Category Archives: Awards and honours

Peter Calvert won first place, in the undergraduate category of the ACM Student Research Competition, for his final year project on offloading Java to graphics processors. Peter is now doing a PhD at the Computer Laboratory under the supervision of … Continue reading →

Dr Alexey Gotsman has been named the winner of the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems’s Best Dissertation Award 2010 for his dissertation on logics and analyses for concurrent heap-manipulating programs.  

Anil Madhavapeddy is one of four researchers chosen to receive a Verisign grant of US$75,000 to pursue projects aimed at strengthening Internet infrastructure. The winners were chosen in four categories with Anil the winner in the DNS Security category for … Continue reading →

Eurographics, the European Association for Computer Graphics, has chosen Tom Cashman 2010 dissertation as one of this year’s three award winners. Tom’s dissertation, “NURBS-compatible subdivision surfaces”, had previously been the runner-up in the 2010 BCS Distinguished Dissertation competition. The citation … Continue reading →

Robert Watson and Jonathan Anderson have won the Publication of the Year Award 2011, at the Cambridge Ring’s Hall of Fame Awards, for ‘Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX’. This research in operating system and application security was performed in collaboration with Ben … Continue reading →

PhD student, Sherif Akoush, has won the best student paper award at the 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems. The paper,  Predicting the Performance of Virtual Machine Migration, is … Continue reading →

The Science Student of the Year winners were recently announced at The Science, Engineering & Technology (SET) Student of the Year Awards in London. Congratulations to Peter Calvert who won The BCS Award for the Best Information Technology Student for ‘Parallelisation … Continue reading →