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Awards were presented at the end of term to those second-year students judged to have created the most impressive Group Design Projects.

We're getting ready to host the 2025 Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference here in Cambridge this May. It's being co-organised by Women@CL, our own Departmental network to support women and non-binary people in computing research.

Congratulations to Prof Cecilia Mascolo who was today named a 2024 ACM Distinguished Member, an accolade that recognises "significant achievements in computing beyond the norm".

At our January Research Showcase, we highlighted our research in human-centred computing & human-machine interaction. Topics ranged from creating 'digital twins' of buildings to using robots to assess the mental wellbeing of children.

Can we use AI to help regulate AI? Researchers here will pose the question at a conference this Sunday, just weeks before parts of the EU's new AI Act – the world’s first comprehensive law on the use of AI – come into effect.

Turning 'hearable' devices like earbuds into genuinely reliable instruments for measuring human health: that's the goal of a new research project that will shortly get underway.

A new alliance launches today to take forward the pioneering CHERI cybersecurity technology co-developed by researchers here.

How can human-centred AI enable us to achieve ever greater feats through new 'supertools' that expand our minds? That was the question Professor Yvonne Rogers, Director of the Interaction Centre at UCL, addressed in our 2024 Wheeler Lecture.

For their research into ways that spies can pick up information by 'eavesdropping' on the signals that computer devices emit, two Security researchers here have won a Best Paper Award.

What does designing new quantum algorithms have to do with predicting the outcome of a general election? The answer is more than you might think as Prof Tom Gur will be showing in research that's just been awarded an ERC Starting Grant.

Students on our Sutton Trust Summer School learned about algorithms, experimented with computer graphics and discovered a 10-metre 'megaprocessor' as they found out what it's like to study Computer Science at university.

The first group of Year 12 students to complete our five-month Women in Computer Science programme have just visited Cambridge for an end-of-course residential.

Our former colleague Prof John Daugman - a pioneering computer scientist whose iris recognition algorithm helped change the lives of millions of people - died earlier this month.

A hackathon held here in the Department gave participants the chance to explore the development of secure applications for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices using a novel secure architecture.

'The Atomic Human', a new book by our DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, will try to reset the conversation around artificial intelligence when it is published this week.

Treating organised international cyberattacks the way we treat pandemics, and using honey traps to disrupt cybercrime-for-hire are among the topics at June's Cambridge Cybercrime Conference.

We're saddened by the death of Jack Lang, an enthusiastic supporter of the next generation of computer scientists and company founders who had a long association with this Department.

Meet our new Planetary Computing Fellows who, thanks to philanthropic support, are working on harnessing the power of computer science to tackle the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.

Stellar speakers and a growing recogntion that Theoretical Computer Science has relevance far beyond its own discipline made the inaugural Cambridge Algorithms and Complexity Workshop this week a great success.

We celebrated 20 years of the Department's Women@CL network - which exists to support female and non-binary computer science students here - at a special event this month.

Student projects on better ways to write music, improving supply chain resilience and sourcing second hand electronic components were winners of the Group Design Project Awards 2024.

Congratulations to our colleague Dr Carl Henrik Ek who has won a 2024 Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching.

'How old weather forecasts can help us design future energy systems' and 'Space Lasers for Good: Remote measurement of tropical forest degradation'. These were among the topics at our Climate & Sustainability Research Showcase.

In a new project about to get underway in our Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre, researchers will explore the impact of physical computing on children who are introduced to it at primary school.

We're very pleased to welcome Tobias Grosser as a new member of our faculty. He's taken up a role here as an Associate Professor in Compiler Design.

Researchers have invented a more reliable and transparent method than previously of estimating the benefit of carbon stored as a result of forest conservation.

In a year when Artificial Intelligence has been at the centre of public debate, a new research group has been set up here to refocus attention on human intelligence.

A new Head of Department - Professor Alastair Beresford - takes up his post this week as the University's academic year gets underway.

We'll be celebrating the renewal of the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence with a special Open Day on Wednesday 20th September.

This week's Sutton Trust Summer School is in full swing, with teaching on topics from programming to graphics giving sixth formers a taste of what it's like to study Computer Science at university.

A novel computational method for integrating gene expression across many different types of human tissue has been developed by a team including researchers here.

Many congratulations to Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems, for winning an ERC Proof of Concept grant to further her work on developing in-ear devices for health monitoring.

Researchers using computational methods to study MRI scans say they can produce a more detailed picture of the structural architecture of the human brain than was previously possible.

A former PhD student here has won the ACM SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Runner-up Award for his research into the use of wearable devices for health monitoring.

We're holding Open Days on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 July when we're welcoming in prospective undergraduate students and their parents.

Prof Anil Madhavapeddy and several Department alumni were among those recognised today by the Association for Computing Machinery for their work on developing the functional programming language OCaml.

Eight more companies have signed up to help test a pioneering new approach to cybersecurity that started life here.

