News archive 2019

Srinivasan Keshav appointed to the Robert Sansom Professorship

1 August 2019

Srinivasan Keshav joins the Department as the new Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science. He will work on computer science technologies that support renewable energy and combat climate change.

PhD student Krittika D'Silva wins multiple awards

15 July 2019

Krittika D’Silva, a third-year PhD student, has been recognised with Rising Star Awards in both Networking & Communications and AI, as well as a Youth Award.

Two alumni win SME Business Awards for their software consultancy

12 July 2019

Green Custard is a Cambridge-based software consultancy founded by two alumni in 2009. They have been named Overall Winner at the SME Cambridgeshire Business Awards.

Professor Simone Teufel wins 2019 Pilkington Prize for outstanding teaching

11 July 2019

Professor Simone Teufel has been awarded a Pilkington Prize for delivering outstanding teaching, and recognised as a "highly gifted and committed teacher".

Neel Krishnaswami and Jeremy Yallop win two awards

10 July 2019

Neel Krishnaswami and Jeremy Yallop received a Distinguished Paper Award and Distinguished Artifact Award for their research paper "A Typed, Algebraic Approach to Parsing" at the PLDI 2019 conference, which took place in Arizona.

Their paper presents a new approach to parsing, the process of analysing...

Building AI in Africa

8 July 2019

Professor Alan Blackwell’s vision is to build AI that works for sub-Saharan Africa.

Professor Alan Blackwell will spend a sabbatical year developing AI in sub-Saharan Africa. He’ll work with local academics and international organisations based in Africa, who are inventing AI that works for African contexts. Alan is...

Pietzuch and Bacon win Most Influential Paper Award for 2002 paper on Hermes architecture

28 June 2019

A past research paper on Hermes architecture by Peter Pietzuch and Jean Bacon has won the DEBS 2002 Most Influential Paper Award.

The paper was titled "Hermes: A Distributed Event-Based Middleware Architecture" , and was written by Peter R. Pietzuch and Jean M. Bacon.

This was the thesis work of...

Prof John Crowcroft made Honorary Professor at UCL

17 June 2019

Professor Jon Crowcroft has been made an Honorary Professor at University College London. He will supervise a PhD student in the Department of Statistical Science at UCL. The work is on machine (deep) learning and efficient graph representation.

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Six promotions to Professor and Reader

14 June 2019

The University has promoted four members of the Department to Professor, and two more to Reader.

The new appointments will take effect from 1st October 2019.

The following will become Professors:

Dr Alastair Beresford Dr Paula Buttery Dr Mateja Jamnik Dr Andrew Moore

These members become Readers...

Driverless cars could speed up traffic by 35%

29 May 2019

A fleet of driverless cars working together to keep traffic moving smoothly can improve overall traffic flow by at least 35 percent, researchers have shown.

Dr Amanda Prorok - along with undergraduates Nicholas Hyldmar and Michael He - from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, programmed a small fleet of...

Srinivasan Keshav appointed to the Robert Sansom Professorship

PhD student Krittika D'Silva wins multiple awards

Two alumni win SME Business Awards for their software consultancy

Professor Simone Teufel wins 2019 Pilkington Prize for outstanding teaching

Neel Krishnaswami and Jeremy Yallop win two awards

Building AI in Africa

Pietzuch and Bacon win Most Influential Paper Award for 2002 paper on Hermes architecture

Prof John Crowcroft made Honorary Professor at UCL

Six promotions to Professor and Reader

Driverless cars could speed up traffic by 35%

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