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Computer Laboratory awarded two Google Research Awards for 2011

Congratulations to both Cecilia Mascolo and Andreas Bulling, who have received Google Research Awards for 2011. The Google awards program supports academic research aimed at improving information access. Dr Mascolo’s research is in the area of Social Networks, while Dr … Continue reading

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Glynn Winskel elected to Academia Europaea

Professor Glynn Winskel has been elected to the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Computer Lab team recreate Darwin’s emotion experiment

A team from the lab’s Graphics & Interaction Group are using 21st century technology to recreate an experiment run by Charles Darwin in the 19th century. The Computer Laboratory team have joined forces with the Darwin Correspondence Project, based at … Continue reading

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Dan Greenfield wins BCS Distinguished Dissertation Prize 2011

Congratulations to Dan Greenfield, who has won the BCS Distinguished Dissertation prize 2011. Dan completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr Simon Moore.

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Computer Lab student on winning team in the 2011 Audio-Visual Emotion Challenge

Tadas Baltrušaitis, a research student in the Graphics & Interaction Group, was on the winning team for the 2011 International Audio-Visual Emotion Challenge. Tadas presented a paper on “Modeling Latent Discriminative Dynamic of Multi-Dimensional Affective Signals” at the fourth International … Continue reading

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Head of Computer Laboratory calls for more computer scientists

Professor Andy Hopper refutes Government Statistics Professor Andy Hopper CBE, head of the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, is keen to encourage more students to study Computer Science and reassure them that job prospects are some of the best in … Continue reading

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Lab students win ACM Student Research Competition at SIGGRAPH 2011

Lech Świrski and Christian Richardt, PhD students in the Graphics & Interaction Group, won the ACM Student Research Competition at SIGGRAPH 2011 with their poster “Layered Photo Pop-Up’, based on Lech’s 2011 MPhil project. For details of the research see: … Continue reading

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Lab Professors elected Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

Professors  John Daugman and Neil Dodgson have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. The honour recognised their ‘personal contribution to the advancement of mathematics as a discipline and as a profession’.

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Mohan Ganesalingam awarded Beth Prize

Congratulations to Mohan Ganesalingam who has been (jointly) awarded the Beth Prize (see http://www.folli.org/) for his PhD thesis “The Language of Mathematics”. The E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize is awarded annually to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and … Continue reading

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Professor Peter Robinson best in-category winner at Pervasive 2011

Professor Peter Robinson was awarded best in-category at Pervasive 2011 for the video ‘The emotional computer’. The conference is the premier forum for researchers to present their latest results in all areas related to architecture, design, implementation, application and evaluation … Continue reading

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