A talk by the FBI and a new approach to studying the relationship between autism and cybercrime are on the agenda at this month's Cambridge Cybercrime Centre Conference.

Congratulations to Research Fellow Conrad Watt whose "stand-out" PhD dissertation was recognised by an award from the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest association of computing professionals.

We're very pleased to announce that Tom Gur will be joining us from August as Associate Professor here in Algorithms and Complexity. Welcome, Tom!

Professor Peter Sewell has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is one of 80 new Fellows selected for their substantial contribution to the advancement of science.

For their paper on Deep Gaussian Processes, former PhD student Andreas Damianou and his then supervisor Professor Neil Lawrence have won the AISTATS 2023 'Test of Time' Award.

We look forward to welcoming 2023 Gates Scholars Anais-Marie Berkes and Gregor Feierabend when they join us later this year!

Professor Peter Sewell has today been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his work on developing a path towards a substantially more robust and secure computing infrastructure.

An annual event here today celebrated the group design projects that all second-year undergraduates carry out as part of their practical work.

Through a partnership with a research centre here, Micro:bit Educational Foundation is supporting a PhD student who wants to help more children around the world acquire digital skills.

An undergraduate working on a pioneering new way to make our digital devices more secure has won the annual Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers' Award for Excellence and Achievement in Computer Hardware.

Congratulations to Nic Lane, Professor of Machine Learning Systems here, who has won an ERC Proof of Concept grant 2022.

The Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre here is involved in a new programme that aims to support the next generation of AI leaders.

Meet Dr Amanda Prorok, an award-winning researcher whose team is working on practical ways to solve problems that require robots to coordinate with each other.

Using machine learning, a team of researchers has developed a new method of measuring overall fitness on wearable devices that outperforms current consumer fitness monitors.

Four speakers will outline some of our current work – from developing wellbeing robot coaches to exploring the role of the cybercrime underground in the Russia-Ukraine conflict – at our alumni event on 23 September.

Congratulations to machine learning PhD student Francisco Vargas who has won $40,000 in funding to conduct a project described as 'an exciting theoretical tour-de-force'.

Robots can be better at detecting mental wellbeing issues in children than parent-reported or self-reported testing, a new study suggests.

As the UK prepares for an autumn Covid-19 booster campaign, researchers here have unveiled another tool that could help control the spread of the virus - a technology that can remotely monitor patients with the disease.

We're sad to record the death of Dr Alexander Fraser, a computer science pioneer whose work was fundamental to the development of the internet we use today.

A PhD student here investigating ways to tackle bias in machine learning systems has won the Young AI Researcher 2022 Award at the Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit in Warsaw, Poland.

New grant funding is available to Cambridge University researchers pursuing innovative applications of AI.

Congratulations to the newly-promoted members of this Department! After the 2021-22 Senior Academic Promotion process, we have seven new professors here and a new Principal Research Associate.

We're delighted to welcome Dr Peter Ochieng, a researcher in natural language processing and AI, who has just been appointed as the inaugural DeepMind Academic Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge.

The results from the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) - a major UK exercise to assess the quality of research at our universities - recognise our 'world leading' and 'internationally excellent' research.

For his work in – quite literally – trying to prove the impossible, Professor Anuj Dawar has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant.

Visitors had wellbeing sessions with a robot coach, built their own quantum computers, and found out why we need to 'reclaim control' of AI, when we hosted a day of public events during the Cambridge Festival.

There was fierce concentration and lively discussion in one of our computer labs today as 14 teams of students from local secondary schools took part in the first Cambridge Coding Competition.

There were awards today for student design projects including an app for users to compute the carbon costs of their journeys, and a tool to help people in rural Bangladesh report climate change effects.

Researchers here are among those jointly awarded £7.9m funding to help develop a software ecosystem for a more secure digital future.

Entries are now open for a Coding Competition for Year 8 pupils next month. They'll be invited into the Department to work on challenges, test their problem-solving – and discover more about what Computer Science can do.

A new research project – 'Roots' – gets underway this month to learn how culturally responsive computing teaching can be implemented in classrooms in England.

"With this truly visionary new institute, Cambridge will blend its world-leading climate science, software engineering and computer science expertise,” said Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen J Toope.

"Though watered down, the [COP26] text is abundantly clear that the days of fossil fuel are over and the days of new clean, green solutions are upon us," says Emily Shuckburgh, our Professor of Environmental Data Science.

DeepMind Cambridge Scholarships are available for postgraduate courses in computer science, AI and machine learning. They are for talented students from under-represented groups starting in the 2022 academic year.

How can we harness the potential of AI to accelerate scientific discovery? The frontiers, opportunities and challenges of doing so will be discussed at a symposium on 19th November.

Researchers are launching an investigation into the ways personal data is collected from our smart devices to find out if these flows of information comply with data protection law.

Students from this Department have won medals in the International Collegiate Programming Competition World Finals, and the Country-2-Country Capture The Flag cybersecurity competition.

