel Systems provides a new approach to building, deploying and managing cloud services. The acquisition enables Docker Inc to integrate support...

Erroll Wood receives ACM Emerging Investigator Award

Robert Harle awarded Pilkington Prize

Ramsey Faragher and Robert Harle receive presitigious Dr Samuel M Burka Award

SwiftKey, Cambridge Ring 2015 Hall of Fame winner, acquired by Microsoft

Professor Simon Moore receives "10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper" award

Computer Lab start-up Unikernel Systems acquired by Docker Inc

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