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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.

The 2024 Wheeler Lecture - 'Supercharging the Human Mind With AI'

3 September 2024

Professor Yvonne Rogers, Director of the Interaction Centre at UCL, will discuss how human-centred AI can enable us to achieve ever greater feats through new 'supertools' that expand our minds & dare us to think differently.

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.

lowRISC and the Sunburst Project Bring CHERI Hackathon to Cambridge

17 June 2024

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.

ERC Starting Grant awarded for research on new quantum algorithms

The 2024 Wheeler Lecture - 'Supercharging the Human Mind With AI'

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

lowRISC and the Sunburst Project Bring CHERI Hackathon to Cambridge

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