A prototype personal navigation device we could wear in our ears, created by two students here, has just won an award at an international conference.

A new programme from the Data Trusts Initiative will provide funding for pilot projects that trial the bottom-up data trusts model in practice.

We are pleased to announce the creation of a new Computing Education Research Centre here in the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology.

"Don’t worry that you might not fit in. When you get here, you will naturally find other people like you." So says former comprehensive school pupil Tanya Morris who has just finished her first year as a Computer Science undergraduate.

A Livery Company rooted in the medieval craft of producing gold wire for embroidering tapestries and robes yesterday presented student Jonáš Fiala with an award celebrating its modern day use in computer hardware.

Fifty years ago this month, the first ever Computer Science undergraduates in Cambridge sat their finals before going out to face a very uncertain future. What they succeeded in doing next should offer hope to this year’s finalists.

Researchers here will tomorrow tell an international summit about their work on more environmentally-friendly ways to train the AI models that underpin web search engines, power smart assistants and enable driverless cars.

Dr Robert Watson has won the 2021 EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award, given annually to junior European researchers who have demonstrated exceptional creativity and innovation in systems research.

PhD students and postdocs across Cambridge have another chance to apply for a funded training course that is successfully equipping scientists with powerful tools to progress their research.

A major joint effort by academia and industry is needed to solve the key issues stopping Augmented and Virtual Reality from realising their potential. So say the organisers of a recent workshop, including researchers in this Department.

The free Isaac Computer Science learning platform developed by experts from this Department and the Raspberry Pi Foundation is expanding to cover GCSE content as well as A levels.

"I’d urge you to consider a career in AI and data science," PhD student Michelle Seng Ah Lee told black state school students recently. "It would benefit industries and society, making sure diverse backgrounds are represented in algorithms we release into the wild."

PhD student Mahwish Arif arrived here following a stint with the Pakistan Space Agency, a Commonwealth Scholarship and an MSc at the University of Edinburgh. She tells us about her route to Computer Science at Cambridge.

Using body sound recordings to predict Covid-19, and employing AI to improve cancer treatment, were among the projects discussed at our Healthcare Research Showcase last week. The event can also be viewed online.

At a time when concerns about data sharing and privacy have soared, students had a rare opportunity to experiment with Federated Learning – a technique for training machine learning models across devices without sharing the raw data they hold.

The Data Trusts Initiative – an interdisciplinary programme based here – is offering funding for research to bridge the gap between discussions about how data trusts could work and their practical application.

A Healthcare Research Showcase on 29 January 2021 will highlight some of the healthcare projects our researchers are undertaking - including using body sound recordings to predict Covid-19, and employing AI to improve cancer treatment.

Inspired by a cyber-security competition that was co-founded and held here, an 'ethical hacking' contest takes place worldwide this Sunday for competitors who – the organisers hope – will fill a vital skills gap in computer security.

Four Early Career Fellows have just joined our Accelerate Programme to help researchers across the University advance the frontiers of their work through the application of AI.

Researchers at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre here will today reveal what they’ve learned from analysing hundreds of thousands of illicit trades that took place in a cybercrime forum over the last two years.

A new initiative from this Department will build a community of researchers and social entrepreneurs developing fresh approaches to data governance challenges.

A University research initiative that addresses challenges in developing countries formally becomes part of this Department today (1 October 2020).

A group of systems researchers here, along with their industrial and academic collaborators, are celebrating receiving a prestigious award for a breakthrough that took them six years to achieve.

Dr Amanda Prorok, an Assistant Professor and University Lecturer in Cyber-Physical Systems here, has today been awarded a coveted European Research Council Starting Grant

We are sorry the students can't be here in person, but we're still very happy to be running the Sutton Trust / University of Cambridge Computer Science Summer School this week.

She was conditioned by a tutor to believe that "girls aren't smart enough for Computer Science". But two years into her degree here, Vasundhara Agarwal now knows that's not true.

The gift from DeepMind will fund up to three one-year Master’s courses and two three-year PhD scholarships in the fields of Computer Science and Machine Learning.

Following their promotion, we have two new Readers and three new Professors in this department. Our congratulations to all five of them.

Two research teams here are among the recipients of a £10 million government investment in 'Digital Security by Design' - a programme aiming to help the tech infrastructure of UK organisations and digital devices be more resilient to cyber attacks

While lockdown has helped reduce the spread of the coronavirus, it is also helping fuel a rise in cybercrime. That's the warning from researchers in the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre here.

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.

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...

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...

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

The following will become Professors:

These members become Readers...

One of the world’s earliest computers was born 70 years ago at the Computer Lab. The EDSAC – Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer – was developed at the University of Cambridge...

Professor Cecilia Mascolo , Professor of Mobile Systems and Co-Director of the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence , has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council.

The ERC has awarded €540 million in total to fund researchers working on pioneering projects that...

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...