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Read more at: Dr Jennifer Cobbe to give Science Festival talk on Thursday 14th March

Dr Jennifer Cobbe to give Science Festival talk on Thursday 14th March

11 March 2019

The public sphere in the age of the algorithm Thursday 14 March: 7:30pm - 8:30pm, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms

In recent years the internet has become a key battleground for electoral politics. Dr Jennifer Cobbe examines how surveillance capitalism and the increasingly algorithmic nature of online public space allows the...

Read more at: Cambridge students earn silver in national cyber security challenge

Cambridge students earn silver in national cyber security challenge

11 March 2019

HECC (Higher Education Cyber Challenge) is a cross-university cybersecurity/CTF competition run by the University of Southampton – following in the footsteps of the Inter-ACE challenge launched by the University of Cambridge’s ACE-CSR in 2016 and hosted there for three years.

The first edition of HECC was held...

Read more at: Success for Cambridge in the Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge
Student group at Cyber 9/12

Success for Cambridge in the Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge

4 March 2019

Gary Dreyer, Ainsley Katz, Jamie MacColl and Tomass Pildegovics won first place in a national cyber competition, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge. The four Cambridge MPhil students in International Relations and Politics were sponsored by Cambridge's Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security...

Read more at: Alastair Beresford receives Google Security and Privacy Research award

Alastair Beresford receives Google Security and Privacy Research award

12 February 2019

Dr Alastair Beresford, Reader in Computer Security, has received a 2018 Google Security and Privacy Research award.

Dr Beresford's research examines the security and privacy of large-scale networked computer systems.

Read more at: Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, 1927–2018

Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, 1927–2018

11 February 2019

The Department was saddened by the death of Professor Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Bt KBE FRS, on 26 December 2018, at the age of 91.

Sir Peter was a renowned mathematician specialising in number theory, the advanced study of the relationships and properties of numbers. He is best known for his part in the Birch...

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