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As yet, the number of women in computer science is small, but it is growing. On this page, you can meet some of the inspiring women computer scientists in this Department

Fellowship funds new research into 'hearable' health sensors

25 November 2024

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.

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

27 October 2024

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.

Lovelace Medal for Dr Sue Sentance

24 October 2024

Many congratulations to our colleague Dr Sue Sentance, Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre here. She has just been awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal 2024.

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.

Marking 20 years of Women@CL

27 March 2024

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.

Research internship programme offers students from under-represented backgrounds insights into AI research

16 January 2024

Through the new Research Ready programme, we are offering paid eight-week research placements here this summer to students from under-represented backgrounds.

A long, hard journey

16 January 2024

Jessica Man's journey here has been highly unconventional. She traces her route from a remote Hong Kong fishing village, via 20 years in industry, to her place here as an award-winning graduate student.

The little robot Nao could help evaluate mental wellbeing in children

The life robotic: Meet the Cambridge researchers investigating how robots could help foster wellbeing in humans

19 July 2023

Researchers in the Affective Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory here are studying the potential robots have to help foster wellbeing in humans.

Hosting the Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference

26 April 2023

The 2023 Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference takes place here in the William Gates Building this Saturday.

The researcher scaling new frontiers in multi-robotic research

6 December 2022

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.

As yet, the number of women in computer science is small, but it is growing. On this page, you can meet some of the inspiring women computer scientists in this Department

Fellowship funds new research into 'hearable' health sensors

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

Lovelace Medal for Dr Sue Sentance

First students complete our Women in Computer Science programme

Marking 20 years of Women@CL

Research internship programme offers students from under-represented backgrounds insights into AI research

A long, hard journey

The life robotic: Meet the Cambridge researchers investigating how robots could help foster wellbeing in humans

Hosting the Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference

The researcher scaling new frontiers in multi-robotic research

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