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Researchers' work on electronic eavesdropping attacks wins Best Paper Award

16 October 2024

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.

Image of Demis Hassabis by Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize for our alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis

9 October 2024

Many congratulations to Sir Demis Hassabis, the first of our alumni to receive a Nobel Prize. The 2024 Prize for Chemistry is awarded jointly to him and his Google DeepMind colleague John Jumper "for protein structure prediction" with their AI model AlphaFold2.

Tom Gur is Professor of Computer Science here at Cambridge

ERC Starting Grant awarded for research on new quantum algorithms

5 September 2024

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.

Meet 'Terra', the AI aiming to map terrestrial life on the planet

2 September 2024

We've all read the urban myths about evil AI robots that are going to take over the world. Now meet 'Terra' – the artificial intelligence that researchers hope will help us save the planet by mapping the terrestrial life on it.

Experiencing life as a Computer Science student

12 August 2024

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.

PhD student awarded Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

9 July 2024

Congratulations to PhD student Chaitanya Joshi who has won a $40,000 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. He is one of just five winners from across Europe to receive this prestigious award.

First students complete our Women in Computer Science programme

8 July 2024

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.

Visitors to the Intel Lab could try some fun computer science-related activities like digital air hockey and lock-picking

Welcoming prospective students at the 2024 Open Days

4 July 2024

We're holding Open Days today and tomorrow - Thursday 4 and Friday 5 July - when we're welcoming prospective undergraduate students to come and look around.

The computer scientist whose technology helped millions to prove their identity

25 June 2024

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.

Celebrating Computer Architecture

20 June 2024

We held a special event on 18 June highlighting the work in Computer Architecture currently taking place here and discussing ways to build our future capacity in this field.

Researchers' work on electronic eavesdropping attacks wins Best Paper Award

Nobel Prize for our alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis

ERC Starting Grant awarded for research on new quantum algorithms

Meet 'Terra', the AI aiming to map terrestrial life on the planet

Experiencing life as a Computer Science student

PhD student awarded Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

First students complete our Women in Computer Science programme

Welcoming prospective students at the 2024 Open Days

The computer scientist whose technology helped millions to prove their identity

Celebrating Computer Architecture

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